History, Mystery, Gastronomy in the Mix in BioWorld’s 7th Annual Biotech Summer Reading List
June 13, 2013 – 2:49 pm | By Marie Powers | No comments yet
With the official start of summer just around the corner, BioWorld again polled industry execs and our own indefatigable staff to construct a diverse list of titles for your reading pleasure. Whether the summer solstice takes you to a deck…
Read moreOh, Give it Iressa! Nope: ‘Bad Pharma’ Firms Need to Tell More
June 7, 2013 – 9:44 am | By Randy Osborne | No comments yet
So urgently did I think I wanted to read Ben Goldacre’s Bad Pharma, that I ordered it from Amazon’s UK site last November, unwilling to wait for U.S. publication – which happened just as I reached the end, polishing off…
Read morePatients Want More than Check-the-Box Experience
June 3, 2013 – 3:05 pm | By Mari Serebrov | No comments yet
Patients getting their four minutes to say how an experimental drug changed their life or gave them hope have become a routine part of nearly every FDA advisory committee meeting – as routine as the call to order or the…
Read moreBiotech’s White Knight (aka Serial Cheater) Gets Prison Time, Finally
May 3, 2013 – 3:41 pm | By Lynn Yoffee | No comments yet
It’s been 16 years since I first reported in BioWorld Today that David Blech was charged with securities fraud. In April 1997, I reached him at his New York office a few days after his arraignment in a U.S. District…
Read moreWhere’s Superman When He’s Needed?
April 30, 2013 – 10:07 am | By Mari Serebrov | No comments yet
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s . . . another superbug.
Read moreBiopeople to Meet at BIO2013: Inside the World of Biotech’s Luminaries, Titans and Brainiacs
April 19, 2013 – 8:38 am | By Lynn Yoffee | No comments yet
Partnering, networking and making new friends are all top-of-the-agenda for the biopharma industry’s largest U.S. gathering. As you’re preparing to join 16,500+ of your colleagues at the 2013 BIO International Convention in Chicago, we’d like to introduce you to a…
Read moreCancer Research Through Time: Cure Should’ve Been Wrapped up by 1985
April 8, 2013 – 11:50 am | By Anette Breindl | No comments yet
If you’re looking for a plenary speaker, pick a Pulitzer Prize winner. That was one of the corollary lessons to be had from the talk of Columbia University’s Siddhartha Mukherjee at the American Association for Cancer Research’s Annual Meeting on…
Read more‘ImaginAb’ That! BioWorld Salutes ‘Overall Awesomeness’
April 1, 2013 – 1:46 pm | By Jennifer Boggs | No comments yet
We at BioWorld actually contemplated putting out a zany blog about biotech to commemorate April Fools’ Day – i.e. biotech firm develops drug for childhood cooties, or something equally ridiculous – but, in the end, we decided to pass. And…
Read moreEvolution: Survival of the Fittest, and Some Others
March 14, 2013 – 1:51 pm | By Anette Breindl | No comments yet
If you believe in evolution at all, you probably think of it as a good thing for the evolving organism, enabling it to keep up with its environment as that environment changes. I sure do.
Read more‘Indirect’ Fat Clogging NIH’s Arteries
March 12, 2013 – 1:20 pm | By Mari Serebrov | 1 comment
In the days before the sequester tightened Washington’s belt, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and several other federal agencies sent up warning shots of just what was at stake. Under the automatic budget cuts intended to put the national…
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