BusinessWeek makes a compelling argument for a return to the heyday of large scale scientific research funded by a combination of public and private funds as a necessary antidote for our struggling economy. This “pure” research can lead to the kind of breakthroughs and innovations that can create new industries and improve old ones, which [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on September 3rd, 2009 @ 12:41 pm
Tagged with: biotech, Business, economy, funding, government, growth, innovation, innovative, jobs, knowledge, research, research and development, scale, sustainability
Occasionally I am asked to do interviews on certain subjects. With the increased debate around healthcare in the country right now I was approached to discuss what I felt were some of the “Best Bets” in the Biotech sector. I’m not sure where this interview will end up getting published but the author agreed to [...]
Filed under: Business, Healthcare, News on August 16th, 2009 @ 11:26 pm
Tagged with: biotech
Stacy and I have been involved in many new initiatives recently with our philanthropy and I wanted to share a collection of some of them here on the site in a quick round-up. Its been an honor to work with these groups and we are seeing a great impact from the efforts.
Fresnobee – Mouli [...]
Filed under: Community, News, Philanthropy on August 7th, 2009 @ 1:26 pm
Tagged with: biotech, philanthropy, Press, stacy cohen
In his recent cover story, BusinessWeek’s chief economist Michael Mandel wonders if much of the US economy’s downturn can’t be blamed on our overall lack of innovations, or perhaps more specifically, our inability to bring them to commercialization.
Mandel charts the path to our current economic woes, explaining, “In the late 1990s most economists and CEOs [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on July 15th, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
Tagged with: biotech, economy, high-tech, innovation, innovation index, Michael Mandel, pharmaceuticals, Richard Florida, Technology
Personalized medicine has inspired a great deal of controversy since the successful mapping of the human genome in 2003 offered the first glimpse of a future that could include the diagnosis and treatment of individuals based on their genetic makeup. Detractors question whether the current health care system is too entrenched toward a “one [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on July 3rd, 2009 @ 1:18 am
Tagged with: biotech, healthcare, medicine, startup
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.