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Cancer survivor facing new battle at NeoPharm; Interim chief seeks top job, OK for tumor drug.(News)(Eidell, Ronald G. of NeoPharm Inc.)

Crain's Chicago Business, August, 2005 by Chase, Brett

Byline: BRETT CHASE In the past year, Ronald G. Eidell beat cancer, survived a boardroom brawl at NeoPharm Inc. and emerged as the biotech company's interim CEO. Now Mr. Eidell wants to be permanent chief executive of the 15-year-old Lake Forest company and lead it through a crucial period.

After his own short battle with prostate cancer-it was detected early, he says-Mr. Eidell is determined to get NeoPharm's brain cancer treatment approved for sale. Mr. Eidell's brush with cancer changes his view of the mission at NeoPharm. "It raises this thing to a level of importance that's much greater than just being a CEO of a company.'' It's a new kind of undertaking for the 61-year-old executive whose background is in finance, not medicine. And though he holds...

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