Soon-Shiong has been expressing interest in new areas of science, including the development of diagnostic tests.
Soon-Shiong offers up a list of scientists who he says are excited by his theory of metastasis.
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Patrick Soon-Shiong made his billions for inching us ever closer to the still distant cure for cancer.
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Soon-Shiong was born in South Africa in 1952 to parents who had fled China during World War II.
FORBES: Patrick Soon-Shiong and one of cancer's biggest riddles.
But Soon-Shiong says his drug is more effective than Taxol, precisely because of a quirk in the albumin coat.
FORBES: Patrick Soon-Shiong and one of cancer's biggest riddles.
Soon-Shiong was born in South Africa in 1952, his parents having fled there from China during World War II.
But Moulder came and went quickly, putting Soon-Shiong back in the CEO seat.
Some complain that Soon-Shiong often comes out better in his deals than shareholders.
Soon-Shiong said he would get Abraxane approved via an FDA rule that would let him use just one clinical trial.
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By creating a massive database tracking millions of patients, Soon-Shiong hopes to streamline treatments to match up drugs with specific ailments.
Not only did Soon-Shiong's deal just beat the collapse, the doctor had no time to put the money to work in the market.
Soon-Shiong, a surgeon who made his initial riches selling generic drugs to hospitals, has always insisted that the drug was more than just side-effect-sparing.
Therein lies Soon-Shiong's next scientific adventure: stopping cancer from spreading from, say, the breast, where it won't kill, to the brain, where it will.
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The other bidders who survived until the final round were a partnership that included hedge-fund billionaire Steven Cohen and Los Angeles biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong.
Soon-Shiong, who is married to Michele Chan, a 1980s television actress, says he plans to start giving more to charity now that he has sold app.
FORBES: Patrick Soon-Shiong and one of cancer's biggest riddles.
One idea, put forth by Soon-Shiong himself, was that when cancer cells metastasize they secrete a protein called SPARC, which also leads them to absorb Abraxane.
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Soon-Shiong argues that when a cell starts making Sparc, suggesting it's about to spread, it also starts sucking in albumin-soaked Abraxane, which, he says, will kill the tumor.
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King, at Merriman Curhan Ford, gave the company a buy rating--predicated on the beaten-down share price and the idea that Soon-Shiong will be absent from the company he founded.
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Patients whose cancers are churning out the Sparc protein usually have a worse prognosis than those who aren't Sparc-positive, but with Abraxane they may do just as well, Soon-Shiong argues.
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Johnson sold his 4% stake in the Lakers in 2010 to billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, who was part of a competing group to buy the Dodgers that included hedge fund titan Steve Cohen.
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Patrick Soon-Shiong, the richest man in L.A., bought a 5% stake in the Lakers from Magic Johnson in 2010 and could easily afford a bigger stake if the Buss family wants to raise any cash.
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Soon-Shiong soon went in another direction.
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