9.1 billion of venture capital into the bio-pharmaceutical industry, high Yixie - Pharmaceutical Yix

ign="center">investment or "outperform the broader market."
The U.S. biotechnology and medical device businesses,A long time, has relied on the traditional
2007 was another bumper year.pharmaceutical companies to develop products using
In the industry had the largest VC deal, clearlychemical methods, and bio-pharmaceutical companies
revealing Venture capitalists are now most concernedis the use of genes and cells to develop for the
about what istreatment of cancer, arthritis and other diseases.
"International accounting firmNow, traditional pharmaceutical companies have
PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venturerealized they can not be ignored biopharmaceutical
Capital Association recently issued a joint report oncompany, therefore, are willing to invest large sums
venture capital to. Report that, in 2007, ventureof money with the biopharmaceutical company
capitalists to the U.S. bio-pharmaceutical companiesformed a strategic alliance designed to accelerate the
and medical device company into a 9.1 billion of funds,development of new products to replace expiring
setting a new high over the years. "patents existing products.
2007, and fund-raising increased by 20%Philadelphia manages 600 million U.S. dollars, a venture
According to the report of PricewaterhouseCoopersfund QuakerBioventures founder partner SherrillNeff
open in 2007, venture capitalists into U.S. investmentsaid: "The prospect of some large pharmaceutical
company industry, 3813 was 29.4 billion U.S. dollars ofcompanies is not good for us this is good news
capital investment since 2001 is the highest; of whichindeed, we are in are venture capital support for
about 31% of the funds that 9.1 billion U.S. dollars tobiopharmaceutical companies and large pharmaceutical
invest in the bio-pharmaceutical and medical devicecompanies are closely aligned with the primary stage.
industries, making bio-pharmaceutical and medical"
device company funds raised higher than 20% inAt a press conference earlier, SherrillNeff said
2006, reaching the highest ever recorded.investors continued to pound the biopharmaceutical
To invest in other industries such as softwareindustry funds is that the industry has a large
industry capital of 5.3 billion, up 2.7%; to invest inpharmaceutical company needed to bring long-term
Internet companies was 4.6 billion U.S. dollars ofinnovation, large-scale system Pharmaceutical
funds, an increase of 12%. Overall, the United Statescompanies have a small-scale companies do not have
acquired the wind all industries increased by 11% ofthe cash flow, marketing expertise and so on, so
the vote, but in comparison, bio-pharmaceutical andthey naturally become the latter's cooperation
medical device industry, 20% growth in windpartners and acquirers.