000 Leagues under the Sea
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Just a small contingent of Pharmamar’s staff, which is, with a total of 262 employees, one of the main biotechnological companies in Spain. Ph ot os (5 ): P ha rm am ar Like Captain Nemo, the mysterious character created by Jules Verne, Jose María Fernández Sousa-Faro decided to seek his fortune in the depths of the oceans. His reasons were not, however, as obscure as Nemo’s. He had inherited the Zeltia Group from his father, a Spanish company that produced diverse goods, from protective products for wood, to pesticides and pharmaceuticals. It was 1986. Spain was joining the European Union and Fernández decided that his company would require some original and innovative projects to face this new and challenging scenario. He was a biochemist with some previous experience in biotechnology. This was the background that led him to create Pharmamar, a biotech company aimed at the discovery and development of novel marine-derived drugs for the treatment of cancer.
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