Monthly Archives: January 2018

So, Your Board Asked For A Deal This Year?
January 30, 2018

This blog was written by Jeb Keiper, CFO & CBO of Nimbus Therapeutics LLC, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC. A fresh Q1 is underway, your meetings at JPMorgan were top notch, and you have a

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Two CARTs, Two Charts: Dissecting Returns From T-Cell Therapy M&A
January 23, 2018

Yesterday Celgene finalized its acquisition of Juno Therapeutics for $9B, only a few short months after Gilead bought Kite Pharma for $11.9B. With only a few hundred patients ever treated with their therapies, $20B represents a lot of promise in

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Reaping What We Sow: Seeds Planted Long Ago Prepare to Bear Fruit In 2018
January 17, 2018

This blog was written by Michael Gladstone, Principal at Atlas Venture, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC. Biotech newsflow came out the gate a little slow in 2018 (though it appears it may be speeding up

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Snow, Skiing, And My 2018 Outlook For Biotech
January 4, 2018

As 2018 begins, and we prepare for the biopharma sector’s annual kickoff in San Francisco next week, my thoughts are focused on the snow. I’m literally watching bombogenesis unleash a blizzard white-out in Boston right now. As a winter sports

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