Healthcare: How To Invest In The Life Cycle Of A Drug
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Walking investors through drug discovery, development, and approval and how to profit at each stage along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:07.0 | It's Wednesday, May 25, 2016, Hump Day of Life Cycle Week, and on this show we are looking at a therapeutic drug |
| 0:15.7 | starting from its discovery and following its life cycle onward. I'm Christine |
| 0:20.7 | Harjus and here to help me tell the tale is Motley Fool Healthcare contributor Todd Campbell coming in via Skype. |
| 0:26.5 | Todd how's it going? It's going great. This is going to be a really fun show I think it's going to be really |
| 0:32.2 | informational for people. |
| 0:33.3 | We're going to talk about discovery, development, approval, marketing, patent expiration. |
| 0:39.5 | We got a lot to cover. |
| 0:40.7 | I think one of my favorite things in planning for this episode was uncovering |
| 0:44.4 | how many different companies are nestled within this process that you don't |
| 0:49.3 | really even think about that much but they're there and a lot of them are publicly traded so we're going to |
| 0:54.5 | provide a lot of interesting investing ideas on this shell. |
| 0:58.8 | First things first I think we should name our drug if we're going to be tracking it over |
| 1:02.2 | its whole life what do you say? |
| 1:03.7 | I think that's a great idea. All right so yeah you got tell me what you think I was |
| 1:09.7 | thinking we name it fool-mab. Fool-ab, that's actually too easy to pronounce. |
| 1:15.0 | We'll go with that. |
| 1:17.0 | You're right, I need a couple of more jays and weird syllables in there. |
| 1:21.0 | But for the purposes of the podcast podcast I think we should keep it simple |
| 1:24.3 | because Lord knows I'm going to trip over it enough already. |
| 1:27.6 | Full Mab it is. So Full Mab is born on this lovely May day. |
| 1:36.3 | First thing in his life would be Discovery. |
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