Emerging Companies

Recently BIO hosted the 15th annual BIO CEO & Investor Conference at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. The conference is the largest investor conference focused on for established and emerging publicly traded and select private biotech companies.

From the 15th Annual BIO CEO & Investor Conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York on February 12th, 2013.

Fred Frank, formerly Vice Chairman of both Lehman Brothers Inc. and Peter J. Solomon Company, recently became Vice Chairman of Burrill & Company and Chairman of Burrill Securities, the broker dealer arm of Burrill & Company. He was the first life sciences specialist in investment banking, and the most prolific.

President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act into law on April 5, 2012. BIO advocated strongly for this new law, which includes several important policies designed to stimulate capital formation for growing businesses.

SBIR/STTR Reauthorization will restore eligibility to majority VC-backed emerging companies

Using an input output “I-O” approach to estimating the economic impact of academic licensing, and summing over the 15 years of available data for academic U.S. AUTM Survey respondents, the total contribution of these academic licensors to gross industry output ranges from $199B to $836B, in 2005 $US Dollars; contributions to GDP range from $86B to $388B, in 2005 $US Dollars.