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4 unusual facts about BCG


A2261-BCG

A2261-BCG (short for Abell 2261 Brightest Cluster Galaxy) is a huge elliptical galaxy in the cluster Abell 2261.

Bladder cancer

Patients whose tumors recurred after treatment with BCG are more difficult to treat.

Granulomatous prostatitis

It is a form of prostatitis, i.e. inflammation of the prostate, resulting from infection (bacterial, viral, or fungal), the BCG therapy, malacoplakia or systemic granulomatous diseases which involve the prostate.

R. G. Ferguson

Furthermore, Dr. Ferguson was a pioneer in long-term BCG (Bacillus Calmette Guėrin) research, quite controversial at the time.


Bruce Henderson

In 1974 Henderson made BCG an independent business, and was one of the first to take advantage of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 that allowed the establishment of an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).

GroupSpaces

Since 2007, GroupSpaces has worked with over 70 graduate recruiters including Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Slaughter & May, Freshfields, BCG, McKinsey & Company, Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, Citi, JP Morgan, Barclays Capital, Morgan Stanley, Bank of England, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, RBS, UBS, Lloyd's of London and the NHS.

Jarosław Lasecki

From 1990-1995 he worked at the American consulting firm “The Boston Consulting Group” (BCG) in Düsseldorf and Zurich.

Maxim Kuzyuk

In 2007 Kuzyuk has accepted a proposal made by the Paris office of one of the world’s leading consulting corporations, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and in 2010 Kuzyuk became the Director of the Moscow Office of BCG.

NGC 7049

NGC 7049 is the brightest (BCG) of the Indus triplet of galaxies (NGC 7029, NGC 7041, NGC 7049), and its structure might have arisen from several recent galaxy collisions.

Rohan Sajdeh

Before being recruited to BCG, Sajdeh worked in positions at Enron India, Coca-Cola Amatil, and the Lend Lease Corporation.

UIL Holdings Corporation

In May 2010, UIL and Iberdrola USA Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Iberdrola S.A., announced a definitive agreement under which UIL would acquire the SCG, CNG and BCG.


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