2018 has so far been another gangbuster year for biotech IPOs: the first three quarters of the year have delivered nearly 50 new biotech offerings, reinforcing the strong new issuance performance of the past 6 years.
October 17, 2018 | LifeSciVC
2018’s Biotech IPO Bonanza: View From the After Market
October 15, 2018 | LifeSciVC
Science2Startup 2019: Bringing Venture & Academia Together
After last year’s inaugural success, we’re excited for 2019’s Science2Startup conference in April 2019, an invitation-only university-focused biotech entrepreneurship event aimed at building connectivity across the academic, tech transfer, and venture communities.
October 11, 2018 | From the Trenches
Targeting Aging Comes Of Age
We finally are beginning to understand the biological basis of aging and age-related diseases, making the discovery of new therapies actionable for the first time.
This blog is written by Tom Hughes, CEO of Navitor Pharma, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC.
October 9, 2018 | From the Trenches
Bring Your A-Game for BD
As with most professions – especially those that involve longer-term outcomes – the way people get good at BD is with experience. So, I’d like to share some of my experiences doing BD from various vantage points, with the hope that it might help you jump start the career of anyone interested in BD. Or for those not in BD, this may give you a peak behind the curtain for this professional area that is so active and at the intersection of many disciplines in drug development.
This blog was written by Deanna Petersen, CBO of AVROBIO, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC.
October 5, 2018 | LifeSciVC
Fear Of The Flood: Post-IPO Lockup Expiry In Biotech
The dreaded “lockup expiry” is something all newly-minted public biotechs begin to worry about shortly after their offerings. The fear seems reasonable: venture investors and other large shareholders, now free to trade, dump large amounts of stock into the market quickly, creating significant downward pressure on stock prices.