Making lifesaving discoveries

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Henri Termeer ended up in the world of health care purely by coincidence. After having been headhunted in 1983 by Genzyme, a biotechnology company in Boston, he stood at the helm for almost three decades. He pioneered the market and economy for drugs and therapies for patients with rare diseases, the so-called orphan drugs. The biomedical industry was up and coming and Termeer broke new ground to safeguard these orphan drugs for the future.

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