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The Buzz at JP Morgan--Biopharma: New Models Wanted

Perhaps the loudest message from the biopharmaceutical side of the JP Morgan conference was: "Change the Big Pharma model." The theme was pervasive-in discussions of the most interesting products; among the biotechs; indeed in the Big Pharma presentations themselves.

The JP Morgan Annual Healthcare Conference—a.k.a. H&Q—is the first major medical business gathering of the year, and, with 6,700 attendees, certainly the largest. As important for business development and M&A executives as it is for investors, the meeting—280 presentations and millions of hallway and cocktail party conversations--is the best place to gauge industry sentiment, to sound the investor mood, and to try to predict not merely how different segments will perform, but how they'll influence each other. In the following two articles, we attempt to do just that.

Perhaps the loudest message from the biopharmaceutical side of the JP Morgan conference was: "Change the Big Pharma model." The...

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