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| x Pfizer |
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Pfizer Incorporated (NYSE: PFE) is a pharmaceutical company, ranking number one in sales in the world. The company is based in New York City, with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut. It produces Lipitor (atorvastatin, used to lower...
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| x Cancer |
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Cancer (medical term: malignant neoplasm) is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth (division beyond the normal limits), invasion (intrusion on and destruction of adjacent tissues), and sometimes metastasis (spread...
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| x ImClone Systems |
ImClone Systems Incorporated is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing biologic medicines in the area of oncology. It was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in New York City. On October 6, 2008, it accepted a $6.5 billion acquisition...
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| x Novartis AG |
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Novartis International AG is a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, ranking number one in revenues, which accounted over $53 billion in 2008, and number three in sales, which accounted 36.172 billon in 2008. Novartis is...
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| x Johnson & Johnson |
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Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) is a global American pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the...
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| x Takeda Pharmaceutical Company |
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Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (武田薬品工業株式会社, Takeda Yakuhin Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 4502) is the largest pharmaceutical company in Japan and Asia and a top 15 pharmaceutical company, employing over 19,000 employees and achieving $15.7...
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| x Bayer |
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Bayer AG (German pronunciation: [ˈbaɪə]) (FWB: BAY, TYO: 4863) is a German chemical and pharmaceutical company founded in Barmen, Germany in 1863. Today it is headquartered in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is well-known for its...
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| x Genentech |
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Genentech Inc. (NYSE: DNA), a composite of Genetic Engineering Technology, Inc., is a leading biotechnology corporation, which was founded in 1976 by venture capitalist Robert A. Swanson and biochemist Dr. Herbert W. Boyer. Considered the...
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| x Biogen Idec |
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Biogen Idec, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB) is a biotechnology company specializing in drugs for neurological disorders, autoimmune disorders and cancer. The company was formed in 2003 by the merger of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Biogen Inc. and San Diego,...
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| x AstraZeneca |
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AstraZeneca plc (LSE: AZN, NYSE: AZN, OMX: AZN) is an Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company formed on 6 April 1999 by the remerger of Swedish Astra AB and British Zeneca Group plc. Zeneca had been part of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), as three...
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| x Merck KGaA |
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Merck KGaA (EMD Chemicals in the United States and Canada, FWB: MRK) is a German-based chemical and pharmaceutical company. Merck (also referred to as “German Merck” or “Merck Darmstadt”) was founded in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1668 and is one of the...
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| x Schering-Plough |
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Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP) is a pharmaceutical company founded in 1851 by Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering as Schering AG in Germany. In 1971, the Schering Corporation merged with Plough (founded by Memphis area entrepreneur Abe...
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| x Abbott Laboratories |
Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) is a diversified pharmaceuticals health care company. It has 72,000 employees and operates in over 130 countries. The corporate headquarters are in Abbott Park, Illinois, located near North Chicago, Illinois.
Abbott...
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| x Bristol-Myers Squibb |
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Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY), colloquially referred to as BMS, is a pharmaceutical company. Founded in 1887 by William McLaren Bristol and John Ripley Myers in Clinton, NY (both were graduates of Hamilton College), Bristol-Myers merged with...
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| x Hoffmann-La Roche |
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F. Hoffmann–La Roche Ltd. is a Swiss global health-care company that operates worldwide under two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics. Its holding company, Roche Holding AG, has shares listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX: ROG).
The...
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| x Sanofi-Aventis |
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Sanofi-Aventis (Euronext: SAN, NYSE: SNY), headquartered in Paris, France, is a multinational pharmaceutical company, the world's fourth-largest by prescription sales. Sanofi-Aventis engages in the research and development, manufacturing and...
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| x Eli Lilly and Company |
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Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) is a global pharmaceutical company. Eli Lilly's global headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the United States. The company was founded in 1876 by a pharmaceutical chemist, Eli Lilly, after whom the...
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| x Aeterna Zentaris |
Æterna Zentaris Inc. (TSX: AEZ) is a Quebec, Canada-based biopharmaceutical company focused in oncology and endocrine therapy. It has over 250 employees in North America and Europe.
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| x Axcan Pharma |
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Axcan Pharma Inc. (NASDAQ: AXCA) is a Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec based leading specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures, markets and distributes a broad line of gastrointestinal (GI) products primarily in North America and Europe...
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| x Amgen |
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Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN, SEHK: 4332) is an international biotechnology company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. Located in the Conejo Valley, Amgen is the largest independent biotech firm. The company employs approximately 14,000 staff...
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| x Gilead Sciences |
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Gilead Sciences NASDAQ: GILD is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes therapeutics. For many years since the company was founded, the company concentrated primarily on antiviral drugs to treat patients infected with...
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| x Merck & Co. |
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Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK), also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the USA and Canada, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The headquarters of the company is located in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, an...
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| x Exelixis |
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Exelixis is a genomics-based drug discovery company located in South San Francisco, Ca. It works on the development of anti-cancer therapies. Exelixis has several compounds in various stages of FDA approval and is listed on NASDAQ (EXEL).
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| x Inotek |
Inotek Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage drug development company developing therapies with novel mechanisms to address significant diseases of the eye.
The Company's lead program, INO-8875, is being evaluated for the treatment of elevated...
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| x Human Genome Sciences |
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Human Genome Sciences (NASDAQ: HGSI) is a biopharmaceutical corporation founded in 1992. Its stated purpose is to "discover, develop, manufacture and market innovative drugs that serve patients with unmet medical needs, with a primary focus on...
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| x Vertex Pharmaceuticals |
Vertex Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company with activities spanning the length of the pharmaceutical product pipeline, from target identification through to clinical trials and marketing. Most of its activity has been in collaboration with...
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| x Eisai Co. |
Eisai Co., Ltd. (エーザイ株式会社, Ēzai Kabushiki-gaisha, TYO: 4523) is one of the leading global pharmaceutical companies, ranking among the top 25 and achieving $8 billion USD in sales for the fiscal 2008 year. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, it has some...
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| x MedImmune |
MedImmune,based in Gaithersburg, Maryland makes Palivizumab. Presently the only targeted antibody therapyagainst an infectious disease — used to fend off respiratory syncytial virus in premature infants. Palivizumab brings in...
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| x Astex |
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Astex Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of drugs in oncology and other areas. Astex was founded in 1999 by Sir Tom Blundell, Chris Abell & Harren Jhoti, and is located in Cambridge, UK.
The company's...
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| x UCB |
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UCB (Union chimique belge; Euronext: UCB), is a biopharmaceutical manufacturer headquartered in Brussels (Belgium).
UCB was founded in 1928 by Emmanuel Janssen, a Belgian businessman. Initially focused on industrial chemicals, the company also...
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| x Geron Corp. |
Geron Corporation is a biotechnology company that specializes in developing and commercialization of products in three specific areas: 1) therapeutic products for cancer that inhibit telomerase; 2) pharmaceuticals that activate telomerase in tissues...
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| x Millennium Pharmaceuticals |
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Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., The Takeda Oncology Company is a biopharmaceutical company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Company markets Velcade (bortezomib) for injection, a cancer product, and has a growing clinical development pipeline...
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| x Wyeth |
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Wyeth, formerly known as American Home Products (AHP), was one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The company is based in Madison, New Jersey, USA. They are known for manufacturing the over-the-counter (OTC) drugs Robitussin and...
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| x Sunesis Pharmaceuticals |
Sunesis Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of small molecular therapeutics for oncology and other unmet medical needs. The company was founded by Jim Wells, ....
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| x Ferring Pharmaceuticals |
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Ferring Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company that specializes on the development and marketing of peptides for use in human medicine. It was founded by Frederik Paulsen in Malmö, Sweden, in 1950 initially as the Nordiska Hormon Laboratoriet,...
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| x Genzyme |
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of the world’s foremost biotechnology companies, Genzyme is dedicated
to making a major positive impact on the lives of people with serious
diseases. Founded in Boston in 1981, Genzyme has grown from a small
start-up to a diversified enterprise...
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| x Cyclacel |
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Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: CYCC, is a biotechnology firm based in Dundee, Scotland and Short Hills, New Jersey developing cancer drugs and treatments. Cyclacel was founded in 1996 by Professor David Lane, Merlin Ventures and Cancer...
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| x Provectus Pharmaceuticals |
Provectus Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical firm involved in the pursuit of new cancer treatments, including those for breast cancer, liver cancer, and metastatic melanoma. In addition, Provectus has entered stage II clinical trials for a new...
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| x Teva Pharmaceutical Industries |
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Teva began operation under its original name of Salomon, Levin, and Elstein Ltd. as a wholesale distributor of medical drugs in Jerusalem during 1901. During the 1930's and subsequent creation of the state of Israel in 1948, it began manufactuering...
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| x Regeneron |
Regeneron is a biotechnology company headquartered in Tarrytown, in New York, USA. The company was founded in 1988. Originally focused on neurotrophic factors and their regenerative capabilities (thus the name), it branched out into the study of...
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| x Daiichi Sankyo Co. |
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Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. (第一三共株式会社, Daiichi Sankyō Kabushiki-kaisha, TYO: 4568) is a Japan-based major pharmaceutical company, which ranks number 22 in the world in sales.
Daiichi Sankyo was established in 2005 through the merger of Sankyo Co., Ltd....
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| x Antigenics Inc. |
Antigenics Inc. is a biotechnology company founded in 1994 by Garo H. Armen and Pramod K. Srivastava. The company focuses on cancer vaccines, immunotherapeutics, adjuvants and infectious disease treatments. Antigenics became a public company in...
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| x Vion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
Vion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a Connecticut based pharmaceutical company founded in March 1992 to commercialize several discoveries made in the biomedical laboratories at Yale University.
Two anticancer agents, Onrigin (laromustine), formerly...
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| x Halozyme Therapeutics |
Halozyme Therapeutics, based in San Diego, California, is a biopharmaceutical company developing and commercializing products targeting the extracellular matrix for the endocrinology, oncology, dermatology and drug delivery markets.
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| x Centocor |
Centocor is a biotechnology company that was founded in Philadelphia in 1979 with an initial goal of developing new diagnostic assays using monoclonal antibody technology.
In 1982 Centocor developed their first product approved by the U.S. Food and...
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| x Titan Pharmaceuticals |
Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a California biopharmaceutical company. Titan develops proprietary therapeutics for the treatment of central nervous system disorders, cardiovascular disease, bone disease, and other disorders primarily in the United...
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| x Ipsen |
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Ipsen is a French pharmaceutical company headquartered in Paris, France. It primarily develops and markets medications used in oncology, endocrinology and the treatment of neuromuscular disorders. In 2005, Ipsen spent € 169 million—20.9% of...
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| x Cephalon |
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Cephalon, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEPH) is a U.S. biopharmaceutical company co-founded in 1987 by Dr. Frank Baldino, Jr., a pharmacologist and former scientist with the DuPont Company, who continues to serve as its chairman and chief executive officer. The...
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| x BioCryst Pharmaceuticals |
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BioCryst designs drug candidates using detailed knowledge of the
structures of active sites of targeted enzymes. The active site of an
enzyme is the area into which a chemical or biological molecule fits to
initiate a biochemical reaction. Enzymes...
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| x Genta |
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Genta Incorporated is a biopharmaceutical company with a diversified
product portfolio that is focused on delivering innovative products for
the treatment of patients with cancer. The Company’s research
platforms are anchored by two major...
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| x Medarex |
Medarex (NASDAQ: MEDX) is an American biotechnology company based in Princeton, New Jersey. The company has manufacturing facilities in Bloomsbury and Annandale, New Jersey, and research facilities in Milpitas and Sunnyvale, California. Medarex...
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| x OSI Pharmaceuticals |
OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is an American pharmaceutical company based in Long Island, New York with facilities in Colorado, New Jersey and the United Kingdom. OSI specializes in the discovery and development of molecular targeted therapies, and is...
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| x Pharmion |
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Pharmion is a global biotech company that
is dedicated to the hematology and oncology communities. We work in
partnership with a network of scientific and clinical advisors to identify and develop products for global hematology and oncology markets. ...
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| x Intarcia |
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Intarcia exclusively licensed the DUROS implantable
delivery technology for a broad scope of use from ALZA Corporation.
This license enables development programs in the areas of
endocrinology, metabolic disorders, multiple sclerosis, and...
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| x CellGate |
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Cellgate is rapidly advancing a
portfolio of innovative anti-proliferation therapeutics, each with the
potential to provide new treatment options for patients with diseases
characterized by uncontrolled cell division, an underlying cause of
many...
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| x Novacea |
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We have recently entered into an important strategic partnership with Schering Plough Corporation,
which is designed to allow us to broaden our development platform for
Asentar. This collaboration leverages Novacea’s existing capabilities
with...
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| x Tanox |
Tanox was a biopharmaceutical company based in Houston, Texas. The company was founded by two biomedical research scientists, Nancy T. Chang and Tse Wen Chang in March 1986. Nancy was the President and CEO of the company in its 21 year history,...
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| x Northwest Biotherapeutics |
Northwest Biotherapeutics is an American pharmaceutical company that focuses on developing immunotherapies against different types of cancer.
NWBT's stated goals stress product quality and purity, innovation, and efficient production.
The DCVax...
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| x MannKind Corporation |
MannKind Corporation (NASDAQ: MNKD), based in Valencia, California, is a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of therapeutic products for diseases such as diabetes and cancer. The company, while...
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| x CSL Behring |
CSL Behring is a global leader in the plasma protein biotherapeutics industry, providing plasma-derived therapies and their recombinant analogs that treat rare and serious diseases.
The company traces its roots back to Emil von Behring, an innovator...
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