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Bruce Booth is a Partner at Atlas Venture focused on helping start and fund emerging biotech therapeutics companies. He's married to a wonderful woman and has three great kids. Active skier, runner, fly fisherman.
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Category Archives: Translational research
Phil Needleman’s Ten Commandments of Drug R&D
March 27, 2013
Pharmaceutical R&D is a very low velocity, high cost process, which makes it hard for any individual to gather the large body of experience required to inform better decision-making. This is why pharma’s embedded institutional knowledge should be the source
Celebrating 2012′s High Innovation Quotient Deals
December 21, 2012
Innovation paid dividends in 2012. We often debate the relative “innovation quotient” of the companies we evaluate and invest in here at Atlas, and of the biomedical sector as a whole. The basic premise we hold is that high innovation
Scientific Reproducibility: Begley’s Six Rules
September 26, 2012
The lack of robust reproducibility in the scientific literature is both shocking and troubling, and has been a widely covered topic over the past couple years. One of the earliest blogs here at LifeSciVC was on the dirty secret that



