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Astellas, biotech VCs to pump $14M into virtual drug developer

Astellas and venture firms Interwest Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures plan to invest $14 million into a startup called Telsar Pharma.

Growing popularity of virtual biotechs promises boon to outsourcers

The recent news that tiny FerroKin BioSciences earned a big buyout deal with Shire has helped spotlight the growing  virtual biotech model.

Growing popularity of virtual biotechs promises boon to outsourcers

News that tiny FerroKin BioSciences earned a big buyout deal with Shire ($SHPGY) has helped spotlight the growing popularity of the virtual biotech model.

Virtual is beautiful in biotech

I had the chance to moderate a panel at the BIO-Europe Spring meeting yesterday on new business models in biotech, with Torbjorn Bjerke, David Collier, Kevin Johnson, and Thomas Zioncheck joining the conversation.

Dennis Goldberg's neXus is a one-man biotech operation

Dennis Goldberg runs the ultimate virtual biotech company. He is the CEO of neXus therapeutics, which he runs alone out of his living room and funds through his Schwab account. All of the research

Can "backyard biotechs" beat Big Pharma at the development game?

Over the last few years, the virtual biotech model has become one of the hottest topics on the industry's bustling circuit of partnering and association gatherings. Every drug developer is being

The virtual model works for biotech, Big Pharma

The virtual model of drug development features a core management group that coordinates R&D activities, which are largely outsourced to other parties. The benefits include less overhead and