"The rationale for the deal is fairly clear, " says Sol Barer, chief executive of Celgene .
Barer says Celgene is open to applying for approval one disease at a time.
Barer licensed it immediately, guessing that there could be a wider range of diseases it might affect.
In 1991 Barer came across work done at Rockefeller University that linked thalidomide to profound anti-inflammatory properties.
An accelerated strategy for MDS and multiple myeloma might shave a year off the approval process, Barer says.
Barer put David Stirling, one of his best chemists, in charge of trying to fix this poisonous molecule.
Barer licensed it immediately, guessing that there could be an even wider range of diseases it might affect.
Barer confronts a certain amount of controversy about the cost of his drugs.
"There was skepticism whether it would be approved for any indication, " Barer says.
He met Maggart years ago, when she and her sister used to attend musical gatherings at lyricist Marshall Barer's house.
"For all of these trials, the results need to be compelling, " says Sol Barer , Celgene's president and chief operating officer.
James Dunstan practices space and technology law at Garvey Schubert Barer.
Most are more concerned with their ever-barer dinner plates, which they tend to blame on the man who has ruled them since 1980.
"The rationale for the deal is fairly clear, " says Sol Barer, chief executive of Celgene (nasdaq: CELG - news - people ).
The rooms upstairs had a different layout from those in his house, and the one she led him into was barer and smaller than the master bedroom would have been.
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