By

Luke Timmerman

25
Aug
2026

A Vaccine for Epstein-Barr Virus: Gary Nabel on The Long Run

Gary Nabel is today’s guest on The Long Run. Gary is the CEO of Weston, Mass.-based ModeX Therapeutics. The company has a platform for making multi-specific biologics into vaccines and cancer treatments. ModeX was founded in 2020, building on work that started at Sanofi when Nabel was the chief scientific officer there. The initial application of this technology, currently in...
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20
Aug
2026

9 Young Scientists to Watch: the Timmerman Traverse Fellows at Damon Runyon

Our community’s steadfast support of science is more important than ever given the tenuous state of federal research funding. Teams of biotech executives and investors have raised $3.9 million for high-risk/high-reward cancer research since 2024 as part of the Timmerman Traverse for Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. The Traverse has created fun outdoor experiences and lasting friendships. We’ve hit the...
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17
Aug
2026

Harell Data Debuts With $15M To Change Incentives, Speed Up AI Drug Discovery

The Protein Data Bank was the unsung hero that made AlphaFold possible. For decades, the structural biologists, biochemists and others who put carefully curated protein structures in the public domain laid down the conditions for AI to eventually do something useful – predicting protein structures in this case. Those scientists never got a nickel. This is just one of many...
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14
Jul
2026

A Schizophrenia Drug Patients Can Stick With: Heather Turner on The Long Run

Heather Turner is today’s guest on The Long Run. Heather is the CEO of New York-based LB Pharmaceuticals. It’s developing treatments for serious mental health disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder. The company is running late-stage clinical trials for its lead drug candidate, LB102. It’s a methylated derivative of amisulpride, a benzamide antipsychotic. It’s approved in more than...
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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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