1.   As a group, the gene manipulators, drug developers, disease researchers, and drug-delivery companies ranked fourth in dollars invested in the period.

2.   Biogen, a Cambridge, Mass. biotehnology firm whose future as a drug developer hangs on the success of Avonex, responded quickly.

3.   After the market closed yesterday, JT said that it would boost its investment fivefold in joint AIDS research with a U.S. drug developer.

4.   Drug developers also often wait for years to receive patents for new technologies and products.

5.   In the end, Merck may have to rely on some plain old good fortune -- an element that every drug developer must contend with, said Scolnick.

6.   Its most advanced drug candidate is an anti-cancer compound that it licensed from another drug developer and is still in early stage human clinical trials.

7.   Once the market closed, the company, known as JT, said that it would boost its investment fivefold in joint AIDS research with a U.S. drug developer.

8.   Other drug developers are working on different molecular approaches to asthma.

9.   Pharmos, a drug developer, showed that pattern in the last two days.

10.   Several Wall Street analysts said the withdrawal of Redux and Pondimin will have a chilling effect on other diet drug developers who face greater FDA scrutiny and public uncertainty.