NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE: “PHARMACCEUTICAL COMPANIES BLOCKADE MEDICATIONS THAT DO CURE, BUT ARE NOT INCOME-PRODICING”

- And it is not so? 

- Frequently, most income-producing discoveries have been made starting from very basic questions. That is how the gigantic and billionaire US biotech industry for which I work, was born

- How was it born?

- Biotechnology arose when passionate people started to ask if genes could be donated, so they started to study and tried to purify them

- A whole adventure!

- Yes, but no one expected to become rich with those questions. If was difficult to get fundings to investigate responses, until Nixon launched the war against cancer in 1971.

- - Was it scientifically productive?

- If permitted lots of investigations, like min with an enormous amount of public fundings, that were no good directly against cancer, but it was useful for the understanding of mechanisms that permitted life.

- What did you discover?

- Phillip Allen Sharp and I were awarded for the discovery of introns at the eurocariotic DNA and gene-splicing mechanism.