Much earlier, Zaffaroni was part of a team of scientists who helped launch the birth control company Syntex.
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Robert Baile, 52, spent 20 years as a research chemist for Syntex Pharmaceuticals (now Roche) and five home-brewing in his basement before buying into the business in 1996.
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His shares in Syntex, which prospered in the 1960s and 1970s, bankrolled a personal gallery which once included at least eight Picassos, half a dozen Giacomettis and three Degas.