Adding Merck's Keytruda To Chemo Halves Death Risk For Lung Cancer Patients | Forbes https://t.co/2ZngwO7HC6
7:15pm April 23rd 2018 via Hootsuite
#BHCRForum18 John Trainer: VP MedImmune. What's needed for a great biohealth cluser? Need 3 things: great science, leaders & capital
4:27pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Copan: #BHCRForum18 ROI initiative: getting better returns from $150B in federal spending. https://t.co/hExo9nEVYZ
4:21pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Copan: #BHCRForum18 Genetic testing via @GenomeInABottle https://t.co/EOmQfHn1bL 100 members, multiple tech's. Also cell authentication
4:18pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Copan: #BHCRForum18 Work with cardiac device makers, digital temp logging w/NIST traceability https://t.co/BngdJzTX8s
4:17pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Copan: #BHCRForum18 Magneto-encephalography (MEG) 'squid' devices 1/100th the size/power PR https://t.co/sLdsUbs1cT
4:15pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Copan: #BHCRForum18 MRI standard - 'phantom' breast cancer imaging PR https://t.co/CkIaSfruXz
4:14pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Copan: #BHCRForum18 Link to NISTmAb product: https://t.co/ZIbAqZqZx5 Imaging: MRI has different formats
Copan: #BHCRForum18 53 pharma, device and research insts acquired reference monoclonal NISTmAb in 3 mos
4:12pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Copan: #BHCRForum18 Adv mfg in Gburg MD, quantum science in Boulder CO. Provides 1200+ std ref materials (SRMs) Bio… https://t.co/XQknD9drCz
Copan: #BHCRForum18 Atomic clock - updated in '14 https://t.co/jckjXBAf2l and checked 8B times/day. 3400 empl.
4:10pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Copan: #BHCRForum18 NIST has a footprint in 'every state of the union'. Mission: to enhance economic security, quality of life
4:05pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Walter Copan #BHCRForum18 Measurements, standards, and innovation for better health care
4:04pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Q: Sole founder, thoughts? #BHCRForum18 Thomas: Doesn't matter to them (INOVA). Vogelstein: A Q of the team, though. 20 co's: all groups
3:34pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
#BHCRForum18 Vogelstein: Strength: on quantum computing (NSA, UMD).
3:31pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
#BHCRForum18 Vogelstein: Harder may be 'higher-tech', machine learning for example (hard anywhere). Easier on WC. CRISPR expertise also
Q: Co's start here and move elsewhere? #BHCRForum18 Vogelstein: Lots of talent pools here. Paragon, PGDx can find people
3:30pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Otey: Clearer paths to market etc. Make technologies 'more investible', of critical importance #BHCRForum18
3:22pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Otey: here 'nobody knew each other' unlike Boston, where scientists' wheels (are fully in motion). #BHCRForum18 Product: grants-focus
3:21pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Q: What can Capital area do? #BHCRForum18 Otey: Hasn't seen acquisition in this area with large knock-on effects (Cubist example)
3:20pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Present: Clearly an appetite #BHCRForum18 And I-O, how to invest beyond large pharma. Too much money at the wrong time...
3:11pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Otey: Gov't may clamp down on Asia money inflow #BHCRForum18 But need clin success from IND to approval
3:10pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Jones: Influx of capital from Asia? #BHCRForum18 Otey: Seen a 4y trend, many sectors along w/life sciences. Seen deals dep on it
@StuAngus @adamfeuerstein @pathogenomenick Yes it was a lot of fun, and as I wrote it up one of the more useful imp… https://t.co/ItA1B8RDmb
3:03pm April 23rd 2018 via Hootsuite in reply to StuAngus
Thomas: Brevity for investors is valued. #BHCRForum18 Easy to understand, to lead to add'l conversations
2:48pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Plumaker: investment arm of HC2 Holdings #BHCRForum18 Thomas: from INOVA - late-stage, very early stage taking risk.
2:47pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
#BHCRForum18 Panelists C Plumaker (Pansend), D Present (Panned Life Sci), M Thomas (INOVA), C Otey (Alexandria RE),… https://t.co/m9SZxsIBNo
2:37pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Next #BHCRForum18 Panel: Investors with a local presence. #BHCRForum18 Andy Jones (TEDCO) moderator
2:36pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Q: Criteria? #BHCRForum18 Silber: Intelligence, health, vision, passion, willingness to embrace change and pivot if need be
2:31pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Q: Low impact high prob? Converse? #BHCRForum18 Aberman: Everyone invests based on their own tradeoffs.
Galvin: Technologists may or may not be good entrepreneurs. Looking for technologists who are also visionaries #BHCRForum18 Jobs vs Wozniak
2:20pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Q: How to rescue a deal going sideways? #BHCRForum18 Klein: Goes to data, why. If only opinions, just an argument Y… https://t.co/6cNOY8LZ58
2:19pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Klein: Control that comes through influence. If the CEO is 'king'... Silber: Can they listen to what the market says? #BHCRForum18
2:14pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Silber: If he wanted control, he would just start another company. #BHCRForum18 Success/failure goes to the entrepreneur
2:13pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Aberman: From a business to an asset: VCs is all about the money, a different world #BHCRForum18
2:10pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Aberman: There is other monies where rate of return. For a company: you have to be liked #BHCRForum18 Justifying the decision
2:03pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Aberman: You need advisors to help to be there for them #BHCRForum18 Investing money: no worries about internal rate of return
2:01pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Galvin: Bias: what needs a VC has (ex: 3y vs a 7y horizon) #BHCRForum18 His funding came from high net-worth individuals 'had the vision'
2:00pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Silber: Can readily identify areas of blind-spots. Galvin: Gets great feedback from VCs that turn him down #BHCRForum18 What to be aware of
1:58pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Young: And many times that comes from your investor - they've done this before. Klein: Why they called it Courage #BHCRForum18
1:55pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Young: W/o a mentor, 'life is much more difficult'. (Well said!) #BHCRForum18
Young: Everyone in business needs mentoring. Usually people a little older, and survived mistakes. #BHCRForum18
1:54pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Aberman: "That's what's so great about angel investing: it's such a human endeavor" #BHCRForum18 Q: what makes someone good?
Galvin: "If I had a nickel..." #BHCRForum18 investment is in people; if the idea is sound, it's the people that will make-or-break
1:52pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Silber: Pointed out when a deal isn't all that great; successful angels often are part of syndicates, groups #BHCRForum18
1:50pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Silber: "If I was dating on my own, I'd be far more impulsive" - thus helping to avoid poor decisions #BHCRForum18
1:49pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Klein: Dating analogy "you do develop a methodology"; wasted time, a migration to a process #BHCRForum18
Aberman: Rich people can be sophisticated or just an investor; it is 'their money'- how much is it like dating? (!!) #BHCRForum18
1:48pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Galvin: Your value and integrity will be communicated out. Aberman: angels are wealthy. >$1 M networth, high income etc. #BHCRForum18
1:47pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client
Klein: (Mentions Keiretsu Forum https://t.co/PwRsT8mrC2 ) #BHCRForum18 Galvin: try to add value in that relationshi… https://t.co/RvuVepTVos
1:46pm April 23rd 2018 via Twitter Web Client