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Drug approvals and failures: implications for alliances

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The low number of drugs originating from large pharmaceutical companies despite growth in R&D expenditure and the increasing importance of biotech companies as a source of innovative potential therapies have been widely noted in recent years. With the aim of investigating these trends, we analysed the origins of drugs approved by the FDA and those failing in Phase III trials during the period January 2006 to December 2007. This analysis is based on our assessment of data reported in BioCentury Stock Wrap-Up articles, which summarize approvals and setbacks in the industry for each quarter1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. Biotech companies are those included in the American Stock Exchange Biotech Index and/or the Nasdaq Biotechnology Index.

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  1. Elizabeth A. Czerepak and Stefan Ryser, Ph.D. are both Founding Partners of Bear Stearns Health Innoventures, LLC (BSHI), of which Bear Stearns Asset Management is a General Partner. The authors are employees of Bear Stearns Asset Management, a subsidiary of Bear Stearns & Co., 237 Park Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, New York 10017, USA. eczerepak@bear.com; sryser@bear.com

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Czerepak, E., Ryser, S. Drug approvals and failures: implications for alliances. Nat Rev Drug Discov 7, 197–198 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrd2531

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