RA TV: Aduhelm & Patient-Centered Healthcare Reforms
Listen in as RA Capital’s TechAtlas Associates convene to discuss recent Covid-19 news. Learn about the emerging Delta variant, new data from Novavax and CureVac, and the potential association between mRNA vaccines and myocarditis.
What happens if President Biden’s drug pricing plan passes?
If the Biden drug plan passes, the United States will be consciously volunteering to put less capital to work in a large industry where we lead the world. No real argument can stand against the fact that less capital means fewer new products for patients.
After binging on COVID-19, what have we missed?
Given the seemingly endless supply of COVID-19-related content, it has sometimes felt like I was passively binging on round-the-clock coverage that was more distracting than edifying. So what might I have missed while I was absorbed in COVID? As it turns out, quite a lot.
Biotechnology leadership is too valuable to throw away
The U.S. biotechnology sector is an indispensable, strategic national asset. But what if we’re taking it for granted? Recent attempts to weaken IP protections for Covid-19 vaccines and to implement drug price controls threaten future U.S. leadership in biotechnology.
Investors and academics: making beautiful music together
Interest in life science technologies and tools is accelerating with the advent of CRISPR and other aspects of synthetic biology. The ability to have a capital efficient way to advance these innovations is very attractive and will help drive innovation.
Accelerating life science tools R&D with venture studios
Interest in life science technologies and tools is accelerating with the advent of CRISPR and other aspects of synthetic biology. The ability to have a capital efficient way to advance these innovations is very attractive and will help drive innovation.
When drug prices are a Trojan Horse for other costs, we all lose
The way that hospitals benefit from inflated list prices is a common theme across different kinds of drugs dispensed at hospitals and clinics across the country. When drug prices are a Trojan Horse for all kinds of other health care costs, we all lose.
RA TV: Vaccines versus variants
Listen in as RA Capital’s TechAtlas Associates convene to discuss recent Covid-19 news. Learn about the emerging Delta variant, new data from Novavax and CureVac, and the potential association between mRNA vaccines and myocarditis.
Four core principles for biotech board meetings
There are many ways to conduct an efficient board meeting, and every management team and board member has different preferences. But here are four key principles I believe will improve everyone’s experience.
How to assassinate your start-up: a legal guide
To be sure, none of these can ensure death with dignity, but most will speed your start-up’s demise – especially when taken as combination therapy.
Venture capital evolved to venture creation. Will it stay that way?
The so-called venture creation model has fully taken root, underpinned and enabled by biotech's longest-ever boom cycle and unprecedented sums of available capital.
Venture partnering
Adam Rosenberg lifts the curtain on what biotech venture partners and entrepreneurs-in-residence really do.
Welcome to RApport
We’re glad you’re here. Read more about the genesis of RApport and our mission and goals.
The difference between medical debt and "moon debt"
The difference between investing in space exploration and investing in the biotech industry is about who bears the cost: society as a whole or people as individuals.
It’s time to bring generic drug manufacturing back to the U.S.
Repatriating the American drug supply is key not just to averting shortages but to restoring and preserving the integrity of generic drugs in America.
If Trikafta isn’t good enough for ICER, what drug Is?
ICER released a report concluding that Vertex’s groundbreaking triple-combination cystic fibrosis (CF) drug, Trikafta, is too expensive for the value it provides to patients. But is it?
Covid-19 teaches us the real definition of a 'novel drug'
Whatever therapy or intervention solves a previously unmet need is inherently novel. So any treatments for COVID-19 that turn out to work will be "novel" in every way that matters.