1. We don't know how much Follica has raised, because they area a PRIVATE company. They are also associated with one of the best medical research universities on the planet.
2. $30 million in one round IS significant money, and Shisedo is a major corporation worth about $1b.
3. "Samumed likely hasn't raised $100m" - "likely" lol
4. Kytheria is valued at about $2b
5. "Pharma" refers to any biotech company, not just a company that makes "pharmaceuticals." As in "Kytheria bioPHARMAceuticals
You've answered NONE of my questions, as I've proved above.
"Mind you, none of these biotechs has someone else handling their PR. But even if they did, I'd bet you'd be complaining that the PR person doesn't know enough about the actual science." - are you kidding? Every major corporation has someone handling their PR, either in house or hired. Or do you think research scientists write their press releases? PR is a MASSIVE industry, and every corporation of any size has either in house or contracts.
"Howcome I haven't seen your complaints about these biotechs being desperate when I conducted interviews with Kerastem, Kythera or the two times I met with Replicel?" Kerastem is a scam. Replicel is another Histogen - underfunded (a penny stock - currently trading at a 52w low - with a market cap under $10m), unproven, and desperate for PR so they can raise more money. As for Kytheria, where did you talk to them? A conference where they will talk to anyone?
Dude, just stop.
Man you're a complete idiot, like straight up! How is Keralstem a scam,i've actually been looking into it pretty intensely and they're very honest with what they can achieve and they seem very reputable,not to mention their clinical data supports their claims, and the photographs look good. As for histogen they would've cut their losses a long time ago if they weren't showing any results, that is a fact. There is literally nothing to gain especially for an M.D. That wants to have a productive future in the field of medicine, in falsifying results! This isn't early 2000's anymore people don't get away with scams for long, if they were falsifying results to get it out to the market in Mexico to collect as much money as they could as I said they wouldn't make much, and the amount of time they put into promoting this product and going through clinical trials and falsifying results wouldn't remotely be worth it you might as well just work construction! Make about the same, with the amount of effort and time put in, and at the end of it you wouldn't have legal fraud suits blow up in your face, just a steady paycheck!
OK I can assure you I know more about clinical trials, I'm an SCI patient and since the day I broke my neck I have been following various clinical trials, and very early scientific advancement and research. Here's an example invivo therapeutics was one of the first companies to show gait improvements in actual primate animal models, not rats! But they were private company, stock going for about $.50 it jumped up a bit after the show that video! But even the most seasoned investors, don't understand the science,don't understand the severity of the injury and the massive implications even slight recovery can have! So basically they only see big bright flashing results, that they're ignorant mind can comprehend "oh that looks good here's money". Two years later after their stock had gone down, because clinical trials take an astounding amount of effort and time unfortunately; in vivo therapeutics the game of phase 1 clinical trial using their scaffolding on acute spinal cord injuries. After a few patients results came out and showed positive improvements their stock went from about $.40 to $ 14.61 there market capital went from around $30 million-$250 million plus in a matter of a few. Here we are six months later and their stock has dropped massively, last I checked it was four dollars maybe it's gone out maybe it's gone down even though their clinical trial continues to move forward showing decent results, they had tons of funding but the process takes a very long time, so people jumped off the bag and waggon of get rich quick. Meanwhile a different company using a spinal stimulator did a case study with 25 quadriplegics all of which showed substantial recovery, like groundbreaking! The head doctor being a very reputable man, had many investment firms wanting to invest but they wanted certain stipulations on their investment, one being cancelling the work on the implantable stimulator the doctor could not reach an agreement therefore this groundbreaking research has been in hibernation for two years now almost! That research can get no funding at this time yet it will be a billion dollar device/company in the decades to come; not to mention the reason people like me recover a substantial amount of function! There's just so much at play,that you don't possibly understand! The fast amount of time and effort put in the clinical trials, investors ignorance, the get rich quick Beggin wagon, unstable markets, human nature, conflict of interest! You want to know one thing though all of the results of both of those clinical trials are beyond accurate, there isn't any falsified claim because that could completely destroy 40 years of research in the blink of an eye, not to mention their reputation!
And you know what makes this even more relevant on this topic, SCI has no treatment; Not one. And it is actually a very serious medical condition. Hair loss is not. So there's much more emphasis on getting a treatment to market for SCI, yet all of those often trivial situations slow the work down as well as the funding! Not to mention hair loss has two approved treatments, which means a few things! It's no news to anybody that these treatments make billions of dollars every year, those companies have a monopoly of the market, they are the solid investments at this time. Any of these new treatments for hair loss have to show either far better improvements, or at the very least equal improvements with far less side effects compared to the available treatments for FDA approval. This is blatantly obvious fact for researchers, so if there research wasn't leading to either one of those directions again they would cut their losses! The point I'm getting at is you cannot judge the quality of research,based on the amount of investors they attract! There are far too many factors that come in to play in that regard! Videos, photographic proof and clinical data are what you base research on. If they make it into a phase 3 in the US, watch how many ignorant investors will flock to them without even viewing The clinical data.…
The biggest thing is invivo therapeutic scaffolding, the spinal stimulator's they're not "cures" people don't turn 100% able-bodied jump right out of their wheelchairs on video after using them. No different then Keralstem and histogen they are not a cure for hair loss they are treatment, hair isn't sprouting out of their patients scalp like fireworks, therefore it's not bright, pretty, colourful, flashyeasy to understand for the masses therefore it doesn't go viral, which means investors remain ignorant and/ or hesitant. That does not mean that any of what I stated is not very productive research that will turn into a very effective treatment!
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I waited as long as I could, watching him Sproat how they're not attracting lots and lots of investors, as if that proves that their work is not productive/ efficient or a "scam"! But you know that doesn't prove ****, and I couldn't stand it anymore... Bare with my spelling and grammar errors, on iPad and for whatever reason I can't edit it with the quote staying intact.