Apollon: Facilitated DNA vaccines

Some people just like to be "where it's at." Vincent Zurawski Jr. was the first researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital to work on monoclonal antibodies, and he was one of the co-founders of Centocor Inc. After 15 years working with MAbs, he was ready for a new challenge.

Zurawski was responsible for the development of CNTO's diagnostic products, and at the end of his tenure there was working full time on cancer. But "this was the age of DNA and molecular genetics, and I wanted to get into that," he said...