Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> April 24, 2000

John Klock – Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc (bmrn)

DR. JOHN C. KLOCK, is President of BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. Dr. Klock is a board-certified Internist and Hematologist-Oncologist and was formerly an Academic Physician at the University of California San Francisco. Since 1986 he has been involved in the start-up of five biotechnology companies. He has been a founder of several biotechnology companies including Glycomed, Inc., Glyko Biomedical, LTD and BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. Profile
TWST: Give us a brief overview of BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc. the

company's history, activities, those kinds of things.

Dr. Klock: The company was founded in 1996 as a spinout of