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BioPharmGuy
It’s Thanksgiving in America, which is one of those weeks where pretty much no one does anything, so there’s not much real news to speak of. That’s ok, we came up with some of the usual BioPharmGuy stuff for your entertainment.
Center of the Biotech Universe
The geographical median of the US population is just north of Evansville, Indiana. This means half of Americans live north, south, east and west of that spot. But where is the geographical median of the US biotech industry? We geocoded all the headquarters for biotech companies in America to see where this biotech median lies.
Answer: 39.160148, -86.8227679, which is just west of Bloomington, Indiana. That’s about 90 miles away from Evansville. So whether you're talking people or biotech, Indiana is the center of the action. Coincidence that BioPharmGuy has called the “Crossroads of America” home since 2009?
Added & Removed
This week we added 20 companies, removed three.
Best name added:
Beacon Biosignals
Worst name added:
Doloromics
Worst name added (honorable mention):
Geneyx Genomex
Summary file available on our downloads page.
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Bluejay Diagnostics
Another day, another diagnostics company not worried about people pronouncing the ‘Dx’. BlueJay debuted on the NASDAQ last week sporting the ticker symbol…BJDX.
Pfizer
$529 per course for a small molecule, which is much easier to manufacture than an injectable biologic product, seems steep. The vaccines were priced at only $40-60 per course on which Moderna and Pfizer made a huge profit once the size of the contracts were considered.
It's fair to pay more per course for a truly life-saving therapy, but when 10 million doses are guaranteed to be purchased, it doesn't seem like the Feds did their best negotiating here. If they demanded a lower price, what's Pfizer going to say? No? Selling them all to the government saves Pfizer a tremendous amount of effort in distributing and selling them.
Intelliseq
This company is backed by venture capital, but who's supplying the venture capital? Venture.
Come on...what's next, a bank named Money?
Holiday Roast
If you didn’t know, Team Roast is our most popular recurring bit. We poke fun at company websites (hopefully without being too mean) and a lot of you enjoy the show. Amazingly, we’ve never heard back from angry roast targets. (Yet.) Given it’s Thanksgiving week here, we figured we would load you up with all the servings you can handle in our first ever Thanksgiving Roast. Let’s get cookin’.
Talking Turkeys
What better way to understand the culture of a company than to hear 10 different people talk at length about really boring stuff. Be careful though - if you start one of these employee interviews and move on to the next, the first one keeps on talking. If you're really immature (like us) you'll click on all ten and listen to the cacophony instead of doing any real, actual work today.
Dressing Up
Do you doubt that a team member at Single Cell Discoveries knows science? How dare you. If only there were a way to prove to you their scientific credentials. How about you hover over their picture to see them suddenly change into a lab coat. That's ironclad proof they know the sciences. Do not question lab coats!
Carved Heads
We've been carrying cameras in our pockets for a decade now - everyone should know by now that cutting off the tops of peoples' heads is a no-no. And at the very least, those who don't know that basic principle of photography are not designing websites, right? Right? Wrong. Off with their heads!
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Covid
People still getting sick, 1,000/day still dying. No shortage of unvaccinated, Covid-naive people walking around, so don’t expect that death rate to fall much any time soon. One state is doing the worst, one is doing the best, blah blah blah. Tune in next week for this same exact update, which you’re sick of hearing for four months straight now.
In one at least slightly interesting detail, Covid seems to be starting to follow the old indoor-outdoor theory we came up with in June 2020. Case counts recently tracked with hot weather in the south, then eased up once temps came down. Now that late fall temps are hitting the upper Midwest and northeast, case counts are surging there as everyone heads indoors. Might be a fluke – the flu doesn’t seem to follow that trend, but maybe the indoor-outdoor theory will end up being real after all.
FDA has now approved boosters for all adults, but CDC has not published any new data on vaccination effectiveness since September. Seems like we deserve an update especially in light of this booster approval. Would be good to know just how much improvement the booster offers. More than likely the data would bolster the case for boosters, but until we see it we can only guess.
Drug Pricing
In an unexpected turn of events, the Biden administration may actually pull off a watered down version of its drug pricing bill. The Medicare pricing measures would apply only to a small number of the most widely used/expensive drugs that have been on the market for at least 9-12 years. It would also limit out-of-pocket costs to $2000 annually per Medicare recipient.
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Career
Business Development Associate
Our friends at CDMO Biocentriq are looking for someone with a little sales and marketing experience in the biotech area to be their new Business Development Associate. They're located in Newark, NJ, but we are told working remotely is an option. If you're thinking of starting fresh next year, maybe get the ball rolling now.
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