Cytokine Networks: Ready-made pipeline

Founded in 1993 by the Picower Institute for Medical Research (PIMR) but not given a mandate to become an operating drug development company until December 1996, Cytokine Networks Inc. started corporate life with a ready-made pipeline and several technologies to back it up.

The company was formed to commercialize research coming out of PIMR (Manhasset, N.Y.) and still has a license from the institute for intellectual property in the areas of inflammation, infectious diseases and cancer...