9
Jun
2022
Daiichi’s Game-Changer, Resilience’s Big Week, and the FTC Scrutinizes PBMs
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7
Jun
2022
Rethinking Biotech Manufacturing: Rahul Singhvi on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Rahul Singhvi. Rahul is the co-founder and CEO of Resilience. The company made a splash in the fall of 2020, when it debuted with an $800 million Series A financing. Bob Nelsen of ARCH Venture Partners led the deal. The company has now raised a couple more rounds that add up to more... Read More
2
Jun
2022
Out in the Community in 2022
TR subscribers: I’m traveling more, and looking forward to seeing more of you in person. I’ll be at the BIO Convention in San Diego, June 13-15. They have plenty of outdoor patio space overlooking the ocean at the San Diego Convention Center. Let’s chat. While at BIO meeting people and gathering ideas, I’m also moderating a panel on improving diversity,... Read More
2
Jun
2022
Startup Profiles: Upstream Gets $200m for Asthma Antibody; Transition Fetches $50m for Condensate Drug Discovery
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26
May
2022
Managing Through a Hard Time Like No Other
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23
May
2022
Building a New Type of Drug Discovery Engine: Chris Gibson on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Chris Gibson. Chris the co-founder and CEO of Salt Lake City-based Recursion. The company was founded in 2013 when Chris was working in the lab of Dean Li at the University of Utah. The idea at Recursion is to do what it calls “industrialized drug discovery.” It combines some of the common tools... Read More
19
May
2022
A Path Forward for More Biotech Workers
Biotech needs more workers. More people who don’t have PhDs and MDs. The industry is 40 years old, and maturing. More companies are developing commercial products. Someone needs to make these products with precision, and at scale. Given the sophisticated nature of the products (cell therapy, gene therapy, advanced biologics, RNA medicines), the fragile global supply chains, and the importance... Read More
17
May
2022
Remix Gets $70m for Small Molecules to Alter RNA Processing
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10
May
2022
MOMA Gets $150M to Make Small Molecules Against ATPases, Laborers of the Cell
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9
May
2022
Fighting Cancer With Food and Drugs: Lew Cantley and Sid Mukherjee on The Long Run
Today’s guests on The Long Run are Lewis Cantley and Siddhartha Mukherjee. They are co-founders of San Francisco-based Faeth Therapeutics. Cantley, who recently moved to Dana Farber Cancer Institute, is a scientist well-known for his work on cancer metabolism. He discovered the PI3kinase pathway that’s an important regulator of normal cell growth, proliferation, metabolism – and which can become activated... Read More
5
May
2022
An Old Idea Whose Time Has Come
People are returning to the office. Many are rethinking the basics of work. So many people are exhausted and anxious. Biotech leaders are thinking carefully about how to proceed. An R&D-based industry needs people in environments that allow them to be energized, creative, collaborative. Here’s one simple idea: Walking meetings. The “walk and talk” business meeting isn’t new. But we... Read More
3
May
2022
Dianthus Gets $100m to Take Complement Inhibition to a New Level
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28
Apr
2022
A Big Opportunity in Obesity
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27
Apr
2022
The Timmerman Traverse for Life Science Cares Is Back, Fighting Poverty
The biotech community has plenty of people willing to work to support vulnerable members of our society. This year, I’m doing what I can to again mobilize the biotech community to fight poverty. I’m happy to announce the Timmerman Traverse for Life Science Cares. It’s a Presidential Traverse hike set for Sept. 11-14, 2022. This expedition builds on the success... Read More
21
Apr
2022
Regeneron Buys Checkmate, Bivalent Vaccine Progress, & a Fitting Acronym
Clinical trialists are always trying to come up with catchy study titles. I’m not a big fan of these acronyms, and try to avoid using them. They’re often forgettable. But this week I saw one that stood out as especially meaningful. Yale University researchers are running a new Long COVID study. It’s called – LISTEN. It stands for Listen to... Read More
19
Apr
2022
Microbiome-based Drug Development: Bernat Olle on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Bernat Olle. Bernat is the CEO of Cambridge, Mass.-based Vedanta Biosciences. The company was founded in 2010 by Puretech Health, in collaboration with a handful of academic founders. At the time, the faster/cheaper tools of DNA sequencing were making it possible for immunologists and microbiologists to gain a much more fine-grained view of... Read More
14
Apr
2022
GSK Acquires Sierra, Cimeio’s Shielded Cell Therapies, & AACR Highlights
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13
Apr
2022
Versant-backed Cimeio Gets $50M for Shielded Stem Cell Therapies
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23
Mar
2022
LifeMine Snags GSK Deal and $175m to Drive Fungus-Based Drug Discovery
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14
Mar
2022
Structural Biology-Driven Drug Discovery: Ray Stevens on The Long Run
Today’s guest on the Long Run is Ray Stevens. Ray is the CEO of ShouTi. It’s a company that uses advanced structural biology technologies like cryo-EM images, and computational techniques, to discover small molecule drugs. The idea is to come up with orally available medicines that can build off the biological insights gained from protein or peptide drugs, but replace... Read More