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Billionaire's Fortune At Risk After Evidence Links Inhaler To Cancer

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Los Angeles Times   |  Daniel Costello   |   April 10, 2008 08:36 AM

Read More: Alfred Mann, Billionaires, Diabetes, Diebetics, Inhaled Insulin, Inhaled Insulin Lung Cancer, Lung Cancer, Mannkind, MannKing Corp, Pfizer, Breaking Business News

With the zeal of a young entrepreneur, 82-year-old Los Angeles billionaire and philanthropist Alfred Mann has bet nearly half of his estimated $2.2-billion fortune that he can develop an inhaled version of insulin for the nation's 5 million diabetics.

But Mann's gamble is looking increasingly like a long shot, analysts and doctors say, and his huge personal investment may be in jeopardy.

The latest blow came Wednesday when Valencia-based MannKind Corp.'s stock lost almost 60% of its value after pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. said a study showed that its failed version of inhaled insulin might increase the risk of lung cancer.

After dropping much of this year, MannKind shares lost an additional $3.50 on Wednesday, closing at $2.35.

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Mann still has over a billion left that the GOP wants to keep out of Dems hands. How far behind can the Feds announcement of a bailout to preserve billionaires' status be?

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