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March Madness (1)
College basketball's March Madness begins in about an hour and our friends at Fierce Biotech have released a biotech company name tournament.
They chose to make it a competition to decide the best name, whereas if we ever did one, you know it would be a tournament to determine the worst. That’s the difference between actual journalists and us.
So go vote and if your picks don’t win, just do what sore-loser politicians have started doing and whine that the vote was rigged. Win-Win!
March Madness (2)
Another drug approval, another record price tag. The fantasy price Orchard Therapeutics has set for the newly approved Lenmeldy has been settled at $4,250,000 for the one-time gene therapy.
As you may know, precisely zero patients or insurers will pay that amount, but that’s the headline price they chose before discounts and negotiated rates. Still shocking.
Soon enough someone will hit $5M and won’t that be fantastic industry PR?
Team Roast – Glass Half Pull
Posing for the team photo has many potential pitfalls. What to wear? How to pose? Glasses or not?
Once the subject has decided to go glasses-off, it should be fairly obvious what to do with said glasses and that would be to safely store them out of the frame.
And yet, some people really want those glasses to be present. In those cases, some options are to prop them on the head, or dangle them from a chain like an old librarian. Or maybe hang them on the neck of their shirt.
But if they opt for the shirt neck method, certainly they would hang them directly below their chin like every civilized human being? Surely? Surely???
Busy Man
Wanting to live forever is a very childish wish. And yet many futurists think it possible (and wise). Did they learn nothing from Tuck Everlasting?
Sierra Sciences is in the business of curing aging by fixing telomeres. Yeah, because these complicated machines we inhabit for decades are only aging because of one single factor. Apparently, we are all miniature Death Stars and the telomeres are our thermal exhaust ports.
Anyways, one rule of the game is if you find a telomere-focused, anti-aging company, you have found an…interesting CEO. This one is a scientist, athlete & executive. In his own words:
“Bill does not pursue the public spotlight and only does so when it provides funding for his research.”
And that’s after linking to his podcasts and movie appearances on the same page.
Best part is he puts his schedule right on the website in case you wanna try to set up a meeting with him. As you can see, he gets "busy" every night at 8:00 pm.
Guess that’s one way to stay young.
Guilty
Florida is to healthcare as Burmese casinos are to finance: full of fraud, fraud, and more fraud.
Latest news in Florida healthcare fraud is the conviction of a medical device CEO. She was rung up for multiple counts surrounding her decision to implant non-functional medical devices in patients.
Why would she have done this? Easy – the company realized their device was too large to implant properly and they could not re-engineer it to be any smaller. So, they made a compact, nonworking version and sold it.
Never a good idea, but when the US government is ultimately one of the parties paying for your product, it is a very, very bad idea indeed.
She could face up to 20 years in federal prison. Say hi to Liz Holmes for us.
Team Roast - Ain't Got No Alibi
Fun biotech companies like to hand out swag to their employees. This group has many options: hats, two short sleeve tee-shirt designs, a long-sleeve tee. But what really catches the eye is the pullovers.
Those filthy, disgusting pullovers.
Nothing says style quite like a pullover with a tan torso. They look like fancy garbage bags.
There’s even a green pocket on the front with a flap in case any Medicare qualifiers work at the company.
And look behind them - a neon company sign!
At least when the company goes bankrupt, they’ll have looked...similar.
No, but seriously, they look like a good group of people, possessing upwards of 90% of their own teeth.
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