The license gives Mogen, a plant biotech company that has close ties with seed companies, the exclusive worldwide rights to commercialize the patent for all applications to all crops except in DNAP's key business areas, principally premium fruits and vegetables and edible canola oil

Also on the wish list for the first 100 days: -- Enact the Biotechnology Patent Protection Act, to prevent foreign companies from exporting U.S.-patented products to the U.S. -- Support appropriations that would allow FDA to collect user fees and to hire new staff to speed drug approval. -- For the longer term, the two trade chiefs said that certain corporate accounting rules must be changed to enable emerging biotech companies to use stock options to attract scientist and managers...biotech

The merged organization will ably represent each constituency, ranging from multinational heath care companies down to one- to two-person emerging biotech companies," said Sayare. -- David C. Holzman Special to BioWorld (c) 1997 American Health Consultants

Here are verbatim excerpts: There are some 1,100 biotech companies in the total industry, of which 200 are public

To date, Cell Genesys has attracted about $25 million in private equity funding and a number of research collaborations with other biotech companies

has bought out Repligen's interest in their joint venture and purchased $4 million of common stock in the Cambridge, Mass., biotech company (NASDAQ:RGEN

One biotech company representative, who requested anonymity, said the regulations governing what constitutes a "same drug" as one already marketed are virtually identical to interim regulations

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking technology licensing and cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) proposals from pharmaceutical or biotech companies for stabilizing nitric oxide compound technology developed by Larry Keefer of the National Cancer Institute (NCI

But the EDF feels that "FDA's policy sacrifices consumer protection by relying on biotech companies to police themselves," Hopkins said

This will set us apart from other biotech companies that are developing cell-based therapies," Ford said

Selectins as therapeutic targets are of interest to many pharmaceutical and biotech companies

Steven Burrill, national director of manufacturing and high- technology industry services for Ernst & Young, has mixed feelings about how the change in the White House will affect biotech companies

Part of this loss can be attributed to strategic alliances with other drug companies, including biotech companies

This gives the Scarborough, Ontario, biotech company about $7.25 million in working capital

John Lewicki, Scios Nova's vice president for research, told BioWorld that Genentech was originally chosen by Scios (then California Biotechnology Inc.) as its licensing partner in what may have been the first licensing deal between two biotech companies

The Lawrenceville, N.J., environmental biotech company (NASDAQ:ENVG) is testing the ability of its biocatalyst-reactor system, which contains a pure culture of TCE-degrading microbes to degrade TCE-contaminated air streams

Nonetheless, biotech companies and their industry associations praised the USDA's proposals

Biotech companies want to do all the preclinical testing in one place...Pharmakon has ongoing contracts with about 70 biotech companies right now -- up from 40 last year

The four-year, $1.5 million deal gives the Italian biotech company exclusive worldwide rights to "several patent applications being filed on peptide synthesis and disease research," the company said