* MD Becker Partners reporting live from the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference This week, nearly 6,500 registrants gathered in San Francisco, California for the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference to hear 25-minute presentations from 338 life science companies. For industry executives and investors, the annual event serves as a good barometer for the rest of...
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On the heels of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) logging its worst annual performance since 1931 and the NASDAQ Composite (COMP) having its worst year since inception in 1971, it may have seemed counter intuitive to provide a bullish outlook for the biotechnology industry in 2009. Nonetheless, at the start of the year...
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In January 2007, Amgen, Inc. (AMGN) obtained an option from Cytokinetics, Inc. (CYTK) to commercialize a novel small-molecule therapeutic product candidate that activates cardiac myosin with potential applications in the treatment of heart failure. Cardiac myosin is the cytoskeletal motor protein in the cardiac muscle cell that is directly responsible for converting chemical energy...
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Parkinson’s disease is one of the most common of the neurogenerative diseases affecting 1 in 100 people over the age of 60. Approximately 1.5 million Americans currently suffer from the disease and it is estimated that 60,000 Americans are newly diagnosed each year. PD is both a chronic and progressive disease. While the...
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