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[Harvard has license and equity interests with Sirtris, which is not a public company.]
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That caused some analysts to question the large sum Glaxo had paid for Sirtris.
Glaxo Looks for Gene-Research Payoff on Other Drugs Jeanne Whalen 2011
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Last year, Glaxo stopped testing one of Sirtris's drugs because it lacked efficacy and had potential safety problems.
Glaxo Looks for Gene-Research Payoff on Other Drugs Jeanne Whalen 2011
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Glaxo says it has faith in the biotech's technology, and the other Sirtris drugs it is testing.
Glaxo Looks for Gene-Research Payoff on Other Drugs Jeanne Whalen 2011
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In 2008, it paid $720 million to buy Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company in Cambridge, Mass.
Glaxo Looks for Gene-Research Payoff on Other Drugs Jeanne Whalen 2011
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Scientific peers have recently called into question some of the early experiments that Sirtris used to bolster its claims for resveratrol and similar compounds.
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Sirtris maintains that its anti-aging results are real.
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Sirtris was formed on the premise that resveratrol could activate SIRT1, and the company's researchers set out to discover similar compounds (called sirtuin mimetics) that would be more potent activators of this possibly life-extending gene.
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He sits on the advisory board of Sirtris, a GlaxoSmithKline company that is conducting sirtuin research on the diseases of aging.
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In 2008, pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline acquired Sirtris for $720 million.
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