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Biotech / Medical : Ciphergen Biosystems(CIPH): -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Biomaven who wrote (23)	2/13/2002 5:49:20 PM
From: tuck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 510

Peter, >>Only if you consider the entire female population of the US over the age of about 45 to be a small market. <g> The point is that this is a screening test that would be used on everyone at risk for the disease.<< You expect they are all considered at risk? Wouldn't some prescreening be done on the basis of family history, genotype, and such? It would be very nice if all females >45 got screened with a CIPH test -- for CIPH shareholders -- not for insurance companies. It seems testing for prostate cancer is done in a greater percentage of the male population than for the female population for ovarian cancer. It was my understanding that prostate cancer is more common, hence greater reward for testing. Been wrong before. Now that you're here, what do you make of the Hutchens dispute? My recollection was that the amounts involved were limited. My feeling was that it would be best to settle rather than pay lawyers to drag it out for years and at greater cost -- no offense. OTOH, Hutchen's Lumicyte is starting to get off the ground (a couple of rounds of venture capital); if it could be viewed as a competitor with inferior resources, maybe, strategically, CIPH should drag it out. Indeed, this multimarker diagnostic work seems to be what Lumicyte is aiming for. It seems to think that CIPH's field for SELDI is in drug discovery. lumicyte.com A scan of this list might give clues as to what other applications are being looked at. ciphergen.com Cheers, Tuck