Chapter 205: Impact of Pharmaceutical Companies
Switzerland, Huanuo Group global headquarters.
"Umbrella again? Why are they here again? Damn it!"
The CEO of Huanuo Group felt overwhelmed when looking at the report in front of him.
It's him, it's Umbrella!
I feel like this company is toxic!
The first A1 contact lens launched instantly defeated the Vision Eyewear brand under Huanuo, and it exploded on the spot.
Even though Huanuo Group is a large company with a market value of over 100 billion US dollars and is one of the world's three largest pharmaceutical companies, the loss of the entire eyewear market is an unbearable pain.
After all, the glasses business is too profitable and has too many users.
As the production of Umbrella A1 glasses increases, traditional eyewear giants such as Visionox and Johnson & Johnson have directly withdrawn from the stage.
However, Huanuo and Johnson & Johnson are still quite fortunate, because they can see that the material of the A1 glasses is amazing, so there is definitely no comparison in this aspect, but after all, it is just the lenses, and the headache should be the lens mechanism of Carl Zeiss.
Although a large comprehensive pharmaceutical company like us suffered heavy losses, at least we have not lost our basic foundation.
But then the stone-dissolving medicine thrown by Umbrella made Huanuo's heart jump again.
Oh my god, aren't you a camera engineer? How did you get into the pharmaceutical industry?
And the effect of the medicine is so amazing.
In fact, at this time, veteran pharmaceutical companies such as Huanuo, Johnson & Johnson, and Pfizer had already vaguely sensed the problem, and subsequently quietly invested a large amount of money in Chinese patent medicines and some traditional ancient prescriptions!
Companies like Huanuo and Johnson & Johnson spend nearly 10 billion US dollars on drug research and development every year! They naturally understand the importance of research and development.
Even though the stone-dissolving medicine itself did not touch their core business and stones were rarely treated with medicine, so the impact this time was not significant, they still plunged into the ancient prescriptions.
Moreover, they cooperated with their own shareholder forces to put pressure on the other party, wanting to see this new technology. But unfortunately, they are not only in the pharmaceutical industry, but also in the security industry, which is very dirty.
After discovering the problems, pharmaceutical companies like Huanuo hid behind the chaebols and waited and watched.
We are just selling medicine, you chaebols can have fun by yourselves.
We can accept the stone medicine. Just take a share. There are so many competitors anyway, and you are not a big deal.
But then they came up with a new vaccination training system!
Vaccines were also Huanuo's strength. Although Merck was the most seriously damaged this time, Huanuo is still vigilant, fearing that its core business might be invaded.
Behind that, damn!
A truly effective medicine for the virus?
What the hell is this?
It's so destructive!
Anyway, many of their researchers went crazy on the spot and began to change from believing in science to believing in theology. The cover of the Bible even looked a bit like the Umbrella Corporation's logo.
Moreover, Umbrella Corporation is also a ruthless character. They will take action if they disagree with you, and there is nothing you can do to them.
Fortunately, they finally agreed to sell some shares of the culture medium.
Although the price is high, Huanuo is fighting hard for this share.
Currently, a large amount of funds are invested in trying to crack this culture medium, and many of the remaining funds have also used this culture medium to carry out a number of experiments. Some things that were previously stuck can now be achieved through this culture medium.
But before they could come up with any practical results, the other party came up with such bombshell news!
Hematopoietic stem cell cultivation in vitro! Autologous transplantation!
Are you kidding me? Do you know how to do business?
What’s the point of doing a one-time deal?
Not all leukemias require immediate bone marrow transplantation. For example, Huanuo has a very famous product.
Gleevec!
It can achieve a long-term survival effect for chronic myeloid leukemia. Apart from being expensive, it can be said to be a miracle drug.
Although this drug can also target malignant gastrointestinal stromal tumors, the main patients are still chronic myeloid leukemia patients, which account for 20% of leukemia patients.
Theoretically, all leukemia patients can be cured through hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. However, as mentioned earlier, there are very few people who are able to complete hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and usually only acute patients have this option.
Other comprehensive treatments are capable of prolonging survival through other means.
This is completely different from those tumor removal surgeries.
Precisely because of this, it is foreseeable that with the promotion of Umbrella's plan and as more and more patients can complete transplants, the sales of Huanuo's miracle drug that can make a fortune every day will also be greatly affected!
When the contact lens wave came out, the stock price dropped a lot, and was barely pulled back thanks to good news from other aspects. But not long after that, you came up with another one?
Huanuo was actually well aware of the effectiveness of this culture medium. He was not surprised that it could quickly cultivate hematopoietic stem cells. He just didn't expect Umbrella to do this.
“If you don’t make money, do you still want to be a saint? Forget it, let the board of directors worry about it. The Sackler family should be more anxious.”
Huanuo's CEO showed a self-deprecating smile. In fact, if it was just this incident, although it was a big blow to Huanuo, it was not unacceptable.
Gleevec, which was developed in 2001, has already made a lot of money with interest.
If the profits weren't there, why would they foolishly invest nearly 10 billion US dollars every year in research and development with a long payback period?
But seeing Umbrella's unreasonable moves, it seems that they don't care about interests at all, which is really a headache.
The key is that the technology they have is really amazing and top-notch!
Now we have taken action on many fronts, will it continue to expand in the future?
They are all in this business. The more cutting-edge technology the other side brings out, the more their living space will be squeezed...
There are many pharmaceutical companies that have similar ideas to Huanuo, including Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer.
Of course, the Sackler family still attaches the most importance to this. It can be said that all the top pharmaceutical companies have investments from them, and they have a lot of say in this field, coupled with some of their own private experiments and the conflicts that broke out in Africa.
The more powerful Umbrella becomes, the more uneasy they become.
It was obviously an inconspicuous company at the beginning, but it had unique technology and was protected by a security company.
But how come it has grown to this level in such a short time ?!
How is it possible in the world for a company to grow so fast?
They knew that there was a world company in the East, but that company focused on entertainment, software, and games and relied on the Internet, so they could accept and understand it. But Umbrella was too exaggerated.
Even if we had accumulated technical experience in the past, this would not be possible.
However, what can be confirmed now is that the great mathematician who has been missing for three years should have some kind of cooperation with Umbrella Corporation.
Before, Sackler wanted to kidnap the other party to help him, but unfortunately, he failed.
"This year's Turing Award has been given out. Next year's Turing Award will definitely be given to the great mathematician who proposed the artificial intelligence algorithm, right?"
"Well, let's invite him to talk about it. Maybe we can try it during the Seoul Mathematical Conference..."
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"It's a really good movie. It should be shown for a while longer."
In an old rental house of less than 40 square meters, a pale man wearing a mask looked at the information on the computer screen in front of him and couldn't help but sigh.
A Xiang is a patient with chronic myeloid leukemia.
Although his wife and daughter never left him and kept on persevering, his once well-off family had lost their car and house because of him, and now they can only live in this small rental house and struggle to survive.
Many times he thought about just leaving to save his wife and daughter from suffering.
But looking at his daughter's pitiful eyes and his wife's tough attitude, he was ultimately stopped by reluctance and fear and dragged it on until now.
"A daughter cannot grow up without a father. Stay alive. This is your responsibility!"
His wife's stubborn words are still ringing in his ears. As a former screenwriter, although he is still taking jobs despite his illness to support his family, a large part of the burden of making money still falls on his wife.
Fortunately, Gleevec is now included in the medical insurance, and the monthly cost has been reduced from tens of thousands to thousands, which finally gives him hope of staying alive.
Touching the family photo next to him, Ah Xiang also showed a warm smile on his face.
"I still want to see my daughter get married and have a family, I still want to grow old with you, and I still don't want to die... Am I too cowardly?"
He wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, looked at the time and saw that his daughter was about to get home from school, so he prepared to go out to pick her up.
Although his daughter has always been worried about his health and said that she has grown up and doesn't want to take him away, Axiang just wants to see her more.
He went out riding his electric scooter, wearing a mask and a helmet, and Axiang also turned the key.
But at this moment his phone rang. It was a fellow patient calling.
"Brother Xiang! Go online and read the latest announcement from Umbrella Corporation! We have hope! We really have hope!"
The caller was a young man. A Xiang knew that their family conditions made it difficult for them to afford the current prices after medical insurance, and they were suffering more than himself.
But now he heard the sound of someone crying with joy, which made Axiang stunned for a moment.
Could it be that Umbrella Corporation has also developed a special medicine?
A Xiang is quite familiar with this company because his wife gave him a pair of glasses from this company as a birthday gift.
My wife’s kidney stones were also cured by their medicine.
At that time, both of them joked that it would be great if they could develop a specific drug for leukemia. Is that true?
As A Xiang quickly flipped through the webpage, he immediately saw the latest news, and it happened to be on the hot search list thanks to the residual heat of "Dying to Survive" after it was released.
"All leukemia patients are expected to be cured. Umbrella has developed a rapid in vitro stem cell cultivation technology."
"Umbrella Corporation said that all hospitals qualified to perform surgery can apply to purchase culture medium quotas and participate in corresponding training!"
For a moment, A Xiang's hand holding the phone began to tremble.
real……
There is hope...
