Back Bay in STAT: Why Medtech is a Different Beast Than Biotech in the Life Sciences Pack
STAT
Biotech innovations dominate the life science news cycle — think CRISPR for gene editing or CAR-T for cancer immunotherapy. Medical technologies, encompassing the broad swath of devices and interventional technologies, diagnostics, imaging, and digital medicine, tend to make their marks out of the limelight, yet have an enormous impact on public health and offer significant investment opportunities.
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Artificial Intelligence and Drug Discovery
For decades, the time-consuming and vastly expensive nature of drug discovery has been a significant pain point for pharmaceutical and biotech companies, who continually seek new technologies to improve the process.
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Integrating Patient Reported Outcomes
As healthcare evolves to become more patient-centric, the FDA has expressed increasing interest in the use of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) as endpoints in clinical trials. A PRO is any report, directly from the patient, that provides information on the status of the patient’s health, disease burden, medication usage, and other experiences.
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Amazon and PillPack: A Threat to the Pharmacy Model or Business as Usual?
On Friday, June 29 Amazon announced that it would be acquiring its first online pharmacy retailer, PillPack for $1 billion in cash. With around $100 million in revenue last year, the acquisition price implies a 9x – 10x revenue multiple for the Company.
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MassBio Brings Together Academia & Industry for its First-Ever Roundtable to Improve Collaboration
The Massachusetts Biotechnology Council (MassBio®), launched an Academic-Industry Roundtable Series to create pathways for better collaboration and progress innovative technologies in the life sciences.
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Changing the Game: Digital Solutions in Healthcare
Every major life science conference we attend now has a digital health track, as this broad and evolving field and everything it encompasses continues to grab industry attention.
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Transaction Strategy: Is rNPV Overvalued?
The underlying premise at Back Bay Life Science Advisors is that any accurate asset or company valuation must be derived from a fundamental understanding of the scientific, clinical, and commercial aspects of the financial models in use.
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FDA Releases Revised Draft Guidance for Rare Diseases
This month, the FDA released Rare Diseases: Common Issues in Drug Development Guidance for Industry, which replaces the same 2015 document and includes ten sections with discussions ranging from scientific considerations in natural history and nonclinical studies, pathophysiology…
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