Since its inception 17 years ago, the BIO Investor Forum has become the premier event where biotech innovators can find investors and strategic partners to advance their company to the next stage in their business life cycle. Over the past two days, more than 340 private equity and public investors…

As more biotechnology executives begin to focus on strategies to diversify their boards to avoid groupthink and strengthen corporate governance, an emerging consensus is forming that initial public offerings are a key gateway to assembling higher-performing leadership teams. That was the unanimous…

Confusion among Chinese investors about shifting U.S. regulatory policy is draining billions of dollars from the American biotechnology sector and stressing startups that rely on foreign capital to cure disease. That was the message of James Huang, a managing partner in Kleiner Perkins’s China…

On Tuesday morning at the BIO Investor Forum, leaders from top companies at the forefront of gene therapy innovation assembled to discuss successful approaches, challenges in protein delivery, and the future of expanding this class of medicines. Gene therapies have the potential to increase the…

BIO has released a new and improved mobile app for the BIO One-on-One Partnering™ system. After intensive surveys and interviews with attendees who have engaged in partnering at BIO business development & investor events around the world, we revamped our partnering mobile app to make the…

After receiving a record number of nominations, we are pleased to announce our winners for the 2019 Buzz of BIO contest of the BIO Investor Forum!  WINNER: Early Stage Entrepreneur   SciBac creates live biotherapeutics that treat antibiotic resistant disease while fortifying the…

The 2020 BIO International Convention is heading back to San Diego, California next June, and planning is well underway! First order of business? Announcing our theme. This year we reflect on the passion, drive and risk-taking of an industry that consistently strives to accomplish things that…

The 5th BIO Latin America was held September 3-4 in the largest metropolis in the Western Hemisphere - Sao Paulo, Brazil. The BIO Latin America Conference, co-hosted by BIO and Biominas Brazil, has solidified itself as the premier life sciences meeting in the Latin America, welcoming over 675…

The fight against HIV has moved off the front pages. Advancements in antiretroviral drugs are allowing people living with HIV to live normal lives. By reducing the “viral load”, these treatments give the immune system a chance to recover and allow the body to fight off infections and certain…

Innovate Biopharmaceuticals has had more meetings through BIO’s One-on-One Partnering™ than they can count. In fact, it is the principal way the company meets candidates for both in-licensing and out-licensing arrangements. Participating for at least six years, the company points out that in the…