
Biotech Hangout
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Weekly discussion of biotech news w/ @daphnezohar @bradloncar Josh Schimmer @timopler @LifeSciVC, @cngarabedian, & other biotech insiders
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http://www.BiotechHangout.com 25-01-2021 17:14:04
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$HIMS — $NVO, $XBI From Biotech Hangout, hard to better summarize the zero value add proposition of $HIMS in GLP-1s than this: Tim Opler: The original deal was sort of weird, because you can go buy semaglutide directly from $NVO, from their direct website, and $HIMS was literally





Interesting. Journals publishing NIH funded research now need to do so as #openaccess cc Jonathan Eisen






BowTiedBiotech 🧪🔬🧬 We became a mini-R&D shop. Never wanted the engine to be acquired and ruined. That worked because we could recycle the capital through dividend distributions to both investors and employees. Most pharma only ever want one asset unless it’s a new modality they don’t have in house


John Carroll Endpoints News Kyle LaHucik Megarounds are never the goal. Only a reflection of how to get long money in deals (they dont write small checks). The long money is taking a pause because of slow exits. It is possible that the solution is to go bigger, not smaller. To insulate from volatile markets and pharma