It's not big pharmaceutical companies driving the demand there, he says, but
small biotech companies who've realized they can capitalize on the enormous amount of publicly available health and genomics data.
Not exact matches
And animal advocates
who want to influence business could consider investing in the
small biotechs and large pharmaceutical
companies that are working to develop alternatives to animals in research.
Susan Schade, a UAB alumna
who now does research for a
small biotech company in Birmingham, says that the IR helped her in its «exposure to different career paths and networking» and allowed her «to make contact with all kinds of people not at UAB.»
But I think it's a disservice to gloss over the topic, because in reality it can be a fairly large hurdle for a successful industry transition,» said Andrew Spencer, a research scientist at Alvine Pharmaceuticals
who has experience at
biotech companies and
small start - ups.
Now, a
small biotech start - up is providing an alternative for those critics
who want to mine Iceland's genetic riches but do not want to cooperate with the
company that has exclusive rights to the database.