The last time was in the early 1990s, when many of their biotech investments crumbled.
Church suggests they might even have an edge when it comes to biotech investing.
Millennium went public in 1996 and the stock immediately popped 50%, reviving a moribund biotech IPO market.
His work has covered a wide range of fields, including construction, pharmaceutical, biotech, automotive and digital companies.
Still, Levin says, over the past few decades the opportunity to take profits in biotech has remained steady.
It kept a board seat at biotech shop Centocor for 19 years, long after distributing shares to investors.
Someday China will be running circles around the U.S. in biotech and solid-state physics.
Growth hormones were one of the first important medicines to come out of the biotech industry.
What does the biotech rider actually state and what is it designed to address?
Wyeth owned a big chunk of biotech concern Immunex , which Amgen bought last year.
The biotech is actually restricting Avastin sales now to cut down on unapproved use.
The drug was developed by Aderis Pharmaceuticals, a privately held biotech based in Hopkinton, Mass.
The first is one that I would advise caution in exploring: medical and biotech stocks.
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"This is one of our top picks, " says Joel Sendek, a biotech analyst at Lazard.
In this instance, biotech execs appear to understand that product differentiation matters, especially to payers.
The company, public since February 1997, has suffered from product delays and a rocky biotech market.
The output of the biotech firms has been a trickle, rather than a torrent.
BTW, A good juicy source of info in the biotech world is Biofind Rumor Mill.
How do you bring the kind of biotech industry investment that has enriched Cambridge, Mass.
Last year a major U.S. biotech firm invited him up to learn more about his patents.
But much of the new effort comes from small biotech firms and Big Pharma defectors.
The lack of a strong IPO market makes life tougher for biotech venture capitalists.
Last year his Environmental Biotech Inc. (EBI), a 90-unit franchise based in Sarasota, Fla.
With big pharma in many cases absent from the game, biotech entered the field.
Merck isn't going to sit down and let a biotech walk off with the osteoporosis market.
However, investors should be careful not to distinguish too much between biotech and pharma.
Maybe the Seattle biotech company should respond by offering Brad Loncar a seat on its board.
So unless the FDA grants its request, the biotech is stuck with three years of exclusivity.
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In addition, biotech firm Dipexium Pharmaceuticals is trying to revive the frog drug with new trials.
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Rational drug design, the hallmark of new-school biotech, is no panacea, as Gladwell rightly points out.
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