"We're really not influenced by what's going on at this time," said Stephen A. Sherwin, chairman and chief executive of Cell Genesys.
James A. Bianco, chief executive of Cell Therapeutics, said Pixantrone might reach the market by 2005 or 2006 and complement his company's Trisenox, which is on the market, and Xyotax, the company's experimental treatment for lung cancer.
At the SEC hearing, one dissenting voice was Stephen Sherwin Stephen Sherwin, M.D., the chief executive of Cell Genesys.
And that blip, that period we've just come through, where programmes were filtered through charts and schedules and executive brain cells and imposed on a creative workforce, that is precisely the old-fashioned mechanics of the big American networks that HBO and company are fighting free of.
Thomas Werner has served as chief executive of solar cell and panel maker SunPower since June 2003.
"There are potentially scores of applications that could emerge over time," said Mercedes Walton, chief executive of Cryo-Cell.
"Germany's law has basically been a turbocharger," said Anton Milner, the chief executive of Q-Cells.
"To develop a technology, you've got to create an industry," said Mr. Milner, the chief executive of Q-Cells, referring to the German success story.
But a successor program announced by the Energy Department last week, centering on fuel cells instead of hybrid diesel-electric systems, is in some ways an even larger leap, as portrayed by auto executives and fuel cell experts.
"Like all energy storage media, you have to treat it with respect," said Charles E. Freese, executive director, fuel-cell activities at General Motors.
