Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED)’s Biotech Forum: Dealmaker's Intentions Survey

May. 19, 2010
North Carolina Biotechnology Center
Raleigh, NC
www.cednc.org/content/biotech+forum/198

Description:

Campbell Alliance 2010 Dealmakers’ Intentions Survey

Gautam Aggarwal, Senior Practice Executive in our Business Development Practice, will present the results and observations from Campbell Alliance's 2010 Dealmakers' Intentions Survey and moderate a panel discussion with leading business development decision makers.

Abstract:

The relationship between the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries has never been more apparent. For pharma, patent expiration and depleted pipelines have forced companies to look externally for growth. For biotech, the lack of financing and an uncertain regulatory and reimbursement landscape threatens the progress of innovative new therapies. In this environment, the competition for unlicensed assets has never been more intense and top dealmakers will shape the future of the industry.

Getting inside the heads of business development professionals is not an easy task. Many resources available to business development professionals provide retrospective data regarding deal activity in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. These indispensable tools, including libraries of financing transactions, deal databases, and royalty rate studies, provide timely information on deal activity as transactions are closed and announced. However, because deals often take more than a year to complete, these databases may not be good indicators of emerging strategies or the future deal environment. CED, in partnership with Campbell Alliance, is pleased to offer the only forward-looking measure of deal-making intentions in the pharma and biotech industries. During the first quarter of this year, Campbell Alliance surveyed more than 150 industry executives and business development professionals on their partnering expectations and intentions for 2010. The study goes far deeper than simply evaluating the current environment to identify the types of assets that will be in demand among in-licensors. The results of this study have also been linked with a review of the assets that are available for licensing, revealing supply and demand dynamics that are not always obvious, and that could have interesting implications for deal-making over the next 12 months or more. In this competitive landscape, many biotech companies will need to effectively differentiate between certain assets’ intrinsic values, and the value that is simply driven by asset scarcity in certain categories. The study goes beyond evaluating these trends at the therapeutic area level, and includes assessments that incorporate popular or new mechanisms of action, target market segments, and so on. During this presentation and interactive panel discussion we will answer several key questions to provide insight into what will likely drive the industry’s partnering efforts moving forward.

Moderator:

Gautam Aggarwal, Senior Practice Executive, Business Development Practice, Campbell Alliance

Panelists:

Leslie Boyd, Vice President, Scientific Licensing, GlaxoSmithKline

Beth Fordham-Meier, CLP Vice President, Licensing and Intellectual Property, Targacept, Inc.

Kinney Horn, Associate Director, Business Development, Genentech

Joseph E. Zack, Senior Vice President, Diagnostics, Metabolon

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