In 1994, Schoemaker went to doctors after feeling a little light-headed. Seven years later, Schoemaker is still putting in regular 12-hour days. I wanted to do something exciting, like Centocor, again. People in the biotech business were not going to doubt him. I don't know much about his cancer, but that is because he never mentions it.
People complain more about the flu.
He comes over here for lunch and all he wants to know about are your problems, about how he can help you. Schoemaker claims always to have been the optimist. He was all set to go to school near his home in Deventer, Netherlands, when he came to study English for a few months in the United States. He was not yet 30 when he started Centocor, an audacious thing to do during the Carter-Reagan recession. But within a couple of years, the company had its first product, a rabies test, based on the company's research into monoclonal antibodies.