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BioPharmGuy
Also I happened upon another one of those garbage websites that copied our data verbatim and had the nerve to make this claim:
“…team is also actively developing a database for Biotech, medical, and pharmaceutical companies. We are continuously refreshing our database by adding new firms on a daily basis.”
Refreshing apparently has a new synonym: stealing. The good news for us is biotech data polices itself – without maintenance it gets bad very quickly.
Addition & Attrition
The August purge is complete - 13 companies added, 76 removed. Oh and if you've been wondering all this time what the various notations in our summary files mean, we have a key posted here. Summary file of adds/drops is available on our downloads page.
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Beckley Psytech
If you've ever wondered if having a founder that is best known for drilling a hole in her own skull would preclude you from getting biotech funding, we have great news – it won't! Beckley Psytech, founded by Amanda Feilding and currently run by her son Cosmo, netted $50M last week for their psychedelic treatments. Far out, man.
Biotech Time Machine
If only we could understand what Nostrum Pharma was all about back in 2008…what’s that? Their website is frozen in time? Ok, then let’s take a trip. Before we begin, their website wants you to know it is best viewed in Internet Explorer 7.0 at a 1024x768 resolution. (yes kids, some people used to change the resolution on their computer monitors). Screen all ready? Here we go.
The homepage has one of those great rotating image slots from the era. So which (stock) photos did they go with? Let’s see, we have some test tubes, some pills, plus a whole bunch of white people doing various activities such as playing at the beach, shaking hands, looking into microscopes, perpetuating the patriarchy...all the classics. That all might be ok if the company management was a bunch of white people, but a scientific team made up of Nirmal, Toddywala, Yatindra, Rajiv & Ravi probably shoulda done better.
Click on over to ‘Research & Development’ and you will find yourself on a page with a picture of a mad scientist guy. Wow, that's just perfect for a professional drug company. Uh oh - looks like we missed the launch of their “Biotechnology products in US and Europe” which took place between the years of 2013 and 2017. Damn, forgot to mark those four years on the calendar. Oh hey, they also made a white people collage and popped it at the top of this page.
CanCure/CanZx
Sometimes a company has a legal name and a name that they use to conduct their business. For example, our legal name is Wilsonian LLC, but obviously we conduct business as BioPharmGuy. BioPharmGuy is our dba (doing business as). That's very normal.
What's not normal is including the legal name and the dba in the company logo as CanCure dba CanZx Biotherapeutics did here. The whole point of the dba is to use that name with your consumers/clients. Why in the world would the legal name feature so prominently?
Shout Out
Last week BioAgilytix acquired an Australian Contract Research Organization, 360biolabs, and the next day announced a merger of sorts with MicroConstants. Not groundbreaking news or anything, but over here BioAgilytix holds a special place in our hearts. We owe them a debt of gratitude for being the company who initially requested and purchased one of our Sponsored Listings over six years ago. Those listings now account for over 25% of our revenues. Lesson: listen to your clients/customers.
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Vaccine Approval/Studies
Pfizer/BioNTech received full approval for their Covid-19 vaccine this week. Now just watch as the people who were hiding behind the “but it isn’t even fully FDA approved!” excuse stampede their way down to your local vaccination clinic. Hahahaha, yeah right. On to the next excuse.
Pfizer submitted their BLA in May and just now received approval. Meanwhile, Moderna just submitted the rest of their vaccine BLA yesterday. They seem to have been submitting results piecemeal since May, so hopefully it won’t be months before FDA can render an official decision on that one.
Latest study out of Israel on side effects from vaccines vs side effects from Covid have shown that almost every side effect of the vaccine is much more likely post-Covid. So while there was a time someone could dream of living in society unvaccinated and not getting Covid, that time passed when Delta emerged. So what this means is all the (extremely rare) side effects that people are whining about the vaccines causing are actually more likely to happen if you get Covid.
2021: The year we have to explain to people that diseases are bad for you and vaccines prevent diseases.
Pediatric Vaccines
All you parents of young kids are likely wondering when the hell this thing is getting approved for the little ones. Last month the FDA requested that Moderna & Pfizer double the size of their age 5-11 trials. An in addition to that, the FDA is requiring a 6-month follow-up for children as opposed to the 2-month follow-up for the adult trials. So at a minimum, all the newest trial enrollees should need until February to have their data included. Then comes submission and FDA has to do their thing.
All that said, somehow Moderna is still stating they are hopeful to get the Emergency Use Authorization by year’s end. Weird - it wouldn’t make much sense for FDA to demand a trial expansion but also say we don’t have to wait for the results. The end of the year does not seem reasonable at this point. Moderna’s statements are probably about pressuring the FDA to change course.
As of now, February or March is a reasonable estimate for age 5-11 approval.
One thing to note: now that the Pfizer vaccine is fully approved, pediatricians can prescribe it for off-label use as they see fit. FDA does not recommend this, but they do not regulate the practice of medicine and a doctor can do whatever they like. Whether pediatricians start doing this en masse is anyone’s guess for now.
Breakthrough
NY Times has data from a couple weeks ago on the number of breakthrough Covid infections by state and more usefully, what segment of total hospitalizations/deaths they represent. Contrary to what your crazy neighbor with a PhD in Facebookology may have claimed, the numbers are clear that the people in the hospital/dying are disproportionately unvaccinated. The numbers range from 0.5% to 6% of deaths being vaccinated people which mean somewhere between 94% and 99.5% of deaths are among the unvaccinated despite their making up only ~43% of the US population.
Little Kids Are Disgusting
New study out from JAMA letting us all know that younger kids spread Covid around more than teens. Oh, someone hiding in their room mashing their phone for eight hours is less likely to give Mom or Dad Covid than a baby that needs to be physically carried? No way!
No Heart For You!
The blood transfusion people last week asking for (but not receiving) unvaccinated blood was one thing, but you gotta gaze in awe at someone willing to die on the anti-vaxx hill by declining a heart transplant if it requires them to get a Covid vaccine beforehand. Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees. A person is willing to trust doctors and scientists to remove their beating heart, but doesn’t trust their opinion when it comes to a two-shot vaccine already administered to 175 million Americans. Some people just can’t be helped.
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Beer Googles
A kitchen equipment manufacturer did a Google search analysis for the past month to determine the most searched for beers in the world. The winner was Corona. Gonna go out on a limb and say their methods were slightly flawed. Maybe stick to the kitchen equipment.
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