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Wall Street Journal - November 2, 2005
Scott Hensley, scott.hensley@wsj.com
Dr. Emini, 51 years old, comes to Wyeth from the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, in New York, where he was senior vice president for vaccine development. The nonprofit group, whose backers include the World Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has supported research and development of vaccines to prevent HIV infection and AIDS.
Dr. Emini is scheduled to start next week as executive vice president for vaccine research and development at Wyeth, based in Madison, N.J. He will oversee about 600 scientists and technicians.
Wyeth is one of the few U.S. drug makers still active in the vaccine business. It sells Prevnar, a vaccine for pneumococcal disease, and Meningitec, a bacterial meningitis vaccine. Wyeth is working on new generations of those vaccines as well as new ones against Alzheimer's disease, HIV infection and sexually transmitted diseases.
"At Wyeth, I've got the opportunity not just to work on HIV, but, in addition, I can also work on pneumococcal and menigococcal disease," Dr. Emini said in an interview. "There was nothing that caused me to leave [IAVI] other than the opportunity to go to Wyeth. During my 18 months at IAVI, I enjoyed myself tremendously and I learned a lot."
Before joining IAVI in 2004, Dr. Emini worked two decades at Merck & Co., where he led work on AIDS vaccines and the development of Crixivan, a protease inhibitor that helped doctors treat AIDS as a chronic illness. He also oversaw development of vaccines for shingles, cancer-causing viruses and diarrheal disease.
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