Sentences with phrase «when biotech companies»

When a biotech company called Sanaria presented the results of a clinical study of its unconventional malaria vaccine last year, many researchers were disappointed.

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On average, the 30 large and small pharmaceutical and biotech companies IDEA Pharma examined got just 11 % of their 2017 revenue from drugs developed within the past five years, says Mike Rea, the firm's CEO and one of the most insightful people I've met — no exaggeration — when it comes to pinpointing innovation choke points in the drug industry.

And within a span of six weeks this fall, Hillary Clinton caused a drop in biotech stocks with a tweet calling for greater regulation of drug prices, then single - handedly tanked stocks of private - corrections companies when she tweeted about prison reform.

When Hong Kong unveiled plans last year to encourage biotech companies to list in the city by loosening listing rules, the financial industry and investors cheered.

Los Angeles billionaire doctor - turned - biotech executive Patrick Soon - Shiong has had a spotty record when it comes to the companies he's launched.

On November 21st, a relatively small biotech company named Gilead Sciences (GILD) made headline news in the pharmaceutical investment community when it acquired a little - known hepatitis C drug developer named Pharmasset Inc. (VRUS), for $ 10.8 billion, in an all - cash deal.

when i got into investing a few years ago after graduating college, i tried the whole scheme of investing in speculative stocks like some biotech's and i have lost out on many of the great returns shown in the strongest companies.

Rep. Chris Collins dramatically increased his campaign fundraising in the first half of the year, and he took more money from health care and pharmaceutical companies than any other special interest at a time when he's under investigation for his ties to an Australian biotech firm.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Chris Collins dramatically increased his campaign fundraising in the first half of the year, and he took more money from health care and pharmaceutical companies than any other special interest at a time when he's under investigation for his ties to an Australian biotech firm.

But nearly at the same time, I get the offer of a position at a new biotech company, which is just starting to employ its first people — an incredible challenge at a time when biotech is booming.

Seven years ago, when I completed my Ph.D. and joined a small biotech company, my assigned title was Scientist.

Communication across cultures and languages is easier when you're in the same room, says Neil Goldsmith, chief executive officer of Evolva, a biotech company with sites in Switzerland, Denmark, the United States, and India.

But the unfavourable economic environment is bound to change, and when it does, biologists with some business experience will again be in demand, not only in financial businesses like VC and investment banks, but also in biotech companies, which need to become much more astute as they mature.

So, when I go to visit a small biotech company in California that is very casual, it makes sense to be in the same kind of attire.

At a time when many companies in British Columbia (BC) are suffering through downsizing and layoffs, the BC biotech industry is showing itself to be a source of economic strength.

When I saw the advertisement for a senior scientist position in a start - up biotech company in the Netherlands, I decided to take the plunge.

The seeds of the Massachusetts biocluster were planted in 1981, when Biogen (now Biogen Idec), a biotech company founded in 1978 in Switzerland, moved to Cambridge.

But North Carolina biotech companies are at a disadvantage when it comes to attracting private funding.

University of Tübingen researchers in collaboration with the biotech company Sanaria Inc. have demonstrated in a clinical trial that a new vaccine for malaria called Sanaria ® PfSPZ - CVac has been up to 100 percent effective when assessed at 10 weeks after last dose of vaccine.

«The one thing that I think that is useful is maybe when people write knockout papers they might describe the housing conditions in more detail,» says Chris Paszty, scientific director at the biotech company Amgen, Inc., headquartered in Thousand Oaks, Calif., who as a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developed a mouse model for the study of sickle cell anemia.

In the past, when we've talked to various pharmaceutical companies about one program or another in our lab, they often want to wait until it's been developed into a preliminary screen, and would rather work with biotech companies for collaborations — they've often been the intermediate window before a pharmaceutical company would step in.

When we asked about the relationship between biotechnology and the dating industry, Dr. Gonzalez said he believed the biotech methods employed by companies like Instant Chemistry will be increasingly used in dating in the years to come.

The Genetic Opera (R for profanity, sexuality, drug use, graphic violence and gore) Sci - fi horror flick, set in 2056, about an enterprising biotech company which turns from savior to monster during a planetary epidemic when it begins repossessing transplanted organs from patients who can't pay their medical bills.

But he also believes this ratio is best used when evaluating growth companies, such as biotechs or social media stocks.

Advised biotech company in connection with change - of - control agreements with executives which were triggered when company was acquired, and successfully litigated claims brought by executives who were denied benefits under the agreements (2012 AAA Employment Lexis 265; 2012 AAA Employment Lexis 367)

When looking at the companies chosen by respondents who specialize in pharma, biotech, and disposables, we begin to see a little more variety.