About 82% of Canadians were already happy with Obama in February, but this week I suspect he converted a few of the holdouts with his call for restoring scientific integrity to government decision making. All was subsequently peaceful and happy in the U.S. of A., leading to M&A rapprochement between Roche and Genentech and to Gilead Sciences riding to CV Therapeutics' rescue.
M&A developments were not so peaceful and happy in Canada, where the Special Committee formed by Patheon's Board called a takeover bid by JLL Partners "substantially undervalued, opportunistic and structurally coercive." Merck and Schering-Plough did a friendly deal this week, though, that will include their Canadian operations.
Across the pond, a proposal for a £1 billion fund for university spin-outs was not restricted to biotechnology; but that's fine with me. Any developments that emphasize common ground among biotech, cleantech and high-tech is a good thing in my book.
Two of our trends in 2009 topics saw interesting action this week as well, with Walmart entering the electronic medical records game, and a follow-on biologics bill introduced in Congress.
Read more about these developments, as well as the Monday Deal Review, the Wednesday Brain Dump and the Friday Science Review at the Cross-Border Biotech Blog, which hit its 100th post and became 1/40th the size of Slaw this week.
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