RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:and meanwhile back in china hepa is still not trading...PoC. At the risk of being banned somewhere I agree that non-compliance issues are to be expected but to happen to the degree that they happenned in ASSURE seems very sloppy to me. Especially wrt the non-adherence to the blood lipid criterion. People with heart disease and HDL levels below 40mg/dl are not exactly rare.
In answer to your successful biotech's with original founder's the two that come to my mind are Eugene Melnyk and David Allan of Biovail and YM Biosciences respectively. But I think to your point, they are the exceptions not the rule. I wrote a post on the the other board a little while ago about my past dissappointment with the RVX miss on Roger Newton. He in fact is another successful founder however he is also a rarity with both deep business and science credentials.