Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Tendencias Demográficas en LatAm:
Impacto del Cáncer de Mama en las Américas

Con más de 300.000 nuevos casos y más de 80.000 muertes, el cáncer de mama es el primer cáncer en las Américas en cuanto a casos nuevos y el segundo en cuanto a muertes por cáncer en mujeres

Link al Informe de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud:
http://new.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=21588&Itemid


Fuente: Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) - PanAmerican Health Organization (PAHO)

Monday, June 24, 2013

Tendencias Demográficas en LatAm:
Impacto del Cáncer de Estómago en las Américas

El 60% de los nuevos casos y muertes por cáncer de estómago en las Américas se presentan en hombres

Link al Informe de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud:
http://new.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=21596&Itemid

Fuente: Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) - PanAmerican Health Organization (PAHO)

Monday, June 17, 2013

Tendencias Demográficas en LatAm:
Impacto del Cáncer ColoRectal en las Américas

Tanto en mujeres como en hombres, el cáncer colorectal es la tercera causa de incidencia y mortalidad por cáncer en las Américas

Link al Informe de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud:
http://new.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=21592&Itemid


Fuente: Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) - PanAmerican Health Organization (PAHO)

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Tendencias Demográficas en LatAm:
Impacto del Cáncer de Próstata en las Américas

Con más de 300.000 nuevos casos y más de 75.000 muertes, el cáncer de próstata es el primer cáncer en las Américas en cuanto a casos nuevos y el segundo en cuanto a muertes por cáncer en hombres

Link al Informe de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud:
http://new.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=21594&Itemid


Fuente: Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) - PanAmerican Health Organization (PAHO)

Monday, June 10, 2013

Tendencias Demográficas en LatAm:
Impacto del Cáncer CervicoUterino en las Américas

En América Latina y el Caribe, el cáncer cervicouterino es la segunda causa de incidencia y mortalidad por cáncer en la mujeres

Link al Informe de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud:
http://new.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=21598&Itemid


Fuente: Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) - PanAmerican Health Organization (PAHO)

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Biotech M&A in 2012: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
by Bruce Booth
The numbers are in on the 2012 Pharma/Biotech M&A performance, at least according to our friends at HBM Partners.
The quick summary from a venture-backed biotech perspective: it was a good year although not a great one.  Upfront and total deal values for venture-backed M&A of $3.5B and $8.5B, respectively in 2012.  Those total upfronts are smaller than 2011, but larger than 2008-2010 annual numbers.  Totalannual deal numbers for VC-backed private acquisitions have been relatively steady since 2005 around ~30 deals, except for 2009 when only 19 occurred.  About two-thirds of those deals have financials disclosed.
Here’s my quick take on the Good, Bad, and Ugly:
The Good: median investor multiples on upfront have risen from 1-2x during 2005-2010 up to 2.5x in 2011 and an attractive 3.5x in 2012.  This trend bodes well for returns in the LS venture sector.


The Bad: European biotech exits have lagged in this data.  The median exit value to invested capital multiple in European deals in 2012 was 1.3x vs. 3.5x in the US.  For all but one of the last five years the US multiple has been higher by 50% or more.  While small deal numbers start to test the significance of this, it’s certainly in line with sentiment that it’s been hard to drive great returns in Europe.  Certainly a number of outliers to this point, and a few top venture firms have been able to consistently deliver, but as a sector its been even more challenging than in the US.


The Ugly: The trend on time from founding to trade sale looks painful.  This appears to have gone up considerably from 2005 (~5 years) to 2012 (~9 yrs) in this dataset.  I don’t have the raw numbers per deal around this, so don’t know how much these numbers are skewed by a few ‘older’ companies in each year (e.g., in 2012 DeCode and Enobia were founded 16 and 15 years before, respectively; both had recaps more recently).  But its fair to say the trend line makes the signal hard to argue with and clearly of concern.  Fortunately, time from founding to exit isn’t all that related to product stage and its possible to shorten the investment cycle time with different investment models: of 2012 exits, Skinmedica was 13 years from founding to exit with a marketed product, whereas Avila and Stromedix were less than 6 years from founding to exit with Phase 1 assets.


Lots of food for thought, as usual, in the HBM M&A report.
Fuente: Forbes