Whereas before they assumed it was Egyptian?
Posted on 12/18/2015 1:44:02 PM PST by Citizen Zed
After deliberating for most of the year, Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Friday it would change its name to avoid being confused with the Islamist militant group known as ISIS.
The biotechnology company said it would be called Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc from Dec. 22 and also changed its stock exchange ticker symbol to IONS from ISIS.
"It's been an ongoing discussion for most of this year", Chief Business Officer Sarah Boyce told Reuters.
"When you talk about the company you want people to immediately think about the incredible work you're doing to deliver transformational drugs to patients ... not as an unfortunate namesake."
The Carlsbad, California-based company's stock dropped about 4 percent on the first trading day after the Paris attacks, for which ISIS claimed responsibility.
The drugmaker - named after the Egyptian protector and healer goddess Isis, who was revered as a protector and healer - has been around for more than a quarter century.
Today it is a $7 billion company with one cholesterol drug on the market and treatments in development for a plethora of diseases, including cancer and heart conditions.
“The biotechnology company said it would be called Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc from Dec. 22 and also changed its stock exchange ticker symbol to IONS from ISIS. “It’s been an ongoing discussion for most of this year”, Chief Business Officer Sarah Boyce told Reuters.”
Yeah, that’’s the kind of brain trust I want heading up a company I’ve invested in.
But they’re not isis, they’re isil, a cording to imam obama ( may pigs be upon him).
Samir: You know, there's nothing wrong with that name.
Michael Bolton: There *was* nothing wrong with it... until I was about twelve years old and that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys.
Samir: Hmm... well, why don't you just go by Mike instead of Michael?
Michael Bolton: No way! Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.
So now everybody is going to think that Ionis Pharmaceuticals is a Greek company.
ISSI is not concerned yet. . ?
Isn’t Ionis the name of a Turkish separatist group that stole a nuclear weapon from US stockpiles there? < /news from 2016>
There was a girl who road our church bus named Isis. I bet it stinks to be her these days.
My mom used to eat Ayds candies fourty years ago. That and Metrecal. No. Once AIDS became a scary piece of news, that name meant one thing only.
No way she should change her name....
Same with my beautiful female black cat. I named her Isis after the goddess years ago.. now I’m ashamed to tell anyone her name- thanks to those savages!
isis pharma now called jihadi pharma allahfubar
take this and....... you’ll be martyr mad....
do this do that
when do the imams blow themselves up.....
NEVER HEARD OF ONE........ just like obammy..... leading FAR behind...
Remember that chocolate fudge with phenylpropanolamine in it?
“Harriet, you’ve lost so much weight! How did you do it?”
“I’ve got Ayds!”
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