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Expert Advice 6 Apr 2020

How Investors Can Prepare for the Digitization of Biotech

For a few decades, the worlds of biotech and digital technology have been on separate paths. Franck Lescure, Partner at the French VC firm Elaia Partners, explains how the two fields are now colliding and how investors need to catch up. At first glance, digital technology and biotech are widely different fields, each with their […]

April 6, 2020 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Expert Advice 12 Mar 2020

Five Challenges For Life Science Marketers in 2020

Developing a new drug has an estimated cost of €583M to €2.4B. Much of this spending goes towards companies, such as vendors, CROs, and CDMOs, who generate value by commercializing and industrializing innovations to improve the ways researchers study organisms and viruses in the early stages of drug development. For those of us in sales […]

March 12, 2020 - 14 minutesmins - By Mark Livingstone

Expert Advice 11 Mar 2020

Why Women’s Health Can Be a Good Investment

Since the Hormone Replacement Therapy market was destroyed almost overnight in 2002 after side effects were reported by researchers, there has been a lot of caution about investing in companies with a focus on women’s health. Mary Kerr, CEO of KaNDy Therapeutics and NeRRe Therapeutics, knows this only too well, but has not let it […]

March 11, 2020 - 13 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

Expert Advice 6 Feb 2020

Why a Big Pharma Background Can Give Biotech Leaders an Edge

Many biotech founders come straight from academia and may struggle with the new skill set that is required to run a company. Rob de Ree, CEO of Dutch biotech NorthSea Therapeutics, has a background in big pharma and medtech and believes his earlier experience was instrumental to his success as a biotech leader. After spending […]

February 6, 2020 - 11 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

Expert Advice 27 Jan 2020

Five Reasons Why Biotech Startups Fail: How to Avoid Them

Biotech startups are a high-risk venture and many do not reach the final line. Experts explain what the most common reasons for failure are and what can be done to avoid them. You might have heard that only 10% of startups make it. Well, biotech startups can have it even harder. Unlike the typical tech […]

January 27, 2020 - 9 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

Expert Advice 15 Jan 2020

How to Spot a Biotech Winner: Investment Lessons from Sofinnova

Making one biotech a success is hard enough, but correctly predicting multiple winners is the bread and butter of Antoine Papiernik, Managing Partner of Sofinnova Partners, one of the biggest and most prosperous life science venture capital investors in Europe. Papiernik began his career in corporate finance. In 1995, he was working in investment in […]

January 15, 2020 - 10 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

Expert Advice 12 Dec 2019

Tips & Tricks for Social Media in the Life Sciences

With social media, as with many industries, you have to make sure to stay on top of the game. The phrase ‘if you snooze, you lose’ remains as true as ever. If you don’t jump on the bandwagon now, you might be in for a bad surprise later. We don’t want you to miss out, […]

December 12, 2019 - 14 minutesmins - By Larissa Warneck-Silvestrin

Expert Advice 11 Dec 2019

What Makes a Successful Biotech?

How does it feel to have co-developed the most successful drug in the world? This is something Jane Osbourn, now Chair of the Board at UK cell therapy biotech Mogrify, knows only too well. Early in her career, Osbourn was working as a postdoc in Cambridge and was persuaded to join a small, and at […]

December 11, 2019 - 12 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

Expert Advice 5 Nov 2019

How Sweden’s Intellectual Property Law Boosts Biotech Innovation

Founding one biotech company and making a success of it is difficult enough, but Mathias Uhlén has founded 20. Not only is he a successful entrepreneur, he is also a professor at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and has accumulated more than €135M in research funding during his career. After doing a PhD […]

November 5, 2019 - 10 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

Expert Advice 8 Oct 2019

Why Good Teamwork is Key to Biotech Success

Teamwork is important throughout the development of a company, but never more so than in the early stages of a startup. Charlotte Edenius, co-founder and VP Business and Clinical development at Gesynta Pharma in Sweden, knows this well. With more than 20 years experience working in the industry, she knows how important it is for biotech leaders […]

October 8, 2019 - 10 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

Expert Advice 12 Sep 2019

Interview: The Do’s & Don’ts of Branded Content in the Life Sciences Industry

Although it’s becoming increasingly popular in life science marketing, branded content is still in its infancy. This does not mean it isn’t worth investing in. Quite the contrary: because it is fairly new, it is all the more exciting and can reach promising audiences within the life sciences industry. While other industries have long since […]

September 12, 2019 - 12 minutesmins - By Larissa Warneck-Silvestrin

Expert Advice 7 Sep 2019

Why Being in a New Field From the Start Can Pay Off in the Long Run

The field of immuno-oncology has expanded out of all recognition over the last few years. Having co-founded one of the first cancer immunotherapy biotechs — Immatics — CEO Harpreet Singh has seen it all happen. He plans to take advantage of the company’s head start to tackle solid tumors with its T-cell redirecting therapies. Singh […]

September 7, 2019 - 12 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

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How Investors Can Prepare for the Digitization of Biotech

Five Challenges For Life Science Marketers in 2020

Why Women’s Health Can Be a Good Investment

Why a Big Pharma Background Can Give Biotech Leaders an Edge

Five Reasons Why Biotech Startups Fail: How to Avoid Them

How to Spot a Biotech Winner: Investment Lessons from Sofinnova

Tips & Tricks for Social Media in the Life Sciences

What Makes a Successful Biotech?

How Sweden’s Intellectual Property Law Boosts Biotech Innovation

Why Good Teamwork is Key to Biotech Success

Interview: The Do’s & Don’ts of Branded Content in the Life Sciences Industry

Why Being in a New Field From the Start Can Pay Off in the Long Run

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