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  • At that time, when I worked at this small pharmaceutical company Syntex, we wanted to develop some drugs of our own that we could sell, not only patent, under the name Syntex, rather than just being suppliers to other companies.

    Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE 2010

  • In the US, Djerassi pursued studies in chemistry and in 1949 was appointed associate director of chemical research at a pharmaceutical company called Syntex in Mexico City.

    Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE 2010

  • "As with many defective medical devices, patients who have had the recalled Syntex II components implanted are faced with a dubious choice," Michael Beckman explains.

    naplesnews.com Stories 2009

  • The put and call market was my arena when stocks such as Syntex, Polaroid and Xerox acted like Google.

    Billionaire Wannabes Martin T. Sosnoff 2006

  • Equally interestingly, the Pill was not developed in a huge laboratory belonging to a major pharmaceutical company but in a relatively humble laboratory in Mexico City, belonging to a small company called Syntex.

    Did You Know? Birth control pills come from Mexican yams 2008

  • This was so successful that a new company, Syntex, was soon born, specifically to make steroids from Mexican yams.

    Did You Know? Birth control pills come from Mexican yams 2008

  • Mexican pharmaceutical company, Syntex, S.A., first synthesized an orally active progestational steroid, named norethindrone, which does not exist in nature and that they supplied Pincus with this steroid for further biological work.

    Heidi Kingstone: What Happened to the Father of the Pill? Whitewashed Out of History... 2010

  • After working four years as a research chemist with CIBA Pharmaceutical Co. in Summit, New Jersey, he decided on a strategic move, in 1949, to join Syntex, in Mexico City, as associate director of chemical research.

    Did You Know? Birth control pills come from Mexican yams 2008

  • One and one-half years after the first publication by the Syntex group, chemists at G.D. Searle -- a company for which Pincus consulted, synthesized a close relative, norethynodrel, which, as shown by Pincus -- is largely converted in the stomach into norethindrone.

    Heidi Kingstone: What Happened to the Father of the Pill? Whitewashed Out of History... 2010

  • At Syntex, Djerassi set out to see if diosgenin could be made to yield other steroids, which do not actually exist in nature, but which retain the biological activities of progesterone and are also orally active.

    Did You Know? Birth control pills come from Mexican yams 2008

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