Jim Mellon, Al Chalabi

Cracking the Code (eBook, PDF)

Understand and Profit from the Biotech Revolution That Will Transform Our Lives and Generate Fortunes

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Produktbeschreibung

Everything you need to know about the most important trend in the history of the world Within most people's lifetimes, the developments in the biotechnology sector will allow us to live increasingly long and healthy lives, as well as provide us with technological innovations that will transform the way we live. But these innovations offer more than just hope for a better life, but hope for better returns too. Financial returns of incredible magnitude await savvy investors and businesspeople who can see the massive changes on the horizon. This book details these fast-moving trends and innovations and offers extensive advice on how to profit from them in business and investing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119969365
• Artikelnr.: 37351121

Autorenporträt

JIM MELLON is an investor with interests in several industries. He is founder of a listed fund management company, Charlemagne Capital, and an Asian mining group, Regent Pacific. In addition, Jim is a director of Manx Financial Group - an Isle of Man based bank, and a controlling shareholder of Speymill - a property business, and Webis Holdings. He is a co-founder of Uramin and West African Minerals Resources, both mining groups. The Burnbrae Group, his private company, is a substantial landlord in Germany and in the Isle of Man, and he also owns the hotel chain Sleepwell Hotels. Jim spends most of his time working on start-up ideas and on investing. Jim lives in the Isle of Man, Brussels and Ibiza. He is an honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. AL CHALABI is an entrepreneur with a diverse professional background who started his career as a systems engineer in Canada. Following this, he worked as a management consultant advising corporations across a number of industries, and more recently as the CFO for a real estate investment company. He currently runs CASP-R, a firm he co-founded in 2008 to provide independent real estate research and advisory services to investors and corporate occupiers across the Asia-Pacific region. He lives in Hong Kong with his partner Fiona and two young children.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements ix Introduction xi Chapter One Transformational
Technologies 1 Futurists and Scientists Look into the Future 1 The
Convergence of Technology and Biology 13 Chapter Two The Evolution of
Medicine and the Emergence of Biopharma 23 From Atoms to Cells to Living
Organisms 24 The History of the Pharmaceutical Industry 36 Chapter Three
The Drug Industry - Reinventing the Model 55 Big Pharma, Biopharma 59 Drug
Patents 73 The Path to Riches: FDA Approval 79 In Summary 84 Chapter Four
Curing Disease - Promising Prospects in the Main Therapeutic Areas 87
Cancer - Step by Step, Being Beaten 89 Infectious Diseases: New
Antibiotics, Hepatitis and HIV Drugs Make for a Fast-growing Sector 107
Obesity and its Evil Sisters: Type 2 Diabetes and Kidney Disease 118 The
Heart of the Matter - Biggest Killer on the Prowl 128 Fading into the Night
- Neurodegeneration, Rheumatology and Multiple Sclerosis 132 Respiratory
Disease - New Drugs: A Breath of Fresh Air 143 Rare Diseases and Rare
Profits 146 Drugs for Pain and for the Central Nervous System 150 The Best
of the Rest - Ophthalmology, Dermatology, Gastrointestinal and Bone Disease
153 Chapter Five Turning Back the Clock - Stem Cells, Genomics, Gene
Therapy and Regeneration 157 Stem Cells 166 Gene Therapy and Nano Medicine
170 Organ Growth in and out of the Body 178 Chapter Six Demographic Changes
181 The Working Age Labour Pool in the World is Shrinking 191 Can
Immigration Solve the Labour Shortage in the Developed World? 193 The
Social Impact of an Ageing Population 195 The United States is the Best
Positioned Developed Country 196 Support Ratios Have Been Plummeting 197
China's Grey Future 198 What Can Governments Do To Avoid Their Country
Becoming a Nursing Home? 200 Chapter Seven Bioscience's Disruptive
Influences 205 Insurance and Healthcare 206 Real Estate 210 Politics 211
Geopolitics 211 Retail Goods and Services 212 The Food Industry 213 The
Investment Industry 214 The Law 215 Shortage of Young People in Developed
Nations 217 Chapter Eight Robotics and Nanotechnology 219 Robotics 219
Surgical Procedures/Surgical Assistance 220 Medical Monitor/Nurse 223
Housemaid/Domestic Assistance 228 Companion/Pet 229 Nanotechnology 232
Chapter Nine Lifestyle Maintenance 235 It's a Fact: Obesity Shortens Your
Life 235 Extending Life Expectancy 237 Common Traits of People who Live the
Longest 239 A "Cure" to Ageing 240 Telomeres - Our Biological Clock 244
Chapter Ten Investment in Biopharma - Chasing Those Money Fountains 247
Conservative Portfolio 279 Balanced Portfolio 280 Speculative Portfolio 281
Company Overviews 282 Summary 305 Glossary 315 Appendix - Key Financial
Charts of Big Pharma 325 References 327 Bibliography 329 Index 331