John Crowley Extraordinary Measures

John Crowley has never, never, never quit. After Two Of His Young Children Were Diagnosed With Pompe disease, a rare and fatal neuromuscular disorder affects only That SEVERAL thousand Children Worldwide, Crowley Defied the odds of survival and embarked on a Journey to find a cure, parlaying personal history Struggle Into A Professional juggernaut .

The Crowley family story has-been featured in The Wall Street Journal Is the Subject of the book, The Cure, as well The Inspiration Behind the upcoming movie starring Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser, and Keri Russell. It Is an inspiring story of What It Means to do "whatever it takes," against phenomenal odds, For Your Children. It Is about hope, learning, life and love.

Traveling The World over, Competing Against Time, a scientist Crowley Located Developing an enzyme therapy for Pompe. Grasping at this last hope, he quit job history, Took Out a $ 100,000 home equity loan and Novazyme Founded Pharmaceuticals, five-person startup biotech company zeroing in on The Drug.

In Less than a year, Crowley Raised over $ 27 million for Novazyme. Quickly Grew it to a 100-person company and Genzyme Acquired it for $ 225 million-One Of The Largest Ever Paid Amounts for a preclinical drug development company in biotech history. He watched in awe as His Own Children Began Receiving Potentially lifesaving therapy.