Help? Looking for a Bush/Baker connected biotech research firm

[Eloriel]

There's a biotech research firm in Texas, on which either James Baker III and/or George HW Bush are/were directors, which has a strong connection with Baker's Rice University (gets grant money?) and which is involved in some nefarious stuff (bioweapons? some of those experimental vaccines which have been used on our troops?).

The firm has an unusual, fairly short name -- IIRC about 5 or 6 letters, possibly starting with an O. I did not find it under O in this listing, so I very well could be wrong about this: http://informagen.com/Addresses/T.php

I've been googling for hours with key words like Baker, biotech, pharmaceutical, board of directors, Rice University, with no luck. OTOH, I can distinctly remember that when I knew the name, a google search with Baker and/or Bush turned up lots of verrrrry interesting information.

Anyone?

[Eloriel]

1. I didn't think tonight's crowd included the researchers

but what the hell, I'll kick it once.

[Solly Mack]

2. Tanox Biosystems of Houston? Is that what you're thinking of?

I think it might be

[bobthedrummer]

3. Dyn Corp.?

http://www.dyncorp.com/DynPort/index.htm

[Stephanie]

4. I don't think this is what you want, but it's what comes to mind:

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But there are other interests too, and two of them - urban development and health care - combine with oil in another mighty figure in the background of a Bush administration. If he must thank his father for his name, Bush must thank Richard Rainwater for his money.

Last year, as he prepared to run for President, Bush liquidated a blind trust he created to hold his assets - many of them in oil, real estate, health care and other companies owned by Rainwater, a contributor to Bush's campaigns and with whose money Bush aquired his windfall stake in the Texas Rangers baseball team.

Rainwater is a billionaire buying into beleaguered companies at discount prices and reselling when everyone wants in. But he is also involved in companies, including oil firms, that are heavily regulated with hundreds of millions in government contracts.

One, a hospital chain called Columbia/HCA, is the subject of a federal investigation into Medicare fraud. Another, Charter Behavioural Health Systems (in which Bush held investments), is subject to regulatory scrutiny, while another - Crescent Real Estate, which operates mental hospitals - has its multi-million-dollar government input under federal investigation. Rainwater is not himself accused of any misdemeanour, but in each case, the prospect of Bush's promise to privatise and deregulate the health system is a tempting one.

Rainwater is most famous for investing the oil wealth of the third point of Bush's business Iron Triangle - the Bass Brothers, builders of the metropolis Fort Worth. He turned the $50 million they invested with him in 1970 to $5 billion in 1986, mainly through timely investing in Texaco oil and Disney.

http://www.commondreams.org/views/120300-106.htm

[Andy_Stephenson]

5. I am finding a dead link...if you could find it cached somewhere

The Enron, Bush, Baker, Rockefeller Connection - www.globalpress.com/bush_baker_enron.shtml

[Andy_Stephenson]

6. nope

[mia]

7. Aventis ?

Some google searches...

Aventis "George HW Bush"

Aventis vaccines Iraq

[Andy_Stephenson]

8. They are in

France though...

[cosmicdot]

9. Cogene Biotech Ventures

maybe?

imo, there's not enough regulation regarding these private equity investment- and venture capital fincancing-type entities which the Carlyle-Blackstone-Poppy-Baker folks seem to fancy



Cogene BioTech Ventures is a life sciences and medical technology venture capital firm based in Houston, Texas. Cogene's core business is based on early-stage and middle-stage venture investing across the broad spectrum of life sciences, including biopharmaceuticals and biotechnology platforms that enable better, faster and cheaper therapeutic drug discovery. Other areas of investment focus include bionanotechnology, therapeutic medical devices and health care IT / software.

As a life science fund, Cogene considers later-stage private equity investments in the life sciences and medical technology sectors. Investment sizes in the current portfolio companies range from $200K to $5M.
http://www.cogenebiotech.com/

http://www.cogenebiotech.com/portfolio.htm
consists of:


Athersys

EnVivo Pharmaceuticals

Genesis Park

Kodiak Technologies, Inc.

Lexicon Genetics

Macrogenics

Odyssey Thera, Inc.

Opexa Pharmaceuticals

Raven Biotechnologies, Inc.

Targacept, Inc.

Xeotron Corporation

Two Houston scientists join Brown Foundation IMM as adjunct faculty
Two distinguished Houston scientists have been appointed adjunct professors at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and at its Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases, said James T. Willerson, M.D., president, Monday.

C. Thomas Caskey, M.D., and Neal F. Lane, Ph.D., were invited to serve as adjunct professors by Willerson and Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D., Nobel laureate and director of the Brown Foundation IMM and its Research Center for Cellular Signaling. Caskey, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and Lane, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, also will work with the Scientific Advisory Board of the Brown Foundation IMM.

"These two scientists have highly respected records of distinguished accomplishments in their respective fields, and we highly value their ability to help us in developing research programs and recruiting top scientists to our institution in the areas we plan to pursue in the fight against mankind's most persistent diseases," Willerson said.

Caskey is president and chief executive officer of Cogene Biotech Ventures, a life sciences and medical technology venture capital firm based in Houston. Lane is the Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Kelly University Professor at Rice University. He also is a Senior Fellow of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.
http://newsonthego.uthouston.edu/archive/2004/nog258/

[libcurious]

10. Here is where to look

If this is true, this guy will have it on his site.
www.infowars.com