The Most Interesting Thing at JPMorgan's Health Care Conference

By Brian Orelli | More Articles January 11, 2013 |

JPMorgan's health care conference is a treasure-trove of information about health care companies. From basic information to fourth quarter sales, even a few deals are signed, sealed, and announced at JPMorgan.

But the most interesting -- both entertaining and educational -- part of the meeting happened virtually when attendees and remote observers of the conference piled onto a Twitter hashtag, #jpmpickuplines, scientifically mocking what an attendee might say to pick up someone at the hotel bar.

"Best set of data points I've seen all year," tweeted San Francisco Business Times reporter Ron Leuty who started the meme.

The top one -- as measured by retweets -- came from Roche's official Genentech Twitter account that tweeted, "Nice antibody. Wanna conjugate?"

Educational? The meme is clearly entertaining -- well at least most of them, some got a little raunchy -- and it highlights that investors and companies can have a little fun. Investing may be serious, but it doesn't have to be stuffy.

But the list of pickup lines also serves as a nice glossary of terms that every biotech investor should know. Genentech's tweet, for example, refers to the process of adding drugs to antibodies so the drug can be targeted to specific cells. Seattle Genetics (NASDAQ: SGEN) and ImmunoGen (NASDAQ: IMGN) have both developed technologies to produce antibody-drug candidates; Roche's T-DM1 was developed using ImmunoGen's technology.

Here are a few more that contain terms you should know:

There are plenty more, have a look and if you find any that you just don't get, it might be time for a little education to make you a better biotech investor. Just don't try using them at the bar.

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The Most Interesting Thing at JPMorgan's Health Care Conference