Feinberg, managing partner of health care hedge fund Oracle Partners, is Biogen (nasdaq: BGEN - news - people ).
Previously, Tobin had spent two years as the chief executive officer of Biogen (nasdaq: BGEN - news - people ), a Cambridge, Mass.
In the near term, a multiple sclerosis treatment being developed with Biogen (nasdaq: BGEN - news - people ) has shown very positive results.
Biogen 's (nasdaq: BGEN - news - people ) Amevive has already been approved to treat psoriasis, but must be given in a doctor's office.
The brightest light on Elan's horizon, however, comes from Antegren, a treatment for multiple sclerosis being developed with Biogen (nasdaq: BGEN - news - people ).
While Astrue was at Biogen (nasdaq: BGEN - news - people ), he helped Avonex, a treatment for MS, get past an existing drug to reach the market.
Phillip Sharp , also of MIT, cofounded Biogen (nasdaq: BGEN - news - people ) and then went on to win the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1993.
Biogen (nasdaq: BGEN - news - people ) expects that about 1.5 million psoriasis sufferers have severe enough rashes and lesions that they might want to try drug therapy.
Sharp, who co-founded biotech bellwether Biogen (nasdaq: BGEN - news - people ), sees the new technology as one of the most promising ways of designing drugs to come along in years.
And there are other promising Alzheimer's drugs in the pipeline as well as a treatment for multiple sclerosis and Crohn's disease, called Antegren, that is being developed with Biogen (nasdaq: BGEN - news - people).
There are other Alzheimer's drugs in the pipeline, for instance, as well as a treatment for multiple sclerosis and Crohn's disease, Antegren, that is being developed with Biogen (nasdaq: BGEN - news - people ).
Then, maybe the focus can get back to the drugs Elan is developing with Biogen (nasdaq: BGEN - news - people ), Pharmacia (nyse: PHA - news - people ) and Wyeth (nyse: WYE - news - people ).
He also thinks that many fund managers, including himself, will want to offload their stakes in IDEC (nasdaq: IDPH - news - people ) or Biogen (nasdaq: BGEN - news - people ) to keep from owning too much of the combined company, dubbed Biogen IDEC.
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