Presidenta Non Grata
If having your employer pay you to go drink wine is your thing, there's a biotech CEO-only event up in Sonoma tomorrow.
Too bad BioPharmGuy gave himself the lowly job title, President. Fool!
Empyreans
Empyrean Neurosciences just launched, and we were surprised to hear this because it sounded familiar. We checked and that was because we list a different company called Empyrean Medical Systems.
Two Empyreans! The biotech industry is officially full of Empyreans. Please no more. Thank you.
Subscript
Last week we talked apostrophes, but here we have a different problem - a subscript company name. They are known as C2N Diagnostics.
Not as bad as an apostrophe, but very annoying to type. In fact, we can’t query our directory to see how many super/subscript company names we have, because we don’t enter them that way. To do so would be a pain in the asterisk.
C4X Discovery
No subscript here, but C4X Discovery is working to discover the next generation of small molecules. If you scroll down to the second tile on their homepage you will notice they appear to have hired Jack Sparrow to conduct this work in the Metaverse. Quick – tell Zuckerberg someone actually found a use for it!
How the hell is a VR headset gonna help improve the drug discovery process?? Or is this the modern equivalent of ping pong tables and nap pods, serving as a proxy indication for how cutting edge the work environment must be?
Jack Sparrow was already wearing a tie/vest/jeans, aka the mullet of male fashion (business on top, party on the bottom), yet somehow that VR headset made it possible for him look even dumber. Amazing.
Surge
Not two weeks after our worst new company name was ”Surge” we just added a “Surge Therapeutics”.
They have a funky website where your mouse cursor clears the dots. Kinda fun for a minute.
Team Roast - Pharma Two B
Besides having one of the worst names in our directory, this company also has a unique management team - a six-person team who are all women. That's a rare thing in biotech. Pretty cool.
But before you get too excited about this female empowerment, make sure to check out the gender profile of the seven-man board of directors.
Amplifica
Hairy moles, what are they good for? Absolutely nothing.
Until now.
Amplifica has studied the hairiness of moles and is using this knowledge to work on a hair loss treatment.
To the scientists who did their PhD work on mole hair physiology in order to assist bald guys: Thank you for fighting the good fight.
Kidswell
This Japanese company is isolating stem cells from Human Exfoliated Deciduous Teeth, otherwise known as baby teeth. Luckily, the tooth fairy does not visit Japan, so economic competition is not too fierce over there.
Instead, in Japan, kids throw their bottom teeth on the roof and their upper teeth in the dirt. Cheap and easy pickings for Kidswell!
Lost teeth traditions vary around the world. In France & Spain there is a mouse who comes. Burying or otherwise tossing them into nature seems to be the most common theme. Check out a few others here.
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