Eric Aguiar, MD, partner at Aisling Capital;
Dr. Andrew ElBardissi, partner at Deerfield Management; and
Marian Nakada, vice president of venture investment at J&J Innovation.
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COVID-19 fundamentally changed the process for evaluating new investment opportunities, Dr. ElBardissi said. “Meeting face-to-face with the management team, kicking the tires, touring the facility those are intangible factors
that are very difficult to replace in this corporate environment,” he said. “Candidly, the bar has gotten significantly higher, as you think about our inability to conduct diligence the way we would like and as you think about all the constraints in the current environment.”