Thoughts Leading Up To #BIO2017
#BIO2017 is days away. What can we expect? Crowded Partnering - By our unofficial count, the number of companies registered for One-on-One Partnering exceeds the number from San…
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What is your Acceptance Rate?
An Acceptance Rate is simply the percentage of meeting requests which are accepted at a given conference. At Lacerta Bio, we have been tracking Acceptance Rates for conferences since…
When Does BIO Start?
BIO starts in June, right? Wrong. Perhaps BIO starts in late April, when partnering opens? Sorry. Wrong again. BIO started the moment you decided to…
Biotech Showcase and JPM 2017: Wind, Rain, and Meetings
Yeah, it rained last week in San Francisco. But the rain did not stop untold thousands of us from gathering at the many hotels, watering holes, and coffee shops around…
On Catamarans, Elections, and #BIOEurope
BIO Europe was, yet again, an excellent conference for Lacerta Bio. Having the US election on television screens in the Exhibition Hall made for some surreal moments and discussions. Not a…
University Technology Transfer: Change is Needed
A few weeks ago, we attended the first annual Commercializing Biotech Innovation Conference in Syracuse, New York. The conference was held in the very new Central New York Biotech Accelerator in Syracuse (which is…
#BIO2016: The Ten Thousand Step Edition
Ample numbers of electrons will be spent discussing the BIO2016 conference in San Francisco last week, both positive and negative. Not wanting to be left out of the fun,…
#BIO2016: The Streets of San Francisco Edition
Next week, our industry makes an unusual return trip to Union Square, as we return for another conference. This time, it's BIO. BIO is unlike other conferences on our circuit,…
On BIO Europe, Regionalism, and Three-Legged Goats
How was Bio Europe in Stockholm last week? The Conference Itself – For us, the conference was terrific. We had nearly 30 high-quality meetings over the three days of partnering,…
Looking Forward to 2016
Given that we are now in January, we feel obliged to craft some sort of "Predictions for 2016" post. We're not big fans of predictive posts, mainly because we're…