Life sciences and materials: A successful marriage is possible

Abstract

Although some companies are separating their life sciences and materials businesses, others are keeping these entities under the same corporate umbrella to take advantage of possible synergies at the biology/materials science interface. The following remarks, which provide some per-spectives about DuPont's approach to this strategy, were delivered as a keynote address at a conference titled "Life Sciences and Materials... Successful Marriage or Divorce?" organized in Pisa, Italy, in October 1999, by the European Polymer Federation and the University of Pisa. ©2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.