
Eight companies with immunotherapy approaches for brain tumors
May 20, 2012
MD Becker Partners' newsletter covering the life science industry

Our favorable outlook for the biotechnology industry remains intact for 2012 and is based on several key drivers

Our management and strategy consulting firm was founded in November 2008, which was clearly a difficult period for the U.S. economy and a year that many investors would like to forget. The Dow Jones Industrial average recorded its worst annual performance since 1931 and the NASDAQ Composite had its worst year since inception in 1971. [...]

Approval of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Yervoy® [ipilimumab] for melanoma in March 2011 marked the second victory for the field of immunotherapy in oncology within a year.

Traditional wisdom holds that biotechnology companies benefit from collaborations with their larger pharmaceutical peers, which can help validate a company’s technology, provide capital to help fund clinical development, and enable access to experienced clinical, regulatory and commercial infrastructure. While this was certainly true in the early days of biotechnology, the industry has now matured – [...]
Keynote address "Creating the methodological framework for cancer immunotherapy success" from MD Becker Partners' 2nd Annual Cancer Immunotherapy: A Long-Awaited Reality Conference:
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