Top 10 Biotech Buzz Stocks for This Year

BOSTON -- The JPMorgan Healthcare Conference is always the first biotech investment meeting of the year, and probably the most important in terms of attendance and overall buzz.

Every January, thousands of industry players network "under the clock" in the lobby of the Westin St. Francis Hotel just off San Francisco's Union Square. Institutional investors elbow their way through gridlocked halls and meeting rooms to hear presentations from biotech companies that hope their stock will be the next to catch fire.

But what happens after the conference ends and all those investors and industry types head home? Is the excitement and enthusiasm sustainable? Do the "hot" stocks of the conference stay hot? ...