In an interview in 2011, Perlmutter praised the Biovex researcher who had developed the virus.
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To boost the top line while Perlmutter's pipeline was kicking in, Sharer turned to acquisitions.
Saul Perlmutter was in philosophical mood when the BBC spoke to him about the issue.
Beer says a meeting with Amgen research chief Roger Perlmutter helped get things rolling.
And if it's clear he's screwed up, Peleg says Perlmutter will take the blame.
Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess of the US and Brian Schmidt of Australia will share the Nobel.
Perlmutter is demure about his ambitions, saying he doesn't look forward more than two or three years.
"We are sitting on a treasure trove, " says Amgen research chief Roger Perlmutter.
"No one wants to debate the big boss, " Perlmutter says of the tactic.
Perlmutter set out to fix the pipeline, figuring Amgen's problem wasn't the lack of ideas but a lack of focus.
In a interview months ago, Perlmutter told me that he went to Amgen because he and Gilmartin did not see eye-to-eye.
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Prof Perlmutter said the fact that the two teams were rivals was probably best to set the scene for a surprising outcome.
At Amgen, Perlmutter had some success, most notably with the bone drug denosumab, which in two different formulations is becoming a blockbuster.
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Amgen's research chief, Roger Perlmutter, was previously a star researcher at Merck.
Colleagues say Perlmutter took some of the blame for the failure of Timna, a low-cost chip that Intel officially canceled in 2000.
Perlmutter remains as in control as ever, and was rumored to have helped push out a Disney executive who clashed with the billionaire.
This was the approach used by the Nobel Prize winners (Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess of the US and Brian Schmidt of Australia).
Sharer also lured immunologist Roger Perlmutter in 2001 to become Amgen's first chief of both research and development (the two posts previously were split).
What must be particularly tough on Perlmutter is that Euclid - unlike WFirst - will not use his supernova technique to investigate dark energy.
"People say you know he's not just throwing the blame on us, this guy can take some of the faults on himself, " Perlmutter says.
The success is a triumph for Intel's Israeli team, where Perlmutter got his start at Intel in 1980 out of Technion--Israel's answer to MIT.
Perlmutter eliminated early-stage projects that had little chance of quick success.
The OPG research "has paid off spectacularly, " says research czar Perlmutter.
Last year, Jazzman Records released a compilation largely assembled by Carolina funk and soul historian Jason Perlmutter, called Carolina Funk: First in Funk.
Amgen also said Roger Perlmutter will retire as executive vice president of research and development as of February, 2012, to be replaced by chief medical officer Sean Harper.
Perlmutter is going to take the reins on April 15.
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And now both Perlmutter and Sean Maloney, who had jointly run Intel's mobility group and now runs sales and marketing, have sweeping responsibilities across Intel's business units under Otellini.
Perlmutter's parents fled Germany for Palestine in the 1930s, and his colleagues say the engineer is a typical driven and intense "yake"--Hebrew slang for an Israeli of German extraction.
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