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OpusPoint Partners: Trendsetters in the Life Science and Healthcare Industry

09 Sep

OpusPoint Partners are now the trendsetters in the advancement of life science and healthcare. They are on a quest to revolutionize the way in which the newest innovations in healthcare will be delivered to the market. Their vision requires that time and money be invested into companies whose innovations require that extra financial push to make it into the industry.

OpusPoint Partners was founded by visionaries Michael S. Weiss and Dr. Lindsay Rosenwald in 2009 with dreams of improving the levels of healthcare and medicine throughout the world. This was only one of a number of biotech companies founded by these two men who have retained their passion for the world of biotechnology with their combined 40 years worth of experience, investing in the fields of life sciences and biotechnology and ensuring that the future of all mankind is stronger and healthier.

Dr. Lindsay Rosenwald is also accredited with the founding of another company called Cougar Biotechnology Inc. which is Los Angeles based and has an excellent portfolio which includes experimental drugs for cancer which have been impressing researchers and investors worldwide. One of these drugs has received a wealth of attention because of its success in the treatment of prostate cancer that has advanced to the late stages. On July 10, 2009, Johnson and Johnson purchased Cougar Biotech Labs for an estimated one billion dollars.

OpusPoint Partners with Lindsay Rosenwald has been focusing on growing the connections with the investment and biotechnology communities and building these strong business links. Integrity is the hallmark of their operation and this trait is practiced with full and open disclosure and honesty in their investing. They found that when good core values are shared in the establishment of the business the companies and industry leaders develop strong business relationships. Recognition that integrity is not only a good business practice but is intrinsically interwoven into the fabric of the organization’s culture keeps all of the parties grounded and focused.

These business teams are made up of various individuals and corporations as well as investors and researchers with a common mission to help the emerging companies attain their critical business goals and succeeding in providing the world with revolutionary innovations to improve the diagnosis and treatment of many diseases. Collectively with these teams, OpusPoint Partners will continue to make new discoveries in these fields and invest more into research companies that are on the threshold of accomplishing great medical breakthroughs.

Dr. Lindsay Rosenwald and OpusPoint Partners have taken the area of biotech investing to new heights. They are setting the trend by raising the bar for investing and advising biotechnical facilities, by employing a strong set of values and insisting that sound business principles be applied. With these business tools being utilized they believe that investors can be provided with optimal returns, without increased exposure to the risks. This formula has been tested and has proven to be effective.

Dr. Rosenwald is well prepared for the challenges ahead as he has had more than seventeen years experience as a biotechnology entrepreneur on Wall Street. He has kept active in the founding and re-capitalization of private and public companies that are focused on the life sciences and biotech industries. Dr. Rosenwald has both an M.D. form the Temple University School of Medicine as well as a B.S. in Finance from Pennsylvania State University.

For thirteen years from 1994 to 2007 Dr. Rosenwald managed billions of dollars for the Aries Funds which placed more than one billion dollars on healthcare investments and peaked with its assets under his management. He also managed the Orion Fund from 2002 to 2006. The Orion Fund is dedicated to the allocation of private biotechnology investing in particular in PIPEs.

OpusPoint Partners retains its founding principle which is to establish a strong and successful conglomeration that remains committed to honesty and integrity in the areas of life science and healthcare. Business leaders in today’s competitive business environments are pursued by temptations to take the short cuts and compromise their ethics in an effort to produce positive clinical trials to have an impact on their earnings and profits.

OpusPoint Partners has a completely different philosophy. It remains firmly committed to its shareholders made up of investors and employees while still reinforcing fair play in all of its dealings especially when it comes to the testing, investigation and manufacture of drugs.

Change can sometimes be difficult and it will take some work to alter the age-old procedures and techniques in medicine while still remaining within ethical boundaries. Time, money and dedication must be pumped into the projects to avoid the need by the companies to ignore ethics and cross the line of what is right, just to increase the profits.

The future of OpusPoint Partners is promising because of the experienced leadership of Michael Weiss and Dr. Lindsay Rosenwald. As a dual team it is expected that their expertise will be instrumental in the trendsetting modus operandi that improves the areas of medical treatments as well as the diagnosis and treatment of patients.

The successes of OpusPoint are already visible. The company within the last few years has been performing above the initial projected goals and have financed over twenty companies in less than a two year period, proving that the application of best practices and fine-tuned processes have produced promising results and returns in the worlds of finance and drug research.

Dr. Lindsay Rosenwald is on the Board of Directors for the Republican Jewish Coalition which affords him the opportunity to forge close connections to industry leaders in the biotechnology financial sector. OpusPoint Partners are eagerly anticipating a future that is marked by even more successes under its leadership.

 
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J&J’s abiraterone acetate increases survival in prostate cancer patients

12 Jan

In October 2010, Johnson & Johnson presented its second stage of Phase III trial analysis at the European Society for Medical Oncology congress. The agent under investigation was a novel and promising drug, abiraterone acetate, which demonstrated positive results in increasing survival in patients with advanced prostate cancer.

The COU-AA-301 randomized, placebo-controlled trial involved 1,195 patients with castrate-resistant prostate cancer (another name for metastatic advanced prostate cancer). The disease progressed after receiving chemotherapy based on Taxotere (docetaxel). One group of 797 men was treated with abiraterone acetate plus low-dose prednisone, and another group of 398 patients was treated with placebo plus prednisone/prednisolone. The abiraterone group demonstrated increased median survival to 14.8 months compared to 10.9 of the placebo group. Although 3.9 months seems not very much, but according to Lindsay Rosenwald and Johann de Bono, only four drugs in the history of prostate cancer had survival benefit; and abiraterone is likely to bring the change to the lives of patients with advanced prostate cancer.

36 percent of patients treated with abiraterone acetate had median survival and 35 percent had fatal outcome risks compared with patients in the placebo group. Furthermore, patients, who received abiraterone had significant improvement in secondary endpoints, including TTPP or time to PSA progression as well as RPFS or radiographic progression-free survival.

In September 2010, when the trial data demonstrated significant survival improvement, the analysts recommended that the patients treated with placebo in the Phase III study should be offered abiraterone acetate. In late 2010, Johnson & Johnson filed marketing applications for the approval of abiraterone acetate. If approved by FDA, the drug will be distributed in the U.S. and Europe by mid-2011; and then will follow in the rest of the world according to local regulations. Lindsay Rosenwald, MD, one of the lead investors in the biotechnology sector, noted that abiraterone acetate could become a very promising candidate that can bring difference to patients with advanced prostate cancer.

 
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Achievements Of Dr. Lindsay Rosenwald Serve As A Source Of Inspiration For The Youth

10 Jun

In 1991, Dr. Lindsay Rosenwald has led to the achievements in the field of bio technology and medical research. His company soon emerged as basis for the development of other portfolio companies. There are many achievements made by Rosenwald and his group of companies and they are one of the most trusted and most famous companies in the market.

There are many portfolio companies involved in the drug research. There is a separate company which is intended for the co-ordination and facilitation of drug development and drug research in these companies, which are founded by Dr. Lindsay Rosenwald. It is also involved in the general corporate development of the portfolio companies of the group.  Another group is a multi national company. This health care investment company concentrates on the concepts that produce new drugs and also the companies which try to produce them. The main of this company is to provide support to these sprouting new companies. It is crucial in finding the financial support to the portfolio companies. Bio Capital is a broker dealer company that has a valid registration. It is registered with Financial Industry Regulatory Authority which is usually abbreviated as FINRA. The success of Bio Capital Company can be known by looking at the statistics of the company and the fund raised by the company. Till now, the company has raised a whooping amount of nine hundred and fifty million dollars for the development of portfolio companies. All these companies are initiated by Rosenwald. When coming to the life story of Rosenwald, he has done his schooling in Pennsylvania till the year 1973. Then he wanted to join in finance course at masters’ level. So, he moved to Pennsylvania State University. He has completed his graduation in Beta Sigma Gamma in the year 1977. Then he took up medicine studies at Temple University’s school of medicine. After completing his medicine studies in 1983 he joined his internship in Abington Medical Hospital. At the same time, he has started his own practice.

Lindsay Rosenwald has a passion towards finance field and it has led him to move to Wall Street. There he emerged in to a unique person by taking two professions at the same time. They are medical practitioner and analyst.  It is a unique kind of job where he is the first of his kind. Rosenwald got fame in both the professions and he is considered as legend in associating bio technology and life sciences with financial world. His initiations has now seen in the form of bigger companies which are considered as pioneer in their respective fields.

 
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