Overview

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Overview

• Industry Overview
• Impacted Industries
• Science
• Business Issues
• Examples
• Where do you fit?
• Getting Involved
• Websites
• Other Resources

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Statistics
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Impact of Biotechnology
Slide courtesy of Dick Kouri
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The Business of Biotechnology
Slide courtesy of Dick Kouri
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Nutrition

• 500 billion market
• New products additives, botanicals, foods, and
  health foods that will improve nutrition
• Food Companies - 300B in Sales for the Top 30
  Companies
• Additives - 4-8 B (Dominated by Roche)
• Growing Markets
• Health Foods - 100 B
• Botanicals 0.5 B

Slide courtesy of Dick Kouri
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Crop Production

• 786 billion market
• New products herbicides, fungicides,
  fertilizers, seeds, and crop outputs that are
  high value and environmentally friendly
• Major Players
• Monsanto
• Bayer (Office in RTP)
• Novartis
• Syngenta
• Local Companies
• Paradigm Genetics
• Crop Solutions

Slide courtesy of Dick Kouri
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Industrial Products

• 135 billion market
• New products fibers, industrial enzymes,
  specialty chemicals, paper and pulp for new and
  improved processes

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Human Health

• 400 billion market
• New products antibiotics, diagnostics,
  vaccines, nutraceuticals, and pharmaceuticals for
  disease prevention and treatment
• Major Players All Big Pharma
• Local Companies
• See NC Biotech website

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Science

• Basics
• Cell
• DNA-RNA-protein
• Applications
• Genomics
• Gene Therapies
• Proteomics
• Activating process
• Monoclonal Antibodies

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Business Issues

• Time and funding
• Small molecules vs. molecule and problems
• Pills vs. Injection
• Manufacturing
• Complicated cant make enough

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Examples

• Top drugs
• Amgen
• Small Companies
• AlphaVax

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Where do MBAs fit in?

• Business Development
• Business Plan Writing
• Licensing and Partnerships
• Marketing and Sales
• Big Pharma
• Marketing Strategy -gt Developing Partnerships
• Market Research
• Market Sizing
• Competitive Intelligence
• Sales Rotations
• Finance
• Investor relations
• Funding strategies for start-ups
• Corporate finance for larger firms

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How to Get Involved

• CED www.cednc.org
• Volunteer for events through e-club
• Biotech Forum 2nd Monday
• Biotech Club Events
• VCIC Competition
• Entrepreneurship Club Speaker Series

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Websites

• Biotech Club website
• List of applicable sites
• NC Biotech Center
• www.ncbiotech.org

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Other Resources

• Brookings Institution Report
• www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/es/urban/publications/bio
  tech.pdf
• PHRMA Report on New Medicine Development for
  Biotech
• www.phrma.org/newmedicines/resources/2002-10-21.93
  .pdf
• SP 500 Industry Overview OCS Library
• From Alchemy to IPO The Business of
  Biotechnology by Cynthia Robbins-Roth
• The Million Dollar Molecule by