6
Feb
2020
Sanofi’s Intriguing MS Drug, Merck’s Big Spinoff & Coronavirus Fog
Lots of shiny blinking objects are out there to pay attention to, but this was a week when a lot of fundamental hard work got done in biotech. Read about it in Frontpoints. Deal of the Week Merck is spinning off women’s health, biosimilars, and “trusted legacy brands” into a new company. The unnamed NewCo rolls together products expected to... Read More
6
Feb
2020
CAR-T for Autoimmunity: Bluestone Joins Sonoma Biotherapeutics, a $40M Bet
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5
Feb
2020
First Buy, Then Invest: Novartis, Gilead Join $35M Bet on Vineti’s Software
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30
Jan
2020
Coronavirus Fear Spreads, CVS Feels the Heat & Black Diamond’s Sizzling IPO
Last week, I was dismissive of the coronavirus outbreak stories. The internet was teeming with what struck me as alarmism. I’m still not running for the hills. I’m still rolling my eyes at the speed and volume of misinformation about coronavirus on the web. But more facts have since emerged to make this a more urgent and serious situation. We... Read More
27
Jan
2020
Scientists at the Movies: Relay Therapeutics CEO Sanjiv Patel on The Long Run
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23
Jan
2020
Much Ado About Coronavirus and 23andMe Hits the Wall
This was a quiet week in biopharma. Review it in your weekly Frontpoints. This Week in Alarmism Every year, we hear about an infectious disease scare that generates massive coverage, way out of proportion with the actual threat posed. Remember Mad Cow disease, SARS, Bird flu, Ebola, etc. etc? I’ve been in newsrooms providing saturation coverage of such things, and... Read More
16
Jan
2020
Lilly’s Half-Measure on Insulin, Illumina’s Up-Market Play, & the Little Deals from SF
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13
Jan
2020
A New Cholesterol-Lowering Drug at a Low Price: Tim Mayleben on The Long Run
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12
Jan
2020
EQRx Taps Zeitgeist, Raises $200m For Innovative Drugs at Aggressive Low Prices
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9
Jan
2020
MRNA Vaccines Impress, Blueprint Wins First FDA OK, & Calif. Gov. Stares Down Biotech on the Eve of #JPM20
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30
Dec
2019
Designer Proteins as Better Therapies: David Baker on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is David Baker. David is a biochemistry professor at the University of Washington, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, and the director of The Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington. Just like the name suggests, this institute works on designing proteins with special properties. Sometimes these proteins are designed on computers,... Read More
3
Dec
2019
Sticking With Epigenetics During Lean Times: Jigar Raythatha on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Jigar Raythatha. Jigar is the CEO of Cambridge, Mass.-based Constellation Pharmaceuticals. This company is built to develop drugs against epigenetic targets. Simply put, this is a way to turn genes on or off without altering the underlying DNA. The pharmaceutical industry fancied this idea about a decade ago, as a way to shut... Read More
2
Dec
2019
IFM, Staying Small, Raises (Merely) $55.5M, Promotes Former Novartis Exec to CEO
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26
Nov
2019
Tamping Down Inflammation & Synaptic Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s: John Alam on The Long Run
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14
Nov
2019
Merck’s Ebola Vaccine Triumph, Weill’s $106M Neurohub & Teva’s Reversal
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12
Nov
2019
Scientist, Entrepreneur, Rock Collector: Tim Springer on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Tim Springer. Tim wears many hats. First and foremost, he’s a scientist. An immunologist to be specific, at Harvard Medical School. He’s best known for his discovery of integrins, a class of transmembrane receptors. Now in his early 70s, Tim recently won the Gairdner Award, sometimes called the Canadian Nobel. The prize committee... Read More
7
Nov
2019
Takeda’s Busy Week, Halozyme’s Stumble, and New FDA Commish On Deck
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31
Oct
2019
Amgen’s Bet on BeiGene, David Hung’s Megaround, & Zolgensma Speed Bump
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29
Oct
2019
The Story of Henri Termeer: John Hawkins and Jim Geraghty on The Long Run
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24
Oct
2019
Vertex’s Watershed for CF, Biogen’s Head-Scratcher, and Seattle Genetics Nails HER2Climb
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