Cephalon

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Cephalon, Inc. was an American biopharmaceutical company co-founded in 1987 by pharmacologist Frank Baldino, Jr., neuroscientist Michael Lewis, and organic chemist James C. Kauer—all three former scientists with the DuPont Company. Baldino served as Cephalon's chairman and chief executive officer, until his death in December 2010. The company's name comes from the adjective cephalic meaning related to the head or brain, as it was established primarily to pursue treatments for neurodegenerative diseases. As noted by fundinguniverse.com, in its early years,

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