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The National Herald : A weekly publication of the NATIONAL HERALD, INC. Hero of the Greek War of Independence (ΕΘΝΙΚΟΣ ΚΗΡΥΞ), reporting the news and addressing the issues of paramount interest to the Greek American community of the TNH Staff matolos of the Valtos district, Demetris nese), where he was drawn into the in - , he attempted to relieve the sec - United States of America. Iskos or Karaiskos. His mother, Zoe trigues which divided the Greek leadership. ond siege, but he got sick, and his illness eorgios Karaiskakis (January 23, Dimiski, was a local nun and cousin of Go - He nonetheless recognized the necessity and the lack of discipline among the ar - Publisher-Editor 1780 - April 23, 1827) was a fa - gos Bakolas, captain of the armatoloi in of providing Greece with a stable govern - matoloi prevented him from providing ef - H. Diamataris mous Greek , armatolos, Radovitsi. ment, and was a supporter of John fective support in the attempt to break Gmilitary commander, and a hero Known as The Nun’s Son and Gypsy Capodistrias, who would later be - through Turkish lines. Few of Mes - Assistant to Publisher, Advertising of the Greek War of Independence. (because of his dark complexion), he be - come Modern Greece’s first solonghi’s defenders survived. Veta H. Diamataris were bandits, warlike mountain came a klepht at a very early age in the head of state. That same year, how - Papadopoulos folk who lived in the Greek countryside service of Katsantonis, a famous local brig - Karaiskakis’ reputa - ever, Karaiskakis was Special Section Editor when Greece was still part of the Ottoman and. Karaiskakis excelled as a klepht. Agile, tion grew during the appointed comman - Eleni Sakellis Empire. Armatoloi were irregular Greek cunning, brave and reckless, he rose middle and latter der in-chief of the Production Manager Christian , brigands who were some - quickly through the ranks, eventually be - stages of the war. Greek patriotic Chrysoula Karametros times commissioned by the Ottomans to coming a protopalikaro, or lieutenant. He helped to forces in enforce the Sultan’s authority in regions He was captured by Ali ’s troops lift the first Rumeli, 37-10 30th Street which were difficult for Ottoman authori - at 15 years of age and imprisoned at Ioan - siege of Mes - achieving LIC, NY 11101-2614 ties to govern due to inaccessible terrain. nina. Impressed by Karaiskakis’ courage solonghi in mixed re - Tel: (718) 784-5255 Both groups switched allegiances ac - and intelligence and fighting spirit, Ali 1823. sults: While Fax: (718) 472-0510 cording to circumstantial demands. Some Pasha released Karaiskakis from prison and Messo - failing to e-mail: were traitors. Many were heroes who made him one of his personal bodyguards. longhi first cooperate [email protected] helped liberate Greece from more than 400 Karaiskakis served as a bodyguard to revolted effectively years of Turkish oppression. Ali Pasha for 12 years (1808-20), before against with Democritou 1 and Academias Sts, Karaiskakis was one such hero. He was losing favor with the Ottoman warlord and the Turks other Athens, 10671, Greece born in a monastery near the village of fleeing back to the mountains to continue on May leaders of Tel: 011.30.210.3614.598 Mavrommati in the mountains, lo - his life as a klepht. 20, 1821, the inde - Fax: 011.30.210.3643.776 cated near the town of in the Pre - During the early stages of the war, and was a pendence e-mail: [email protected] fecture of . His father was the ar - Karaiskakis fought in the (Pelopon - major move - strong - ment or hold of the with for - Greek eign sym - rebels dur - pathizers The True Meaning of Greek Independence Day ing the Rev - fighting olution. Its in - alongside the habitants , he By Eleni Sakellis into English, The fish cannot live on the land/ Nor the flower successfully re - gained military on the sand/ And the women of Souli/ Cannot live without sisted a siege by successes against For many Greeks living outside of Greece, Greek Inde - . Ottoman forces in the Ottomans. pendence Day takes on a special meaning. It is a celebration For many Greeks, the struggle for freedom that began in 1822. The second He also partici - commemorating the start of the Greek War of Independence 1821 lasted much longer. The territory of the Greek nation siege began on April 15, pated in the failed at - and reminds us of what our ancestors fought and died for. after the War of Independence included only part of what 1825 by an army of 30,000 tempt to raise the siege of On March 25, 1821, Germanos of raised the we call Greece today. The borders expanded and contracted men, and was later reinforced Athens in 1827, and attempted flag of revolution over the Monastery of Agia Lavra in the and expanded again, forged by war and the people’s deter - by another 10,000 men led by Ibrahim to prevent the massacre of the Turkish . The cry “Freedom or death” became the motto mination to uphold the ideals of Hellenism. The islands of Pasha, son of Muhammad Ali Pasha of garrison stationed in the fort of Saint Spyri - of the revolution. The date of March 25 is also a religious the after millennia of upholding the Greek lan - . don. holiday, the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary when the guage, traditions, and faith, only became part of the Modern After a year of relentless enemy attacks Karaiskakis was a brave and Archangel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary and told her Greek nation in 1947. The emotion inspired by the unification and facing starvation, the people of Mes - one of the few Greek commanders the she would be the mother of Jesus, the Son of God. The is still powerful and within recent memory for those who solonghi decided to leave the beleaguered Turks actually feared. Pardoned by the double celebration honors the Mother of God, the Theotokos, lived through the years of the Italian occupation and then city in the Exodus of the Guards, a sortie Greek central government at Nafplion, he and the faith that sustained the Greek people through the the German occupation in World War II. On March 1, the on the night of April 10, 1826. At the time, put down a regional revolt in the Pelopon - hard years of Ottoman oppression and then through the bru - Greek Parliament held a special live celebratory session for there were 10,500 people in Messolonghi, nese in the autumn of 1824. tal years of war in the fight for freedom. Very few holidays the 70th anniversary of the incorporation of the Dodecanese 3,500 of who were armed. Very few people His most famous victory was at Ara - have such powerful connections in the minds and hearts of into the Greek state and voted to designate 2017 as the year survived the ensuing Ottoman pincer move chova, where his army crushed a force of the people through faith and . of the Dodecanese. after their plan was betrayed. Turkish and Albanian troops under Mustafa Though many of us live far away, our love for our Greek It is especially vital today that we look back and remember Due to the heroic stance of the popula - Bey and Kehagia Bey in November 1826. heritage, language, and homeland remain steadfast. The the historic struggle for freedom and the tremendous re - tion and the subsequent massacre of its in - Victories such as the one in Arachova were most famous heroes of the Greek War of Independence, sponsibility to maintain that freedom in the face of all threats habitants by the Turkish and Egyptian especially welcome amid the losses and , Georgios Karaiskakis, Yannis whether internal or external. At a recent event, Consul Gen - forces, the town of Messolonghi received disasters occurring elsewhere. Makriyannis, , , , eral of Greece in New York Konstantinos Koutras quoted the honorary title of Hiera Polis (Sacred Karaiskakis was killed in action on his Constantine Kanaris, , Miaoulis, , “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” City), unique among other Greek cities. nameday, April 23, 1827, after being fatally , and , still inspire which applies to every nation in the free world and now The famous British poet and Philhellene wounded by a rifle shell during the siege us today with their remarkable stories. We should also re - more than ever as we see how interconnected we are globally. George Gordon (), who sup - of the Acropolis. Karaiskaki Stadium in member the countless, unnamed heroes who made the ulti - As we march in the various parades to show our Hellenic ported the Greek struggle for indepen - Neo Faliro, is named after him, as mate sacrifice in the struggle to breathe free, like the women pride, it is important to remember the stories and struggles dence, died there in 1824. Byron is com - he was mortally wounded in the area. He and children of Souli, immortalized in the Dance of Zalongo of the past and how the Greek nation and people still endure memorated by a cenotaph containing his was buried on the island of Salamis after and the famous song lyrics including the poignant stanza, despite the hardships and the crises. The indomitable Hellenic heart, and a statue located in the town. he died, and was buried at the church of Στη στεριά δε ζει το ψάρι/ ούτ’ ανθός στην αμμουδιά/ Κι οι spirit continues to rise. ΖΗΤΩ Η ΕΛΛΑΣ! ΖΗΤΩ Η 25η Μαρ - Karaiskakis also did his best to save the Saint Demetrios on Salamis, according to Σουλιώτισσες δεν ζούνε/ δίχως την ελευθεριά. Translated τίου! town in April 1826. As commander of the his express wishes.

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and so we were pretty poor, he never finished his because he went into the army, so he wanted his son to succeed and it was all about education. So he pushed education and he pushed education so much, he didn’t realize you push, and then you want to become an academic, you want to become a scientist, and a couple of days later he comes to me, he had cut out an article from the Eth - nikos Kyrix, the Greek newspa - per because he only read the Greek newspaper, about Roy Vagelos leaving academia to go become head of research at Merck. My father said to me, so if you want to become a scientist, don’t become any scientist, at least become like this scientist, become like Roy Vagelos and Roy was a big hero in the Greek community and still is. You may not know this, but he really built Merck to what it became, Merck was the most admired company for ten years in a row and he was the most admired CEO in the world for ten years in a row, and this was all documented in PHOTOS: TNH/COSTAS BEJ the Greek paper, and my father Dr. George Yancopoulos, Founding Scientist, President and Chief Scientific Officer of the pharmaceutical company Regeneron, spoke with The National Herald kept cutting out the articles. He about his work, family, and the full circle moment of being selected as the Grand Marshal for this year’s Greek Independence Day Parade in New York. cut them all out and said “this is the guy you want to be like.” jugation and I sang these songs, cleaning the floors, sweeping took over all the power plants Hayden Planetarium] Neil de - This year she had an undefeated Roy wasn’t only my hero, he Feggaraki mou Lambro and the floors and he would save the and somehow because he wasn’t Grasse Tyson. I went to high season and she became cham - was everybody’s hero, so even Mavrin H Nyxta Sta Vouna. One little librettos, the little books willing to collaborate or what - school with him, and my sister pion, well, she was undefeated when we started the company, song is about the children under that would have the text in Ger - ever, they put my grandfather got her PhD with him. in the scholastic season, but dur - my partner, Len, he also of Turkish rule and they’re not al - man and he taught himself how in jail and my father who was ing the tournament she lost to course, we all wanted to be like lowed to learn Greek and so to read German, and he some - 15 at the time joined the army TNH: Do your children also one person, my daughter. So my Roy, and we all thought Roy was forth, so at night lit by the moon how, we still don’t know all the and became a freedom fighter. want to pursue careers in sci - daughter beat the transgender the greatest. they would go to secret schools details, I have his diploma. So, it basically came full circle. ence? boy, I didn’t know it either. I was In the early days of Regen - in caves to learn and keep up This is an amazing story by His father starts out with noth - GY: I have 4 kids, Ourania, following the story in the news eron, when we were very small the Greek because the Greeks the way, so [back to] Roy Vage - ing, becomes very rich, builds Damis, Louka, and Demetra, and then her coach texted us and there were only ten people were enslaved by the Turks for los. So I want to be like Roy an empire, has all these power ages 23, 21, 19, and 16 and that last summer she had wres - and so forth, my dad knew Len over 400 years and they main - Vagelos, everyone wants to be plants, is left with nothing. My well, unbelievably enough, they tled against him and beat him. very well and he was always tained their Greekness, believe like Roy Vagelos and there’s so father now pretty much at the may all end up, and it was not coming over, there was a much it or not, for that whole period many parallels I draw but you same age is now a freedom sort of expected, they might all TNH: How often do you get different environment if you can of time, it’s one of the longest, can’t make this stuff up. He got fighter and first against the end up being scientists and en - to visit ? imagine because we were a maybe the longest periods when a bunch of Greeks including me Nazis and then against the Com - gineers, though it didn’t start GY: We’re hoping to go this small operation and my father one group of people were en - and Michael Jaharis to donate munists and so then he comes that way. year. We went two years ago, so would come by and he would slaved and rose up and main - to Columbia Medical Center to to America and raises me. So I My oldest daughter is al - we try to go every couple of give us a hard time all the time tained their identity after all build this beautiful new build - tell my kids, they’ve got to be ready famous by the way, be - years. and he would say to us “you that period of time and how did ing, the Vagelos Building, which prepared there’s probably going cause she identified some big guys don’t know what you’re do - they do it? By these secret is a spectacular building, any - to be a great collapse, they’re controversy at the UN that they TNH: How difficult was it to ing, what you should do is call were covering up that they have leave academia and open your up this guy Roy Vagelos and very few women in positions of own business in the pharmaceu - he’ll want to help a young Greek power and she exposed this. Her tical industry? guy like George.” So my dad work was cited in the New York GY: There were really two was saying that all the time and Times, but also the UN ended separate things that got me into Len would get annoyed, he up then shifting gears and they this world, one having to do wouldn’t get really annoyed, but had her put together a whole with my father again and one he would joke around and I still exhibition on this topic. So it having to do with Len. On the remember, he would say “Mr. was one of the largest public ex - one hand, I was doing very well Yancopoulos, you’re going to hibitions they had at the UN by some standards in the acad - have to stop, otherwise I’m go - that was highlighting women in emic world. At a very young age ing to have to call security and the history of the UN and how I was offered professor positions have you removed from the women have not been given the and had gotten very large premises”; he was joking. So prominence that they should be awards to fund research in my anyway, a few years go by and and my daughter became, for laboratory for several million I’ll never forget it, I was sitting somebody who is so young, it dollars and my father at that in Len’s office so we had some was unbelievable how much at - time was very disappointed that calamity, and luckily for me I tention she got, but then she got I was pursuing this academic had Len so I never worried a little frustrated working at the career and when I won about things, and he’s not pan - UN and seeing how it was hard one particular award and this icking but he’s very concerned, to make a change. So she de - was in 1988 and it was for $2.5 [and says] “you know George, cided to go back to medical million and that was a lot of maybe we’re not quite as smart school. money, it still is a lot of money, as we think we are and maybe My son Damis is interested but in 1988 that was a lot more we’re not quite ready to be the in environmental geology, and money and it guaranteed fund - next Roy Vagelos neither of us so he’s also going towards the ing for my laboratory for eight together, maybe we should call and my other son is years back then and I thought up the real Roy Vagelos and see majoring in a dual degree in that it would show to my father whether he might come and physics and engineering, and that I had made it, that my sci - help us out, figure it out for us.” my youngest is the smart one in ence was so worthwhile that [I said ] you’re sounding like my the family, she’s still in high they were giving me all this dad and sure enough right then school but she is interested in money. and there, he called, this was in Dr. Yancopoulos in his office at Regeneron where the framed articles chronicle his work and astrophysics and aerospace en - I went home to Queens be - the early to mid-90s and you achievements in the field of biomedical science and the pharmaceutical industry. gineering. cause I always used to go home had to call information. I re - My daughter Demetra has on Sunday to have dinner with member him calling, finding out schools and among other things. way, and he gave the opening going to turn into freedom fight - made a name for herself as well. the family and with my parents what the area code for Raleigh, And the other song, Mavrin H address at the building, the ers and have to start from the She is now one of the top female and I thought this would im - NJ which is where Merck head - Nyxta sta Vouna, which was my most incredible talk. He talked beginning themselves because high school wrestlers in the press them and he said two quarters were and he dialed and favorite. and I remember being about his roots and where he it’s all cyclical… you can’t make country, and you know, how things that I’ll never forget, he asked for the chairman’s office on my bed when I was like four came from, and one of the most this up. they have varsity teams, varsity listened to this and the first at Merck Pharmaceuticals and years old and making believe, amazing things that he said was My mother, Vasiliki was also wrestling, she is the captain of thing he said was (in Greek-) you know Roy didn’t pick up but so it’s about Greeks fighting the that his parents were raised in from Kastoria. She died last the boys varsity wrestling team “Exactly how much of that $2.5 he left a message and I said Len, Turks and my town and my area war and they had nothing and summer, at 91. I have a sister, and by the way, you may have million goes into your pocket?” you know we’re never going to is from the mountains where it they had to come over in the Sophia, she was also pushed seen recently in the news there That was the first thing and then hear back and sure enough a was very real to me, where they early 1900s as immigrants from into a lot of education. She’s the was this controversy in Texas when I tried to explain, yeah, week later he comes to me and were on the mountains fighting the turmoil that was going on smart one. She has a PhD in the - about this girl was transgender but it’s the research and you says “George, Roy called back,” with the Turks with swords. then, because they’re actually oretical astrophysics from Co - and she was taking steroids to don’t understand my goal is and anyway, the rest is history. My town is called Kastoria. from around lumbia, and was actually in the become male but she ended up maybe I could do important sci - So my dad made Roy my So it was all very real to me and and probably and they same group with [famed astro - wresting against girls even ence and someday I could hero from the age of 15 and I all four of my grandparents had somehow got displaced and physicist and director of the though she was in transition. maybe come up with something am still trying to, though there their stories about this and so it they came over here but the pre - is no way you can catch up to was with a lot of pride that you vious generation, his grandfa - Roy, he is just still the most get dressed as a freedom fighter ther, had been educated and amazing human being of all and you go to the parade when about the only thing they time. Roy is just the most in - you’re a kid, and you have your brought with them was his credible on so many levels, he sword and you’re playing with grandfather’s diploma and the may very well be… the best hu - your friends. So, it is amazingly amazing thing is that my grand - man being I know.” full circle 50 years later to be father somehow got to univer - the Grand Marshall of this pa - sity and became an electrical en - TNH: You know, we are in - rade that I was marching in as gineer in and about the terviewing you to give our chil - a tsolia 50 plus years ago. only thing that my family dren and grandchildren another It’s sort of amazing but the brought over when they came hero to follow. We congratulate history is so close, all four of my in the late 1950s from Greece you as the Grand Marshal of this grandparents. And my grandfa - was his diploma. I have his year’s Greek Independence Pa - ther, which is a phenomenal diploma on my wall and I have rade, commemorating 196 years story he was a freedom fighter his name, you know Greeks of freedom and to honor you as against the Turks and the Bul - name the first grandson after the person of the week for our garians in the late 1800s he was the grandfather, so his name is Periodiko, dedicated to the lead - born in 1883 and he was sen - George Damis Damianos Yan - ers of the community. Your ex - tenced to die and he escaped copoulos and it’s the same name perience is inspiring. You’re here and he had no education so at and I have a diploma from this at Regeneron 28 years, you have the time, there was no educa - university in Austria from the arrived, and you have built an tion and somehow he got to Vi - early 1900s with my name on empire. enna, Austria. So think about it, and he became an electrical GY: Well, it’s amazing to me, this, he’s growing up in the late engineer, and he went back to but I was just a typical Greek 1800s, he was born in 1883, so Greece. kid from the Woodside-Astoria let’s say this is the late 1890s First, he went to Asia Minor area and you know I was raised and he is in and sees and he built two of the first on the songs about [the Greek electric lights for the first time power plants in all of Greece in War of Independence], it’s so because in Greece obviously, he Smyrna which got destroyed in close the timing of Greeks in had never seen it. He told me the Catastrophe of Smyrna, then terms of their subjugation under this story when I was a very lit - he eventually moved around the Turks, and my part of tle boy, he sees electric light and and he had a partnership with Greece wasn’t freed until the thought it was magic and was an Egyptian Jew and they built early 1900s, so all four of my so fascinated by it that he de - something like the first 15 grandparents were actually born cided he was going to devote power plants in all of Greece. under Turkish subjugation, his life to this magical miracle Then, full circle, my father was some people call them slaves of these electric lights. He had born into a family that was ac - and the songs I was raised on no education, he had a job at tually quite wealthy, but then Dr. George Yancopoulos holds a copy of The National Herald from 2015 that featured a story were the songs of slavery or sub - the famous Vienna Opera House the Germans came and they about his rise to the heights of the pharmaceutical industry on the front page. THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 25, 2017 Greek Independence Day 5 that could maybe help people chine that can really now pro - ple we have internally but also suffering from disease. My dad duce regularly because it’s all some of my good ideas come said, because my dad was no coming from our own science. just from talking with my kids fool, and I might choke up here, Most other companies buy and they say well why don’t you too, but he goes, “I brought my opportunities and they’re licens - guys do this and I say wow, why family here,” he was a big be - ing. We’re actually doing from didn’t we think of that, because liever, like a lot of Greeks from the beginning science all the they think with a virgin mind, that generation, in America. “I way to the manufacturing of so basically when your job in - brought my family to the great - everything. And we’re, we may volves thinking you’re doing it est country on the face of this be, I have to say, we’re certainly all the time. planet and in this country if you the only company in history of really think you can do some - our size that has produced these TNH: What takes more of thing like help cure disease,” many drugs already and such a your time, managing the busi - and I had told them that into pipeline all internally. It’s never ness or the scientific aspects? my pocket I was making been done before so we are very GY: I think I’ve been a very, $35,000 a year which by the proud of that. very lucky guy. In life, if you’re way you don’t appreciate it now In the job I do, it’s not really going to do anything most of but in 1988 it was a lot of how many hours you’re grinding the time I think people who do money, but he even with no ed - away, I think that for the people big things are doing it with ucation was making more than who are really exceptional at other people, and so I’ve been that. So he goes on, “this is the this they are sort of addicted to very lucky in that both on the greatest country on the face of it, basically it’s all what’s going business side I have people like this planet,” he was a big be - on in there, and basically you Len and also Roy who are really liever, “and in this country if you can’t really turn it off and the doing a lot of the heavy lifting. really think you can do some - most important ideas can hap - On the science side which is thing as important as help cure pen when you’re at your kid’s where I concentrate more I also a disease you can make a hell soccer game or running on a have incredibly brilliant scien - of a lot more than $35,000 a trail in the woods. tific collaborators who have year doing it.” never disappointed me in terms body drugs to gene sequencing. we have a cancer drug. So those The most important thing I been with me some of them are So I thought I was going to of his ethics and his viewpoint. We have the world’s largest hu - are the four approved and we think is to have your mind be relatively new, but some of them impress my father and I left I believe we are the most eth - man sequencing effort going hope to get two more in the next free and be creative because have been here almost from the once again feeling like I had let ically-driven company. The here that’s headed by this young two months. what you have do is you have beginning. So what I do most of him down, and then within a thing that makes us different I Greek guy Aris Baras, the largest think of new things that no - my day, I just have meetings week I get a phone call from this think we’re more like the legacy human genome sequencing ef - TNH: A remarkable achieve - body’s ever thought about be - with all these smart people and guy who I didn’t know at all and of Roy Vagelos’ Merck, which fort is going on, on the other ment. fore, so you can’t do that by they end up doing all the work he called me because back then we all aspire to both me and side of the street. GY: In the entire world last whatever and like I said I con - and I just help cross-fertilize it was in the very early days of Len, we aspire to this, but Roy Up in Albany, in Rensselaer year there were only 20 drugs sider it part of the training of some of the ideas and maybe cloning genes and there were was the greatest paradigm of is where we have our manufac - approved by the FDA and half my children. If you ask my kids, help out a little bit but my job very few people who had cloned doing things ethically and doing turing facilities and we also built of them were actually not new hopefully, you’ll see several of hasn’t really changed in 28 genes and I happened to work things based on the science. And another manufacturing facility drugs, they were generics. Our them at the parade. We talk years. It’s just meeting with my with, though I was a young guy, almost every other company has in Ireland. Then we have some company by itself just in the about these things all the time. colleagues and brainstorming, but I already had a reputation moved away from that. They’re business offices in Basking next two months is going to get My viewpoint is that you don’t that’s what we do around here. because I had worked with one doing things for commercial rea - Ridge, NJ and a couple of other of the world’s premiere gene sons and to make money, and places. It’s where we actually TNH: Regeneron stock is do - cloners which is another inter - Roy said well, if you do things have some clinical people, so it’s ing very well, do you follow it esting story how I got into this based on the science to try to not research laboratories, it’s regularly? field because once again it’s all improve the human condition where we have some people GY: Our market is up now, it the Greek connections. Because and you’re ethical about it, who are involved in organizing varies every minute, I don’t ac - I had a reputation and because clinical trials and also doing the tually follow it, Len follows it, the guy I had worked with was biostatistics involved in that. so we’re about 372, and we’re a so well known, Len talked to The most important thing, $40 billion company now. I him and he said you’re never I think, is to have your TNH: The company has don’t follow it day-to-day, I just going to get one of these estab - mind be free and be 6,000 employees, how many follow it over the long term. I lished, older superstars in gene with advanced degrees? believe what Roy Vagelos says, cloning now, but if you want creative because you have GY: 630 with advanced de - you do the science, you come some guy who could be the next to think of new things grees, 500-1,000 PhDs and I up with important drugs for pa - young superstar you got to talk would say another 2,000 who tients and then the stock price to this guy Yancopoulos. So Len that nobody’s ever have technical degrees either and everything else will take just sort of cold called me about thought about before... Master’s or undergraduate de - care of itself and I really don’t getting together with him to grees in the sciences. Then the worry about it day to day. Even help him start this company. everything else, the money, will other half of the people are weeks go by sometimes and I Honestly, if I didn’t have that take care of itself. We’ve tried probably more support type don’t even look at the stock juxtaposition of my dad being to live by that and I think that people. price, but honestly we’ve done disappointed in me and sort of we’ve, huge credit to Len be - well over time, and back then, saying do something bigger and cause he’s never disappointed TNH: How many drugs have when we went public in 1991 it he was always into doing some - me, I think that we have stayed been approved so far? was, at the time, one of the thing in business and Len call - that way and especially when GY: So far it’s four, but in the record IPOs in the industry I ing, that was the magic that sort we actually brought Roy on next 1-2 months we hope to think we raised about $100 mil - of said, okay I’m going to walk. board to provide a double check have two more, important ones lion which was huge back then. Nobody had ever walked away, to make sure that we stayed eth - including one for severe atopic It set some sort of record. by the way, from this actually ical and based on the science, dermatitis or eczema, but we’re pretty famous grant at the time, but Roy is a great mentor and I also testing the same drug [for TNH: Where did the name it was the Lucille P. Markey think Len and I have literally de - other ailments] and it looks very Regeneron come from? award and nobody else ever voted our lives to try to live up promising for asthma and an as - GY: The funny thing is, the walked away from a $2.5 million to his example and bringing him sortment of other allergic dis - title of my high school science grant. It was unheard of, and I in was just the actual physical eases. That’s the first drug, and project was The Molecular Basis ended up becoming somewhat symbol of what we’ve been try - then the second drug that we hopefully two important, impor - really understand what you’re of Regeneration, so I was always legendary because people ing to do and live up to. hope to be approved is for tant new drugs approved. doing if you can’t explain it to a interested in regeneration, but thought I was crazy. Then, about But I should just mention rheumatoid arthritis which It took us over 20 years for smart fifth grader. That’s my it’s sort of coincidental. What 20 years later I was invited back that when I first went into sci - we’re also very excited about. our first approval and that was perspective and so I explain happened was in the early days to be the speaker at this event ence I was in a different field Our other four drugs are for eye because what we really did what we work on and talk about of the company we were talking about all these people that had and very early on when I was in diseases it’s the leading drug which is very unlike any other to my kids and sometimes they about the nervous system and gotten this award and everybody college I was excited by some - that actually saves vision and company is we built the whole ask questions and their perspec - regrowing nerve cells and some - else said why didn’t we do that? thing unrelated. So in 1975 my actually gives back vision lost to foundation and an assembly line tive is often some of the best body, I believe it was Mike Part of it is also, I really hit dad tells me Roy Vagelos should people who have macular de - to make the drug and since then that I’ve gotten because it’s not Brown suggested why don’t we off right away with this guy Len be your hero. Then a couple of generation or diabetic eye dis - we’ve had at least one drug al - biased by their experiences, and come up with regenerating neu - and we’re still you don’t see us years later I’m going to college ease, so it’s a very important most every year and now we’re they’re very smart. I think my rons or regeneuron and then Al as much but we haven’t changed and I’m doing protein crystal - drug. We have another drug for hoping to even accelerate, two kids are very smart so a lot of Gilman said that doesn’t sound in the 28 whatever years it’s lography, a different field of sci - a rare disease called cold in - in the next couple of months ideas come from either conver - right and it doesn’t sound as been. We’re exactly the same, ence, and I’m struggling and not duced inflammatory syndrome, and we’re hoping to get a couple sations that we have amongst much about genes, so why don’t we love each other but we ar - doing that well. Then they we have another drug for low - more maybe even either at the ourselves all the scientists we just drop the u and he made gue, it’s like brothers. We argue, cloned the first gene and the au - ering cholesterol and hopefully end of the year or the beginning around here whether it’s Len or it Regeneron, so it came from incessantly and we’re always de - thors of the paper that cloned preventing heart disease, and of next year. So we built a ma - Neil Stahl or all these great peo - three of our board of advisors. bating and we’re always taking the first gene were Efstratiadis, different sides in an argument, Maniatis, and Kafatos at Har - but it all helps the process be - vard. Three Greeks cloned the cause you have two people ar - first gene or the first cDNA it’s guing it out and then we engage called, and I literally, I read the with [others in the company] paper and went wow, maybe I’m Jay Markowitz there, Neil Stahl, in the wrong field, maybe I The National Herald and Drew Murphy and we en - should go into this new field of gage everybody else in the dif - cloning genes because maybe salutes the Greek-American community ferent sides of the argument and this is what Greeks are good at. it leads, I think, to a much better So Roy Vagelos was my hero but discussion and a much better then I went into cloning genes and Greek Independence Day decision at the end of the day because of Efstratiadis, Mani - when you’re sitting there having atis, and Kafatos, and ironically a high level debate over every - enough, all of those guys, but thing constantly instead of just particularly now Maniatis who Join the Greek Independence Day Parade, March 26th, 2017 – 5th Avenue, New York City! one person saying do this or the is still a very famous guy and is other person saying do that. always being honored. He is a So, nothing has really very prominent professor at Co - changed, I love it, I mean I loved lumbia and I talk and deal with him from the beginning, but our him all the time. I had a phone interactions and our relation - conference with him just yester - ship hasn’t really changed in the day, so it’s ironic how people entire time and I knew from lit - who are your heroes, Roy Vage - erally the beginning I just, some - los or Tom Maniatis, you actu - thing hit it off and I could see ally get to meet them so it is that he was a very honest guy funny sometimes how things in who was very ethically moti - life you’re inspired by and for vated and you could see a lot of me certainly these Greek con - his motivation. He has a se - nections, Roy Vagelos is my verely disabled son who was hero, and I go into what I go born with neurological deficits into because of Efstratiadis, Ma - and one of the original, found - niatis, and Kafatos. ing goals of Regeneron was to We have a lot of Greeks here, regenerate the nervous system Aris Baras is running our genet - and a lot of it was for his son ics center. and we’re still, believe it or not, almost thirty years later, we’re TNH: The campus here is im - still working on that because it’s pressive, but how did you start so hard and it’s related to out? Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkin - GY: We had 10,000 square son’s, so we’re still working on feet, sort of the equivalent of all those diseases. what would be that little corner In the meantime whatever of that building and then we success we had ended up being slowly took over almost that en - in a totally relatively unrelated tire building. Then we needed area, but I knew from the be - more space, and started build - ginning that he was just not ing additional buildings. So now only very smart, but just very we have nine buildings. ethical and very honest and very well-motivated and he told me TNH: What goes on in the something that my father also buildings? taught me and he said he GY: So, it’s largely research, learned this from his father and I mean there’s supporting activ - he was also very close to his fa - ities here that we have that help T H D E L ther which very much was con - the research people and we also N A AT ER sistent with how I was raised. have the people who are in - IONAL H He said life was about doing volved in providing our drugs well by doing good. And that to the patients, but mostly here, was how I was raised and really this is mostly our research cam - he still lives by that and he re - pus and we do everything from ally hasn’t changed and he’s what they call developing anti -

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WASHINGTON, NY 97) FEDERATION OF HELLENIC SOCIETIES OF GREATER NEW YORK 20) ACADEMY OF HELLENIC PAIDEIA 48) Patriot Brass Ensemble – Metropolis Band MEMBERS AND 2017 PARADE COMMITTEE 21) FLOAT #13- HELLENIC COMMUNITIES OF BROOKLYN & 49) FORT LEE POLICE DEPARTMENT- MOTORCYCLE UNIT STATEN ISLAND 50) GREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OF NEW JERSEY • Floats will be lined up on 62nd Street from Fifth to STS CONSTANTINE & HELEN CATHEDRAL OF BROOKLYN, NY 51) HELLENIC FEDERATION OF NEW JERSEY Lexington Avenues ST. NICHOLAS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH AT THE WORLD 52) FLOAT #30 – ST. JOHN THE THEOLOGIAN OF TENAFLY • Parking for buses will be from 80th to 83rd Streets, TRADE CENTER GREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLITAN CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN Madison to Park Avenues BAND:#3- Boy Scout Troop 236 Band THE THEOLOGIAN, TENAFLY, NJ • All Guests with Seating Passes must enter 5th Avenue from KIMISIS THEOTOKOU OF BROOKLYN 53) SAINT BARBARA GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF TOMS 70th Street THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 25, 2017 Greek Independence Day 7

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TNH/STAVROS MARMARINOS Greek Pride in Florida Photo caption- In the bright sunshine, the annual Greek Independence Day Parade in Tarpon waving the blue and white Greek flags. The Presidential Guard of Greece, the Evzones, also marched Springs, FL marched on Dodecanese Blvd. with participants in traditional costumes and the crowd in the parade to the enthusiastic cheers of Long Live Greece! Long Live the 25th of March! Jefferson and Korais: The Deep Roots of Greco-American Friendship

By Dr. Leonidas Petrakis reflections of an octogenarian who has passed 50 years of trial Thomas Jefferson, the third and trouble in the various President of the United States grades of his country’s service. and the author of the Declara - “They are yet but outlines, tion of Independence, was inti - which you will better fill up and mately familiar with classical accommodate to the habits and Greek ideals and culture, which circumstances of your country - played an important role along men. Should they furnish a sin - with the ideals of the Enlight - gle idea which may be useful to enment in formulating the prin - them, I shall fancy it a tribute ciples upon which the American rendered to the manes of your Republic was founded. , your Demosthenes and In fact, Thomas Jefferson the splendid constellation of was fluent in Classical Greek sages and heroes, whose blood and prided himself on being is still flowing in your veins, and able to read the Classics in their whose merits are still resting, as original language. In 1800, Jef - a heavy debt, on the shoulders ferson wrote the following to fa - of the living and the future races mous chemist, Dr. Joseph Priest - of men. ley: “I enjoy Homer in his own While we offer to Heaven the language infinitely beyond warmest supplications for the [Alexander] Pope’s translation restoration of your countrymen and I thank on my knees him to the freedom and science of who directed my early educa - their ancestors, permit me to as - tion for having put into my pos - sure yourself of the cordial es - session this rich source of de - teem and high respect which I light.” bear and cherish towards your - Prior to being elected presi - self personally - T. Jefferson.” dent, Jefferson served as U.S. Thomas Jefferson portrait by Rembrandt Peale, 1800. portrait by Smolki Muller. In subsequent letters, Korais Ambassador to for five sought concrete steps in support years (1785-89), a tumultuous Like Jefferson, Korais be - Furthermore, Korais pointed behalf of the struggling Greek of the ancients), Jefferson pro - of the Greek cause, not as char - time for France, and indeed for lieved that people enlightened to George Washington, Jeffer - nation. ceeded to focus on education, ity, but because it was both the world. Although the Ameri - by education could best govern son, and as Jefferson responded in the emphasizing what was critical morally right, and also benefi - cans were determined to stay themselves, and that role models for politicians of the fall of 1823 with a long letter of in American primary schools cial to the American state. What out of the European wars, they was better than monarchy or state when it was his own: “I pray that you accept (i.e., public education for every a difference, we may point out, did not remain aloof and unen - any other system. starting on its path to indepen - my thanks (for the books). I had infant of the state, male and fe - with some of America’s present gaged in the Old Continent’s in - He devoted his energies to dence and nationhood. seen only your Lives of Plutarch. male, while in the intermediate close friends, who simply put tellectual and political develop - helping his countrymen gain Korais wrote his first letter These I had read, and profited schools, the elements of natural out their hand only to receive. ments. their independence and democ - (in French) to Thomas Jefferson much by your valuable Scholia. and, as a prepara - Jefferson did not grant the On the contrary, Jefferson’s racy, advocating the establish - in Monticello in the summer of And the aid of a few words from tion for university studies, the Korais’ requests for public polit - diplomatic residence in Chaillot ment of schools, libraries and, 1823. He reminded Jefferson of a Modern Greek Dictionary Greek and languages). ical support and the beginning was a beehive of activity and a in every way possible, elevating their meetings in , and also would, I believe, have enabled Jefferson then clearly of commercial relations by send - central meeting place for lead - their educational level. Like Jef - sent along his newly edited vol - me to read your patriotic ad - demonstrated his Phil-Hellenic ing American trade representa - ing European intellectuals. It ferson, he admired the achieve - umes of Aristotle’s dresses to your countrymen.” sentiments: no people sympa - tives to Greece. By this time, Jef - was there that Adamantios Ko - ments of the ancients, but he Nichomachean Ethics and The It is interesting that Jefferson thize more feelingly than ours ferson was an ex-President, and rais was often a dinner guest of wanted their noble ideals of Politics, for which Jefferson ex - the scholar clearly recognized with the sufferings of your coun - although still influential, his the future president. freedom and democracy pressed appreciation. In his let - the continuity of the Greek lan - trymen; none more sincere and power was limited. Yet Jeffer - Korais was a towering intel - adapted to the realities and ter, Korais, highly vexed by the guage. ardent prayers to Heaven for son’ support was important, and lectual figure who, along with needs of modern states. bickering among the Greeks In the same letter, Jefferson their success. And nothing in - the Greek Cause was actively Rigas Feraios and other patriots When the Greek War of In - which was clearly having an ad - also referred to the central role deed but the fundamental prin - aided by great Phil-Hellenes, in - of the , played a dependence broke out in 1821, verse effect on the Greek War of the classical ideals of Greek ciple of our government, never cluding Edward Everett, Samuel key role in preparing the en - Korais was too old to return and of Independence, wrote the fol - democracy and their influence to entangle us with the broils of Gridley Howe, Daniel Webster slaved Greek nation to gain its fight. Instead, he aggressively lowing to Jefferson: on the founding of the American Europe, could restrain our gen - and many others. Even Presi - independence from the Ot - tried to gain support abroad for “Modern Greece has pro - republic: “Nothing is more likely erous youth from taking some dent James Monroe, the fifth US toman Turks. the Greek Cause. He wrote duced many a Leonidas and Mil - to forward this objective (self- part in this holy cause. Possess - President, expressed great sym - Korais, whose parents were countless letters seeking moral, tiades, but since it came out of government in the newly liber - ing ourselves the combined pathy for the Greeks, although from Chios, was trained as a political and material support a long period of slavery, it was ated Greece) than a study of the blessings of liberty and order, he had to contend with his Sec - physician, but he moved to Paris for the Greeks. Korais mistrusted not possible to produce law- fine models of science left them we wish the same to other coun - retary of State John Quincy in 1788, where he established the European powers, especially givers like those that had ap - by their ancestors, to whom we tries, and to none more than Adams’ real politic and also with himself as a world renowned England, but he had great ad - peared among Greece’s ancient also are all indebted for the yours which, the first of civilized his own Monroe Doctrine, classical scholar, editing and miration for the establishment citizens, or like those that we lights which originally led our - nations, presented examples of which delimited American in - publishing many classical Greek of the American Republic, and have seen in our own times in selves out of Gothic darkness.” what man should be. volvement in Europe. texts. His commentaries on the considered it to be the best mod - your country.” After discussing the central And Jefferson concluded his classics (i.e., Prolegomena) are ern actualization of the democ - Korais proceeded to seek ad - ideas for the founding of the letter in very moving terms: “I Dr. Petrakis was Senior still highly valued. In Paris, Ko - ratic ideals first developed by vice and political support from U.S. (e.g., separation of powers; have thus, dear sir, according to Scientist and Department rais also became deeply in - the Greeks. He advocated the the illustrious and respected ex- inherent of all people; fac - your request, given you some Chairman at Brookhaven Na - volved in the Enlightenment adoption of a in president, and also suggested tors such as geography which thoughts on the subject of na - tional Laboratory in Long movement and closely observed Greece which would be in line concrete steps which the Amer - make it necessary to adapt, tional government. They are the Island, and now resides in Oak - the . with the American Constitution. ican Government could take on rather than just adopt, the ideas result of the observations and land, CA.

PHOTOS: TNH/COSTAS BEJ Greek Heritage Celebrated at Brooklyn’s Borough Hall Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams hosted the event in honor of Greek Independence Day Chris Kalogerou, Dean Rasinya, Emmanuel Tsoukaris, Theodore Vallas, Fotoula Vasilakos, and on Monday, March 20. In attendance were Consul of Greece in New York Manos Koubarakis, Demetrios Voyiazis. Following the award ceremony, the school dance groups from Holy Cross keynote speaker Andrew Gounardes, NY State Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis, and the Church in Brooklyn, A. Fantis Parochial School of Saints Constantine and Helen in Brooklyn, as honorees George Annis, Anna Chrysostomou, Julia Demakakos, Popi Gavales, Connie Ioannides, well as the Greek Charter School danced in traditional costumes. THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 25, 2017 Greek Independence Day 9

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