Biopharma Partnering: Dating Well Before Marriage Serves Its Purpose
For most emerging bio-pharma or medtech companies, establishing a development or commercialization partnership is a core component of their strategic plan, and, sealing the deal is cause for much celebration. While hard work and a number of all-nighters may go into signing an agreement, ensuring the partnership achieves its objectives and sails across the finish line is often harder, and often a bumpy ride…
Biopharma Partnering: A Fine Art
The majority of pharma and biotech venture creations are aimed at one or both of two fundamental objectives, bringing a novel therapeutic to patients and generating returns for their founders and investors. Often, pathways are poorly understood by the bootstrap team, and professional “help” is being sought from incubators, boards, investors and advisors, embedding possibly conflicting perspectives and goals into the core fabric of the company.
Covid-19 Treatment Strategies
There are two predominantly emerging therapeutic strategies for the development of drugs to treat patients with COVID-19. The first is to target the virus (SARS-CoV2) itself. This is how Remdesivir, the most widely discussed treatment for COVID-19 works. The second therapeutic strategy is to mitigate the effect of cytokine…
All Great Changes are Preceded by Chaos
The world of healthcare has been turned upside down. The COVID-19 pandemic has taken healthcare systems across the globe to breaking point, with hospitalization rates never before seen and hundreds of thousands of fatalities. While the immediate crisis was characterized by lack of personal protective equipment…
A Ladder with a Rung Missing
Drug development is like climbing a well-defined heavily regulated “ladder”. This ladder has and will always rightly hold the safety of patients subjected to experimental therapies as its number one priority. Each of the steps are clearly defined, and whilst some may intertwine generally include..
Doctor Founder Ventures – Biotech Entrepreneurship Essentials
By the very nature of the profession, doctors become “good doctors” by developing strong entrepreneurship qualities. Running an own private practice or being part of a large group practice, each provides for taking on sizable risk and executing resource allocation tasks where one must embody strong communication qualities to see positive outcomes…
A Forced Transition
Running a healthy efficient business is a full-time task for senior management during normal times. The unprecedented transition into a world of uncertainty, paired with unclear timing and nature of recovery, present not only new challenges to navigate but also an unprecedented volume of forced “restructuring” in our industry…
Corona
Whilst Corona virus news are out there loud and clear, a mindset of “I would survive hence will be taking my chance” made us pause and reply, calmly, that yes you likely would but could carry it to those who would not – and that is the problem. We point out the often quoted comparison of 1918 flu epidemic responses between the two cities…
Biotech Capital Raising Insights
Treehill Partners operates extensive Healthcare Investment Banking services and world class biotechnology Strategy Consulting as well as Leadership Support advisory services to some of today’s most innovative industry leadership teams. Over the years, as we evaluate investment proposals put forward to corporates, venture capitalists…
Game Theory & Biotech Alpha Culture
n 1973, John Maynard Smith presented an idea explaining game theory and how alpha culture exists in societies. Maynard’s hypothesis asked you to imagine a world with doves and hawks. If there would be only hawks, their fights would be devastating to their population. If there would be only doves, they would be susceptible to any intruders…