Reference
Rooms that predate this fog poster
The nine signals did not start in Edinburgh. These are the rooms where the molecules were found, tested, and put on a list.
Kitasato Institute
5-9-1 Shirokane, Minato City, Tokyo 108-8641, Japan
Where Satoshi Omura's soil samples began the avermectin work behind ivermectin.
Bayer AG Pharmaceuticals
Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 217, 42117 Wuppertal, Germany
The German laboratories behind ciprofloxacin and, later, vardenafil (Levitra).
Former Pfizer Research Laboratories
Ramsgate Road, Sandwich, Kent CT13 9NJ, United Kingdom
The site where sildenafil's unexpected cardiovascular side effect was first taken seriously.
ICOS Corporation (historic)
22021 20th Avenue SE, Bothell, WA 98021, USA
The biotech that discovered tadalafil before partnering with Lilly to launch Cialis.
Parke-Davis / Warner-Lambert (historic)
2800 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA
Where gabapentin was developed as Neurontin before the Pfizer era.
Schering Corporation (historic)
2000 Galloping Hill Road, Kenilworth, NJ 07033, USA
The company that introduced prednisone, the synthetic corticosteroid sold as Deltasone.
F. Hoffmann-La Roche
Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
The Swiss company that developed isotretinoin, the retinoid marketed as Accutane.
Bristol-Myers Squibb (Glucophage)
430 East 29th Street, New York, NY 10016, USA
The company that brought metformin to the United States market as Glucophage.
World Health Organization
Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Keeper of the Model List of Essential Medicines, which lists ivermectin, ciprofloxacin and metformin.
Why the address stays on the signal
A soil screen near Tokyo is why a 3 mg chip has a mass-treatment record. A failed angina brief in Sandwich is why a diamond still carries a nitrate hold. A retinoid bench in Basel is why 40 mg cannot skip iPLEDGE. Each drug note points back to the room that shaped the hold.