Club Biomed &endash; Meeting Minutes &endash; July 17,
2002
- Welcome and monthly contribution collections
- Carlos D. gave a brief Treasurer's Report &endash; we have
collected close to $6,000 dollars as of the third meeting
- John W. provided a quick refresher on what's important in
evaluating a company, in order to keep us focused for the ImClone
presentation that followed
- John W. also reviewed, per the Partnership Agreement, the
voting procedures of Club Biomed. He also displayed a table that
listed the Partner's numbers of votes as of the second meeting
- ImClone Presentation by Carlos, Mona, Bryan, Enrique and
Andrea. Overview:
- Company history
- Scientific/Discovery Strategy
- Pipeline
- Scientific discussion of Erbitux, IMC, BEC-2
- Some financials and market predictions
- Recommendation to continue tracking
- Cluster reports:
- Big Pharma &endash; nothing to report
- Angiogenesis &endash; Enrique provided a handout
- Small Cap &endash; belief that these companies have low
valuation
- Generics &endash; nothing to report
- John urged the clusters to post information about their work
on tightcircle, especially if they decide to do a careful analysis
of any companies.
- We are now starting: (1) Virtual Portfolio and (2) Random
Portfolio
- ImClone will be the first company added to the virtual
portfolio
- After a random drawing out of a hat, Vertex will be the
first company added to the random portfolio and CYAN will be
the second
- Next meeting on September18. It may feature a presentation
concerning the FDA by Enrique and Marcus Reidenberg.
Alternatively we may have more company presentations.
- We finished the meeting by unanimously voting in Carrie
Adelman as new Partner
- Steve and Garrett wanted to create a new cluster that focused
on large companies that supply medical products, such as G.E. and
Tyco.
- We will not meet in August, and will reconvene the third
Wednesday of September.