No sleep, exiled mattresses, cleared bank accounts: Getting deals done at JPM

The words "J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference" have come to signify more than the invite-only confab within the Westin St. Francis. Everyone who’s anyone in biotech—as well as everyone else—converges on the city for a week of presentations, cocktail receptions, media interviews and meetings that Drew Levinson, executive vice president and director of media relations at LifeSci Public Relations, terms “speed dating.”