9
Sep
2019
Tag: strategy
21
Jan
2019
Bionest
Big Oncology Mergers Kick Off 2019
Each January, a large portion of the international healthcare industry descends on San Francisco for the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference and a variety of other concurrent industry events. The sentiment of the nearly 10,000 attendees — largely influenced by partnering news and big merger/acquisition deals announced around these events — typically sets the tone for...
2
Jan
2019
Bionest
Happy New Year — Some Thoughts on the Year to Come
Welcome to 2019. We hope you enjoyed the holidays and look forward to meeting and greeting many of you next week in San Francisco for Biotech Week. Several members of the Bionest team will be in attendance, and if you’d like to get together, we look forward to hearing from you. Last year, we...
19
Feb
2018
Bionest
Reinventing Medical Affairs to the Benefit of All
The concept of patient-centric drug development has been a frequent topic of discussion in recent years. Increasingly, companies have moved to adopt practices that create more active, networked relationships and interactions between physicians, patients, advocates and drug developers. The aim of such practices is to better respond to patient and physician needs and concerns, while...
5
Jan
2018
Bionest
Welcome to 2018! What we are watching for JPM18 and the coming year…
Now that the holidays have wound down, we look forward to catching up with many of you in person as the Bionest team and many others from across the healthcare business world descend on San Francisco next week for the three-ring circus of conferences, one-on-one meetings and social gatherings that is JPM18. Here are some...
9
Nov
2017
Bionest
Gene Therapy for Inherited Retinal Disease Achieves a Historic Milestone
This has been an amazing year in the world of drug development, with three new therapeutic classes marking historic gains. We first saw Novartis’ FDA approval for the first CAR-T immunotherapy. Then Alnylam’s RNAi treatment achieved Phase 3 success, the first such for that class of therapeutics. Most recently, Spark Therapeutics received a unanimous recommendation...
3
Nov
2017
Bionest
RNA Interference Achieves Key Milestone with Patisiran Success
It is a not uncommon phenomenon for a new discovery to attract much enthusiasm and hype — as well as investment and new company formation — only to suffer popular disillusionment a few years later as public interest turns to the next hot area of science when clinical success remains elusive and far off. After...
20
Sep
2017
Bionest
Advances and Set Backs for CAR-T Therapy
Late August and early September was a period of big news — both positive and negative — on the CAR-T front. On the positive side, Novartis’ received the first FDA approval of a CAR-T therapy for Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel), for the treatment of children and young adults with B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia that is refractory...
7
Sep
2017
Bionest
Diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease — Part 2
As we wrote in our last post, the ability to accurately diagnose Alzheimer’s disease before a person’s death has been problematic. Experts estimate that a third or more of patients’ cognitive impairment or dementia may be inaccurately diagnosed. As a result, such patients may not benefit from the treatments they do receive or may have...
26
Jul
2017