Venture Capital - A Challenge For Life Science Investors

Imagine you’re a venture capital group that invests in both life science companies (biotechnology & pharmaceuticals) and software companies. If you’re successful in both areas, the chances are that the software side of your business is outperforming the life sciences side of your business. Which begs the question: can life science companies [...]

¶ Posted October 11, 2006 § Biotech, Google, Google Inc, Life Sciences, Microsoft, Pharmaceuticals, Software Development, Technology, Venture Capital ‡ Comments (2)

Life Science/Healthcare IT – Why IT Companies Find It A Tough Nut To Crack

Life Science IT has been a tough nut for IT companies to crack. They all want to do a lot better than they have historically. What is life science IT? Well, it involves such disciplines as bioinformatics, cheminformatics, chemometrics and clinical informatics, amongst many others. These subjects lie at the interface between computing [...]

¶ Posted February 18, 2006 § Bioinformatics, Biotech, Healthcare, Informatics, Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Software Development, Technology ‡ Comments (1)