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9780805075083

The Biotech Investor How to Profit from the Coming Boom in Biotechnology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780805075083

  • ISBN10:

    0805075089

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-01-01
  • Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

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"Tom Abate's reporting on biotechnology has always been ahead of the times. The Biotech Investor tackles the brave new world of stem cells, genomics, and clones and comes up a winner." Thom Calandra, editor in chief,CBS MarketWatch InThe Biotech Investor,San Francisco Chroniclebiotechnology reporter Tom Abate explains the science, finances, time horizon, and technological and commercial potential of this burgeoning industry. Abate provides guidelines for assessing company leadership, easy-to-digest reports from the labs, and indispensable investor tools and metrics. He shares strategies for tracking the effect of breaking news and the NASDAQ anticipating drug trial announcements and FDA approvals assessing the potential market, patent rights, and distribution deals for a drug He looks beyond medicine to biotech-related opportunities in everything from agriculture to jean manufacturing to software development.The Biotech Investoris the comprehensive, expert source for successful and intelligent investing in one of the twenty-first century's most promising industries.

Author Biography

One of the nation’s most influential observers of the biotechnology industry, award-winning technology and health-care reporter Tom Abate writes the weekly “BioScope” column for the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in San Leandro, California.

Table of Contents

Preface The Biotech Wave ix
The Foundations of Biotech Investing
1(22)
The Age Wave and the Market for New Medicines
23(24)
The Genomics Wave: The Drug Discovery Marathon
47(26)
The Proteomics Wave: Proteins and the Next Medicines
73(24)
Picks and Shovels: The Biotech Toolmakers
97(24)
Green Genes: Agricultural Biotechnology
121(26)
The New Factories: Industrial Biotechnology
147(22)
Brave New Worlds: Stem Cells, Clones, and Other Frontiers
169(28)
The Biotech Clusters: Follow the Leaders
197(22)
The Investment Frontier
219(24)
Appendix I: Public Biotechnology Firms 243(18)
Appendix II: Biotechnology Firms by Niche 261(10)
Appendix III: Research Resources 271(4)
Acknowledgments 275(4)
Index 279

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