No recent wiki edits to this page.  Early Years and the
Discovery of the Progenitor Virus  James Marcus was an expert in
Virology and while at school he befriended Edward Ashford and
they began work on the Progenitor Virus. To fund their work they
needed another member, Ozwell E. Spencer and he provided all the
necessary income to continue the experiments. Backed by this
funding, the three discovered the Progenitor Virus in 1967 with
Marcus and Spencer wanting to weaponise the virus while Ashford
simply wanted to research it.  To mask this research, they
formed Umbrella, a respected pharmaceutical company but what was
secretly a biological weapons business. In 1968, Marcus was
promoted to General Manager and Research and Development
Director while also being appointed the head of the Arklay
Mountain Research Facility.  Discovery of the T-Virus  It wasn’t
until 1978, that Marcus created the T-Virus by mixing the
Progenitor Virus with leech DNA. This discovery made Marcus well
respected by his fellow researcher