Rare diseases were long relegated to the backwaters of the drug business, targeted by tiny biotech companies, if at all, and often ignored by drug giants in their search for billion-dollar franchises.
The assertion by a handful of first-world biotech companies of property claims over my body is a repellent reminder of slavery.
Thus, these companies seek to broaden their access to innovation by creating networks of academic institutions, research institutes, and biotech companies in order to tap into other sources of intellectual property.
The tool is being used by 16 companies and research institutes, including Sequenom, a biotech firm in San Diego, California, and by the Indian government, to track drugs to treat a new strain of malaria.
DeCode's Stefansson says he hopes the deal will help the company market its services to other drug and biotech companies in the future, by establishing DeCode's software as the standard method for analyzing gene data.
As with the patent reform law now being considered, the decision was welcomed by technology companies who said they were too frequently targeted for patent infringement, and denounced by biotech firms who argued that investors would be discouraged from funding new products.
Springboard is currently recruiting for its Life Science accelerator program for high-growth biotech, device and health IT companies led by women.
As cancer costs explode, Ziopharm is one of a handful of biotech companies focusing on lower cost cancer drugs by coming up with less toxic versions of neglected old chemotherapy drugs.
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While the five year rankings were dominated by internet companies like Google, Priceline.com, Akamai Technologies and biotech firms like Gilead Sciences, Celgene Corp and Biogen Idec, the Q1 2011 numbers favor semiconductor and mobile communications companies.
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The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded today to two researchers who discovered a new kind of gene, upending dogma about how biology works and leading to a new technology that has been embraced by drug companies and has led to the formation of two publicly traded biotech firms.
Not a biotech conference goes by these days without a discussion about new models for financing or exiting companies, and BioPharm America in Boston this week is no different.
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