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Chiron Corporation (NASDAQ: NVS) was a multinational biotechnology firm based in Emeryville, California that was acquired by Novartis International AG on April 30, 2006. It had offices and facilities in eighteen countries on five continents. Chiron's business and research was in three main areas: biopharmaceuticals, vaccines and blood testing. Chiron's vaccines and blood testing units have been combined to form Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, while Chiron BioPharmaceuticals will be integrated into Novartis Pharmaceuticals. Image File history File links Chironlogo. ...
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Novartis Suffern plant is the Swiss companys sole pharmaceutical production facility in the U.S. Novartis International AG is a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland. ...
History
Chiron was founded in 1981 by professors William Rutter, Edward Penhoet, and Pablo Valenzuela.
In 1992, the company's first product, Proleukin, was approved in United States for the treatment of metastatic kidney cancer. This was followed a year later by Betaseron, the first treatment for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Regranex, a topical treatment for diabetic foot ulcers, was launched in 1997 in partnership with Johnson & Johnson. The most recent new pharmaceutical launch was that of Tobi in 2001, the first inhaled antibiotic approved for treating lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients, 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
Interleukin-2 (IL-2) is an interleukin, a type of biological response modifier, a substance that can improve the bodys natural response to disease. ...
Metastasis (Greek: change of the state) is the spread of cancer from its primary site to other places in the body. ...
Renal cell carcinoma, a form of kidney cancer that involves cancerous changes in the cells of the renal tubule, is the most common type of kidney cancer in adults. ...
Betaseron (interferon beta-1B) is a drug used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis. ...
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Having launched its first vaccine product, Fluad, an adjuvanted influenza vaccine, in 1996, the vaccine line was expanded significantly in 1998 with the acquisition of the European vaccine businesses of Behring (Germany) and Sclavo (Italy). This was followed in 2003 by the acquisition of PowderJect, the UK-based vaccines company, making Chiron the second-largest flu vaccines provider and the fifth-largest vaccines business in the world. A vaccine is an antigenic preparation used to establish immunity to a disease. ...
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In 1998, Chiron's nucleic acid testing (NAT) blood-testing business was launched in a cooperation with Gen-Probe, followed a year later by the launch of the Procleix system, which detects viral RNA and DNA in donated blood and plasma during the very early stages of infection, when those infectious agents are present but cannot be detected by immunodiagnostic tests. 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
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On August 27, 2003 two bombs exploded at Chiron's headquarters in Emeryville, California. A group calling itself Revolutionary Cells of the Animal Liberation Brigade e-mailed a statement to reporters taking credit for the bombing. August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ...
On August 27, 2003 two bombs were placed on the campus of Chiron (corporation) in Emeryville, California. ...
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In 2004, Chiron attracted adverse media coverage after the UK government suspended its licence for manufacturing Fluvirin, an influenza virus vaccine, at its plant in Liverpool. This action left the United States government short of the vaccine. It later emerged that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may have been aware of the problem nine months earlier, but a miscommunication between the company and the FDA left the problem unsolved until the MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency), the British equivalent of the FDA stepped in and suspended Chiron's licence. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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A pedophile also worked for Chiron.
Maurice Wolin, 48, is still facing charges in Sonoma County Superior Court of attempting to commit a lewd and lascivious act upon a child under the age of 14.
Wolin is scheduled to appear again in court for a preliminary hearing at 8:30 a.m. on Dec. 4, Sonoma County Deputy District Attorney Juliette Olson said. At the hearing, the judge will decide if there is enough evidence to warrant a trial.
Wolin was nabbed along with 28 other men who showed up at a Petaluma house in late August hoping for a "date" with an underage girl. Wolin and the others were allegedly chatting online with what they thought were young girls with whom they hoped to have sexual contact. Wolin's screen name was "talldreamy doc." He allegedly said he was 29, and talked online about giving and receiving oral sex.
The "girls" were actually police decoys set up as part of a six-month investigation by several law enforcement authorities including the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department, Santa Rosa and Petaluma police departments. Police worked with Perverted Justice, a nationwide volunteer organization that monitors online Web sites and chat rooms.
Wolin and the other men caught in the sting operation appeared on Dateline NBC's "Catch a Predator" show on Oct. 6. According to Dateline's transcripts, the cancer doctor appeared at the house and engaged in a brief conversation with an actress posing as the young girl with whom he had been chatting online. Nervous, he spilled a drink, then apparently spotted a camera crew and bolted. He was then apprehended. Transcripts show he told a police officer, "Oh, man, I wasn't doing anything."
Wolin hired high-powered Los Angeles defense attorney Blair Berk to represent him. His lawyers went to court to try and keep his video segment off the air, but the request was denied, according to Dateline.
Berk, whose list of clients include Mel Gibson, Lindsay Lohan and Halle Berry, said earlier that Wolin was "in no way, shape or form any kind of predator or threat to anyone." This week, Berk and Olson said they had no further comments on the case at this time.
Wolin was previously vice-president of oncology for the Chiron Corp. in Emeryville. He is registered as a physician and surgeon with the Medical Board of California. It is believed he now works for a Canadian global biopharmaceutical company that specializes in developing cancer treatments.
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