Still, skeptics question Genzyme's ability to grow a business that targets a handful of patients worldwide.
With Cerezyme, Genzyme began by figuring out what kind of doctors patients with Gaucher disease visit.
For all Genzyme's stability, its gene therapy research might represent a kind of Achilles' heel.
Cerezyme, Genzyme's first drug, treats a disease that afflicts fewer than 10, 000 patients globally.
Amicus and Shire teamed today to address some of the same markets that Genzyme targets.
Lumizyme has been a rare setback for Genzyme, one of the most successful biotechnology companies.
Rivals include the Pharming Group in the Netherlands, Scottish outfit PPL Therapeutics and Boston's Genzyme Transgenics.
But a Genzyme-Isis tie up to distribute mipomersen makes a great deal of sense.
Jan van Heek , an executive vice president at Genzyme who serves on ViaCell's board.
The merger had been delayed because of concerns about Genzyme's accounting and its four tracking stocks.
Holders of Genzyme Tissue Repair and Genzyme Surgical Products stock will hold 27% and 26% respectively.
If the merger is completed, Biomatrix shareholders will own about 47% of Genzyme Biosurgery.
Together the three will form a new Genzyme division called Genzyme Biosurgery (proposed nasdaq ticker: GZBX).
There's no way it could hurt to ally itself with a biotech powerhouse like Genzyme.
There are rare disease drugs that Genzyme pioneered when Big Pharma refused to touch the area.
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Genzyme, in the midst of a takeover dalliance with Sanofi-Aventis was another popular name.
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Celgene acts OK and biotech houses like Genzyme, for example, aren't priced out of reach.
Isis even inked a marketing partnership with Genzyme, which is now part of Sanofi.
Without the Orphan Drug Act, there would probably be no Biogen Idec, no Genzyme, Alexion Pharmaceuticals.
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Genzyme, he says, has its pick of the viruses that are used to insert genes into cells.
It took Genzyme's early drugs a while to generate significant revenue, too, notes Palo Alto Investors' Yun.
Genzyme is used to selling drugs to small groups of patients for quite a lot of money.
Forbes.com reported last November that the two companies were in negotiations (see "Genzyme Eyes Isis Drug").
Such ailments have always been Genzyme's (nasdaq: GENZ - news - people ) specialty.
Dr. Moscicki currently serves as senior vice president (SVP), Head of Clinical Development at Genzyme Corporation.
The NIH denied the petition, although lawsuits were also filed against the NIH, Genzyme and the Mt.
In June, Genzyme will consolidate all three divisions by eliminating the tracking stocks for Molecular Oncology and Biosurgery.
Now Genzyme plans to replicate this strategy with Fabrazyme and Aldurazyme, two drugs which target ultra-rare genetic diseases.
Richard Gregory , Genzyme's vice president of gene therapy, argues that the company's use of adenovirus is safe.
Genzyme splits revenue from Aldurazyme with BioMarin Pharmaceutical (nasdaq: BMRN - news - people ).
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