Company · Biotechnology · founded 1944
Syntex
Pharmaceutical company formed in Mexico City in 1944 to make therapeutic steroids from Mexican yams. Alejandro Zaffaroni joined in 1951 and became president of its U.S. subsidiary in 1962.
Of the 1 person here linked to Syntex, 0 are founders and 0 are still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
1 person at Syntex
Executive Past
Role
Biochemist from 1951; president of the U.S. subsidiary (Syntex Laboratories) from 1962, 1951
Source
· high confidence. The Wikipedia page does not give the year he left; the profile's sources say 1968, when he founded ALZA.
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Alejandro Zaffaroni
Biochemist and serial biotech founder; led Syntex's steroid and oral-contraceptive research, then founded ALZA, DNAX, Affymax, Affymetrix, Symyx, Maxygen, and Alexza
professional-class · some · graduate degree