Sentences with phrase «with small biotech»

She participated in collaborations with small biotech companies and big pharma.

With smaller biotechs having seen some incredible performance over the past year, it's not surprising to see the SPDR outperforming its iShares counterpart.

The move followed the company's acquisition of another biotech, KuDOS Pharmacetuicals, in 2005 and several agreements with small biotechs to co-develop drugs.

Not exact matches

Instead, he did it the same way a fast - growth software or biotech company develops products — with a small team, angel funding, freewheeling management, a willingness to take big risks, and a belief that serious profit lay on the far side.

The approach comes at a time of renewed interest by large drugmakers in smaller biotech firms, with U.S. - based Celgene clinching a deal to buy Impact Biomedicines for up to $ 7 billion on Sunday and Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical agreeing last week to buy another Belgian biotech group TiGenix for $ 630 million.

Let's create a fictional biotech firm: we'll call it TFT Biotech, a small Silicon Valley shop with fewer than 50 workers.

Where there is more uncertainty is in small and mid-cap biotech stocks: «Biotech is just rife with speculation — that is not what we do,» says CT Fitzpatrick, CEO of Vulcan Value Partners.

In his Transformational Technology Alert research advisory, Patrick Cox leverages his over 30 years of experience as a consultant, writer, and researcher in the tech / biotech space to bring to you the small - cap tech and medical companies with the potential to transform our lives.

Just that small set of words has the biotech index in free fall mode, with shares losing billions in market cap.

Many biotech firms - especially the smaller ones with little capital - do not have sales and marketing divisions capable of selling high volumes of drugs.

So while it's probably unwise to back up the truck with this speculative biotech stock, I do think it's worth owning a small position in case oliceridine hits pay dirt next year.

George Budwell (Geron Corp.): If you're comfortable with risk and on the hunt for a stock with sky - high growth potential, the small - cap biotech Geron should definitely be on your radar right now.

In 2006, Merck also bought two small biotech firms with which it had been partnering, GlycoFi of Lebanon, New Hampshire, and Abmaxis of Santa Clara, California.

«I think it may be up to smaller biotech companies and academia to come up with new drugs,» Littman says.

Other biotech experts question whether Novartis's approach is better than linking up with smaller companies, however.

«Because it's a new industry and BC is emerging as a very strong biotech base in the world, it's an exciting time to get involved in a small company and to grow with it,» says Oliver.

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.»

Now Poirier is collaborating with large pharmaceutical companies and small biotech firms that are developing and manufacturing memory - enhancing drugs.

The biotech industry in the other prairie province of Manitoba is comparatively small, with only six companies.

«I think there is more open opportunity in small biotech for people with an academic background,» he says.

Blackwell has started a small biotech company in Madison with that as her goal — plotting a future jump in scale from plants to people.

Efforts to inhibit this enzyme, called β - secretase 1 (BACE1), with small molecule drugs have met with limited success so far, says Ryan Watts, a neurobiologist at the biotech company Genentech in South San Francisco, California, and one of the leaders of the new research.

But because they're a small biotech company, with high risk of default (i.e., a high risk of not paying off their debts), they would have to pay a very high interest rate in order to make the bond attractive enough for investors to purchase it.

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.

He predicts that the small but potent research community of universities and biotech companies centered in St. Louis and Kansas City will benefit from passage of the amendment — which prevents lawmakers from barring work on embryonic stem cells while criminalizing cloning with the goal of reproduction — as will patients.

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.

I'm looking forward to being a part of this Philadelphia research hub and connecting with researchers and small biotechs in the region and beyond.»

«With extensive experience at both large and small agriculture and industrial biotech companies, she is uniquely positioned to help Caribou capitalize on the potential opportunities for CRISPR - Cas gene editing to develop improved crops and bio-based products.»

Lipotype offers high quality lipid analysis services with its Lipotype Shotgun Lipidomics Technology for a wide range of customers and applications including biomarker identification for clinical researchers, pharma and biotech companies, functional food development for the food industry, claim support for the cosmetics industry, as well as for the small - scale profiling needs of academic researchers.

Or round out your core portfolio with small bets in index funds that focus on riskier asset classes, such as an ETF that owns Japanese stocks or an index fund that specializes in biotech stocks.

This is especially important to remember when you're dealing in small biotech and oil & gas exploration stocks, for example, where outcomes are so binary... That's the problem with binary or individual outcomes — some nutter always pops up to tell you about his 100 year old smoking / drinking / whoring grandfather, or that junior oil share he bought that promptly tripled — but so f**king what?!

That being said, biotech, small pharm / medical devices & venture / university spin - out companies & funds (mostly in the US & UK) can sometimes be a fruitful sector to examine — stocks can pop up with net cash that actually exceeds their market cap!

And while it is true that folks need to approach the management of their emergency savings with an abundance of caution, there is a middle ground between losing six months of expenses to inflation every year and exposing every penny you own in small - cap Greek biotech firms.

«The key thing in that business that may drive M&A is the world is getting smaller, with shrinking distance between producer and consumer — globalization and world population shifts — think of the food business as a long continuum starting with biotech, leading to seed production, leading to crop inputs and that's where you see some activity in Canada in fertilizer in terms of potash,» explains Woollcombe.