Emerging realities of biotech-pharma deals shifts business strategy


Barbara Yanni, VP Licensing at Merck & Co., joins the Vaughn, along with VPs from AstraZeneca and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.
He is simply "The Vaughn," a man who needs no further introduction for anyone cutting a deal in the heady mega "dollar world where Big Pharma and Biotech meet" over half of the 2,250 delegates at BIO-Europe 2007 attending the panel discussion on "The Changing World Order of Biotech-Pharma," had no trouble spotting the moderator Vaughn M. Kailian, General Partner of MPM Capital. Noting that Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Wyeth have invested heavily building new biotech facilities ...




Pharma moving further upstream in the hunt for early-stage deals

Suddenly everything changed in 2006. Where pharmaceutical companies led the dance with the biotech sector with in-licensing and merger and acquisitions focused on mid- to late-stage projects, sometime last year all that changed with an abrupt shift of focus upstream toward early stage deals. During an intensive 90-minute Interactive Workshop at BIO-Europe 2007 panelists took on "The Trend towards Early Stage M&A and Licensing - What are the New Rules to the Dating Game?" ...

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