By

Luke Timmerman

16
Jun
2026

Small Molecules To Correct Disease: Sri Kosuri on The Long Run

Sri Kosuri is today’s guest on The Long Run. Sri is the co-founder and CEO of Emeryville, California-based Octant Bio. The company is developing oral small molecule drugs that are designed to correct protein misfolding and mistrafficking. Quite a few rare diseases, cancers, and metabolic disorders are thought to be amenable to this strategy. Octant’s work starts with a platform...
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21
Apr
2026

Small Molecule Synthesis Made Faster: Martin Burke on The Long Run

Martin Burke is today’s guest on The Long Run. Marty is a professor of chemistry, Director of the Molecule Maker Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He’s well known in the chemistry field for his pioneering work on blocc chemistry: iterative carbon-carbon bond formation that makes chemical synthesis faster, highly automated, and user-friendly. That was a big deal...
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