BioPortfolio Bulletin

  http://www.bioportfolio.co.uk/bulletin_16.htm                           February 12th 2003

• BioPortfolio Membership - directory, tracking and press release service - keeping you informed!!

• BioNewsCast - Getting your news noticed across the internet!

• BioNews Search Engine - the most comprehensive bio/pharma news service on the net

• BioWatch - the most advanced internet-based tracking service

• BioWeb Search Engine - 5,000 bio/pharma websites - industry, government and university sites

• Biotech Watch - a comprehensive database on 600 public biotech companies

• BioCorporate - 10,000 bio/pharma companies - updated

• Daily Updates - selected scientific papers

• Free Life Science Publication Subscriptions

Membership is on an annual basis and we offer either individual membership packages (academic or standard) or corporate packages.  Are you a Business Development Manager seeking collaborators? Are you a CEO that needs to keep abreast of the latest bio/pharma news?  Are you a researcher wanting to track competitor R&D? If so, become a BioPortfolio Member - Download our pdf brochures + order forms - print and circulate to your colleagues:

• Individual Membership http://www.bioportfolio.com/pdf/BioMembership_individual.pdf 
• Corporate Membership http://www.bioportfolio.com/pdf/BioMembership_corporate.pdf 

Visit: http://www.bioportfolio.com/membership_services.htm 

• BioNews http://www.bioportfolio.com/services/wire.htm   type in "Jerini"

• Moreover http://www.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?o=portal&c=Biotech%20news   type in "Jerini"

• AltaVista http://uk.altavista.com/news/default    type in "Jerini"

• Ask Jeeves http://www.ask.com/news/headlines.asp  type in "Jerini"

Download:  http://www.bioportfolio.com/pdf/BioNewsCast.pdf for BioNewsCast brochure

Click below for news categories:

You can design you own categories by creating Personal Agents - See BioWatch Tracking.

BioWatch allows each registered user to create ‘Personal Agents’ that can be trained to search these databases for topics of importance to you. Each ‘Personal Agent’ alerts you by email when new information relevant to your needs appears on either source.  BioNews is updated every 30 minutes to ensure immediate access to the latest news items.  BioWeb gives you access to updates on 5,000 web sites focused on the biotechnology sector.

You receive:

• high quality information specifically targeted to your needs

• summary reports hyperlinked to the original source and delivered directly to your mailbox

You have:

• The flexibility to change and adapt your ‘Personal Agents’ at any time as your needs develop

• The ability to score your screen results by relevance for rapid evaluation

Are you a Business Development Manager seeking collaborators? Are you a CEO that needs to keep abreast of the latest bio/pharma news? If so, become a BioPortfolio Member - download either:

• Individual Membership http://www.bioportfolio.com/pdf/BioMembership_individual.pdf 
• Corporate Membership http://www.bioportfolio.com/pdf/BioMembership_corporate.pdf 

New Price Structure: Corporate Members get the BioNewsCast service FREE - Academic membership $80.00 pa, Standard single user $160.00 pa, Corporate membership starts at $300.00 pa. Order here!

Go to: www.bioportfolio.com/cgi-bin/acatalog/Bioportfolio_BioPortfolio_Membership_31.html 

• Increases productivity - no need to search across 5,000 sites and 1000's of news service - BioWeb and BioNews provides a one-stop-solution.
• Gives you immediate access to 1.5 million web pages and files from 5,000 companies/organizations..
• Provides you with a searching tool more advanced than any other freely available on the Internet.
• Increases productivity - you spend time identifying the right information rather than searching across search engines that are not comprehensive to the life science sector, have dead links and do not index all major file types.
• Searching is absolutely FREE!!!

Example searches: Breast Cancer Biotechnology, What are Stem Cells?, Detection of Alzheimer's, Bioinformatics and drug development    

Go there: http://www.bioportfolio.co.uk/cgi-bin/dialogserver.exe?FILE=search&SAVEDB=search 

Biotech Watch's Premium database offers in-depth coverage of companies in the sector and the ability to search and sort based on more than twenty parameters. Our TrialView database offers disease-specific and sector-wide clinical trial information. In addition individual company reports are available on all 600 biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.

If you are new to BiotechWatch, be sure to take our tutorial. Biotech Watch's company profile has information on their staff and history. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.

BioCorporate is updated every four weeks from on-line submissions and in-house research to ensure that new companies are added and profiled.  It has become a powerful online resource to identify which organizations are active in the bio/pharma sector, where these organizations are based and what they are doing.

Biotechnology Centers (first 100):
Boston : Worcester : San-Francisco : Oakland : San Jose : San Diego : Raleigh : Durham : Seattle : New York : New Jersey : Philadelphia : Wilmington : Los Angeles : Washington

Biotechnology by State/Region (first 200):
British Columbia : CA : Cambridgeshire : CT : FL : Greater London : IL : MA : MD : MI : MN : NC : NJ : NY : OH : Ontario : OR : Oxfordshire : PA : Quebec : Tokyo : TX : VA : WA

To view and search over 1500 management reports:
www.bioportfolio.com/cgi-bin/acatalog/Bioportfolio_Market_Research_and_Consultancy_Reports_4.html 

To view new reports in January 2003: http://www.bioportfolio.com/cgi-bin/acatalog/New_Reports_Janaury.html

• Molecular Approaches Towards HCV Therapy - The Complete Guide
• Market and Sales Guide to the Swedish Biotechnology Market
• Advancements in Colon Cancer Therapeutics
• Antibody Market Update
• Direct-to-consumer advertising & prescription drug promotion
• Rx-to-OTC 2003 (3rd Annual Edition)
• Microbiotechnology Seizing New Opportunities in a Complex Market
• Prospects for Commercialization of Human Monoclonal Antibodies

New Discovery Dossiers by LeadDiscovery:

• The retinoids: Therapeutic & pharmaceutical opportunities [abstract]

• Dual prevention of osteoporosis and atherosclerosis [abstract]

• Targeting endogenous inhibitors of apoptosis: Therapeutic Opportunities [abstract]

• Inhibitors of angiogenesis as treatments of rheumatoid arthritis [abstract]

• 5-HT7: Pharmaceutical opportunities in the fields of CNS and cardiovascular disorders [abstract]

• Pharmaceutical development opportunities surrounding osteoporosis [abstract]

Over 10,000 scientific articles are published each week.  While most of these push forward the frontiers of science only a small proportion can be considered central to the identification of new therapeutic targets.  Identifying these represents a difficult and time-consuming task for busy drug development personnel. 

DailyUpdates, the latest drug discovery tool from LeadDiscovery has minimized these problems delivering a brand new scientific surveillance tool to the drug discovery sector.

• Cancer: http://www.bioportfolio.com/LDAPPLET/oncology.htm

• Pain: http://www.bioportfolio.com/LDAPPLET/pain.htm 

• Metabolic disorders: http://www.bioportfolio.com/LDAPPLET/metabolic.htm 

• Cardiovascular: http://www.bioportfolio.com/LDAPPLET/cardiovascular.htm 

• Immunology: http://www.bioportfolio.com/LDAPPLET/immunology.htm 

• Introduction: http://www.bioportfolio.com/ldapplet/ 

• http://www.drugdev123.com/news/headlines.shtml 
• http://www.ithaka.co.uk/ 
• http://www.melifesciences.com/ 
• http://www.bioportfolio.com/link.htm