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BioPharmGuy
Hope you're all having a fun vacation season. We've been working on a tie-up with a biotech publisher and will be letting you know if/when that's completed. It won't change anything we do, so it's not very important on your end, but you subscribed to this newsletter, so you will hear about it, dammit.
Addition & Attrition
39 companies added, 25 removed. We were a little late on our monthly cull, but took care of it this week. File available on our downloads page.
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TecTraum
In the medical device space, it's not uncommon for company website urls to be a product name. That doesn't mean it's always a good idea. TecTraum recently changed their url to honor their main product, The Pro-2-Cool System. www.pro-2-cool.com as your domain? Two hyphens in a url ought to be illegal - call the Internet police.
The Worst
As you probably know by now, there are a lot of bad biotech websites out there. Most of them are tiny startups or old companies that are effectively defunct - you can't take a website seriously when they're still sporting a 2005 look.
But when it comes to companies who actually tried, United Therapeutics' website stands above (below?) the crowd.
It starts at the landing page that has some sort of creepy, artsy logo with a psychotic, monster yodeler off to the left. This page also hosts an infamous "Enter" button. Is typing a url or clicking a link to a website not an attempt to enter? So annoying.
Once you're in, if you're interested in knowing what drugs they have in their pipeline, you're sort of in luck. They used to just say "go read our SEC filings", which was super helpful. These days they have an actual pipeline page which, for some reason, consists of a picture of a city with some drug names overlaid. Wow, RemoPro has reached the 14th floor of an island skyscraper! Great news!
Then there's the management team. Oh. My. Last week we featured some art-themed team pages. This baby puts them allllll to shame. Frankly, this puts every team page to shame. It's the golden God of Team Roasts. Subscribers of the world: the United Therapeutics management team.
You could get better sketches from a high school kid working at the zoo. These things are just terrible. One guy looks like he's just had his brains blown out; another looks like he's a smiling, severed head. The non-execution themed sketches are not much better. No point in roasting these pictures one-by-one. Totally Bizarre.
Transatlantic Cash Disparity
How big is the chasm between the funding available to US vs European biotech companies? When two companies went public in Europe last week at values of $23M & $6M it was big news. A $6M IPO was newsworthy for Europe while here in America companies get $6M in seed funding when they have a newly-minted PhD, a centrifuge and a dog.
Disruptive Game Changer
Bioven rebranded as In3Bio last July and when they did, they of course created a new logo. Sometimes a company has a tagline in their logo, which is ok. What's not ok is a tagline that says "A Disruptive Game Changer". Have some humility, people.
Moderna
Been a long time since we ragged on Moderna, what with the vaccine saving a chunk of America and all, but we need to get back to normal right? (*cracks knuckles*)
Last year a member of Moderna's board resigned to allay any concerns that her position as president of a hospital where Moderna was running its vaccine clinical trial would be a conflict of interest. That was nice of her - really put the public at ease. Fast forward to a couple months ago - she quit her hospital job and was rehired by Moderna as a board member.
Then last week former FDA chief Stephen Hahn, who oversaw the vaccine emergency use authorizations, took a job at Flagship Pioneering, the VC fund that spawned Moderna. Flagship netted a cool $1.5 Billion in Moderna stock sales during the pandemic. Presto! - a high paying job for the former FDA head.
No indication there was any quid pro quo in these cases, but their respective organizations aided Moderna's success, then they got cushy jobs? Bad optics. We are officially back to normal!
Roaring Debut
A company working on Treg cells couldn't just name itself TRegBio - that would be lame. But change one letter and suddenly you've got yourself a brand. TRexBio just launched, complete with a cool dinosaur eye logo and a reptilian color scheme. Nice work!
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Hops
Fatty liver disease in alcoholics is pretty common to see. However, there is a nonalcoholic version of the disease which has been a target for drug makers for a while now. There must not be many good treatments available. One may have emerged from the unlikeliest of places - the hops plant. Drink up!
Free Stuff: Indonesia Style
Donuts and lotteries are great ways to convince Americans to do something that could save their life, but Indonesians need different enticements. Such as live chickens. That's the new scheme on offer for seniors in West Java. They can then either wait for some eggs, or chop off them feet and fry up some Keripik ceker. Tasty.
Biggest Brother
Tracking and understanding more about Earth's animals is in itself a worthwhile endeavor, but in the pre-technology days it involved an enormous amount of work trailing the animals (if that was even possible.)
Nowadays, it's much easier to put a tag on a lion and have the International Space Station act as a receiver for location data - so that's what the Icarus project is doing. They're tracking many types of animals, so if you want to help out with eyes on the ground, there's an app for that.
Another Year's Gone By...
Researchers took a look at Covid diagnosis vs recency of a birthday in the household. Turned out having had a household birthday in the prior two weeks led to a 31% higher chance of getting Covid. The chances were highest if the recent birthday were a child's vs an adult's. Happy Birthday? No such thing.
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S'Less
Police were called to a S'Mores-related domestic dispute in Myrtle Beach this week. We imagine one of the parties had the mistaken idea that burning the marshmallow was in any way acceptable. Mentioned in the police report was the fact that the couple had been dating for two weeks and living together the whole time. Say what?
Cooking, dating, crime, roommates...following these two around could be the ultimate reality show.
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