JT Immunotech USA Inc / The Company Corixa Corporation / Japan Tobacco Group / Chiron Corporation / Abgenix Inc. / 4 Abgenix Inc / R J Reynolds Inc. / British Biotech / Gene Logic Inc / Japan Tobacco Inc. / BBC / Zambon Group / Pharmacia / Xenotech / GVAXTM / Tularik Inc / Somatix Therapy Corporation / Corixa Corporation / Cell Genesys Inc. / JT International / /
Continent
Europe / North America / /
Country
Japan / Brazil / Korea / United Kingdom / China / Taiwan / United States / Soviet Union / Columbia / Argentina / /
Currency
GBP / USD / / /
Event
M&A / Business Partnership / Company Expansion / FDA Phase / Funding / Patent Issuance / /
Facility
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / John Hopkins University Medical Institute / Dana Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard University / / /
IndustryTerm
cancer treatment product / tobacco advertising / owned subsidiary / treatment of lung cancer / pharmaceuticals / vaccine and antibody based products / pharmaceutical division / prevention technology / biotechnology / treatment of cardiovascular diseases / pharmaceutical / human antibody products / tobacco advertising ban / pharmaceutical products / /
MedicalCondition
strokes / another unnamed cancer / lung tumour / lung tumours / coronary heart disease / GVAXTM cancer / prostate cancer / cardiovascular diseases / cancer / emphysema / stroke / diabetes / diseases / lung and prostate cancer / infectious disease / future Corixa lung cancer / Hepatitis C / leukaemia / heart attacks / prostrate cancer / chronic bronchitis / lung cancers / genetically engineered lung cancer / cancers / serious diseases / human lung tumours / genetically engineered cancer / disease / tumour / cardiovascular disease / advanced cancer / lung cancer / autoimmune disease / heart attack / inflammation / Japan Tobacco covering Cell Genesys’ genetically engineered lung cancer / /
MedicalTreatment
antibiotics / gene therapy / /
Organization
Dept of Health / John Hopkins University Medical Institute / Whitehead Biomedical Institution / European Union / Department of Health / Harvard Medical School / Harvard University / UK Government / Dana Farber Cancer Institute / /
Person
Glenn Dranoff / Drew Pardoll / Iwao Gohma / John Hopkins / Richard Mulligan / / /
Position
gov. uk GeneWatch UK The Mill House / professor of medicine / branch manager / /
Product
B-10153 / lung cancer vaccine / B-1015324 / /
ProvinceOrState
Washington / California / /
Region
former Soviet Union / /
Technology
2001 prevention technology / antibodies / biotechnology / gene therapy / drug development / /
GeneWatch UK November 2001 This briefing documents the links between Japan Tobacco and drug development for two