RE: Sachs 10th Annual Oncology Innovation Forum 31 May’2410 May 2024 11:17
Seeing "Panellists: Deborah Rathjen, Managing Director & CEO, Carina Biotech Limited" reminded me how company execs can abandon sinking ships and apparently easily get onboard elsewhere to start afresh, while shareholders are left with nothing.
Bioasis, BTI on Canadian Venture, was in the world of trying to transport therapeutic drugs over the BBB using a peptide developed from a natural human protein transporter (melanotransferrin, p97) ), which seemed to work well in the lab, but despite three changes of management, with "Dr DR" as we knew here on Stockhouse being the final attempt, they never managed to sign a partner to develop clinical trials, let alone commercialise it! "Dr DR" was living in Aus and had other roles, so that didn't help either.
See the 14-year downhill trip to oblivion here https://yhoo.it/3I5MwhI on Yahoo (Not available on the cleaner Stockcharts as they have already deleted the symbol it seems).
So, just a reminder there is more pain for shareholders than execs when things go wrong. This is not a comment on Scancell of course, just a weak coincidental connection to a biotech example in the world of startups.