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Georgia Bio Recognizes Two State Legislators with Annual Award
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Biopharma Industry Enthusiastic About 2012
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EPA Maintains Consistent Implementation of the Renewable Fuel Standard
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“America Speaks” Poll Shows Health Research is Key to Economic Recovery
By Mary Woolley, President of Research!America Research!America’s 12th edition of America Speaks, an annual summary of our public opinion polls, shows that Americans are deeply concerned about our country’s ability to create jobs and compete globally. In fact, 77 percent of those polled say that the U.S. is losing its competitive edge in science, technology and innovation and more than half of Americans (58 percent) do not believe we are making enough progress in medical Read More >
IPO Update – Jan 2012
2011 ended quietly for the US biotech IPO market. It has now been almost two months without a biotech IPO. The last few IPOs back in November continued the theme that was in place at the beginning of the year – you can get out, but with a -30% haircut. In fact, only two of the 12 IPOs in 2011 raised more than they filed for. This is shown in chart 1 below. The two Read More >
