20
Mar
2007
This is a great quarterly publication (.pdf here) from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston examining the next tier cities/regions (sans the Valley, Boston, NYC, SoCal & Texas) and the venture capital activity therein. The piece identifies factors that may explain how smaller cities attract venture capital. If you do not have the bandwidth to [...]
18
Mar
2007
I spent some time updating my other blog OnBioVC. For those unfamiliar with it…I am creating a free dBase, tracking life science related venture financings that may be searched and sorted by funding round, geographic locale and lead indication. At the end of each quarter I will post a quantitative/qualitative summary. 1Q07 is nearing an [...]
16
Mar
2007
Posted in My Rants
The Business of Biotech Network, a collection of 12 biotech and pharma related blogs, is growing by leaps and bounds. The network is now flirting with a near aggregate of 2,000 RSS feed subscriptions. I have also added a new widget to the side-rail so that it is simple to subscribe to any of the [...]
12
Mar
2007
Posted in My Rants
Mike Bristow, M.D., Ph.D. and founder of Myogen recently spoke at the Holland & Hart Bioentrepreneur club. I thought it would be an interesting exercise to see what would happen if the talk was broadcast LIVE. Admittedly, there may have been a secondary desire to see if I may increase traffic to this blog by [...]
12
Mar
2007
BioCentury: The Bernstein Report on BioBusiness recently featured ApopLogic Pharmaceuticals in their weekly publication. As a trusted global leader in the distribution of biobusiness intelligence it makes me feel all warm inside that the publication is sourcing stories in our own backyard. ApopLogic is a pre-clinical company focused on apoptosis-inducing compounds. Six patents have been [...]
06
Mar
2007
LIVE Thursday 8:00 – 9:00am MST Dr. Bristow was the principal founder, chief science & medical officer and director of Myogen. In November of 2006 Gilead acquired Myogen for $52.50/share or a whopping $2.5 billion! Dr. Bristow is Professor of Medicine and the former Head of Cardiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, the Co-Director [...]