Tularik: Unique Enough?

Flush with cash and cachet, Tularik is the highest-valued still-private firm in the biotech industry--worth some $434 million at its last round of financing. To go public, it needs investors to give it a valuation beyond $500 million to launch it into the rarified realm of tradable biotech stocks. Its current investors hope the public will appreciate it for more than its marquee-value CEO, ex-Genentech R&D chief David Goeddel, but an integrated research infrastructure, a strong cash position and its ability to raise more non-equity cash by selling European and American rights to programs already financed by Japanese partners.

by Deborah Erickson

Tularik Inc. is no ordinary biotech company. It's not just any firm that finds itself the subject of a...

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