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BioPharmGuy
I gave up and started putting the lettuce into the salad bowl last. Everything else is gonna end up on the bottom anyways – why fight it?
Animal Spam of the Week
"Good morning ,l am there to tell you about snail slimes , please do you want it?. Which quantities?. thanks."
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39 companies added, 19 removed.
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Kaleido Biosciences
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Layoff Tracker
Layoffs just keep snowballing. At this point it seems like even the large companies that are doing just fine are being opportunistic and hacking staff because they know the news will be lost in the shuffle. If you want to follow along at home, Fierce is keeping track of layoff announcements.
Rona Therapeutics
Company just launched with $33M. Using the name Rona may have been ok a couple years ago, but pretty hard to believe they went with that in 2022. They’re not even working on Coronavirus treatments. Imagine back in 1989 naming a cancer drug company 'Aids Pharmaceuticals'. Just…why?
My Name Is
Not content with featuring only one company with a seemingly poor name choice, here’s another for you: MNM Bioscience. The logo is pretty cool when you stare at it for a bit, but that name is amusing. Guess they couldn’t conjure up any example of someone else having used a similar sounding name for anything, ever before.
Checkmate
This week Regeneron announced their intent to purchase Checkmate Pharmaceuticals for $250M. There was excitement and congratulations on the Twitter. That despite their having raised over $200M in funding to get to this $250M sale - this company was almost a cash loser despite getting bought out. But never mind all that – in biotech the story of some people winning always takes the day. A great success!
Charles River
This company with over 40 locations who has a heavy presence in the north/eastern US announced that all its North American plants will run on 100% renewable electricity starting next year. What, are they gonna build their own nuclear reactor at each site?
No, what they're going to do is continue using oil/coal/gas-derived electricity, but they're going to pay someone, somewhere who's harvesting green energy. Then, with a waving of their coal-dusted hands - they magically don't use dirty electricity! Greenwashing complete.
Team Roast
Don’t you hate when you’re heading straight to a charity benefit for unemployed ventriloquists after work and the CEO decides it’s also staff photo day? Acrivon Therapeutics sneakily removed this photo just yesterday, possibly after they saw some suspicious web traffic coming from BioPharmGuy’s neck of the woods. Guess we’re gonna have to invest in a proxy service when researching these team roasts. Can't spook our prey so easily.
Very
Just how big is Johnson & Johnson? Despite Pfizer seeing a 95% annual revenue increase, they still remain $10B behind J&J. Considering J&J has 130k employees while Pfizer has 79k, the Pfizer number is a bit more impressive. Of course, when you pull in almost $40B on a single product (Covid vaccine) that does tend to flatter things.
California Pharmaceuticals
Their website was down recently and it seems they may have gone out of business. Maybe the business just failed. Or maybe using calipharm.com as their domain led to an insurmountable number of visitors contacting them for information on the upper appendage of an Islamic ruler.
CanCure dba CanZx
We featured this company a while back for actually putting “dba CanZx Pharmaceuticals” in their company’s logo. But now we’ve noticed a new disclaimer up on their website:
“**(Please do not confuse us with the Australian company Cancure Limited)**”
Gee, if only there were an alternative name they could use to avoid such confusion.
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Clear Skies
A federal judge struck down the CDC's mask mandate for travelers, once again fully exposing flyers to people hacking while aboard airplanes. Our condolences to those who were on a plane when their pilot announced this news, at which point masks came off. (You'd think it would only be fair to keep the rules in effect until the flight ended.)
Being inside a narrow tube with 200 other people is probably one of the places it still makes total sense to remain masked, but it looks you're back to getting sneezed on for now. Ahh, the good ol' days..
The Biden administration implied they may appeal this decision, but for now airlines are free to allow flyers to uncover their (mostly) ugly faces.
Two for One
Did you know it can show up in places other than your torso? Like...your face (link is not a picture, don't worry). It's bad enough on your chest...can't imagine the horror of facial shingles. If you're old enough, maybe consider getting yourself the shingles vaccine.
Avocado Good. Butter Bad.
If you don't quite believe these study results, guess you can always fry your avocadoes in butter to hedge your bets.
Asses
Politico wrote a piece about regular people cobbling together a drug/medical supply distribution network across Ukraine - a noble story to say the least. Only problem with the article is the title where they refer to these people as “drug runners”. Pretty demeaning, but at least they didn’t call them drug mules, or worse - Moscow mules.
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