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Novo/Catalent
In an interesting move for the biotech industry, Novo Holdings has purchased a major contract manufacturer, Catalent, then immediately sold some sites to Novo Nordisk, they of the Ozempic/Wegovy fame.
It appears Nordisk did not want to waste time bringing new production facilities online and instead decided buying them outright made more sense. Probably a wise decision on their part.
The question around the industry is, what happens when a major contract manufacturer gets bought out? What if Novo Nordisk’s rivals had existing contracts with Catalent? Clearly that would create a conflict of interest.
The good news is there is a seemingly insatiable supply of companies entering the contract manufacturing space every year, so someone will fill the void eventually. But in the mean time there could be some pains.
Team Roast - Unnecessary Time Frame
Team pages exist partially to inform the visitor of how great executives are. Accomplishments are de rigueur and even some goals can be peppered in.
For example, the Chairman here wants to contribute to the development of Taiwanese medicines.
A laudable, if a bit generic goal. The thing we question is the need to indicate when he wants to achieve this.
Do they really have to point out his timeframe for doing so is "before his retirement"? Isn't that when ALL a person's work takes place?
By the way, BioPharmGuy is planning to get this newsletter sent out.
Time frame? Before you read it.
FORCED1
Always good to see a contrived acronym for a clinical trial. This latest one we discovered has been dubbed ELAINE.
How’d they tease out that pretty simple name? Easy:
Evaluating LAsofoxIfeNe in Esr1 mutations
Yeah, they took four letters from one word for that acronym-like beast.
They sort of get a pass since they forced this one in memory of a real person named Elaine. But a better option was sitting right in front of them:
Evaluating LAsofoxifene IN Esr1 mutations
Never OK
It’s annoying when the local school makes us submit something via a Google form. But there is NO way a biotech company should be utilizing one as their Contact page.
Unforgiveable!
Team Roast - Heavy Mettle
Tensentric boasts of having a team of rock stars and to prove it, they told them all to wear a band t-shirt for the team pics. Out of the roughly 80 folks, only the CFO and a handful of others declined. Impressive. The company was so stoked with their own idea they reposted a collage on Linkedin.
So, we've established that almost all these posers fall in line when authority asks them to do something, but do they have actual musical taste?
BioPharmGuy and friends successfully identified all but one shirt, and we have concluded the biggest determinant of whether a band would show up frequently was whether you can buy the shirt at Old Navy.
How else can you explain AC/DC being the most popular? That band has a very cool name and logo, but their catalog is pretty much one song repeated over and over. Impossible for 9% of people to love them this much.
In total, we found 30 people chose the Old Navy bands - AC/DC, Beatles, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, Queen, Led Zeppelin & Rolling Stones.
On the other end, the following bands were previously unknown to BioPharmGuy: GreenSky Bluegrass, Infectious Grooves, & Toonmac.
(Note: we confirmed they're unknown for a reason)
Favorite deep cut band: Tokyo Police Club
Least effort: Guy who slapped on an "Eric Clapton" nametag
White Whale: This cloud shirt. We tried many avenues short of emailing the person directly (because that would be cheating). No luck. Any ideas?
Too In the Nose
A drug named VYD222 that is targeting the 'vid?
Much agreeable.
Tra...something
Trawsfynydd Therapeutics announced FDA approval of their clinical study, and no, we did not just have a seizure while typing the company's name - it’s really what they chose.
There is a place, and one place only, for the use of the Welsh language and that place is Wales.
Naming your Maryland-based company working on antivirals Trawsfynydd Therapeutics is professional negligence. Just ludicrous.
If they were really dedicated, wouldn't they have went with Trawsfynydd Therapiwteg?
Bunch of phonies.
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