Monday, August 4, 2014
Roche Buys Santaris (Because It Could Not Buy ISIS)
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When unapproved drugs are the only hope
A movement has begun in several states to address the issue of access to experimental medicines. Called Right to Try, laws have been passed in Colorado, Missouri and Louisiana, and are slated to be on ballot in the fall in Arizona. They aim to facilitate patients' access to experimental medicines by eliminating the need to get the FDA's go-ahead, provided the compounds have been through the initial round of safety testing in phase 1 clinical trials.
"The current process is incredibly cumbersome for sick patients," Darcy Olsen, CEO of the Goldwater Institute, a conservative policy organization that designed the legislation, said in an interview. "The Right to Try laws make it so that as soon as a doctor tells a patient there is a promising drug for you, the patient can then go out right away to the company and seek that approval, and that's going to cut down on the time that patients have to wait enormously."
As Goldwater and other supporters lobby for Right to Try, Olsen said she expects that those laws will be in at least half the United States by this time next year.
‘Right to beg’
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101860676?
Dirk, despite your high praise for ISIS, do you not have any hopes for a bomb shell from ALNY in the next couple of days? Don't tell me ALNY is on the prohibited to speak about list.
Theory: Roche approached Isis, but Isis said it wasn't interested. So Roche buys Santaris to put pressure on Isis to sell because Santaris is challenging Isis' European patent for generation 2.5 chemistry. Roche steps in and is much more of a threat because it has more credibility than Santaris, especially in Europe. Plus Isis has a patent infringement suit against Santaris pending (although it is not clear how important those patents are to Isis).
There are sooooooo many skeletons in that Santaris closet... lawsuits, stolen IP, crap data, Roche will be doing a Merck in a few years time...
Well, would have been the same if they had bought ISIS - lawsuits, crap IP, manipulation of data.
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