1. Already, he said, the company was advising pharmaceutical manufacturers, biotech firms and universities on how to understand the human genome. 2. Although these are good times on Wall Street for stronger biotech firms, smaller and weaker biopharmaceutical and medical device firms are scrambling for financial survival. 3. Among the many issues facing biotech executives is how to deal with the retail investors who hold a majority of the shares in many early stage biotech firms. 4. Amgen, the Southern California biotech firm, scored on Epo and built a company around that discovery. 5. An enlarged Corixa would join a select group of biotech firms that have made multiple acquisitions. 6. --An increase in defense spending among biotech firms as the nation girds for potentially more lethal attacks involving chemical and biological weapons. 7. And the flood of initial public offerings by biotech firms that roared last year has slowed to a trickle. 8. And scientists at public universities are increasingly turning to drug companies, biotech firms, medical device makers and other private corporations for that money. 9. And while the deals vary, biotech firms sometimes turn over product rights, clinical trial testing, marketing and distribution. 10. Another key ingredient for the growth of biotech firms is patience. |
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