Stephen Garrett Marcus, M.D. has focused his professional career on the development of innovative new treatments for life-threatening and disabling diseases. He received his medical degree from New York Medical College, and completed internal medicine residency at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York and a medical oncology fellowship at the University of California in San Francisco. As a senior research executive in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry since 1985, the author played a lead role in developing Betaseron as the first effective treatment of multiple sclerosis, and has led multi...