Is pharma's job to make medicines or money? And can it do both?

Independent, data-driven research on biopharma's capital markets.

Financial markets are supposed to channel capital toward productive work, and reward the investors who fund it.

We study whether they do in biopharma, an industry whose purpose is making medicines that heal people, and one that much of the public distrusts.

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Is inventing medicines the best way to make money in biopharma?

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R&D doesn't pay pharma shareholders. What does? Analyzing how pharma generates shareholder returns.

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Big pharma subsidizes biotech investors

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Does pharma overpay when it buys biotech companies?

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Is there smart money in biotech?

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Bay Bridge Bio draws on 15 years of experience in biotech finance: investment banking, venture and public-equity investing, and founding a startup. Alongside the research, we advise biopharma companies and investors on valuation, and we're building software tools for biotech investing. If either could help with what you're working on, tell us about it.

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