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BIO CEO & Investor Conference Kicks Off in NYC
The 17th Annual BIO CEO & Investor Conference opened today with a record number of partnering meetings and company presentations, in addition to key policy, business, and science panels highlighting the biotech issues of the day. During the Welcome & Opening Plenary session, BIO President & CEO Jim Greenwood spoke with Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO) about the 21st Century Cures Initiative, a comprehensive effort to accelerate the discovery, Read More >
Getting Ahead of Ebola and Other Infectious Threats—Overturning Assumptions
Ebola was one of the biggest stories of 2014 (with Ebola fighters named the TIME Person of the Year), and the epidemic has led to renewed interest from governments and philanthropies to tackle the problem of emerging infectious diseases. To discuss the lessons learned and new approaches being taken in light of the Ebola crisis, BIO hosted a panel today at the 17th Annual BIO CEO & Investor Conference here in New York, moderated by Read More >
Patients Remain the Focus for the Future of Personalizing Oncology
The 17th Annual BIO CEO & Investor Conference, being held at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, kicked off this morning with an interactive panel of industry heavyweights discussing the growing trend to personalize oncology treatments with molecular diagnostics. Moderated by Michael King, Managing Director, Senior Research Analyst, JMP Securities. Michael helped steer the group of experts as they discussed enabling broader matching of patient-cancer-therapy, lessons learned from the Cancer Genome Atlas and the potential Read More >
Announcing the BIO/Bloomberg Intelligence: 2015 Biotech Industry Outlook Survey
Click here for the BIO/Bloomberg Intelligence: 2015 Biotech Industry Outlook Survey. Your investment plans and budgets all include growth assumptions and market forecasts. Can you trust them? 2014 was another banner year for biotech IPOs, with 81 companies in our industry going public, an increase of nearly 90 percent over 2013. Now we turn our attention to the year ahead and what we can expect. More blue skies or dark clouds? M&A surpassing last year Read More >
Chairman Upton and Rep. DeGette Op-Ed: Can We Find Cures for 7,000 Diseases?
In a CNN.com op-ed, Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Representative Diana DeGette (D-CO) provide highlights of policies that they intend to propose to help get more cures and treatments for the more than 7,000 diseases for which only 500 have cures and treatments. Chairman Upton and Rep. DeGette launched the 21st Century Cures Initiative to identify areas of reform to help ‘close the gap between the science of medicine and the Read More >
