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Biotech / Medical : VGNX: Variagenics, Inc.

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From: Mike McFarland2/23/2002 7:44:29 AM
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Notes from bio presentation:

Richard Shea spoke.

They have 135 employees now.

LOH, SNP, Haplotypes, Gene Expression Profiling>>Prediction

Pharma has not moved very fast into pharmacogenomics,
getting royalties is something they are "working on",
pretty vague.

Diagnostic development program--Genematrix
Vgnx assays and Nucleave at Covance

Outlicensing validated markers

Nanogen MTFHR marker

25 pathways...Candidate gene approach...
Not going to do data subscription model

VIP partners are Amgen and B.I.--
should be a strategic VIP partner in the area
of oncology and other VIP partners in 2002

Should be a diagonstic collab in 2002--is this
the Colorectal?

There are three treatment options for Colorectal,
so that is efficacy and toxicity times 3=6 tests.
"A 200M market"

Something about cardio and CNS academic proof of
principal marker studies.

My notes are very messy and the talk was a little
muddled and seemed to jump around a lot, apologies.
The audio player did not lauch any slides, don't
think that there were any.
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