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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

I'm looking for a strategic alliance between a big pharmaceutical company and a small (R&D oriented) biotech or drug development company that blew up in the last 2 years (Since May 2003), preferably with some court decision (U.S., state or federal) or settlement that the industry considered new, precedent setting, or potentially disruptive.

Anyone know of any?

Thanks,

Dagonee

Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :

Nope. But I would like to give a shout out to all my hommies watching back in the sticks, and say hi to my Mom whose recovering from surgery at home [not really]. Hi Mom!

Hobbes [Smile]

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

Bump for the Monday morning crowd.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

You need someone with a current subscription to Chem & Engineering News (which I don't have). Preferably someone who actually reads all the articles on who's merging with who, etc. -- which I never read, even when I had the subscription.

Sorry, Dags.

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

My son gets a Chem magazine as a member of the American Chemistry Society (or something like that) -- I will look through the issues we have and see if I find anything relevant.

I'm assuming you are talking about needing ANY such case -- not that you are looking for a specific one that you know exists.

FG

Posted by johnsonweed (Member # 8114) on :

Dagonee,

I would check out the web sites of the anti-biotech NGO's like Friends of the Earth, the Center for Food Safety, Greenpeace, or the Union of Concerned Scientists. Each of these groups are concerned about the issues and keep close tabs on the key players.

The pro-biotech place I would check would be BIO -- the Biotechnology Industry Organization.

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

Thanks, rivka and Farmgirl. You're right - I need any such case, and none of my legal research training helps. Give me an issue, and I can find all the relevant cases on it. But trying to find an issue to write about?

I have a friend who was an investment analyst in the pharma/biotech sector. He could name 5 or 6 off the top of his head from when he was in the field, but none in the time period I need since he doesn't have to know everything about the sector any more.

Don't do too much looking though - I'm not trying to get out of doing my homework. [Smile]

I've got the sources, but I was hoping someone else might know something off the top of their head. If it requires digging through the pharma newspapers, I'll do it.

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

johnsonweed, that's a great idea. I didn't think of checking advocacy sites.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Farmgirl:
My son gets a Chem magazine as a member of the American Chemistry Society (or something like that) -- I will look through the issues we have and see if I find anything relevant.

That's the one! I let my ACS membership lapse, so I don't get the magazine anymore. Not that I ever got much of it read anyway, so it mostly accumulated and made me feel guilty. [Wink]

Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :

Tsk tsk Dagonee - dontcha know this isn't the site to post your homework requests to?

[Smile]

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

Dag -- did you get what you need already for this? Because I finally remember to pull out a year's worth of Chemical & Engineering News magazines, however, I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking for, for you.

FG

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

I've been looking sporadically. I'm just looking for any strategic alliance between one big pharma company and anyone else that has gone South in the last two years.

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

Near as I can remember, the only breakups have occurred due to
1) An inability of big pharma to come up with an cheap enough manufacturing process to make a biotech patent sufficiently profitable.
2) Failure of biotech's product to gain FDA approval.
3) Disapproval of patents on traditional / "folk medicine" products.

So I'm rather curious as to the cases your investment analyst friend gave as examples.
As well as whatever examples you might run across.