By Staff Report
Princeton father and entrepreneur John F. Crowley will be speaking about his family’s struggles with a severe genetic disease and how they defied the odds at the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce’s luncheon on Feb. 2.
Mr. Crowley is the chairman, president and CEO of Amicus Therapeutics Inc., a biotechnology company focused on treatments for human genetic diseases.
His involvement with biotech stems from the 1998 diagnosis of two of his children with Pompe disease, a severe and often fatal neuromuscular disorder.
In his drive to find a cure for them, he left his position at Bristol-Myers Squibb and became an entrepreneur as the co- founder, president and CEO of Novazyme Pharmaceuticals, a biotech start-up conducting research on a new experimental treatment for Pompe disease, which he credits as ultimately saving his children’s lives.
Mr. Crowley and his family have been profiled in The Wall Street Journal and are the subjects of a book by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Geeta Anand. The major motion picture, “Extraordinary Measures,” starring Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford, was inspired by the Crowley family journey.
The lunch will be at the Princeton Marriott at Forrestal starting at 11:30 a.m. For more information, call (609) 924-1776.
