Kailian , vice-chairman of Cambridge-based Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ), chairs ViaCell's board.
Of all of Millennium's (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) unapproved drugs, this one is farthest along.
Take Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ), which makes the multiple myeloma drug Velcade .
Infinity's chief scientist, chemist Julian Adams, also invented Velcade, from Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ).
Lander has served on the board of Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) since its inception.
Along with Takeda's earlier decision to purchase all of Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ), the Cambridge, Mass.
Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people), another genetic database firm, has made a series of acquisitions and strategic alliances.
Four, including McKee Foods and Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ), ripped out PeopleSoft and replaced it with Workday.
Velcade, from Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ), is the first new treatment approved for myeloma in a decade.
Separately, Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) used similar chips in its late-stage clinical studies of its cancer drug, Velcade.
Richardson points out that Thalomid, Celgene's follow-up drug Revlimid and Velcade, from Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) of Cambridge, Mass.
Cowen 's Yaron Werber , speculated that Millennium (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) was applying early with the FDA to boost its stock price.
In 1999, the firm was folded into another Cambridge company, LeukoSite , which was purchased four months later by Millennium (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ).
McClellan credited cooperation between Millennium (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ), the National Cancer Institute and the FDA for making the new drug available so quickly.
This summer Codon enlisted Craig Muir, the roboticist who industrialized gene-finding at Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ), to help build its factory in Cambridge.
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Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) and Abbott, for instance, are already in the early stages of human testing on a gene-derived medicine that helps control appetite.
Late last week, Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) disclosed in a regulatory filing that MLN-02, a treatment for Crohn's disease, was effective in a mid-stage clinical trial.
Last year, many analysts doubted that Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) could get its cancer drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration based on early-stage data.
Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration granted it fast-track status, which should make it easier for Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) to file all the paperwork necessary for approval.
Other medicines, including multiple myeloma drug Velcade, from Millennium (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ), and rheumatoid arthritis medicine Enbrel, from Amgen (nasdaq: AMGN - news - people ).
Millennium (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people) wants to be Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people), or at least Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people).
For instance, MIT's Eric Lander founded Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) in 1993, but that didn't stop him from being a major force in the academic effort to map the human genome.
When the data are good enough, the FDA sometimes approves a drug based on these trials, as happened recently with Velcade, a Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) drug that treats multiple myeloma.
Erbitux, Millennium Pharmaceuticals ' (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) Velcade and Novartis ' (nyse: NVS - news - people ) Gleevec were all approved on what would have been considered early-stage data.
Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) and Abbott Laboratories (nyse: ABT - news - people ) at one point were co-developing an obesity drug, but that product, MLN4760, apparently was mothballed.
"In cancer, when you get on the market with one indication, and you have good clinical data, you get wide use, " Barry Greene , general manager of oncology at Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ), noted in May.
"Clearly RNA interference is a revolution that has emerged in the last few years, " says John Maraganore , who left a job as the top scientist at Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) to become Alnylam's chief executive officer.
The Food and Drug Administration has given record-fast approvals to Novartis ' (nyse: NVS - news - people ) Gleevec and Millennium 's (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) Velcade based on relatively early-stage data in these diseases.
Companies like Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) and Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) have received approval for cancer drugs without proving that they extend survival, but those efforts have involved carefully crafted messages.
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