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One of the world's leading biotechnology companies, Genzyme is dedicated to making a major positive impact on the lives of people with serious diseases. Since 1981, the company has grown from a small start-up to a diversified enterprise with more than 10,000 employees in locations spanning the globe and 2007 revenues of $3.8 billion. In 2007, Genzyme was chosen to receive the National Medal of Technology, the highest honor awarded by the President of the United States for technological innovation.
With many established products and services helping patients in nearly 90 countries, Genzyme is a leader in the effort to develop and apply the most advanced technologies in the life sciences. The company's products and services are focused on rare inherited disorders, kidney disease, orthopaedics, cancer, transplant, and diagnostic testing. Genzyme's commitment to innovation continues today with a substantial development program focused on these fields, as well as immune disease, infectious disease, and other areas of unmet medical need.
Genzyme's press releases and other company information are available at http://www.genzyme.com and by calling Genzyme's investor information line at 1-800-905-4369 within the United States or 1-678-999-4572 outside the United States.
About Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Isis is exploiting its expertise in RNA to discover and develop novel
drugs for its product pipeline and for its partners. The Company has
successfully commercialized the world's first antisense drug and has 18
drugs in development. Isis' drug development programs are focused on
treating cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Isis' partners are
developing antisense drugs invented by Isis to treat a wide variety of
diseases. Ibis Biosciences, Inc., Isis' majority-owned subsidiary, is
developing and commercializing the Ibis T5000(TM) Biosensor System, a
revolutionary system to identify infectio
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