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Gina Drosos, the former Procter & Gamble executive who presided over the Mason biotech Assurex Health through the start-up’s growth, is leaving to become president and chief executive officer of the parent company for Kay and Zales jewelry stories.
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Juno Therapeutics, a biotech firm in Seattle, had to shut down one of its CAR T-cell programs because five patients died of brain swelling.
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Collins owns 17 percent of the Australian biotech firm Innate Immunotherapeutic, making him the company’s largest shareholder.
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Entasis Therapeutics, a biotech company in Waltham, Massachusetts, that owns the drug, depended on public funding from the US National Institutes of Health to conduct a phase II trial of zoliflodacin in 2015.
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Even in the biotech frenzy of the 21st century, such a feat would be a considerable challenge.
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NantKwest, a biotech firm focused on harnessing the immune system to counter cancer cells, went public at $25 a share in late July 2015 and reached nearly $35 the next day.
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Max Hodak, who co-founded Transcriptic in Menlo Park, California—another biotech company exploring automation—also sees limits to the approach.
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Although biotech job growth in Palm Beach County has been modest in the past decade, FAU and state leaders remain hopeful Scripps and Max Planck will serve as anchors for a major biotech cluster.
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First Known Use of biotech
1967
Medical Dictionary
biotech
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noun
bio·tech
\ˈbī-ō-ˌtek\
Medical Definition of biotech
1: biotechnology 1
2: a company that utilizes biotechnology (as in the development of drugs or diagnostics for medicine)
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