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Addition & Attrition
Not many database changes this week, so next week will be a two-week update.
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Merck/Ridgeback
Their drug, which is used to treat mild to moderate Covid, showed good results at keeping people from getting any sicker and the companies will be seeking an Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA. For a while it felt like it was going to end up being vaccines or bust, so this is welcome news. The more drugs in the arsenal, the better.
Tricky URL
URL confusion can be an afterthought when choosing your company name, but it’s always good to have an easily read, low error prone url. If you can’t do that, you should at least buy the most likely erroneous URL.
Here is a company called Axcess Surgical which is an ok name, but once you mash those two words together to create a potential URL, you get three s’s in a row. That’s easy to type wrong, but the company didn’t buy the URL with only two s’s, which is bad business.
Here at biopharmguy we also own biopharmaguy, bioparmguy, bipharmguy and a whole host of other common typos. It’s good practice and not too expensive.
Biotech Time Machine
Let’s head on back to 2007 when AlfaGene was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed with a dream – a dream “to create the only stem cell and non-transformed primary epithelial cell derived model of each segment of the entire gastrointestinal (GI) tract”. Now if that doesn’t get you excited, nothing will.
One thing you can say for sure is this company had guts, because there’s not one, but two pictures of guts on the landing page. Guts aside, the most eye-catching part is the effort they took to write AlfaGene using not one, but two different special font colors. If you speak old time html code, you may be amused at how they chose to display that multi-color AlfaGene:
<span class="style4"><strong>A</strong></span><span class="style23"><strong>lfa</strong></span><strong><span class="style5">G</span></strong><span class="style5"><strong>ene</strong></span><strong>
What a pain.
Given how old this website looks, you may think this is a zombie website where the company is gone, but 20 years of web hosting was prepaid. That's what we would have expected. However, it seems they just renewed the domain in August and this baby will be preserved well into 2022. Plus there’s someone on LinkedIn who is the Chief Scientific Officer at AlfaGene and has a profile picture and everything. Amazingly, this company may actually be active.
Team Roast
One of the most important things a management team can offer its charges is consistency. Haphazardness is a prelude to chaos. But Trillium’s team did not get that message. The C-suite seems to be having a deep internal argument about whether they should be operating within established borders or should be thinking outside the circle.
The CEO & CMO are happily residing within their circular borders here, but the rest of the C-suite is breaking free from the ring-like prison. Perhaps these detractors long to rise above those restricting outlines and blossom like the beautiful flowers they perceive themselves to be? But how can a team ever achieve harmony when such a dichotomy exists? How can they ever smooth over this existential rupture? Only the pixels of time can provide the answer…
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HeLa Lawsuits
We mentioned a while back how the estate of Henrietta Lacks was about to go on a legal rampage seeking justice for the fact that her cells have been used, without her having given consent, in the scientific world for decades.
The first lawsuit just dropped and they went after the biggest dog of them all – Thermo Fisher. Thermo pretty much sells everything a lab needs, so they have their hands in basically everything. As a Lacks family attorney said Thermo Fisher Scientific "shouldn’t feel too alone because they’re going to have a lot of company soon”. Best of luck to all you science companies out there.
Batty
A man in Illinois awoke to find a bat on his neck and subsequently refused rabies treatment, despite rabies being almost 100% fatal. Unsurprisingly, he later died from rabies. The question is why in the world would a man refuse treatment for such a fatal disease?
You can’t help but wonder how all this medical health disinformation that’s been circulating during the pandemic is going to affect people for years and years to come in all areas of health, not just Covid.
Spongeworthy
The Venus flower basket is a sponge whose skeleton attracts young breeding pairs of glass sponge shrimp who enjoy living inside it. As the shrimp grow, they become too large to exit and are imprisoned with their mate within the skeleton.
Some see this as romantic - in Japan the skeletons are sometimes given as wedding gifts. The more sane people of the world would probably view it more like one of those psycho-horror Netflix series.
F’D A
Enzyvant submitted a New Drug Application for a drug treating an extremely rare disease. Their action date from the FDA is supposed to be October 8. However, the FDA accidentally published a notice on Sept 30th that Enzyvant had received a priority review voucher.
Well that was pretty weird considering those are handed out after a company gets a drug approved for a rare disease. Hard to imagine insiders at FDA prepping a document like that before the outcome of the approval was known. This was a major eff up.
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