#FierceMadness: The Best Biotech Name Tournament—The Round of 32 is OPEN
24 Mar 2024
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Source: FierceBiotech
What's the best name in biotech? You tell us. Vote now in #FierceMadness: The best biotech name tournament.
March 24: I’m still reeling from the loss of Tentarix in round 1 but the show must go on. I should, however, note that I saw some (absolutely correct) criticism that NightHawk should have been a higher seed and admittedly yes, they should have.
I got a little carried away with the long gangly birds, which I identify with as a tall person, and seeded them according to my personal bird preference. That’s what you get when you ask a Canadian who’s never watched a single game of professional basketball in her life to run a joke March Madness bracket.
Members of the samesies bracket have dispatched with their doppelgangers and can now move forward on the strength of their names. We have always liked HiFiBio around here. Something about those capitals makes it seem like the company is yelling at you.
So let’s get on with it. Voting is now open for the Round of 32. Here's your bracket:
The fine print: To vote, click on the Crowd Signal survey below. You don't have to share any details, just vote. You will get one vote in each poll. Voting for the rounds will be open for two days, closing at 12:01 a.m. ET on March 27.
In the Round of 32, we’re asking you to write in what you would name your own biotech and why. We can’t wait to see your responses and will share the best ones (we will not post any identifying details, so go crazy!).
We will post the final results here on this page before noon after each poll closes. Keep track of the tournament across Fierce Biotech's socials with the hashtag #BiotechBracket. — Annalee Armstrong
https://mollywalker8418.survey.fm/fiercemadness-best-biotech-name-tournament-round-of-32
March 22: The Round of 64 results are in. We've crunched the numbers. We've done the analysis. Consulted a team of esteemed and not real judges. Here are your winners:
Click here to view the bracket
Now I know that the seeding in this tournament was 100% made up but I had Tentarix going far, only to be taken down by Ocelot Bio, which is my pick for the championship.
But you, dear readers, had other ideas. You defeated the #1 seed Tentarix in favor of NightHawk Biosciences with 60% of the vote in the first round. How dare you? I’m reporting of course from Charlottesville, Virginia, where we understand the sting of a #1 seed going down in the first round.
And Red Queen beating Renaissance by 59 votes? I thought for sure the Venn diagram of Beyoncé listeners and biotech was just a circle.
Max Bayer will also be sad to hear that his namesake company, Bayer, has been defeated in the first round. He defied reason, all of his colleagues and even the very official and important rules of the tournament itself to sponsor the German maker of Advil. In the end, Fierce Biotech’s unofficial biotech Tyra Biosciences—which has had us on more than one occasion ask our web development team why we can’t use a GIF of Tyra Banks as a headline image for an article—has taken down the storied 100-year-old pharmaceutical giant 574-411.
Now that is #Fierce.
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Kite Pharma had the largest win spread, beating out Vir Biotechnology by 595 votes to take the first round in the Daily Life bracket. Kite also had the highest number of votes in the entire competition with 788. Kapoose Creek got the lowest with just 245. The Fierce team loved that biotech name and saw it going far. Bummer.
We had a near tie in the Nature bracket with Chrysalis Biotherapeutics edging out Heron Therapeutics by just five votes. Galapagos had a pretty resounding win over Terremoto Biosciences, taking the match up 735 to 249.
Here's the full list of winners:
https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/17265076/
We also had some incredible biotech names written in for the open-ended question. Honestly, Skunkworx Bio? Can’t believe I forgot that one. Foghorn, Caribou, Viking, Rhino and Hookipa? All great. We had many—and I mean MANY—suggestions of Zevra Therapeutics. Not sure if the entire staff over there is campaigning but we're here for it.
One odd suggestion that sent me down a Google rabbit hole was Potato Peelers From Pluto. That does not appear to be an actual biotech, which means that it’s available. So to the venture firms out there (and this is especially for you, Flagship Pioneering), I know you’re always in need of new company names. I better see a release for Potato Peelers From Pluto Biosciences in my inbox ASAP. I’ve got tens of cents to pitch toward that series A.
The second round of voting will open on Monday, March 25. Check back on this page to get your votes in. Keep track of the tournament across Fierce Biotech's socials with the hashtag #BiotechBracket.
A reminder of the schedule:
First Round (64): March 20-21
Second Round (32): March 25-26
Sweet 16: March 27-28
Elite 8: April 1-2
Final 4: April 3-4
Championship: April 5-9
And a reminder to vote in our sister publication tournaments as well: Fierce Pharma's drug name tournament is here and Fierce Healthcare's buzzwords tournament is here. — Annalee Armstrong
Click here to download your own Biotech Name bracket
Mar 20: We were making puns out of the many biotech names we come across every day on our Fierce Biotech chat when, suddenly, we realized we should take the discussion public.
And, with no seconds to lose, we launched into Fierce Madness: The Best Biotech Name Tournament, piggybacking, of course, on the annual March Madness basketball tournament. Coming up with a list of 64 names was insanely easy—from Tentarix to Biomissle to Arrakis, this industry has some of the most creative ideas and branding out there. But which one is the best?
We now turn to you, dear readers, to settle the debate for us. Is it Ocelot? HiFiBio? Lava or Intergalactic? How about Ampersand? Red Queen or Glox?
Within our bracket is another important debate to be had: Which biotechs with nearly the exact same name are the best? In one of our six brackets we have the battle of the Samesies, biotechs that have confused us from the day they launched out of stealth.
Picture this: You’re searching for news on Generation Bio. You type it into the search box at FierceBiotech.com. What follows is this: Deep in a server room, somewhere in America, the little robots that run the search receive a jolt of electricity. They wake up. Generation Bio, you say? Are you sure you don’t mean Generate:Biomedicines? One of their little metal heads twitches. It can’t even. Another keels over. Paw twitching (I picture them as little metal rats for some reason). A third blows up entirely.
The first one, with a little smoke coming out its ears, returns the result: Generate:Biomedicines and also … Generation Bio.
So this bracket is going to settle that debate once and for all. Is it ProfoundBio or ProFound Therapeutics? Which Bridge is the best bio? You get to decide.
Our remaining categories, save for one, are a bit more self-explanatory: Folklore, Animals, The Arts, Deep Space, Daily Life and Nature. And the last one, What’s in a Name?, combines a few more traditional—shall we say biotech-y—names with some inside jokes from the Fierce Biotech team.
We kick things off today with our Round of 64.
https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/17038324/
The fine print: To vote, click on the Crowd Signal survey below. You don't have to share any details, just vote. You will get one vote in each poll. Voting for the rounds will be open for two days, closing at 12:01 a.m. ET the following day. You’ll get a few extra days to vote and rally support for the Championship game.
In the Round of 64, we've opened it up to you, readers, to suggest some companies we may have forgotten. If we get some good ones, we'll play 'em in as Wild Cards.
We will post the results here on this page before noon after each poll closes. Keep track of the tournament across Fierce Biotech's socials with the hashtag #BiotechBracket.
First Round (64): March 20-21
Second Round (32): March 25-26
Sweet 16: March 27-28
Elite 8: April 1-2
Final 4: April 3-4
Championship: April 5-9
Oh, and our sister publications are also getting in on the #FierceMadness, too. Check out Fierce Pharma's drug name tournament here and Fierce Healthcare's buzzwords tournament here. — Annalee Armstrong
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