Oscient Pharmaceutical

Oscient Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company, sells and markets products.

Genome Therapeutics Corp. was one of the earliest biotech companies. It was founded in 1961 by Dr.Orrie M. Friedman under the name Collaborative Research Inc. Under the leadership of Helen Donis-Keller and using internal funds, the company produced one of the first linkage maps of the whole human genome in the mid 1980s