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Melanie Senior

@realendptsmel

Biopharma writer (Nature Bio, IN VIVO, EY Life Sci.); runner & twitter schizo

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‘Scientific wellness’ still searching for a business model nature.com/articles/d4158…. There's a way to go, I agree Eric Topol. Yet I'm glad there is still optimism Dr. Leroy Hood

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Inside BenevolentAI: the $2bn tech company backed by Neil Woodford on.ft.com/2IshuCR So disappointed. So not what UK biotech - and UK PLC - needs right now.

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#ICER using its growing influence to shame the authors of UPIs - unsupported price increases. Does the acronym make it official? bit.ly/2VmCWh8

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Little dig at payers' blocking biosimilars in revised ICER RA report p. 16, 37. bit.ly/2AZyxHE Patients must fail originator before qualifying for biosimilar (?!) So the originator is cheaper, and different. System is working well, then.

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A for augmented, S is for sensible spelling: I get that machines are clever, but names like "nference" and "Qrativ" might even catch them out as they comb through unstructured text.... Maybe that's the idea...bit.ly/36zfuSE

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Should #Biotech incubation rates have a ceiling, if they don't already? (talent/time) Some in #venturecapital thinking about this: early-stage funding gets ahead of later-stage patient $$ (seems unlikely now, but we've all seen the cycles...)

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UK-based carer tells me today: “I have worked in this industry for 33 years. We are now getting recognition for what we do. It is overwhelming.” Am ashamed it took a global pandemic. #coronavirus #carers #coronasilverlinings

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Wake-up call for EU from COVID-19: half of European citizens are overweight or obese, says Frans Muller, CEO of food retailer (!) Delhaize, on #FTGlobalBoardroom

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Pricing remdesivir "well below value" is the "right and responsible" thing to do as the world reels from this pandemic bit.ly/31vCDFV How far and wide might that idea spread - particularly if the world keeps reeling in 2021 and beyond...?

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#InvestinBiotech 'Twas a good year, 2020, at least from the perspective of investment into biotech - UK, US, China and elsewhere. Great work BioIndustry Association (BIA); glad to be involved. Look out for more Nature Biotechnology shortly on the global funding picture.

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Dodgy data AND a 56k price tag? Really? Just as the pharma industry rep was recovering. Shame, because it could well be an important advance but it hasn’t yet proven that. Biogen says it is “driven to address patient needs” ... not sure this approval and price tag reflects that.

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Countdown to Biotech Hangout hangout where I join biotech top brass including Daphne Zohar @JSchimmer_E Bruce Booth et al to talk M&A, financing…and some regulatory data points (expanded in forthcoming Nature Biotechnology)