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Vita, Giulio, Feb. 5, 1987

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 26

Scope and Contents

Institution: Bristol-Myers. Topics: How most new drugs are discovered by industry and not by academia; how hard it is to go from a lab to mass production, huge risks involved; industry involved in basic research to understand the underlying mechanisms of diseases, Bristol Myers on verge of breakthroughs in cancer research and infectious disease, genetic engineering and microbiology, receptorology, cell biology; where does this leadership value-set... come from; importance of academia for new research, keeping pace with academia; movement towards creating interdisciplinary research teams hastens discovery and bringing drugs to market; is Vita a leader or a manager; comparisons with Smith Kline approach;importance of his Hungarian culture, working solely in pharmaceutical industry, Italian influence taught him tolerance and flexibility; future of biotechnology; interferon gambles at other companies, betting on monoclonals and oncogenes

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  • Creation: Feb. 5, 1987

Scope and Contents

Institution: Bristol-Myers. Topics: How most new drugs are discovered by industry and not by academia; how hard it is to go from a lab to mass production, huge risks involved; industry involved in basic research to understand the underlying mechanisms of diseases, Bristol Myers on verge of breakthroughs in cancer research and infectious disease, genetic engineering and microbiology, receptorology, cell biology; where does this leadership value-set... come from; importance of academia for new research, keeping pace with academia; movement towards creating interdisciplinary research teams hastens discovery and bringing drugs to market; is Vita a leader or a manager; comparisons with Smith Kline approach;importance of his Hungarian culture, working solely in pharmaceutical industry, Italian influence taught him tolerance and flexibility; future of biotechnology; interferon gambles at other companies, betting on monoclonals and oncogenes

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