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Allen & Overy is an international legal practice and trusted counsel to the world’s leading companies, financial institutions and public sector organisations. In this series of podcasts, our lawyers share their perspectives on today’s most significant global legal, regulatory and commercial issues. Disclaimer: Podcasts are not legal advice. Laws may have changed since a podcast was recorded.
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Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Tine Carmeliet, Juno Hautekiet and Geert Glas discuss how early-stage life sciences companies can survive the so-called “valley of death”. This is the funding gap between making a promising scientific discovery in a laboratory setting and the translation of the scientific findings into human applications and potential treatments for a disease, and is a widely recognized problem.
Our life sciences experts focus on the challenges growth companies face and why it is important to make the right legal decisions early on. They discuss, among other things:
the importance of properly organising seed funding during pre-clinical trial stages;
the maintenance of intellectual property rights and the potential impact of university-funded research; and
the unpredictable and expensive nature of clinical trials, and how to manage these challenges to successfully navigate the “valley of death”.