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Dec 1st CIMIT Forum: Life Science Innovation

By Lily | Published: November 29, 2009
I’ve posted about the CIMIT forum before — it’s a terrific series of talks on the integration of technology and medicine.  This week there’s an especially cool program on investing in life science innovation, including speakers Juan Enriquez of Excel Medical Ventures and Biotechonomy and Luis Barros of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center. In [...]
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Risk-taking in pharma vs. venture capital

By Lily | Published: July 2, 2009
I’ve been thinking lately about risk-taking in scientific research, focusing on academia. Yesterday Seth Godin wrote about the nonlinear relationship between risk and reward: small increases in risk can yield large rewards, but only large risks yield the largest rewards. This got me wondering about where pharma is on the risk-taking spectrum, and whether pharma should [...]
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