""'Secret Service " "'was a Polish monthly magazine for gaming and consoles published from 1993-2001 by the publishing house ProScript.
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"We believe that this acquisition offers significant scientific and business synergies for the future, " said Dan Burns, president of ProScript, who is leaving the company.
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But with many doubting the drug would work, Proscript ran out of money in 1999 and was sold to LeukoSite, another Cambridge company, for $ 2.4 million.
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ProScript, a 7-year-old company, has struggled in recent years with a spate of top management changes and difficulty raising additional funding for human clinical testing of its drugs.
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Around the same time, however, a group of Israeli researchers discovered that the proteosome contributed to cell division, suggesting to Adams that ProScript's research might have applications in cancer.
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Maniatis is also a pioneer in the biotechnology industry, having cofounded Genetics Institute, Inc . in 1980, ProScript Pharma in 1994, Acceleron Pharma in 2004, and Kallyope Pharma in 2016.
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"Our focus is on additional corporate deals to validate the science and then pursue the public market with an initial public offering, " said Richard Bagley, president of Cambridge-based ProScript Inc.
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Though the role it played in disease was not clear, Adams and a group of other scientists founded a company called ProScript on the theory that a better understanding of its biology could lead to important new drugs.
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"With ProScript, we are getting a group of first-rate scientists along with two late-stage compounds and great drug discovery platform for future drugs all at a bargain price, " said Augustine Lawlor, LeukoSite chief financial officer.
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For LeukoSite, which last week announced positive results from its pivotal 93-patient clinical trial for an injectable drug, called Campath, to treat the most prevalent form of adult leukemia, the ProScript acquisition will enable the company to expand its cancer-fighting drug treatments.
