Healthcare >> Analyst Interviews >> July 23, 2014
David Nierengarten, Ph.D., is Managing Director, Equity Research at Wedbush Securities. He has been a senior analyst covering small-mid cap biotech stocks with a heavy focus on oncology, rare disease and gene therapy. His prior experience in venture capital and operations at a private biotechnology company helps him succeed in analyzing both science and business models. In addition, Dr. Nierengarten has results in predicting Dendreon’s looming bankruptcy, and several M&A events involving NPS Pharmaceuticals and Anacor. Dr. Nierengarten received his B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California at Berkeley.
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TWST: How would you characterize what's going on at the moment in biotech? Is the focus on business or is it on M&A?
Dr. Nierengarten: I think the focus is still on business. I