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For more than 2 years in the mid-1970's Laney provided
consulting services exclusively to the Federal Government. In
this period Laney worked as an expert consultant to the National
Institutes of Health (hereinafter sometimes referred to as NIH)
to develop a national database for laboratory animals. Laney
obtained national recognition because of his work at NIH. As a
result of the renown and expertise he developed, when Laney left
NIH, he was approached by pharmaceutical companies to perform
consulting work. In late 1976 or early 1977 Laney began to do
consulting work for the Lederle Laboratories Division of American
Cyanamid Co., hereinafter sometimes referred to as Lederle. By
the end of July 1977 this arrangement was formalized in a
consulting contract for work in “toxicology computer systems
development”.
After Laney began to do consulting work for Lederle, he also
began to do consulting work for several other pharmaceutical
companies, including the following: Dow Chemical Co., Monsanto
Co., Merrill Pharmaceutical Co., and Sterling-Winthrop Research
Institute, hereinafter sometimes referred to as Dow, Monsanto,
Merrill, and Sterling-Winthrop, respectively.
Laney began his consulting work for Dow in 1979. Around
this time Laney visited divisions of Dow in order to meet with
scientists who were involved with the production of animal data,
and to view the information systems and procedures of these
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