AA PharmaSyn provides safe harbor for 10 ex-Pfizerites

Thursday, March 12, 2009 | Source: Concentrate

Pfizer refugees have found another place to flock in Ann Arbor.

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Hundreds of Pfizer workers were looking for a safe port in the storm created by the drug maker when it closed its Ann Arbor campus in early 2007. One of those safe harbors turned out to be AA PharmaSyn.

Helen Lee and Suemin Cheng both left Pfizer just before it closed to start AA PharmaSyn because they wanted to stay in Ann Arbor. Today the chemistry contract research organization employs 10 people, all of whom once worked at the pharma giant.

"We average about 20 years at Pfizer," Lee says. "We like to call ourselves ex-Parke Davis (the company Pfizer bought to establish an Ann Arbor presence) employees."

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