NOBEL WINNER ON LEAVE FROM HARVARD
Author: - ROBERT COOKE
Date: Friday, October 2, 1981
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Section: RUN OF PAPER
Biologist Walter Gilbert, a Nobel laureate and member of the Harvard
University faculty, is taking a leave of absence to work full-time for the new
biotechnology firm he helped found, Biogen N.V.
"In a sense, I'm leaving certain aspects of the academic life to run a
company," Gilbert said. "I'm excited by the challenge of building an industry,
but I also want to maintain an active intellectual effort in basic research."
Gilbert said that in addition to his expanded duties at Biogen, he also
would like to maintain his laboratory and an active research group at Harvard.
The university hasn't decided, however, whether that will be possible.
Gilbert was a corecipient of the Nobel Prize for chemistry last year. He
is Harvard's American Cancer Society professor of molecular biology and is
known for pioneering research that helped make genetic engineering possible.
Biogen, founded to exploit new techniques of genetic engineering, has
headquarters in Geneva, and is building a laboratory in Cambridge.
Gilbert has been named co-chairman of the board of supervisory directors
of Biogen. He also will continue as chairman of the firm's 12-member
scientific board.
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