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Zillions of Biotech Conferences Want You. Which Should You Attend?

Posted by sandiegobiotech May 20th, 2013 .
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Biotech industry conferences are happening, somewhere on this green Earth, every day. If you’ve been around a while, and you’ve attended a few, chances are you get invitations, or marketing pitches,…

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San Diego Life Sciences Roundup: Optimer, Ambit, AnaptysBio, & More

Posted by sandiegobiotech May 17th, 2013 .
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[Clarification 5/17/13, 2:05 pm. See below.] Right on the same line with the original lede so you don’t waste space on a carriage return…Antibody drugs seemed to be the topic of the week…

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Ambit Slices Price of IPO, Increases Number of Shares Offered

Posted by sandiegobiotech May 16th, 2013 .
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San Diego’s Ambit Biosciences cut the share price of its planned IPO by nearly half yesterday, but still managed to raise about $65 million by increasing the number of shares in its debut offering….

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Ambit Slices Price of IPO, Increases Number of Shares Offered

Posted by sandiegobiotech May 16th, 2013 .
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San Diego’s Ambit Biosciences cut the share price of its planned IPO by nearly half yesterday, but still managed to raise about $65 million by increasing the number of shares in its debut offering….

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Henri Termeer on Startups, Drug Prices, Getting Older (Part 2)

Posted by sandiegobiotech May 14th, 2013 .
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Yesterday, we ran the first part of a wide-ranging interview with Henri Termeer, the legendary biotech entrepreneur and former CEO of Cambridge, MA-based Genzyme. He spoke about what kinds of…

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Henri Termeer on Startups, Drug Prices, Getting Older (Part 1)

Posted by sandiegobiotech May 13th, 2013 .
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Henri Termeer could have easily faded away into obscurity a couple years ago. The biotech pioneer could have relaxed at his oceanside home in Maine, played a little golf. Or, if he wanted, he could…

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San Diego Life Sciences Roundup: Receptos, Arena, NuVasive, & More

Posted by sandiegobiotech May 9th, 2013 .
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Amid the hectic pace of earnings releases, we saw a number of partnership agreements and other developments coming out of San Diego’s life sciences community.  Here’s my wrap-up. —Shares of San…

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San Diego’s Receptos, Ambit Biosciences, Get Ready for IPO Debuts

Posted by sandiegobiotech May 6th, 2013 .
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[Corrected 5/6/13, 10:50 am. See below.] San Diego-based Receptos, a biotech developing new treatments for immune disorders, is among 13 IPOs expected to go public this week, according to Renaissance…

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Lessons For Drug Development From The Aveo Buzzsaw

Posted by sandiegobiotech May 6th, 2013 .
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Drug development is a tough business. Small companies that dare to try often end up in public train wrecks when they head to Washington to meet the FDA. It’s a shame, a colossal waste, every time a…

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Abide Therapeutics and Merck Unveil Diabetes Drug Collaboration

Posted by sandiegobiotech May 2nd, 2013 .
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Abide Therapeutics, a two-year-old San Diego biopharmaceutical firm pioneering new ways to identify and validate drug targets among the serine hydrolase “superfamily” of enzymes, says today it has…

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