Healthcare: What Was Biogen Thinking?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Biogen misses out on a huge deal that Novartis completed with AveXis. Plus, Incyte's phase 3 implosion, and what it means for immuno-oncology more broadly.
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| 0:12.8 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the |
| 0:18.4 | stock market every day. |
| 0:19.6 | It's Wednesday, April 11th, as Shannon will point out to you, my birthday, and we've got a roundup of two big news stories, a phase 3 flop with major |
| 0:27.3 | implications across biotech and a big buyout. |
| 0:30.3 | This is Michael Douglas, your intrepid financials host and past health care host, |
| 0:34.8 | filling in for Christine Harges, who is taking a well-deserved vacation. |
| 0:39.6 | And we just decided to change everything up for this episode because Todd Campbell is not calling in either. |
| 0:44.5 | Instead, I'm joined in the studio by health care analyst Shannon Jones who is making her industry focus debut, |
| 0:50.9 | so please welcome her with me to the show Shannon welcome it's good to have you |
| 0:55.2 | Michael thank you so much I am so excited it's a bit surreal to be sitting in here |
| 0:59.9 | with you on your birthday I consider it a privilege and honor. |
| 1:05.0 | Thank you for that opportunity. |
| 1:08.0 | Sure, I'm certainly excited to have you in while I'm subbing for Christine. |
| 1:13.8 | So let's talk about our two big news items and truthfully did not oversell these. |
| 1:22.2 | I think they're pretty major. So the first one, Insight had a major drug |
| 1:27.2 | flop. Let's talk about that a little bit. |
| 1:29.7 | And I would even say major drug flop is probably an understatement at this point. This was and probably |
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