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@BentheFidler shared
On Mar 17, 2022
RT @LifeSciVC: Biotech Bears: Jumping A Lower Bar Or A Higher One? A few thoughts on what's behind the negative data slump in #biotech. https://t.co/sjVCrVeh7e $XBI $NBI
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Biotech Bears: Jumping A Lower Bar Or A Higher One?

Biotech Bears: Jumping A Lower Bar Or A Higher One?

Biotech sentiment is super bearish today, as the sector has been crushed over the last year. There’s blood in the water, especially for small and mid-cap players, and everyone’s looking for ...

@BentheFidler shared
On Mar 21, 2022
RT @LifeSciVC: Innovation Ecosystem: A Year Of Risk-Off Correlations. Exploring how much of the yearlong downdraft in the markets is due to a "risk-off" sentiment towards innovation-sectors vs biotech-specific issues https://t.co/7UkOhgIQhk https://t.co/GCM8x8aJkS
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Innovation Ecosystem: A Year Of Risk-Off Correlations

Innovation Ecosystem: A Year Of Risk-Off Correlations

Misery loves company, and so it goes with the stock market for the innovation ecosystem these days. The general risk-off market environment has been crushing both the emerging tech and ...

@big4bio shared
On Mar 22, 2022
RT @Big4BioPhilly: Women-owned #startups see record venture capital gains in #Philly "@AroBioTx — cofounded by Susan Dillon and Karyn O'Neil — makes up a massive portion of last year's total for all-women teams after scoring a more than $90M round." https://t.co/OW6EkZgxZl https://t.co/nfpF78s6na
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Women-owned startups see record venture capital gains in Philly

Women-owned startups see record venture capital gains in Philly

But progress for funding women-founded companies has plateaued across the U.S. in recent years.

@BentheFidler shared
On Mar 23, 2022
GSK partners with LifeMine as startups advance plans to make drugs from fungi https://t.co/MO9cjIT0iq #biotech #startups @LifeMineTx $GSK @hexagonbio
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GSK partners with LifeMine as startups advance plans to make drugs from fungi

GSK partners with LifeMine as startups advance plans to make drugs from fungi

The deal, announced alongside a $175 million round, makes biotech entrepreneur Greg Verdine's startup the most well-funded among an emerging group of companies searching for drugs ...

@paulg shared
On Mar 22, 2022
"Customers constantly remark about how much Benchling understands the unique needs of biotech researchers. We’re going a mile deep in biotech R&D, not a mile wide, and our depth of understanding the industry shows." https://t.co/wSol59OPZX
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He Left MIT At 22 To Solve A Problem Investors Didn’t Get. Now His Company Is Worth $6 Billion

He Left MIT At 22 To Solve A Problem Investors Didn’t Get. Now His Company Is Worth $6 Billion

Sajith Wickramasekara worked as a research assistant during his high school years and realized R&D relied too heavily on pens and paper. So he built Benchling, now worth $6 billion and ...

@BusinessInsider shared
On Mar 23, 2022
Insider identified 13 drug companies that are in a dangerous financial position and struggling to survive through 2022 https://t.co/wT3sHm4ABp
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Insider identified 13 drug companies that are in a dangerous financial position and struggling to survive through 2022

Insider identified 13 drug companies that are in a dangerous financial position and struggling to survive through 2022

Almost 500 SEC filings show these 13 biotechs facing "substantial doubts" about staying in business in the struggling market

@zbiotech shared
On Mar 17, 2022
$MRNA CEO Stephane Bancel has sold more than $400 million of company stock during the pandemic https://t.co/0H1v4Vlm7W
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Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel has sold more than $400 million of company stock during the pandemic

Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel has sold more than $400 million of company stock during the pandemic

Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel has sold more than 2.8 million shares since January 2020 at a total value of more than $408 million.

@zbiotech shared
On Mar 17, 2022
RT @BioStocks: $ALNY files patent infringement suits against $PFE and $MRNA seeking damages for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 11,246,933 in the parties’ manufacture and sale of their messenger RNA (mRNA) #COVID19 vaccines https://t.co/lM9IPKFYU9
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Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Files Patent Infringement Suits against Pfizer and Moderna

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Files Patent Infringement Suits against Pfizer and Moderna

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALNY) the leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced today that it has separately filed suit in United States