Negotiating successful deals is a critical skill for biopharma companies hoping to bring their medical breakthroughs and treatment options to the patients around the globe who need them.  Along the way emerging biotechs need financial and strategic partners to help support thier efforts. While…

The nomination period is underway for the Buzz of BIO contest at the 2020 CEO & Investor Conference! Winners receive complimentary conference registration, a company presentation in the corresponding track, and opportunities for promotion to industry leaders and investors. …

BIO is continually looking for ways to help its members grow and prosper. This week BIO announced a partnership with Biotech Primer Inc.—a training organization helping professionals understand the science, business, and regulatory processes essential to the biotech industry. Since its start in…

The fight against HIV has moved off the front pages. Advancements in antiretroviral drugs are allowing people living with HIV to live normal lives. By reducing the “viral load”, these treatments give the immune system a chance to recover and allow the body to fight off infections and certain…

Innovate Biopharmaceuticals has had more meetings through BIO’s One-on-One Partnering™ than they can count. In fact, it is the principal way the company meets candidates for both in-licensing and out-licensing arrangements. Participating for at least six years, the company points out that in the…

Keith Ignotz knows the power of a good story. The President & CEO of OcuMedic—an early stage biotech company developing a novel pre-and post-eye surgery treatment to replace eye drops—has made significant inroads telling the OcuMedic story since he assumed his role in early 2018. Some of his…

Dr. Akshaya Shanmugam has always believed that healthcare should be accessible and affordable to everyone and that technology can help deliver that promise. With her strong background in biomedical engineering, she decided to take on a problem facing over 200 million people in the US: addiction. In…

The labeling of our food has been a conversation for several decades. Whether it’s nutritional facts, ingredient lists, marketing claims, or how appealing one label looks over another, food labels are of interest to almost everyone. Lately the conversation around food labels has moved from…

Here’s a statistic you might not have known: an estimated 700,000 people die each year due to the growing number of infections resistant to treatment. Known as antimicrobial resistance (AMR), this “silent killer” and looming public health threat has severe social and economic consequences that…

Despite considerable pressure directed squarely at biotech innovators from politicians of every stripe, biotech executives remained focused on finding the medicines of tomorrow at the BIO CEO & Investor Conference. New York, host of the event for the past 21 years, continues to be a premier…