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CraniUS

This is a startup working on delivering drugs directly to the brain. Sounds good, but they chose the tagline “Brain Disease Ends With Us”. Oh sure, just cure all the brain diseases.

Good thing they nabbed a CEO who spent the last 10 years…at Under Armour? 

ISU ABxis

This company thinks it's so important they need to publish display specifications for anyone who may be interested in publishing their amazing logo. Just look at this: 

So the smaller ABXIS text must be 73.4% as tall as the larger ISU text. Daaaamn, that's some top notch stickling. They blather on about required whitespace, colors, everything. Who the hell is gonna do anything but copy and paste the existing logo? Is someone really gonna open their crappy Adobe Photoshop Elements 15 and start hacking away at it? What kind of psycho would do such a thing?

...couldn't help it.

Band or Biotech?

One of these is a biotech company listed in our directory. The other two are musical artists. Can you guess which is which? Answer at the end of the newsletter.

Pharmakon

Biomatrix

Bionical Emas

Si Español

Boston Scientific transferred some employees from Costa Rica to the US and happened to later face face a local labor shortage. An employee suggested that since they already had bilingual employees, why not start hiring people who only speak Spanish?

Turns out word-of-mouth in the Spanish-only community enabled them to fill jobs with relative ease. Who knew meeting potential employees where they are could work so well?

Maverix

We just brought this company back from the BPG graveyard after we saw something about them in a recent Nature Biotechnology issue. On their very limited website they found a place to brag about that Nature Biotechnology appearance. Funny - they omit the small detail of how the appearance was a paid advertisement.

Elephas Bioscience

New company with a cool logo that's sort of a geometric elephant head. They're working on a cancer imaging product. Interesting choice considering elephants don’t get cancer very much. Maybe that's the point? Either way, cool name and logo. 9/10

AstraZeneca Rally

Plenty of big companies have built plenty of oddly-shaped HQ campuses, but this one from AstraZeneca really caught our eye. Looks like a set of dominoes ready to be toppled. And just imagine the roof maintenance. 

Complication for the sake of it is so 2010s, but at least it only went 200% over budget.

Cursed be the Wikkon

Any of you marketing professionals looking for an easy gig? Go apply for a job at Wikkon and try to sell their "Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy System (ESWT)" which is used for...erectile dysfunction.

Thing basically sells itself.

Nobel²

Edit your trivia machines, people, we now have a 5th person who has been honored with a second Nobel prize. Barry Sharpless received his second chemistry Nobel this week for “click chemistry and orthogonal chemistry” whatever that is. 

He joins Marie Curie, Linus Pauling, Frederick Sanger & John Bardeen as the only repeat laureates. Although…Pauling’s second was the Peace Prize, so only four have earned two in the hard sciences. 

Along with Sharpless, the chemistry Nobel was also awarded to a former college bandmate of Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello. Back in 1986, Carolyn Bertozzi joined Morello to win the Ivy league Battle of the Bands and now has achieved almost that same level of success in science. 

Death to Orgo, Long Live Orgo

Big kerfuffle out of NYU this week as students complained about an 84 year-old Organic Chemistry professor being too difficult and the University subsequently fired him. The students claimed they were not asking for that outcome, but are they really gonna sit there and act like it wasn’t a possibility??

Any of you who took organic chemistry in college knows it is a weed-out class with no real place in any curriculum save for chemistry itself. BioPharmGuy and his fellow chemical engineers had to take it and we mostly did really, really poorly at. Sometimes 30% on an exam was curved to a B-. 

Schools do have to ask themselves: if a course leads to 30% being a B- maybe, just maaaaaybe you're trying to cram too much content into one semester.

(Being the first total and utter academic failure of my life, the lessons and feelings those orgo courses imparted upon me live on and remain vividly awful memories. So maybe it’s one of those good bad experiences that builds character? Or maybe it's total garbage. -BPG)

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Band or Biotech Answer: Bionical Emas is a company we list. Pharmakon is a musical artist. Biomatrix is a musical artist, though there are companies out there called Biomatrix, however they don't meet the criteria for our elite directory. 

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