Sentences with phrase «leading biotech company»

One example is QLT Inc., now BC's leading biotech company.

For example, if you think that the biotech industry is going to go through a renaissance and a tremendous burst of life in the next couple of years, you would buy stock in some of the leading biotech companies.

Founded in 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts, Genzyme evolved from a tiny start - up with just a handful of employees to one of the world's leading biotech companies.

A weak economy could also become a factor if it leads biotech companies to sell off their patents to opportunistic litigators.

Today, Genentech is among the world's leading biotech companies, with multiple products on the market for serious or life - threatening medical conditions and more than 100 projects in the pipeline.

Not exact matches

Tehrani's approach led the Vancouver - based firm to secure US$ 61.5 million in venture capital financing in January, one of the largest ever for a Canadian biotech company.

A former gold mining company led by Peter Gunzburg has announced plans for a reverse takeover and backdoor listing of a Swiss biotech firm.

Top execs have always traded the comforts of big pharmaceutical companies to lead biotech startups.

With a biotech startup, it may seem the potential is all in the science, but investor Amy Schulman, a venture capital partner at Polaris Partners, which led SQZ's $ 5 million funding round, says the main reason she decided to put money in SQZ is because of Sharei, even though he's young and had never started a company before.

Minoryx is a clinical stage biotech company leading the development of new therapies for X-linked Adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) and other inborn errors of metabolism, a group of rare diseases of genetic origin with a high unmet medical need.

«We are pleased to share this vision with the unique blend of crossover funds, pharmaceutical companies, and venture capital investors participating in our Series B, and look forward to advancing our position as the leading biotech with a dual focus on synthetic lethality and immuno - oncology.»

Dr. Hopfield is a former Partner of McKinsey & Company in its global pharmaceuticals and medical devices practice, where she led work in strategy, R&D management, and marketing across pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and consumer industries.

Indeed, biotechs and other tech companies led deal flow, says Renaissance, with 13 and 10 IPOs being staged, respectively.

Prior to CH, Mark spent eight years at Baxter Healthcare, a leading global medical device and technology company, first working on national strategy assignments in Europe and the Far East, later as CIO for Baxter's $ 2 billion global biotech business.

«Mother Nature is among the worst terrorists,» says Michael Goldblatt, who once led the biodefence programme for the Pentagon's research arm, DARPA, and now heads Functional Genetics, a biotech company in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

AbbVie is a new global, research - based biopharmaceutical company that combines the focus and passion of a leading - edge biotech, with the expertise and results of a long - established pharmaceutical leader.

Leading these efforts was one of von Eschenbach's first hires, Anna Barker, former CEO of a biotech company and a C - Change leader.

A downturn in the global economy, a lack of venture capital flowing in to start - up and expansion - phase companies, and the general tightening of corporate belts has led to poor job growth in the biotech and pharma industries.

So Michelle Browner of the biotech company Roche Bioscience in Palo Alto, California, and colleagues at Roche and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), decided to pin down the structure of 12 - lipoxygenase, a mammalian version of particular interest because of its suspected role in the arterial damage that leads to blood clots.

Global collaborations and concerns are increasingly important to leading biotech / pharma companies, which pay careful attention to their research facilities and services in developing countries.

Considerations about patenting and intellectual property exist in industry, although the same is true for academia these days, says Alan Goldhammer, vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs for Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), an organization that represents the country's leading pharmaceutical research and biotech companies.

A biotech company called Capnia has developed a nasal spray that shoots concentrated carbon dioxide into the sinuses, where it interrupts cortical spreading depression by irritating nerve endings that lead to the brain.

The new tests were led by Santaris Pharma, a biotech company in Horsholm, Denmark, focused on developing microRNA - based therapies.

C. Glenn Begley, who spent a decade in charge of global cancer research at the biotech giant Amgen, recently dispatched 100 Amgen scientists to replicate 53 landmark experiments in cancer — the kind of experiments that lead pharmaceutical companies to sink millions of dollars to turn the results into a drug.

With more than 1,200 international actors from 35 + countries, such as big pharma, emerging and small biotech, diagnostics companies, pre-seed / seed / Series A investors, as well as professionals from tech transfer, academia and research institutions, BioFIT is the leading partnering event in Europe for technology transfer, academia - industry collaborations and early - stage innovations in the field of Life Sciences.

Ms. Estes brings decades of experience across the agriculture and industrial biotech industries and will lead the Company's partnership and business development activities in these sectors.

From 1997 - 2008, Joern was President and CEO of Evotec AG, where he designed many alliances with leading pharma and biotech companies, listed the Company on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, and managed the acquisition of LSE - listed Oxford Asymmetry and NASDAQ - listed Renovis Inc..

Other Institutions also belong to the Campus: the University of Milan; Cogentech, an IFOM - IEO consortium committed to developing leading genomic technologies (nanotechnologies, proteomics, bioinformatics, disease models), the European School of Molecular Medicine (SEMM), that organizes training in emerging sectors of Biomedicine, offering the first European PhDs in Molecular Medicine, Medical Nanotechnologies, Foundations of the Life Sciences and their Ethical Consequences; Genextra, a biotech company whose mission is to develop new therapies against cancer and aging - related disease; Biopolo, a not for profit company involved in the technological transfer of basic research to the productive system.

This spring's Bay Area Aging Meeting (BAAM), held at the Buck Institute, was a huge success — attracting hundreds of local researchers focused on aging from leading academic institutions and biotech companies.

Bilthoven, April 21, 2016 - An international multi-disciplinary consortium of 11 partners, in which 5 leading academic institutes, 4 cutting - edge biotech companies and 2 excellent service providers will join forces to advance the treatment of cancer using an innovative immunotherapeutic nanomedicin, has received an $ 8.3 million Horizon 2020 grant (grant agreement No 686089).

He served as Laboratory Director at biotech company, Prosetta Corporation, leading several small molecule drug discovery programs focused on viruses of interest to the United States Department of Defense.

He helped increase interaction between Gladstone and venture capitalists, as well as biotech and pharmaceutical companies, some of which led to partnerships or spin - off companies.

Originally called AMGen (which stood for Applied Molecular Genetics), it has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotech companies, reaching millions of patients in about 100 countries.

Indeed, biotechs and other tech companies led deal flow, says Renaissance, with 13 and 10 IPOs being staged, respectively.

In a recent Viewpoint interview, Riley Doyle, CEO and Technical Lead at Desktop Genetics, a rapidly growing biotech software company based in London, spoke to us about the challenge faced by many new life science startups:

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