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Category Archives: Biotech Trends in 2011

Biotech Trends Update — IP Constituencies: Innovator-Generic Mixing Continues in Canada

As traditional pharma companies continue to diversify their revenue sources in the face of their pending patent cliffs, we have followed their entry into and expansion of their generics business lines. We have also noted activity in the reverse – generics companies developing novel products to build their margins and take advantage of their production capacity and [...]

Biotech Trends in 2011: Biosimilars

In our original post on biosimilars, Lumira Capital’s Beni Rovinski set out the business opportunities, the technical challenges and the regulatory hurdles facing follow-on biologics in 2009. Since then, as Beni predicted, a series of pharma deals have followed Merck’s Insimed acquisition, and the regulatory framework in North America has been clarified substantially, with final Health Canada guidance having been [...]

Biotech Trends in 2011: Transgenics

As our ability to manipulate the genomes of plants and animals grows, we can increase crop yields, reduce environmental impact, improve nutrition and turn barren land arable.  Canada, in particular, has been at the forefront of much of this technology: The Enviropig, developed in Guelph, Ontario, in 1999, produces phytase, an enzyme regular pigs lack, [...]

Biotech Trends in 2011: Commercialization by Non-Profit Foundations

Financing for biotech companies is a major part of my work at my real job, and the horrible financing environment in the wake of 2008′s financial crisis was one of the motivators for starting this blog. So, when nonprofit foundations started financing commercialization and product development in addition to their traditional role in financing research, it [...]

Biotech Trends in 2011: Comparative Effectiveness and Personalized Medicine

When this blog was launched in 2009, comparative effectiveness and personalized medicine were fairly new features in the North American landscape. Our initial argument that they were related topics — determining which treatment is best depends on which patient is being treated – was soon bolstered by the comparative effectiveness provisions in the U.S. stimulus bill and new personalized [...]

Biotech Trends in 2011: Social Media in Biotech and Healthcare

Use of social media by pharmaceutical companies, biotechs, and industry observers will continue to grow in scale, value and importance this year. The emergence of Twitter as a public health surveillance tool and the pending (still pending…) release of the FDA’s social media guidelines will contribute to this growth in the short term, and we’ll continue to [...]

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