 |
WelcomeWe are proud of the progress our Life Sciences team continues to make despite the difficult trading climate. Our US team, which is seamlessly integrated with our teams in Europe continues to grow, and the greater breadth of services and geographical reach that we offer as part of the College Hill group has enabled us to attract new clients and better service existing ones. This newsletter is just a snap shot of our work during the last quarter. |
 |
This quarter saw the World Health authorities declare swine flu (H1N1) to be a pandemic, the first global epidemic since the Hong Kong flu of 1968, with the pandemic alert status raised to level 6, the highest possible. So Governments and companies face a new challenge on top of the financial downturn that is still depressing economies. Flu preparedness strategies both remind us of the great contribution that the life science industries have made to developing new drugs and new vaccines, and also of the great power of evolution and infectious diseases to evade the best that modern medical technology can muster!
So with few signs of recovery from the deepest depression in many decades and the impact of swine flu still to be felt, you need every weapon in your communications armoury to be well honed and highly targeted. Smart companies are putting into place proactive communications strategies to ensure they emerge all the stronger when good times return. At College Hill we are both mindful of budget constraints but at the same time creative and forward thinking. We'd be delighted to have the opportunity to show you what College Hill Life Sciences could offer your business.
Sue Charles
Managing Partner, Life Sciences
|
Features
Imperial Innovations chooses
College Hill
Following a four-way process, College Hill has been appointed by Imperial Innovations Group plc (AIM: IVO) to manage its financial and corporate communications in order to raise awareness of the Group’s rapidly growing reputation as a technology commercialisation and investment leader.
View News Item
|
A new visual identity and website
for BioInvent
College Hill has worked with BioInvent on its corporate PR for the past four years. With an in-depth knowledge of the Company and its development, College Hill was chosen to create a new visual identity and website for BioInvent to reflect its maturing status as a biopharmaceutical company.
View News Item
|
In Brief
New Biz: In recent months, College Hill’s Life Sciences team has started working with a number of new clients including: Altair Therapeutics, CABI International, Imperial Innovations, Merck Serono, Nestlé Nutrition, Plasticell and VIA Pharmaceuticals.
M&A: As part of Pembridge’s in-depth series sharing the lives of entrepreneurs on the front-line, Sue Charles shared her thoughts on issues surrounding the M&A environment at The PemBRIDGE CLUB’s quarterly meeting. To read the full transcript, click here.
|
Events We Are Supporting
Biotech in Europe Investor Forum
14 - 15 September 2009
Zurich, Switzerland
2009 London Technology Fund (LTF) Competition
15 September 2009
London, UK
Carl Franklin will be presenting at an LTF Workshop on ‘Promoting Early Innovation’.
The 9th MedTech Investing Europe Conference
5 - 6 October 2009
London, UK
Sue Charles will be a guest moderator for the closing keynote on ‘Assessing the current state of the med tech industry through the recession’.
|
People
Here is a recent team addition and promotion:
|
Conference Roundup
Read our roundups from our attendance at industry events: BIO International Convention 2009, EuroMedtech, ESACT 2009, Bio€quity Europe 2009, EPIC and the 7th European Cytogenetics Conference. More…
Twitter
 Follow College Hill Life Sciences on Twitter to receive the latest news and updates about the company.
|
|
News
College Hill has been appointed by the British Council to develop a PR programme for its Darwin Now campaign, following an invitation to tender and a competitive pitch. College Hill Life Sciences will work with the Darwin Now team to promote its 2009 campaign that coincides with the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work, ‘On the Origin of Species’. More…
|
In April, College Hill announced that it had expanded its client base and bolstered its team in the U.S. During the first quarter of 2009, several organizations in the biotechnology sector selected College Hill to develop and execute strategic public relations campaigns in the U.S. More…
|
With this year’s Bio€quity Europe taking place in Munich, Germany - only a hop, skip and jump from our Munich office - College Hill took the opportunity to host a dinner the evening before the conference. College Hill has had a presence in Munich since 2001, but the dinner also gave us the opportunity to introduce clients and contacts to Erik Clausen, Partner and General Manager, San Francisco, who launched our US office in January this year, and Katja Rinkinen from College Hill’s Frankfurt office. More…
|
Congratulations to our client Ablynx (Euronext: ABLX) who won the 2009 European Mediscience Award for ‘Best Technology’. The Award recognised Ablynx’s pioneering work in the discovery and development of Nanobodies®, a novel class of therapeutic proteins. In February, College Hill secured a feature for Ablynx in The Wall Street Journal and The Wall Street Journal Europe, showcasing its use of llama-derived Nanobodies® to develop treatments for diseases in humans including rheumatoid arthritis, cancer and Alzheimer’s. More…
|
College Hill’s U.S. team recently hosted a gathering of prominent life science innovators, investors, communicators and media from around the Bay Area to celebrate the opening of the San Francisco office at 201 Spear Street. More than 30 biopharma and medical device company executives and other guests were in attendance, and were treated to expert-guided, comparative wine tastings among the oak fermentation barrels at CrushPad Urban Winery in San Francisco. More…
|
College Hill, the international business communications consultancy, is pleased to have been ranked 10th in PR Week’s analysis of the top 25 UK Healthcare agencies, based on 2008 gross revenues from its healthcare PR work by the College Hill Life Sciences sector team. More…
|
|
Meet Us At
31 Jul - 4 Aug
13th World Conference on Lung Cancer
San Francisco, USA - Erik Clausen
3 - 6 Aug
Drug Discovery & Development Week Conferences
Boston, USA - Erik Clausen
7 - 8 Sep
ELRIG - Drug Discovery 2009
Liverpool, UK - Dr Eileen Paul and Kathryn Robertson
12 - 15 Sep
49th ICAAC
San Francisco, USA - Erik Clausen
14 - 15 Sep
Biotech in Europe Investor Forum
Zurich, Switzerland - Dr Douglas Pretsell and Justine Lamond
1 Oct
BIA Autumn Reception
London, UK - Sue Charles
|
5 - 6 Oct
The 9th MedTech Investing Europe Conference
London, UK - Sue Charles, Tony Stephenson, Justine Lamond
6 - 8 Oct
BIOTECHNICA
Hannover, Germany - Dr Douglas Pretsell
11 - 14 Oct
BioPartnering Europe
London, UK - Sue Charles
19 - 21 Oct
IN3 Medical Device Summit Fall West
San Francisco, USA - Erik Clausen
29 - 31 Oct
7th Annual Bio Investor Forum
San Francisco, USA - Erik Clausen
1 - 5 Nov
51st ASTRO Annual Meeting
Chicago, USA - Erik Clausen
|
8 - 12 Nov
2009 AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition
Los Angeles, USA - Erik Clausen
12 Nov
2009 Pantheon DiNA Awards
San Francisco, USA - Erik Clausen
18 Nov
Scrip Awards 2009
London, UK - Sue Charles
18 - 22 Nov
MEDICA
Düsseldorf, Germany - Dr Lynne Trowbridge
19 - 22 Nov
Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) 15th Annual Meeting
Kissimee, USA - Erik Clausen
10 Dec
Genesis 2009
London, UK - Sue Charles
|
|
|
London Tel: +44 (0)20 7457 2020 Manchester Tel: +44 (0)1260 296 500 Munich Tel: +49 (0)89 5700 1806 San Francisco Tel: +1 (415) 230 5385
|
|
www.collegehill-lifesciences.com
|
College Group – News
|
Investment in Precise a Further Step in Building Leading Presence in UK Public Affairs
College Hill announces that it has invested in Precise Public Affairs, the renowned public affairs consultancy led by former Public Affairs News Consultant of the Year Robbie MacDuff and Chris Lowe. Robbie is current Chairman of the Association of Professional Political Consultants, a position also held formerly by College Public Policy Managing Partner Warwick Smith. Read this press release…
College Hill Adds Green Issues to Public Affairs Practice
College Hill announces that it has invested in Green Issues, the UK’s leading consultancy specialising in property, planning and public consultation issues. Green Issues was founded eleven years ago and has built a high quality client base across a range of industry sectors. Green Issues will join the rapidly growing College Public Policy practice, led by its Managing Partner Warwick Smith.
Read this press release…
|
James Hogan Joins College Hill to Lead Media Practice
James Hogan has joined College Hill as a partner, to lead its international media practice. James was previously at Brunswick for 13 years, where he built a market leading international media practice that advised many of the world’s top media brands, including the BBC, BT, Cable & Wireless, Endemol, ITN, STV and Time Warner. James has led numerous high profile media campaigns in the sector such as the launch of BBC Freeview and the successful bid for the Telegraph Group by the Barclay Brothers. Read this press release…
College Hill Dresses to Seduce With Luxury Lingerie Brand
Luxury lingerie brand, Agent Provocateur, has hired College Hill to handle its financial communications. Owned by private equity group, 3i, since November 2007, Agent Provocateur has been nominated for Best Designer Brand at the British Fashion Awards 2008 and voted #1 fashion brand by CoolBrands. Read this press release…
|
|
College Group – Insight
 instinctif is at the forefront of latest engagement thinking, translating business strategy into communication and leadership programmes. It works with its sister companies under the College Hill group to develop and deliver creative campaigns, infrastructure and messaging that drive measureable success for some of the world’s leading companies.
Recently it was the agency retained by Nomura to help them through the critical period following the acquisition of Lehman Brothers in some of the most extraordinary circumstances and dramatic timescales ever experienced. An instinctif team supported Thomson Reuters in its ambition to achieve ‘One Company, One Year’ and it is retained by RBS Insurance. All these three programmes have been awarded 2009 CiB excellence awards, underlining the belief that whilst research and theory have a definite value in informing their thinking, it’s action that gets results. More…
|
|
London | Manchester | Oxford | Edinburgh | Frankfurt | Cologne | Munich | Delhi | Mumbai | Hong Kong | Johannesburg | New York | San Francisco
|
|
