Rich Bendis (CEO BioHealth Innov); Daniel Abdun-Nabi (Pres Emergent); Douglas Goldstein (VP Inova Health); #BHCRForum17
4:48pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Many initiatives, one goal: growing the BioHealth Capital Region #BHCRForum17
4:46pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Semones: And digital health is also about compliance, so that pts take their medications; an important aspect for healthcare. #BHCRForum17
4:44pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Role of digital health? Mancilla: Some is just helping customer understand more about their disease state, how to talk to Dr. #BHCRForum17
4:43pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Is it only blockbusters 'you' are interested in? Semones: They all care about wellbeing; Lilly has a team to help economic gaps #BHCRForum17
4:42pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Collaborative arrangements, restrictions from NIH? Coyle: People like working with people they like working with,Takes time #BHCRForum17
4:38pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Grady: They moved 1500 people from Manchester. Proximity made a difference for them. #BHCRForum17
4:35pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Has proximity to DC hurt or helped? Grady: It was a factor in expanding MedImmune. AstraZeneca:unthinkable to move. #BHCRForum17
4:34pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
@Kamya_Kommaraju It is Anthony Coyle, SVP and Chief Scientific Officer, Pfizer, Centers for Therapeutic Innovation.
4:32pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite in reply to Kamya_Kommaraju
Details around UVA / Inova and other VA-specific biotech https://t.co/M6UvDGcBMw #BHCRForum17
4:31pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Coyle: A post-doc experience at Pfizer; hugely impt and undervalued. 'Smart people can do really smart stuff.' #BHCRForum17
4:30pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Grady: AZ has 10K people in China; turnover is 'staggering', putting tools and process to keep people. MBAs as retention #BHCRForum17
4:29pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Mancilla: A different world w/mobile applications, rapidly evolving technologies. Post-docs with digital health expertise #BHCRForum17
4:28pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Handwringing over workforce? Coyle: A competitive env now; many non-Americans Semones: Breadth valued over depth in scientists #BHCRForum17
4:27pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Semones: At Lilly, motivation on why to stay in the Midwest, their focus is on diabetes. Grady: EU behind with risk-taking #BHCRForum17
4:23pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Semones: It's not only about proximity; it is all about 'who are you?' Articulate as a region who you are, and know who matches #BHCRForum17
4:21pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Semones: They wanted to know the authoritative person, yet had to work thru the middle-man. #BHCRForum17
4:12pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Grady: A bicycle-ride away enables water-cooler conversations. Semones: In France, tech-transfer largely outsourced. #BHCRForum17
4:11pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Are the relationships in EU different? Grady: The importance of proximity - they moved to Cambridge. Projects w/the Univ. #BHCRForum17
4:10pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Mancilla: Using outside counsel 'usually is a disaster' b/c they do not understand the business issues at hand. #BHCRForum17
4:04pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Mancilla: It is the scientist-to-scientist connections, where master research agreements can be put into place #BHCRForum17
3:59pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Grady: Secondly is the BD strand, much progress, although room for improvement for company and academic relationships #BHCRForum17
3:57pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Grady: Felt there was a bit of arrogance in the past from the academics; now looking for improvement on the scientific strand #BHCRForum17
Semones: Open innovation at Lilly, isn't a product but the library is now larger than their own internal. Contracting a hurdle. #BHCRForum17
3:55pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Coyle: Was able to get things moved faster - by a year or two; they could have been faster, but generally pleased. #BHCRForum17
3:54pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Do academic collaborations work well for you? Coyle: His group (Center for Rx Innovations) started 6 years ago, w/novel ideas #BHCRForum17
3:53pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Industry: Anthony Coyle (SVP Pfizer), Shaun Grady (VP AstraZeneca), Behany Mancilla (VP Amgen) Sharon Semones (Eli Lilly) #BHCRForum17
3:51pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
How to incentivize faculty, other ways? Bob (UMD) Driven by need, need for diversification. $1.3B budget, $130M corporate. #BHCRForum17
2:28pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Shannon: Will move into the Fairfax/Exxon site, computer science inst (Phil Bourne will move there), also biomaterials there #BHCRForum17
2:25pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Shannon: charlottesville is not considered urban, 52 startups there. Rated 'fastest growing' $50M in VC monies #BHCRForum17
2:24pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Experience in OH? Davis: Collaboration the watchword; essential across institution. 1 medical schl, 4 hospitals. #BHCRForum17
2:22pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
What's your take? Gulbranson: All about public/private partnerships, they way they interact. Berkeley: early-stg involvement #BHCRForum17
2:21pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Ron Daniels (Pres Johns Hopkins) Pam Davis (SVP Case Western) Christine Gulbranson (SVP Univ CA) Richard Shannon (EVP U VA) #BHCRForum17
2:19pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
University leader's perspective on engaging industry. William 'Brit' Kirwin (Chancellor Emeritus UMD) Robert Caret (UMD) #BHCRForum17
2:18pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Buck: Likely polymicrobial combinations causative, may be multiple combinations causing higher risk. #BHCRForum17
1:40pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Buck: Pre-term birth is a $25B problem in the US; microbiome complexity is associated with pre-term birth risk. #BHCRForum17
1:39pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Buck: 'Healthy' definition depends. A minor impact is the host genome; major impact is the environment. #BHCRForum17
1:33pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
A healthy microbiome in the vaginal tract? Buck: Sampling does matter, lactobacillus. W/6K women, 60% AfAm, different profile #BHCRForum17
1:31pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Buck: Correlative science is very difficult to determine causative agent (Koch's postulates) Focus now on mechanism, function #BHCRForum17
1:24pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Ravel: Stool re-implantation done many years ago post-surgery. Then forbidden, now done via FMT #BHCRForum17
1:21pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Ravel: The 'hygiene hypothesis' where an environment was too clean; children developing autoimmunity this environment. #BHCRForum17
1:19pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Riscuta: Acidity of the stomach changes w/age; involvement w/inflammation, other diseases of aging. #BHCRForum17
Suzich: Who cares? What may it be resp for? Riscuta:Bacteria, fungi, viruses; first obs w/Bulgarians, longer lived w/diet #BHCRForum17
1:17pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Buck: Equated to seeing the back-side of the moon: prior techniques limited what we could see. #BHCRForum17
1:14pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Buck: NGS has brought to light 'microbial dark matter' due lack of ability to culture. NGS in '06: can study w/o culturing #BHCRForum17
1:13pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Suzich: Enabling technologies beyond culture? Ravel: From the 1800's, by cultivation. Genomic revolution has made it possible. #BHCRForum17
1:11pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Buck: 100x-genes w/microbes cp to human genes everyone has. Called a 'second genome'. Negative things as well as positive. #BHCRForum17
1:10pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Buck: Microbiome a very impt topic: about 2-3lbs of microbes in and around humans, not by accident, they have co-evolved w/us #BHCRForum17
1:08pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
JoAnn Suzich (VP MedImmune) Greg Buck (VCU) Jaques Ravel (UMD) Gabriela Riscuta (NCI) #BHCRForum17
1:07pm April 19th 2017 via Hootsuite
Advancing science: We are not alone: Understanding the microbiome in health and disease #BHCRForum17
