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'''Celgene Corporation''' is a pharmaceutical company based in Summit, New Jersey, U.S. Its main product is Thalomid, used to treat bone marrow cancer as well as a form of leprosy. (Thalomid is a form of the infamous thalidomide sedative which was used in the 1950s until it was realized that it caused birth defects.) Another of Celgene's drugs is Revlimid which is used to treat the malignant blood disease MDS.
<ref name="Hoovers">[http://www.hoovers.com/celgene/--ID__12913--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml Celgene Profile], ''Hoovers'', accessed January 2008.</ref>
In 2006, sales were nearly US$900 million with profits of US$69 million.
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==Support for the American Legislative Exchange Council==
Celgene is a corporate member of the [[American Legislative Exchange Council]] (ALEC) as of 2011. Greg Chesmore, Director of State Government Relations at Celgene,<ref>Greg Chesmore, Director of State Government Relations, Celgene Corporation, [http://www.scribd.com/doc/51654823/Writing-Alec-Legislation Email to Leah Vukmir], Wisconsin state legislator and ALEC member, September 24, 2009, open records request email posted on Scribd by Cory Liebmann, March 27, 2011</ref> represents Celgene as the ALEC [[ALEC State Chairmen|State corporate co-chair]] of Illinois<ref name="Corporate Chairs">American Legislative Exchange Council, "Solutions for the States," 38th Annual Meeting agenda, on file with CMD, August 3-6, 2011</ref> alongside Sen. [[Kirk Dillard]] (R) and Rep. [[Renée Kosel]] (R).<ref name="Legislative Chairs">American Legislative Exchange Council, [http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=State_Chairmen&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=13614 ALEC State Chairmen], organization website, accessed June 30, 2011</ref>
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==Lobbying==
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