Deal Statistics Quarterly, Q3 2006
Executive Summary
In this issue, we present another installment of our quarterly review of dealmaking-for July-Spetember 2006. Our data comes from Windhover's Strategic Intelligence Systems, which covers deal activity within the pharmaceutical/biotechnology, medical device, and in vitro diagnostics industries.
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Industry Perspective - The Medtech Industry: A Look Back at 2006
The year 2006 may best be remembered for the handful of high-profile companies that struggled, but for all of the challenges that a few medical device companies faced individually, it's hard not to see 2006 as anything other than a robust year for the industry as a whole. It was also a year of impressive rebounds for many other device companies that had faced tough times.
The $100 Million IND
An extraordinary series of high-value IND-stage deals could help to solve what has always been the intractable problem for biotechs: how to fund late-stage product development and simultaneously re-fill the early-stage pipeline. Still, it will be the rare biotech that can pull off this strategy--which requires INDs in the hottest areas of pharmaceutical development.
European Consolidation: Serious Competition for Big Pharma?
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