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European BioPharmaceutical Review

Battling Cancer

Over the decades, billions of dollars have gone into the war against cancer. Nonetheless, in 2003 an estimated 556,500 people will die from the disease in the US - about five per cent more than the mortality rate recorded in 1950. In recent months however, the US Food and Drug Administration approved several innovative biotech drugs that are designed to attack the disease in new ways and hundreds of additional compounds are in various stages of clinical trials. Could it be that we are gaining on cancer at last?

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By G Steven Burrill, CEO of Burrill & Company

G Steven Burrill is CEO of Burrill & Company, a San Francisco-based life sciences merchant bank. Mr Burrill currently serves on eight Boards of Directors including DepoMed (Amex: DMI) and Third Wave Technologies (NASDAQ: TWTI), and is Chairman of the Boards of Pyxis Genomics and Paradigm Genetics (NASDAQ: PDGM).

Prior to founding Burrill & Company in 1994, he spent 28 years with Ernst & Young directing and co-ordinating the firm's services to clients in the biotechnology, life sciences, high technology and manufacturing industries worldwide.

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