Monthly Archives: April 2018

Another Trophy Quarter For VC-Backed Biotech Funding
April 30, 2018

The flood of capital continues to pour into the private biotech ecosystem, marking the current climate as the most prolific period of investing into the sector of all time. The first three months of 2018 secured yet another “biggest quarter

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Little by Little: Real Life Lessons In Business Development
April 16, 2018

This blog was written by Tariq Kassum, COO and Head of Corporate Development at Obsidian Therapeutics, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC. Experience can be a tough teacher. Over the last two decades as a biotech

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Life After ECHO-301: Lessons Learned About Modulating IDO/TDO To Treat Cancer
April 12, 2018

This blog was written by Mark Manfredi, CEO of Kyn Therapeutics and former Atlas Entrepreneur-in-Residence, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC.  Last week we learned about the failure of the much anticipated ECHO-301/KEYNOTE-252 trial that studied

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Caravans of Biotech Immigrant Executives
April 5, 2018

Recently there’s been talk of a caravan of immigrants marching towards the United States, principally focused on Mexico and Central America.  But there’s also another caravan, this one at work in the biopharma business: the long term migration of science

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