Preserving the Promise: Improving the Culture of Biotech Investment critically examines why most biotech startups fail, as they emerge from universities into an ecosystem that inhibits rather than encourages innovation. This Valley of Death squanders our public investments in medical research and with them, the promise of longer and healthier lives. The authors explicate the Translation Gap faced by early stage biotech companies, the result of problematic technology transfer and investment practices, and provide specific prescriptions for improving translation of important discoveries into safe and effective therapies. In Preserving the Promise, Dessain and Fishman build on their collective experience as company founders, healthcare investor (Fishman) and physician/scientist (Dessain). The book offers a forward-looking, critical analysis of conventional wisdom that encumbers commercialization practices. It exposes the self-defeating habits of drug development in the Valley of Death, that waste money and extinguish innovative technologies through distorted financial incentives.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Elsevier Science Publishing Co INC International Concepts
ISBN-13
9780128092163
eBay Product ID (ePID)
225687006
Product Key Features
Author
Scott M. Fishman, Scott Dessain
Publication Name
Preserving the Promise: Improving the Culture of Biotech Investment
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Medicine, Business
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
276 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
450g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Scott M. Fishman, Scott Dessain
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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