August 12, 2005

Missed Chances

By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK

Even successful researchers lose out on the big bucks from invention. Just ask Jerome P. Horwitz.

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For the longest time, the scientist who created the pioneering anti-AIDS drug AZT considered it just one in a series of research disappointments.Jerome P. Horwitz, who retired last month as a professor of chemistry at Wayne State University at the

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