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Agenda Launches For RESI on MaRS

1 Feb

By Lucy Parkinson, Director of Research, LSN

With RESI returning to MaRS in Toronto on April 10th, LSN has prepared a full day agenda of panel and workshop content. In addition to RESI’s high quality one-on-one partnering, attendees will also have the opportunity to hear directly from investors on a variety of topics in early stage fundraising.

For this RESI event in Toronto, we are introducing panels on Tech Transfer and on Government Research Funding, both of which are key topics in the local ecosystem. RESI on MaRS will also see the return of perennial RESI sessions such as Early Stage Therapeutics, Medical Device Investors, Diagnostics and Digital Health. Additionally, RESI will include panels on increasingly popular topic areas – Family Offices, Genomics, and Big Data & Algorithms in Healthcare. Finally, RESI’s Track 4 presents 4 workshops and panels focused on Asia-North America Partnerships, with deep dives on Cross-Border In-Licensing, the Asia Investors Landscape, and more.

RESI on MaRS is a chance to immerse yourself in the early stage life science fundraising world for a day, with full-day partnering and the opportunity to educate yourself on the latest in funding new healthcare technologies and building strategic relationships. If you’d like to attend, sign up now.

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Life Science Nation Considers RESI China

1 Feb

By Jessica Yang, Investor Research Analyst, LSN

Life Science Nation (LSN) has created a fully integrated global matching platform that allows for buyers and sellers in the early stage life science arena to find and connect with each other based on a company’s stage of development and product. An integral part of LSN’s matching platform is the Redefining Early Stage Investments (RESI) conference series that that currently is held six times a year in life science technology hubs throughout North America and Europe. RESI is a one-of-a-kind partnering event, in that the event has a 1:1 ratio of scientist/entrepreneurs to investors/strategic partners. Hundreds of investors and strategics regularly attend the RESI conference to source technology deals.

LSN has been approached over the last two years regarding bringing the RESI conference to China. The LSN Research team has done significant outreach to help establish a strong ecosystem of China-based investors who speak on our RESI panels and use RESI as a vehicle to source and vet diverse technology assets across the silos of drugs, devices and diagnostics and digital health.

You Can Help LSN Decide on RESI China

LSN currently has concerns about bringing RESI to China, and indeed to Asia. At a typical RESI event, half of the attendees are scientist-entrepreneurs who have left a major pharma/healthcare firm or a university to create their own startup company, with initial funding sourced from government grants, friends and family, or angels. These scientist-entrepreneurs then attend RESI conferences to find additional funding. The issue for LSN and RESI is to understand if China has a sufficient number of scientist-entrepreneurs in China who are starting companies independently of government, pharma or academia? Also, if the Chinese model of life science company development is different, how can RESI adapt our conference to the Chinese model and make it work? If you’re interested in seeing RESI come to China, please take this survey below to help us better understand how we can successfully bring RESI to China. We are looking for sponsors and partners to support us in this initiative.

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LSN Launches RESI on MaRS Innovation Challenge with an All New Application Portal – LSN Sourcing & Ranking Expert System

25 Jan

By Samuel Rubin, Business Development Manager, LSN

After receiving some excellent feedback from past applicants, the RESI Innovation Challenge Review Team has re-tooled the online application to create a standardized and efficient Sourcing & Ranking Expert System. For years LSN has been evaluating technologies for government organizations, large pharma, and other groups using this system to vet biotech, medtech, diagnostics, and healthcare IT companies based on their science and “invest-ability”.

LSN believes the RESI Innovation Challenge application process will now be more logical and easier to navigate, streamlining the process from beginning to end. The application has now launched online. The deadline to apply for RESI on MaRS is Friday March 2nd. We look forward to reviewing all of your impressive applications!

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RESI on MaRS 2017 Dynamic Statistics

18 Jan

By Chris Cummings, Senior Marketing Manager, LSN

In April 2017, RESI brought over 250 qualified life science investors to the Toronto ecosystem. The investors came from all corners of the globe; large strategic partners flew in from China to join local family offices just down the street from MaRS Discovery District. Over 900 meetings occurred over the course of the day. Taking a closer look at exactly where investors came from and who they met with confirms the global cross-pollination of early stage life science RESI fosters.

RESI, for that day, was able to expand the pool of capital in Toronto beyond Canada’s borders. About 50% of the investors who attended the event were from the United States, Europe, or Asia.

Investment firm types were far from homogenous as well. No single category of investor dominated the event, creating a platform where every fundraising company can find the capital that most accurately suits their needs.

Investors came to RESI on MaRS primarily to meet with new interesting technology. Over 80% of investor meetings were with fundraising companies.

RESI also offers a platform for fundraising companies to collaborate with relevant service providers, non-profits, and even other fundraising companies.

This data goes to show that RESI on MaRS truly offers an unparalleled platform for players in the early stage life science game to find partners from across the world, driving innovation forward and, ultimately, putting much needed treatments in the hands of patients.

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RESI San Francisco Innovation Challenge – Check Out the Winners

11 Jan

By Nono Hu, Director of Marketing, LSN

RESI San Francisco 2018 was the biggest Redefining Early Stage Investments event yet. In a highly competitive RESI Innovation Challenge we saw novel technologies represented from the therapeutics, medtech, diagnostics, and healthcare IT verticals – we know it was tough for RESI attendees to choose how to allocate their 5 RESI “investment” tokens! We wish all our finalists the best in bringing their products forward toward commercialization, but there could only be 3 top prize winners.

First Place: CorInnova

With a $6 million lead investment from the UK-based Wellcome Trust ($26 billion in assets), CorInnova is developing an innovative minimally invasive cardiac assist device to treat heart failure. The collapsible soft robotic direct cardiac compression device, deployed minimally invasively into the pericardial space around the heart, does not touch the blood. The device should reduce hospital length of stay from 30 to 4 days and adverse events vs. LVADS by 40%. It will expand the eligible patient population 3 to 4X to an addressable market of up to $14 billion. CorInnova has a world-class team. First-in-human trials are anticipated to begin in 18 months. Three similar cardiac companies with only 10 patients’ data sold for $250 to $400 million in cash.

Boris Leschinsky, Vice President of Product Development,CorInnova | Dennis Ford, CEO, Life Science Nation | William Altman, CEO, CorInnova | Keith Svagerko, Vice President, Business Development, CorInnova

 

Second Place: ImmunoBiochem Corporation

ImmunoBiochem is a privately held biopharmaceutical company solving the problem of tumor heterogeneity by targeting unique proteins enriched in the secretomes of cancer cells with Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs) – a promising class of biological anticancer therapeutics. ImmunoBiochem has identified a class of molecular targets that are secreted by cancer cells, but not healthy cells, and possess unique properties enabling the highly-selective delivery of toxic payloads to cancer cells, while leaving normal cells unharmed. ImmunoBiochem’s next-generation biologics aim to offer a superior safety profile and broad therapeutic window. Lead candidate, IMB-212, is aimed at a well-characterized cancer biomarker supported by a wealth of clinical data, and is being developed for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) – an aggressive disease for which no targeted biologics treatment options are available.

Dennis Ford, CEO, Life Science Nation | Anton Neschadim, CEO, ImmunoBiochem | Lucy Parkinson, Director of Investor Research, LSN

 

Third Place: Biorez

Biorez is an early-stage regenerative medicine company developing a bioresorbable scaffold for ACL reconstruction. Despite over 400,000 procedures each year, current surgical options are limited to autograft tissue, which requires a patient to sacrifice their own tendon, or allograft tissue, which is harvested from cadavers and has a higher failure rate. There is a large, unmet clinical need for a consistent, off-the-shelf device for ligament regeneration. The Biorez device provides the necessary strength to support physical activity, while its highly porous, proprietary structure facilitates a patient’s own cells to follow the scaffold and regenerate new functional tissue. The company is supported by early-stage VC investors, world-class scientific advisors, and a dedicated team to commercialize this exciting technology.

Dennis Ford, CEO, Life Science Nation | Kevin Rocco, CEO, Biorez | Lucy Parkinson, Director of Investor Research, LSN

Thank you to all who competed in the RESI JPM Innovation Challenge, and to all the RESI attendees who took part by investing their votes in their favorite competing companies. Welcome to join our upcoming RESI on MaRS event on April 10th, register now.

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Are You Ready For RESI JPM? Time To Check Out The Program Guide

4 Jan

By Nono Hu, Director of Marketing, LSN

JPM week is almost upon us, and at Life Science Nation, we’re making the final preparations for RESI San Francisco. It’s our largest event of the year; if you want to join over a thousand life science executives and investors for targeted one-on-one meetings, you’ve got 5 more days to sign up. In the meantime, please check out the RESI Program Guide below to see all our RESI Innovators, sponsors, exhibitors and speakers. With attendees from all over the world coming to RESI to make new connections and continue compelling dialogues, RESI San Francisco is the most focused event next week for early stage companies and investors. We’ll look forward to seeing you all face to face next week.

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Over 400 Qualified Life Science Investors Registered For Redefining Early Stage Investments (RESI) Conference at JP Morgan, Jan 9th at Marine Memorial Hotel, Union Square

28 Dec

By Dennis Ford, Founder & CEO, Life Science Nation; Creator of RESI Conference Series

RESI is different, in that, the LSN research team actually qualifies all the investors that attend the RESI conference. The LSN researchers, through one-on-one phone conversations, validate that all the investors have current or future mandates to invest in early stage technology assets across the domains of drugs, devices, diagnostics or healthcare IT. Fundraising CEOs and scientist entrepreneur’s don’t have to guess who they are meeting with on the other side of the table. As a matter of fact, we kindly ask the I-banks, broker dealers and debt providers to sign up as service providers so the fundraisers know who’s who in the whirlwind of meetings taking place at RESI. This will be our fourth RESI @ JPM and we expect to close down registrations due to the capacity constraint on the Marine Memorial Hotel in Union Sq. The good news is we are still accepting registrations “click here to register”.

RESI @ JPM will be the most compelling event LSN has held because the investor to fundraiser ratio will be 1-to-1, as amazing as that sounds. If you are a fundraising executive please take advantage of this opportunity to meet investors that are a fit for your stage of development and product set. RESI Partnering is now up and running with half of the meetings now booked. There is still time to dramatically impact the number of investors on your radar screen. Raising money is a numbers game, and RESI was created to help identify investors that are a fit, create a dialogue, and foster relationships that help you move towards allocations. Please scroll down and see the investors currently signed up for RESI at JPM.

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