One advantage: MIT Professor Phillip Sharp , one of the scientists behind Biogen, is also a founder.

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Bartel and his colleague, MIT professor Phillip Sharp , have started a privately held company, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals , which makes drugs that function like these new silencing genes.

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Phillip Sharp , also of MIT, cofounded Biogen (nasdaq: BGEN - news - people ) and then went on to win the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1993.

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Phillip Sharp, a professor at M.

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Shane Watson, a notably poor runner, suffered a breakdown in communication with Phillip Hughes and Kevin Pietersen's sharp pick-up and return to Prior had him run out by the length of the pitch.

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