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Syntex
Profile last edited on: 1/24/2017

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TS Type
Major Corp
Status
N/A
Year Founded
1944
Last Involved Year
1996

Key People / Management

Location Information

3401 Hillview Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94304
   (415) 855-5050
   N/A

Public Profile

Laboratorios Syntex SA was a pharmaceutical company formed in Mexico City in 1944 by Russell Marker to manufacture therapeutic steroids from the Mexican yams called cabeza de negro (Dioscorea mexicana) and Barbasco (Dioscorea composita). The demand for barbasco by Syntex initiated the Mexican barbasco trade.[1] Syntex chemists synthesized cortisone from diosgenin, a phytosteroid contained in Mexican yams. Syntex was integrated into the Roche group in 1994.

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Headquartered
USA
Employment
11,000
Revenue
$1.0B
Public/Private
Privately Held
Stock Info
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Received SBIR $$
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