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THE GODFATHER

PHILLIP FROST

CHAIRMAN AND CEO/IVAX CORP.

Dozens of local pharmaceutical companies can trace their roots back to entrepreneur Phillip Frost. His businesses, including Key Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Ivax Corp., spawned other area biomedical entrepreneurs such as Michael Jaharis and Daniel Bell, founders of Kos Pharmaceuticals Inc., Andrx Corp. co-founder Elliot F. Hahn and even a publicly traded spinoff: Ivax Diagnostics Inc.

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In July, Frost announced he would sell the $1.8 billion Ivax to Tel Aviv, Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Although Frost will become vice chairman of ...

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