... Attheindustry’speakin2007,U.S.biotechcompaniesraised$5.2billioninventurecapitalfinancing.In 2010, theindustryraisedjust$3.7billioninventurecapital,30%lessthan2007’stotal.• ... help remove those barriers, Congress should create a Clinical Informatics Coordinator in the Office of the Commissioner of Food and Drugs charged with developing processes to validate and ... 58% were discovered and developed by biotech companies.Nature Reviews/Drug Discovery, November 2010 Between 1999 and 2005, the average length of clinical trials grew by 70%. Currently, the average...