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He was born November 24, 1942, in the Castelnuovo Don Bosco, a commune in the province of Asti in the Piedmont region of Italy, to Mirko Fuchs of Zagreb, Croatia, and Leopoldina Pregelj of Trieste, Italy. Shortly after his birth his parents moved the family to Switzerland, and at the end of World War II they returned to what had become Yugoslavia.
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, where he was responsible for the design and operation of a large-scale cell culture manufacturing plant. He introduced one of the first large-scale applications of perfusion bio reactors and was a leader in assembling the multidisciplinary team that saw monoclonal antibodies as human therapeutics through clinical trials and then to commercial manufacture at multikilogram quantities.
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. During his tenure, Chiron greatly expanded capacity for manufacturing newly approved drugs such as Betaseron for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, and Menjugate, a vaccine to prevent meningitis C, as well as drugs and vaccines in development and clinical studies worldwide.
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He had substantial professional and personal impact on his colleagues, friends, and family, and will be greatly missed. He is survived by his wife, Pubenza Valderruten Peters, sons Alex and Robert, and sister Jenny.
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