Gordon Ringold

Surromed had to change their business plan due to two reasons, says Ringold: 1) External climate

Ringold talks about how patents are critical in different ways in different stages of a company. Patents in the early stage are very important to ...

Surromed has had to adapt its business plan, downsize the company, and pair down numbers of diseases, says Ringold. Things are very different from when ...

Ringold informs us that drugs for lowering blood pressure and those to lower cholesterol are among the leading pharmaceutical products today--and these are not treating ...

Ringold talks about Surromed's goals: 1) To improve the use of existing drugs and diagnostics

Ringold partnered Alex Zaffaroni, a pioneer in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry, to help start biotech companies. The upshot was, they started Maxygen, run by ...

Ringold thinks that biotech companies are fighting the consequences of what to place in the bubble of dotcoms. The bubble was not based on reality. ...

Ringold talks about how the pharmaceutical industry is built on failure and inefficiency and has a small success rate. This recognition led to Surromed. The ...

Ringold talks about the decision to move away from being a technology based company at Affymax to applying the technology to pharma because of the ...

Ringold talks about the idea behind and the history of combinatorial chemistry to accelerate the process of drug discovery. He then talks about a technology ...

Ringold discusses in detail two ways of categorizing companies. Type A companies have found a solution for a fundamental problem. Technology or new approaches have ...

Ringold talks about the fundamental differences between sole entrepreneurship in the academic setting versus entrepreneurship in an industry setting: a change in dynamics from a ...

To be an entrepreneur you need to have passion for what you are doing and this will lead to other opportunities, says Ringold

Gordon Ringold, CEO of the Glaxo-Wellcome Group's Affymax Research Institute, shares what he thinks an entrepreneur is - someone who says, I can do it. ...