This page contains a collection of links to help with your biotech and pharmaceutical stock research, trading, and education
Biotech/Pharma/Medicine/Drug Development - Sources for News and Events
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Healthcare/Biotech/Pharma/Investing Journalists, Writers, and Bloggers
- And other secrets of the buy side - Blog from professional investor and entrepreneurship professor David Sable @dbsable
- Endpoints - New aggregator of trending biotech news and analysis from @AKArsalan
- FDA Law Blog - Updates on news and rulings from Hyman, Phelps & McNamara
- In The Pipeline - Drug discovery, job market, and industry trends blog from @dereklowe
- Loncar Blog - New blog and YouTube Channel from individual biotech investor @bradloncar
- Open Reading Frame - oncology-focused stock analysis and commentary from Ohad Hammer
- Ozgur Ogut - blogging on biotech / pharma clinical trial results and investing @ogut_ozgur
- Pharmagellan - personal blog from industry executive @Frank_S_David
- Placebo Control - blog related to pharma / clinical trials from Paul Ivsin @ivsin
- RNAi Therapeutics Blog - RNAi, antisense, and microRNA drug development from Dirk Haussecker @RNAiAnalyst
- Sugar Cone Biotech R&D - Oncology focused commentary from @PDRennert
Biotech Stock Info, Earnings, Transcripts, IPOs, SEC filings and Related Links
- Conference Call Transcripts - collates transcripts from multiple sources on the web
- Earnings Cast - New site with webcast streams and MP3 downloads @EarningsCast
- Earnings Impact - source for conference call webcasts and transcripts @EarningsImpact
- Earnings Whisper - Calendar of confirmed earnings release dates
- Morningstar Earnings Transcripts - generally large companies only, better quality than SeekingAlpha
- Pharma/Biotech companies index - find corporate and organizational blogs, Twitter feeds, etc c/o PM Live
- Rank and Filed - New website providing more user-friendly access to corporate SEC filings
- Retail Roadshow - gives you access to presentations from companies getting ready to launch their IPOs
- Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) - official source for 10-Ks, 10-Qs, 8-Ks, form 4's and more (don't know what those are? see below)
- SeekingAlpha Healthcare Transcripts - the most comprehensive source for biotech conference call / webcast transcripts
Public Information Resources from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Advisory Committees - schedule, briefing documents, historical transcripts, etc
- Drugs @ FDA - find approved product labels plus the FDA review documents (clinical, toxicology, manufacturing, etc)
- Guidance documents - summaries of FDA's current thinking on wide variety of topics
- Interactive Media - links for Twitter, RSS, Youtube feeds, email alerts, etc
- Presentations Library - archive of slide decks from talks given by FDA senior managers
Clinical Trials, Publications, Data Presentations, Abstracts, and Patents
- Clinicaltrials.gov - Searchable US database of active and completed clinical trials.
- Clinical Trial Database - Heath Canada equivalent of above site.
- Clinical Trials Register - Searchable European clinical trial database.
- Conference Calendar - Life Science conference listings from MacDougall Biomedical Communications.
- Deep Dyve - This site gives you access to scientific and medical journal articles that normally require an expensive subscription
- Google Patent (beta) - Alternative to USPTO office website
- International Clinical Trials Registry - similar to US and EU links above, run by WHO.
- IFPMA Clinical Trials Portal - Combines listings from multiple clinical trial databases
- OpenGrey - European abstract search (hopefully a partial replacement for the defunct MindCull)
- Poster Session Online - Download medical/scientific data presentations from conference (mostly European)
- PubMed - Searchable database of scientific and medical publications, including links to full-text articles when available
- Sure Chem - searchable database of chemical drug structures disclosed in patent filings
- United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) - full-text searching of U.S. patent applications and issued patents
Other Helpful Educational Resources for Biotech Investing
- CancerGuide - cancer basics, info on specific types, statistical primers, and much more!
- Deciphering the 10-K (The Financialist)
- EDGAR - Researching Public Companies Through EDGAR: A Guide for Investors (from the SEC)
- FDA Tracker - Advisory Committee historical data from @FDA_Tracker
- Financial Statements - Beginner's guide to reading financial statements (from the SEC)
- "How to Calculate Patent Expiration Dates" - From Generics Web website
- Net Operating Losses - Tax treatment of NOLs on merger, with calculator excel spreadsheet
- Statistics Done Wrong - Alex Reinhart
- Valuation: an online class - Aswath Damodaran (NYU Stern School of Business)
- Valuing Royalty Streams - Article from Royalty Pharma