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Business Insights
"Volume 6 / Number 12 / December 2007

Technology Trends to Watch in 2008

Reverse genetics
Interest in personalized medicine hasn't been lost on incumbent
biotech giants, like Roche,Abbott Laboratories [ABT] and Siemens AG
[SI]. Many of them are launching initiatives that combine in vitro diagnostics with therapeutic solutions in one procedure, according to Dr Cheryl Barton, founder of U.K. consultant firm PharmaVision.

Targeted carrier systems represented about half of the $6.5 billion
market for advanced drug delivery in 2006, reported Barton. By 2015,
the sector could see nearly thirty new commercial therapies focusing on treatment for cancer, cardiovascular and infectious disease.
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Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report
"Locking up the IP
Dendritic Nanotechnologies' Donald Tomalia is one of the pioneers of the dendrimer field. Together with the University of Michigan's James Baker, he controls most of the IP behind dendrimers.

In 1992, Tomalia left Dow Chemical to found Midland, Michigan–based Dendritech. Nine years later, when Dendritech folded, Dow granted Tomalia global licensing rights to dendrimer applications in return for waiving future royalty rights; this created the basis for another Tomalia startup, Dendritic Sciences of Mount Pleasant, Michigan. Two years later, Starpharma got together with Tomalia to form a joint venture, Dendritic Nanotechnologies, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia with production and laboratories in Central Michigan University's Center for Applied Research and Technology in Mount Pleasant.

From 1985 to 1995, Dow Chemical and Stamford, Connecticut–based Xerox were dominant dendrimer patent holders, the latter patenting the use of dendrimers in toner and ink dispersion; Bayer and DSM of Heerlen, The Netherlands, also were granted patents for the use of dendrimers in plastics manufacturing and other nano-based products. In 2005, Dow Chemical assigned its entire dendrimer IP to Dendritic Nanotechnologies in exchange for an equity stake in the firm. Then, a year later, Starpharma acquired Dendritic Nanotechnologies for $6.97 million in shares. Thus, Starpharma is currently the dominant dendrimer patent holder.

"I believe they have up to 90% of the patents," says analyst/consultant Cheryl Barton. With a total of 224 patents and applications, StarPharma is also the only company with a dendrimer in clinical trials. "As far as I know they are still out in front, nobody else is close to bringing its dendrimer along as far as they have," says Steven Rutt, IP attorney at Foley & Lardner in Washington, DC. But he still sees room to patent, stating "in an area like dendrimers, where there are so many things to tinker with, it allows you to come up with new improvements." Another dendrimer researcher, Harald Pielartzik, formerly of Bayer, agrees with Rutt: "When industry finds an application, then it's completely normal to license a technology, talk to each other, cooperate. I don't see that as a barrier."
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Vivien Marx Nature Biotechnology 26, 729 - 732 (2008)
"Business watch

SOURCE: PHARMAVISION Companies are racing to produce treatments that exploit RNA interference (RNAi), a natural process that silences gene expression in cells. PharmaVision, a biomedical consultancy based in Chichester, UK, estimates that the market for RNAi therapies could be worth more than US$2.9 billion by 2020. But no RNAi therapy has yet completed phase III clinical trials.

With concern growing over the side effects of RNAi-based treatments, firms must now "conclusively prove the mechanism of action of their products", says PharmaVision consultant Cheryl Barton.

For details of full article see:
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091202/full/462548a.html
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Ananyo Bhattacharya, 2 December 2009 | Nature 462, 548-549 (2009)

 


 

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