12
Feb
2019
The Immune Sequencing Frontier (Take 2): Harlan and Chad Robins on The Long Run
Today’s guests on The Long Run are Harlan and Chad Robins. They are brothers and co-founders of Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies. Chad is the CEO, and Harlan is the head of innovation. Harlan is also a faculty member at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center just down the street from Adaptive. Senior people in pharma R&D are quite familiar with Adaptive....Read More 
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8
Feb
2019
Azar Angles for a Deal Pharma Can Live With, Macrogenics’ Big Break, & Sanofi Scraps 38 R&D Programs
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7
Feb
2019
Meet the Kilimanjaro Climb to Fight Cancer Team
The Kilimanjaro Climb to Fight Cancer team is ready to go. We have a full group of 28 biotech executives and investors – 14 women and 14 men – committed to climbing the highest peak in Africa this July. Working together, we’re raising $1 million for cancer research at Fred Hutch. With five months to go, we are about one-fourth...Read More
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6
Feb
2019
Get Tickets Now: The Cancer Summit Series is Coming to Boston, SF, Seattle
We live in a time of tremendous possibility for cancer R&D. Checkpoint inhibitors, cell therapies, molecular diagnostics that catch cancer early and can guide effective custom treatment – these fields are brimming with progress. All were considered speculative at best a decade ago. The science has never been more promising. Yet pricing and access to this new world of cancer...Read More
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30
Jan
2019
Finding a Way in Genomic Diagnostics: Bonnie Anderson of Veracyte on The Long Run
Bonnie Anderson is today’s guest on The Long Run. Bonnie is the CEO of Veracyte. It’s a genomic diagnostics company in South San Francisco. The company markets a line of tests for thyroid cancer, lung cancer, and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Veracyte got started in 2008. Bonnie, as co-founder and CEO, was recruited by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and a...Read More
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25
Jan
2019
Genentech CEO in, Editas CEO Out, & the Shutdown IPO?
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18
Jan
2019
House Dems Hunt Pharma Big Game, Shutdown Ripples, & JPM Reflections
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16
Jan
2019
Big Money For Glaring Global Health Needs: George Scangos on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is George Scangos. Scangos is the CEO of San Francisco-based Vir Biotechnology. He’s best known for his last job as the CEO of Biogen, one of the industry’s biggest companies. He left that high-profile perch a little more than two years ago. Like many big company veterans, he heard the siren song to join...Read More
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11
Jan
2019
Lilly Buys Loxo, Baselga Resurfaces, and Bluebird’s Gene Therapy Payment Plan
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6
Jan
2019
Genentech & Adaptive’s TCR Strategy, Arch’s New Cell Therapy Co, & Esperion’s Rich EU Deal
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5
Jan
2019
Schrodinger Gets $85M for Computational Drug Discovery. Q&A with CEO Ramy Farid
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4
Jan
2019
BMS-Celgene MegaMerger, Verily Pockets $1B, and AbbVie’s Wager on CD39
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2
Jan
2019
From Merck Fast Track to Computer Chem Frontier: Karen Akinsanya on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Karen Akinsanya. Karen is the chief biomedical scientist at Schrodinger. The New York-based company is a leader in computational chemistry for drug discovery. The company is privately held, and not a household name. But some wealthy and powerful people know it well. Schrodinger counts Bill Gates and David E. Shaw, the hedge fund...Read More
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26
Dec
2018
Messenger RNA Therapies That You May Not Have Heard Of: Ron Renaud on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Ron Renaud. Ron is the CEO of Lexington, Mass.-based Translate Bio. The company is working on messenger RNA therapies. You may have heard about this technology. mRNA molecules provide genetic instructions for making proteins. The idea is to restore functional proteins that, for one reason or another, have gone awry in a disease...Read More
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21
Dec
2018
Abernethy Goes to FDA, Relay’s Monster Round, & Gilead’s Boston Shopping Spree
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20
Dec
2018
Relay Therapeutics Hauls in $400M to Push Frontier in Computational Drug Discovery
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17
Dec
2018
Versant Ventures Reloads with $700M for Early-Stage Biotech
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14
Dec
2018
Allen’s $125M Bet on Immunology, Gilead’s New CEO, & Insulin Price-Gouging Scrutiny
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12
Dec
2018
First Everest, Now Kilimanjaro: Climb With Me and a Great Biotech Team to Fight Cancer
Summiting the highest peak in the world and raising $340,000 for cancer research at Fred Hutch was the start. It was the start of something bigger. Today, I’m overjoyed to say that an outstanding team of biotech executives and investors will join me on the Kilimanjaro Climb to Fight Cancer. This will be a 7-day expedition to the summit of...Read More
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11
Dec
2018
Google Money at Work in Biology: Krishna Yeshwant on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Krishna Yeshwant. Krishna is a general partner with GV, the corporate venture firm formerly known as Google Ventures. He is a rare bird – a Stanford computer scientist and a Harvard physician. With this combination of professional interests, and with the resources of Google to invest in fledgling companies, Krishna has acquired an...Read More
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