The Cross-Border Biotech Blog

Catch up on the week’s biotech developments and news from our Twitter stream @crossborderbio: Congrats to Chris Arsenault, Announced as Co-Chair of the Canadian Innovation Exchange http://eqent.me/gkggtr RT @CVCACanada Evolution, Vaccination, and Prostate health examination, in this week’s Friday Science Review: http://ow.ly/1aRBr1  Endo chief looks to spend $500M on diagnostics acquisitions http://bit.ly/h0hRe3 RT @FierceBiotech UCSF now has [...]

Catch up on the week’s biotech developments and news from our Twitter stream @crossborderbio: Top 5 Cross-Border Biotech Blog topics of 2010 http://bit.ly/gocDJb via @slaw_dot_ca  The House is going to repeal Obamacare; other than that bicameral thing, that seems straightforward: http://goo.gl/0DiN RT @randypicker Stem cells that divide in two, Tobacco vaccine to stop the flu: This week’s [...]

Social media, publication quality, Canadian VC policy and exhaustion (mine and patents’) make for a light dose of interesting reading this weekend: Friday Science Review: stagnant technologies in Africa, congenital blindness in children and chronic pain in the crosshairs… http://ow.ly/1auHag Social Media Reshaping Healthcare: Some cool data on the use of Twitter as a Public Health [...]

Here’s your dose of weekly biotech news, all wrapped up in one weekend-friendly package: VenGrowth Funds Receive Non-Binding Merger Proposal from GrowthWorks Canadian Fund http://eqent.me/hyhgU Oncolytic viruses for cancer therapy and synthetic promoters for diabetes therapy in this week’s Friday Science Review!http://bit.ly/g16v6Q Cephalon strikes record $2B stem cell pact with Mesoblast. $130m upfront+$220m for 20%, $1.7b later… http://bit.ly/dRGQlI [...]

Here’s your dose of weekly biotech news, all wrapped up in one weekend-friendly package thanks to our Twitter stream: RT @ArsenicMicrobes: We come in peace – Funny! But agree with @matthewherper on this one: not an alien http://bit.ly/ebEPxe Never too early for biotechs and VCs to understand and plan for payer-focused endpoints http://bit.ly/fDEsbL via @InVivoBlogChris My short presentation [...]

Here’s your dose of weekly biotech news, all wrapped up in one weekend-friendly package thanks to our Twitter stream @crossborderbio: RT @CVCACanada: A Brave New World – Amid industry turmoil a rash of new VC players emerge in Canada – via @Techvibes http://bit.ly/dKErHk RT @mikesgene: Canada’s transgenic Enviropig is stuck in a genetic modification poke http://bit.ly/g2M6aQ [...]

Here’s your dose of weekly biotech news, all wrapped up in one weekend-friendly package thanks to our Twitter stream @crossborderbio: RT @CVCACanada: BDC’s Young Entrepreneur Awards Applications are now open!http://eqent.me/dlH2Rx RT @dgmacarthur: RT @genomicslawyer GLR Post: Recap from the Partners Personalized Medicine Conferencehttp://bit.ly/bGm6Nv RT @Michael_Gilman..just getting started on the West Coast,have a look at today’s [...]

Here’s your dose of weekly biotech news, all wrapped up in one weekend-friendly package thanks to our Twitter stream @crossborderbio: RT @mikesgene: Ontario Genomics Institute Invests in Personalized Medicine for Age-related Macular Degeneration http://bit.ly/dl9VwC w/video 23 hours ago GrowthWorks solicits votes against VenGrowth-Covington deal, wants time to make its own offer. http://eqent.me/cWw2aK via @CVCACanada TSX’s Raymond King [...]

Some weekend reading from our Twitter stream @crossborderbio: RT @mikesgene: Personal genomics tests prompt lifestyle changes http://bit.ly/9QsQFx #genome RT @dgmacarthur: Y Bombard: newborn blood spots are stored for up to 18 years in US, up to 30 years in Canada #ashg2010 U.S. Therapeutic Discovery Stimulus Reaches Biotechs in Canada, Israel, Germany http://ow.ly/19NEBF RT @patentlyo: Constitutional Inventors, [...]

If you’re not following our Twitter stream @crossborderbio, here’s what you missed this week: RT @JillLOsborne: An interesting look at tech tranfer in Canada http://bit.ly/9Zqbb7Thx Jill – it’s by Mark Curtis, new @crossborderbio ! How Canada can use science as a diplomatic tool to restore our int’l reputation.http://bit.ly/aavqsP by Mehrdad Hariri of @sciencepolicy Acadia gets rights [...]

Some weekend reading from our Twitter stream on @crossborderbio: Internal promoters: Pierre Meulien moves from GenomeBC to Genome Canada CEO http://bit.ly/czrWSc Glad to be following @sheffi ‘s tweets today from CER/PM summit at NIH http://bit.ly/b9vfiw I’ve seen that combo b4… http://bit.ly/9h4BJM Great call with @jordan_law21 @privacylawyer @scottwolfejr – prep for panel Connecting Social Media to Business [...]