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Pullan's Pieces - recent back issues
 

 

Pullan's Pieces #48

 

Some Pharma Companies Need to In-License in Oncology Now

  

My highlights from the Buzz from ASCO

  

Diagnostic Acquisitions in 2010

  

Genmark Diagnostics does IPO

  

Free Forums to pitch to Angels

 

Pullan's Pieces #47

 

Late Stage Trials and No Partner (LSTNOP) – a report from our BIO panel

 

 

 

Biomarkers and Biobanking – a report from our BIO panel.   

 

 

 

Massive pathway alterations in clear cell renal carcinoma

 

 

 

VC investment 1st quarter 2010 – decline in $ and in A rounds

  

Who funds most companies?

 

Pullan's Pieces #46

 

A snapshot of drugs in Phase 3 and preregistration; unpartnered snapshot coming at BIO panel

  

U.S. Healthcare Reform – biosimilars

  

U.S. Healthcare Reform – outcomes research

  

Myriad genes and genetic tests are not patentable

 

Pullan's Pieces #45

 

Patent expirations driving company acquisitions

  

The Challenges of NICE cost-effectiveness – it depends on the comparison

  

First biomarker rescue of a drug?  

  

PSA screening for prostate cancer “a waste”, says inventor

  

FDA Advisory Committee members say “not sufficient evidence of efficacy”, but recommend approval

 

Pullan's Pieces #44

 

Pharma Companies look to generics to hold on to more $ after patent expirations, and to grow in emerging markets

  

Top 10 Product Deals of 2009

  

Biotech IPO’s uncertain, M&A probable

 

Pullan's Pieces #43

 

What to look for in 2010?

  

Pfizer shares risk with Debio on CTLA-4 antibody deal

  

Cost Effectiveness of End of Life treatments at debate at UCLA Medical Center

 

Pullan's Pieces #42

 

Unpopular Sarbannes-Oxley up for review at the Supreme Court

  

Recap on current trends in financings of biotech and pharmaceutical companies

 

Pullan's Pieces #41

 

China:  new support for innovation

  

China:  Recent Product deals

  

China’s clinical development pipeline

  

Many proteins bind to DNA in addition to their known roles

  

BioEurope panel presentation and coverage by EBD Group

 

Pullan's Pieces #40

 

Client News:  Neumedicines gets a big grant.  Zenobia gets covered by Neurotech Insights.

  

“How Personalized Medicine Could Change Oncology Deals” at BioEurope (Monday November 2nd)

  

US Patent Office drops rules restricting number of number of claims and continuations

  

Breast Cancer Whole Genome Sequenced – not like AML story

  Big Pharma Continues to Innovate – Roche goes to Russia; GSK sets up Virtual POC unit
  

Analysis of Daiichi Arqule Deal – see www.pullanconsulting.com

  

Shifts in funding - Follow-on share offerings up, M&A down, Big Pharma licensing flat, Corporate VCs active earlier, VC funds down

  

Help after the deal is signed?

 

Pullan's Pieces #39

 

Special offer on useful book: Biopreneurs: The Molecular Millionaires

 

 

 

Client News:  A Deal for ImmmunoCellular Therapeutics and Roche

 

 

 

How much delay is there for launch of new drugs in Japan?

 

 

 

Personalized medicine shocker:  Failure to test for Her2 in breast cancer

 

 

 

Market exclusivity for the leader in a new class of drugs is shorter than ever

 

 

 

Analysis Daiichi Sankyo Arqule cancer deal with Foley

 

 

 

Foley's Life Science Congress, panel

 

Pullan's Pieces #38

 

Cell Therapy for Cancer – J&J does a CRADA; a status report on cell therapies in the pipeline

  

Signs of optimism:  an IPO, new public stock offerings; a BIO and Thomson Reuters survey; Cooley Goodard on private company financings

  

Genomic sequence conservation does not always imply critical function

 

Pullan's Pieces #37

 

VC Funding Up in June

  

Licensing deals are getting done

  

2008 deal terms from Evaluate Pharma

  

Royalty Rates from Deloitte Recap

  

Most partners do stick together for the contracted period

  

Drug development after termination a source of real value

 

Pullan's Pieces #36

 

Patent expiration in major pharmas

 

Pullan's Pieces #36

 

J&J Partnering Profile

Pullan's Pieces #35

 

How many gene variations contribute to common diseases?

 

Pullan's Pieces #35

 

Deal Analysis: Indication Splitting in the Immunomedics Nycomed License for anti-CD20 Antibody

 

Pullan's Pieces #34

 

New Venture Money in the 1st Quarter of 2009

 

Pullan's Pieces #34

 

VC Funding of Biotech Therapeutics, Seed and A Rounds in the 1st Quarter of 2009

 

Pullan's Pieces #33

 A partnering profile of Eli Lilly
 

Pullan's Pieces #32

 

Big expectations from analysts, but many of forecasted top products of 2008 fail to launch as expected

 

Pullan's Pieces #31

 

A partnering profile of GSK

 

Pullan's Pieces #30

 

Twins with a lipid storage disease may shed light on Alzheimer’s – a touching story, with hope from foundations and a patient-funded virtual biotech

  

Most cases of relapse in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia can be traced back to a cell with a mutation existing at diagnosis

  

New doubt on cancer stem cell hypothesis, at least in melanoma

  

Cheaper proteins may reduce the costs of biologic drugs; Merck sees yeast production as enabling biogenerics business 

Pullan's Pieces #29

 

The economy and biotech

  

The FDA vouchers for Priority Review 

  

Gene expression to characterize cancer of unknown primary origin 

Pullan's Pieces #28

When must you take a license to IP on Research Tools under the Hatch-Waxman Safe Harbor? 

  

What is enough to describe the application of gene sequence patents? 

Pullan's Pieces #27

 

A strong case for genotyping in patient treatment with warfarin, still not ready for wide use?

  

4th tiers in drug insurance payments –patients paying a percentage of the costs of expensive drugs

  

VC-backed firms may become eligible for SBIR grants

  

UK cancer care continues to be scary

Pullan's Pieces #26

 

Antibiotic resistance could exist before the drug is dosed!

  

Factors driving success in specialty pharma?

  

Picking biopartnering meetings to attend

  

Patient-sponsored drug research and development

 

Pullan's Pieces #25

 

VC’s are still raising money. 

  

But exits for VCs are harder. 

  

Drug partnering continues in the 2nd quarter of 2008

 

Different scale of manufacturing for approved biologic requires a new BLA, but Insmed pushing for a path for a biologic follow-on.    

 

Pullan's Pieces #24

 

The number of genes does not reflect the complexity of the “Interactome”

  

First to market or fast follower?  Factors driving market success

  

Biggest news from ASCO?  Erbitux biomarker impact on response. 

  

When is a little cancer too little to worry about?

 

Pullan's Pieces #23

Flaw in appointing process for patent judges may jeopardize MANY patent decisions

  

GPCRs as drug targets

  

The impact of the credit crunch on biotech?

  

Genes of the Platypus are a fascinating mix of mammal, birds, and reptiles. 

 

Pullan's Pieces #22

Patients Like Me - creating evidence-based medicine as a community of patients 
  

Biotech has a higher failure rate than Pharma in Phase III to Approval

  

2 RNAi drugs may have effects through immune system rather than specific gene silencing

 

Pullan's Pieces #21

 The FDA may start missing its review deadlines
  Parexel’s Bio/Pharmaceutical R&D Statistical Sourcebook – Good source of industry averages
  

Companies are expanding their antibody pipelines

 

Pullan's Pieces #20

 

A lack of replacement power in the anti-infectives pipeline

  

Mouse model for the dry form of AMD – a platform for new drugs

  

Recession impact on biotech?

 

Pullan's Pieces #19

 

Top biotech and pharma stories and trends of 2007

  

·         Changes in US Patent rules and the definition of obviousness changes

  

·         Deal values grow rapidly

  

·         Layoffs in big pharma and big biotech

  

·         India innovates

  

·         Cancer vaccines continue to struggle

  

·         Acquisitions instead of IPOs as exits for VCs

  

·         PDUFA renewal

  

·         Increasing emphasis on safety at the FDA and CMS

  

·         A guarantee of efficacy for reimbursement for Velcade in the UK

  

Pullan's Pieces #18

Increased lipophilicity in recently synthesized new drug candidates may mean greater attrition in development

  

A sticky message- simple, concrete and surprising to be remembered and change thinking

  

Pullan's Pieces #17

Deal Values Grew 45% Annually 

 

Fat fear was bad public science

 

Most detailed oncology drugs

 

Biotech tour:  Germany, part 1 of 2 

 

 

Pullan's Pieces #16

Deal Averages 

 

The US Patent and Trademark Office tapping the internet to find prior art

 

Polypharmacy the 5th leading cause of death 

 

Will continuous manufacturing replace batch manufacturing? 

 

Biotech tour:  Italy 

 

Pullan's Pieces #15

Biotech tour:  India 

 

A new kinase important in breast cancer?

 

New US patent rules to hurt biotech?

 

Roche wins case against Arizona anti-takeover law in its hostile bid for Ventana Medical Systems