Posts Tagged ‘personalized medicine’
Needed: Cash to pay for innovation
Thursday, February 25, 2010, 1:02 amA $500 ticket to the Biotech conference Monday and Tuesday offered face time with heavy-hitting investors. After an 18-month, deep recession that dried up funding for drug research and development nationwide, it was a lure that attracted Research Triangle area companies to the Raleigh Convention Center in droves.
The visitors made it clear they and other investors remain skittish, but they also noted signs of hope, such as the handful of initial public offerings by biotech companies in past months and an adjustment in venture funding last year in favor of early-stage companies.
Stephen Sands
“When we look at a year ago, we’re really all taking a breath of relief that the Dow [Jones stock index] is over 10,000,” said Stephen Sands, vice chairman of U.S. investment banking in Lazard’s healthcare group, who moderated a panel addressing the future of biotech funding at the conference. Read more…
RTI Fellows Symposium: Integrating Basic and Applied Research
Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 5:44 pmRTI Fellows Symposium was a two-day event at the University of North Carolina’s Friday Center in Chapel Hill. This was also the first time I saw the Friday Center from within and I was looking at it with the eyes of a conference organizer. It has a Goldilocks quality to it: not so pleasant, intimate and science-themed as Sigma Xi, and not as big, cold and corporate as the Raleigh Convention Center. Just the right size and feel. But expensive as hell – Sigma Xi has been good to us over the years, not sure if we could negotiate a similar deal with Friday…..though we have definitely grown and a 420-seat main conference room at Friday Center looks good.
Genes as weather vanes for disease
Monday, November 2, 2009, 2:33 pmImagine a chemist, a bioethicist, a pharmacist and a physician come together to discuss personalized medicine. The last thing you expect them to talk about is the need to wear matching jackets like TV weather forecasters.
But that’s exactly what a panel of experts did Monday at the RTI Fellows Symposium at the University of North Carolina’s Friday Center in Chapel Hill.
