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Tag Archives: foundations

Biotech Trends at BIO 2010

As I’m preparing for the BIO conference in Chicago next week, I’m excited to see that several of the biotech trends we’ve been following on the blog are showing up as conference sessions. Interested in “A New Kind of Non-Dilutive Financing and Fundraising: Partnering With Not-for-Profits”? Get an early start at our trends page on [...]

Biotech Trends of 2009: Three Biggest Losers

When we started the blog almost a year ago, we identified what we thought would be key trends for biotech investors and companies to watch.  Most panned out, but a few turned out to be… not so trendy.  You can call them premature (if you’re feeling generous) or call them dumb (if you’re feeling mean); [...]

Trends in 2009: You’ve Got a Friend In…

A story yesterday reminded me about a movement I think we’ll start seeing a lot more of – funding to commercial entities by disease advocacy foundations.  This will be fueled in 2009 by two factors: a self-perpetuating availability heuristic that will encourage foundations to seek commercialization opportunities; and an economic environment that will have companies looking harder than [...]

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