Here’s why last week’s stock market crash is a warning sign for Australia’s biotech sector

Investments in biotechnology are most impactful when made by those with deep pockets. The aim of the game is to make a return on investment, which can only occur when biotech companies can create a profitable product. Without funding from angel investors/venture capitalists, many biotech companies cannot continue to meaningfully function. Analysis of the recent …

FightMND’s Beanie to Cure Pipeline: Where does the money go?

Who are FightMND? FightMND are a charity co-founded by Neale Daniher, Pat Cunningham and Dr Ian Davis. The charity aims to raise money to fund important clinical research so that treatments or a cure for MND may be discovered. Since 2014, more than $80 million dollars have been raised by the charity. Much of this …

Understanding the Drug Development Pipeline

In this article: Introduction The drug development pipeline (DDP) is, at its core, the fundamental process that biopharma companies undergo in the quest to bring their therapeutic to market. It is composed of multiple stages that can be lumped into two groups: research and development. The research stages include everything from discovery of a potential …