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Interesting Cancer Treatment
Normally in the cancer field, you hear of companies finding a new target and doing the same old work. So, when something unique comes along it's inspiring.
Tessellate Bio is a new entrant in the area known as synthetic lethality. The concept is cancer exists because a certain cellular mutation has occurred allowing it to become immortal. By also modifying a 'normal' gene in the cells, the theory is this second mutation can negatively interact with the immortality mutation, leading cancer cells to no longer be able to survive.
Early days, but new ideas are everything in biotech, so let it rock.
Hematogenix
Odd, twisting, bubbly logo? New age yoga music? Sizzle sounds? They’ve got it all at Hematogenix. Because who isn't demanding a trypophobia-inducing, auto play video with sound on a biotech company landing page?
No Kidding
Coming up with a good slogan is not the easiest thing in the world to do, but it should be easy enough to come up with a bad one. If you wanted to mention you are working on next generation oncology therapies, you could stop right there and call it good. No reason to further the argument by clarifying that these cancer therapies are for patients. Who the hell else would they be for?
Team Roast - Hair We Go
No headshots? No problem. Just fill in the blanks with cartoons depicting where the missing team members’ head hair is located. That should be good enough to get their essence across.
Bad Boy
A male performance enhancement product has been found to contain an undeclared ingredient, so the FDA is warning, whatever you do, don’t use The Rock. The dangerous ingredient happens to be the most widely prescribed drug for that certain male performance issue, but still - don't use The Rock! FDA would be very sad if you did.
Crazy Pipeline
We saw a backwards pipeline a couple weeks ago and now here we have a totally mad pipeline - they have lead optimization coming after clinical trials. FDA is not gonna like that, people!
Workin 9 to 6
A lot of restaurants could take a hint from Adept Therapeutics. Check it out – a drug company who puts their daily hours front and center on the homepage.
Why? Who knows. But there they are. They're open 'til 6 today if you have some business with them.
Riboscience
Remember the old days when business websites would have step-by-step directions on how to get to their location from the airport? Riboscience sure does, because they're still doing it even though we all have a map in our pocket.
More importantly, who's flying to San Francisco and going from the airport straight to an obscure biotech company while driving a rental car? No one. They're getting a cab or going to a hotel.
Aqtually
New startup with a wild name here: Aqtual. So, do you pronounce it like the word actual? We don't know. We tried to email them through their contact form but the form didn't aqtually work.
However pronounced, the name is gross. Though is it better than their former name, BloodQ? Tough to conqlude.
This one reminds of the most mystifying pronunciation conundrum of recent BioPharmGuy times: Xecced. Absolutely no clue how they want us to say that.
Roast Less Traveled
Was a cold and snowy Halloween night in the Midwest. Sadly, many a costume was covered due to the weather. Wouldn't it have been nice if more coats were incorporated into the costumes themselves? And wouldn't it be nice if you were the
CEO of a biotech company and thus able to get away with wearing a costume in your head shot?
Behold, this CEO has dressed as a 19th century poet, complete with a scarf and two, count 'em, two jackets. Get that man a pipe!
He will not feel his skin run cold,
for twin jackets hath he, behold!
Warm him with some tea and toast,
then knock him down - huzzah, Team Roast!
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