{"id":656,"date":"2022-04-18T06:03:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T06:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empireofaustralia.com\/cpr\/?p=656"},"modified":"2022-04-18T06:03:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T06:03:28","slug":"secrets-of-the-2003-world-genomics-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empireofaustralia.com\/cpr\/secrets-of-the-2003-world-genomics-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Secrets of the 2003 World Genomics Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johannes Morgen, the founder of the biotechnology powerhouse Morgen Genentech, went from being an affable social butterfly, the toast of the Cascadian Elite, to becoming a recluse who rarely spoke to anyone and almost never interacted with his employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CPR has traced this change in behavior to one particular event: the 2003 World Genomics Conference in Berlin, France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He came back from that conference a changed man,&#8221; said one source we contacted, &#8220;He secluded himself in his lab and would hardly ever come out.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morgen famously lived in the penthouse suite of Morgen Genentech&#8217;s headquarters in P\u00f8rtland\u2014with a fully stocked research lab immediately below his home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think anybody knew what he was really working on that last decade. I asked Dr. (Klara) Lassater once if he confided in her\u2014since they&#8217;d once been so close\u2014but she told me that they hadn&#8217;t spoken in years. He communicated with her, and others at the company, only by handwritten communication with instructions to destroy the notes upon reading. It was very, very weird behavior.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was speculation that Morgen was working on a bioweapons program\u2014a way to give Cascadia leverage over the Empire of Australia as the two were then locked in a bitter feud. But many we contacted who knew Morgen dismissed this notion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s incomprehensible that Johannes would have done something like that. It was anti-thetical to his makeup and complete contrary to his beliefs. He believed in using medicine for healing, for prolonging life, not in destroying it,&#8221; said one source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The truth is that we may never know the truth behind the dramatic shift in Dr. Morgen&#8217;s behavior&#8230; or exactly what he was up to all those years in his lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannes Morgen, the founder of the biotechnology powerhouse Morgen Genentech, went from being an affable social butterfly, the toast of the Cascadian Elite, to becoming a recluse who rarely spoke to anyone and almost never interacted with his employees. 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