Nayeem: Others who have been successful don't tie themselves to a particular area; may need to talk with people all over #BHCRForum17
9:48am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
What's a new entrepreneur to do w/o experience? Nayeem: Founders may have a exec chairman who can recruit. Others network #BHCRForum17
9:47am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Kosofsky: An A team could not get interest in a burn product; bought a small asset to reposition and move from there #BHCRForum17
9:45am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Johnston: Da Vinci health for billing individuals. EVP didn't understand billing; so he did receivables in Boise ID for 1y #BHCRForum17
9:43am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Kohr: You fix what can be fixed, and you want an A management team and a B business plan rather than the opposite #BHCRForum17
9:41am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Early-stage startup input? Kohr: It's exciting, you see the holes. You see loans on buildings, need for restructuring #BHCRForum17
9:40am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Wu: His big question is reimbursement: who will pay for your product? #BHCRForum17
9:39am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Kosofsky: Looking at it from the debt side, does every role need a body? First 12-18 months, wearing multiple hats = good thing #BHCRForum17
Nayeem: You need to know the market size, what the market need and landscape is, and the clin trial design, costs #BHCRForum17
9:38am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Kohr: What's the problem, how to you solve it, what's the revenue model? Be disciplined and focused on that #BHCRForum17
9:36am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Kohr: Co's that at the first meeting it's the science or software (that's due diligence); take what you do and tell a story #BHCRForum17
Pet Peeve? Johnston: Series A, going to the moon. Series A is an experiment. You haven't figured it all out - makes me nervous #BHCRForum17
9:35am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Panelists: Kristen Kosofsky (Hercules) Hook Johnson (Inova Strategic) Rick Kohr (Evergreen) Sara Nayeem (New Enterprise) #BHCRForum17
9:34am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Raising Venture Capital Financing: how to succeed Bigly (Big League) #BHCRForum17 Moderator - Sam Wu Acuris Partners.
9:32am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Will you be on the Mall on Sat? Van Hollen: The short answer is Yes. (applause) A very serious issue. #BHCRForum17
9:31am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Messaging on SBIR funding (a % of NIH funding)? Van Hollen: Investments in R&D that cuts across agencies, agreed #BHCRForum17
9:11am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
SBIR admin pilot killed? Direct effect on NIH Entrepreneur in Residence Van Hollen: Happy to work on it #BHCRForum17
9:09am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
How to better present the value of life sci investment? Van Hollen: The work you do directly impacts people; powerful change #BHCRForum17
9:08am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
How to reduce barriers to collab regarding conflict of interest? Van Hollen: A case of the pendulum swinging too far. Will help #BHCRForum17
9:05am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Longer-term biotech returns? Van Hollen: In software it can be so much shorter; it is harder for life sciences; stability impt #BHCRForum17
9:01am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Van Hollen: Private/public partnerships: open to suggestions - federal incentives, academia, and private entities all together #BHCRForum17
8:59am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Van Hollen: People can be brought in to help with the marketing part; would like to partner with that. #BHCRForum17
8:56am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
How to work better? Van Hollen: Progress is being made but it 'hasn't caught fire'. His youngest works at Instagram... #BHCRForum17
8:55am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Van Hollen: From work done about the Olympics: perceptions of the DC area, politics have a spillover effect. #BHCRForum17
8:54am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Regional working together? Van Hollen:One of his goals is exactly that- bringing regional resources together #BHCRForum17
8:52am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Van Hollen: NIH, USM, Hopkins: through CRADAs and other methods - we need to maximize their potential. #BHCRForum17
8:50am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Innovation in MD? Van Hollen:Hopkins and USM is where the innovation is; impt to emphasize STEM at the middle-school level #BHCRForum17
Van Hollen: Would have hoped to be in the 'expansion mode, not in a defensive one' regarding NIH budget #BHCRForum17
8:49am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Van Hollen: @NIHDirector # of meritorious grants approved are declining; and the message it sends, keeps him up at night #BHCRForum17
8:48am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Van Hollen: NIH purchasing power has eroded; bump to $32B; Cures Act passed. A 'bipartisan shock' to see a $6B cut to NIH #BHCRForum17
8:47am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
About the budget? @ChrisVanHollen Draconian cuts is not an overstatement. We need 'all hands on deck' for early-stg science #BHCRForum17
8:46am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Van Hollen: Rule of 60% for legislation hasn't changed; more input, more opp for bipartisan cooperation #BHCRForum17
8:44am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
What about Jan 20th? Van Hollen: Moving from the House to the Senate: going from the 8th dist (home to NIH, FDA) to the state #BHCRForum17
Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) and Mark Walsh (US SBA) at #BHCRForum17 https://t.co/wldLPZAbG9
8:42am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Bahija Jallal EVP AstraZeneca with her opening remarks at #BHCRForum17 https://t.co/IU5Oxry6lY
8:39am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Which Patients Will Be Helped By Immune Cancer Drugs? This Foundation Medicine Test May Tell | Forbes https://t.co/d83R2kiq5D #AACR17
8:10am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Benchmarking @nanopore sequencing for quantitative and qualitative assessment of cDNA populations : Scientific Rep https://t.co/6kKarEfJsA
7:35am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Scientists Unveil CRISPR-based Diagnostic Platform | Biosci Tech https://t.co/6g96AL3htQ
6:24am April 20th 2017 via Hootsuite
Goldstein: Inova’s capabilites shown at #BHCRForum17 https://t.co/uzbmezKnQP
5:17pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Goldstein Also Global genomics and bioinf research inst. 32K sf conf center. #BHCRForum17
5:16pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Goldstein Exxon-Mobil campus - Gallows road, Rte 50 just off 495. Inova ctr for Pers Health Campus. 4 bldgs - Schar Cancer Inst #BHCRForum17
5:15pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Goldstein: Other initiatives - medicines for all via Gates Foundation $50M at VCU. Gov McAuliffe is BIO governor of the year #BHCRForum17
5:14pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Doug Goldstein (Inova) Funding $150M; VTech $15M. UVA $25M. $112M for biomed res hub and med school education #BHCRForum17
5:13pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Abdun-Nabi: Summary of the LSAB report handed to attendees. Core competency here is in manufacturing; need innovation ctrs #BHCRForum17
5:06pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Abdun-Nabi: 500 biotech co's here; talent at all levels. ACCT: Assets, connectivity, capital, talent. #BHCRForum17
5:04pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Abdun-Nabi about LSAB: Gov't agencies (FDA, NIH), not-for-profits, commercial co's, their analysis started w/assets in MD #BHCRForum17
5:00pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Almost out of small wet-lab space; HJU opens Fast Forward 1812 adding 23K sf. LSAB= Life Science Advisory board #BHCRForum17
4:55pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
VC activity - Vtesse, Corvidia, Sonavex, Protenus, Harpoon, PGDX, GrayBug. GSK vaccine HQ in Rockville. USM/JHU 40 startups #BHCRForum17
4:54pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
The final panel including Mont Co Executive Ike Leggett on the far right #BHCRForum17 https://t.co/O26K1orre7
4:52pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Jason Miller (CEO Gr Wash Partnership); Amarnath Bhat (VP Open Health Systems); Isiah Ike Leggett (County Exec Mont Co MD) #BHCRForum17
4:49pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
