GENOMICS:
Alzheimer's Maverick Moves to Industry
Eliot Marshall
Since 1994, the British drug company Glaxo Wellcome has been buying bits and pieces of U.S. biotech firms as part of a push into genetics. On 17 June, the company announced a surprising choice to direct its $47 million genetics empire: Allen Roses of Duke University, a prominent neuroscientist and controversial Alzheimer's disease researcher.