Wyeth has cut its antibiotic research staff from 80 in 2003 to 15 currently.

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"Pretty much every pharmaceutical company in the world" is testing amyloid-busting drugs, says Menelas Pangalos, vice president for neuroscience research at the pharmaceutical firm Wyeth.

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In the past decade, many big pharmaceutical players, including Wyeth, Roche and Eli Lilly, backed off antibiotic research.

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For nine years, beginning in 1986, he headed antibiotic research at Lederle Laboratories, a division of what is now Wyeth (nyse: WYE - news - people ), where he launched the drug Zosyn in 1993.

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He was sentenced to prison for falsifying research data purportedly demonstrating the efficacy of analgesic medications sold by Pfizer, Merck, and Wyeth that were published in dozens of journals before his fabrications were uncovered.

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