The Cross-Border Biotech Blog

Lots of great weekend reading from our Twitter stream on @crossborderbio, including news and commentary on the latest in personalized medicine and the Canadian VC landscape: RT @LillyPad: ..changing R&D models to develop more targeted therapies instead of blockbusters, tailoring therapies that are more effective. 1 day ago RT @wellingtonfund WF-Blog:Mass confusion in ventureland: Is the venture model “broken”? [...]

Here’s some weekend reading from our Twitter stream on @crossborderbio … Friday Science Review is back, thx to Mark Curtis! Today’s cool Canadian science = tomorrow’s cool startups… http://ow.ly/19f2te1 DTC genetics link in last tweet is from @CMAJ_News – also contrasts Class III regulation of companion diagnostics. I.e. DTC is non-clinical? MT @genomicslawyer: …Health Canada is taking [...]

Lots of great weekend reading from our Twitter stream on @crossborderbio, including a plane that flies like a bird, a $450 million licensing deal and links to several worthwhile upcoming events:

Here’s some reading for the weekend from our Twitter stream on @crossborderbio: RT @FiercePharma: Genomics might have rescued Sanofi diet drug.http://bit.ly/d18EFp 14 hours ago YM Biosciences’ Phase II JAK1/2 inhibitor gets orphan drug designation for myelofibrosis http://bit.ly/aFD4xc1 day ago Final Call for Abstracts (Deadline Extended): Canadian Science Policy Conference 2010 – Deadline Aug 29th, 2010 http://bit.ly/9EB34b 2 days ago Merck in Canada: $289m Alzheimer’s [...]

Even though posts have dropped off between the long weekend last week and some business travel, I’ve been keeping Twitter up to date and will resume with a two-week deal review on Monday. In the meantime, here’s some reading to catch up on: RT @PharmProEditor: Patheon Signs Technology Transfer Agreement with Dendreon http://bit.ly/aWElIg RT @OntInnovation: RT [...]

Here’s some reading for the weekend from our Twitter stream on @crossborderbio: via @Michael_Gilman and @pearlf, great advice on running effective board mtgs http://j.mp/bkbjbh  U.S. Defense Dept Transformational Medical Tech program funds 2 RNAi projects: BC’s Tekmira http://bit.ly/cpOa8U & AVI http://bit.ly/ckCCxU  RT @FiercePharma: Reuters: Glaxo, Pfizer JV opens HIV pipeline to generic cos. http://bit.ly/adLi9x  RT @genomicslawyer: [...]

As you may have surmised (from my out-of-office email or from my attempts to get the attention of Delta’s customer service tweeps) I was out of town this week. Still, here’s some weekend reading for you from our Twitter stream @crossborderbio: RT @dgmacarthur: July 12 is your last chance to comment on NIH’s planned genetic [...]

Here’s some reading for the weekend from our Twitter stream on @crossborderbio: RT @IBMResearch: Roche and IBM Collaborate to Develop Nanopore-Based DNA Sequencing Technology – http://cot.ag/9vbj8l  RT @CBCHealth: Chalk River reactor to restart in July: AECL http://bit.ly/d66r72  RT @ogilvyrenault: Ogilvy Renault’s Rick Sutin quoted in Financial Post article on TSX/TSXV’s strength in cleantech http://bit.ly/cFAXr2  RT @markrmcqueen [...]