Funding biotech: Do we need a superfund?

 
 
Jan 14, 2013 Tags:
  • Biotech
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  • Pharma
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  • Investment

Last year Mark Kessel called for the establishment of a biotech superfund funded by pharma, outlining the capital crisis faced by the biopharma industry and its negative impact on innovative therapies. He wrote that a superfund, modeled after the successful SEMATECH superfund, is a viable tool to address the need to fund innovation. This panel discusses the capital crisis, its effect on innovation and the possibility of creating a superfund.

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Moderator: Brady Huggett – Nature Publishing Group