Just over eighteen months ago, in July 2016, I published an article headlined 'The Coming Boom in Life Sciences, Down Under' in which I suggested that Australia was on the way to a boom for its biotech and medical device sector. I argued that all the elements of that coming Boom were gradually falling into place. Comparing the present day with the investment climate of Australia in the-mid-to-late 1960s, I then gave the opinion that what was needed to kick off the Boom was Australian biotech's 'Kambalda Moment'. What I was referring to was the April 1966 nickel discovery at Kambalda in Western Australia that eventually resulted in the fabled Poseidon Boom three years later. I encourage you to check out my July 2016 article in the light of what I am arguing here - that Australian biotech has just had its Kambalda Moment in the second half of February 2018, and, if I'm right, the Boom is now set to pick up a significant head of steam. The Moment I'm describing is actually two events that happened last week. Firstly, the announcement on Wednesday 21 February that Merck & Co. will acquire the Sydney-based oncolytic virus developer Viralytics for US$394m, and secondly, the announcement the following day that the Melbourne-based regenerative medicine company Mesoblast had successfully achieved the primary endpoint in its Phase 3 study of remestemcel-L in Graft-versus-Host Disease. The fact that we had two 'sit up and take notice' events at the same time makes me particularly bullish about the prospects of the Australian Life Sciences sector. You can check out my latest thinking in today's article, which I've headlined 'It's 2018. Is this the start of the Australian Life Science Boom?'. Enjoy. It's even got a quote from the Bible.
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Frank
28/2/2018 11:42:47 am
We may have just had the 3rd sit up and take notice moment this week with Cynata achieving 50 % complete recovery inside 100 days for Gvhd trial patients. But surely this initial positive safety and efficacy reading for Cyp-001 spells the end for harvesting cells from bone marrow, fat tissue or placentae as an outdated, inefficient, costly and less robust method of stem cell starting material??
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Stuart RobertsSenior Analyst, NDF Research Archives
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