5
Jun
2023
Alkeus, a Bootstrap Success Story, Grows Up With $150M Series B
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4
Jun
2023
Pharma R&D Execs Offer Extravagant Expectations for AI But Few Proof Points
As the excitement around generative AI sweeps across the globe, biopharma R&D groups (like most everyone else) are actively trying to figure out how to leverage this powerful but nascent technology effectively, and in a responsible fashion. In separate conversations, two prominent pharma R&D executives recently sat down with savvy healthtech VCs to discuss how generative AI specifically, and emerging... Read More
1
Jun
2023
Pfizer’s RSV Vaccine OK’d, Coherus Challenges Humira, & Eikon Gets a Pipeline
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30
May
2023
From Structural Biology to Structuring Companies: Deb Palestrant on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Deb Palestrant. Deb is a partner with 5AM Ventures and the executive chair of the 4:59 Initiative. 5AM invests in early-stage startups working on a variety of novel biological targets and some of the emerging new treatment modalities – gene therapy, gene editing, oligonucleotides. As the name suggests, it’s not afraid to get... Read More
25
May
2023
ElevateBio Hauls in $401M, Blueprint Expands Label, & a String of Clinical Failures
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23
May
2023
Larkspur Gets $35.5M to Make Small Molecule Cancer Immunotherapies
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21
May
2023
Big, If True: Opportunities and Obstacles Facing AI (Plus: Summer Reading)
Today, we’ll begin with a consideration of the promise for AI some experts see in healthcare and biopharma. Next, we’ll look at some of the obstacles – some technical, some organizational – and re-visit the eternal “data parasite” debate. Finally, we’ll conclude with a few suggestions for summer reading. The AI Opportunity: Elevating Healthcare for All Earlier this month, I... Read More
18
May
2023
Anthony Mancini of Genmab on Growing Your Company Together with Partners
Anthony Mancini is the chief operating officer of Denmark-based Genmab, one of the leading innovators of antibody therapies for patients living with cancer and other serious diseases. After many years working as a behind-the-scenes innovator, Genmab is now becoming a significant commercial entity. In 2021, the company began marketing its first commercial product, Tidvak® (tisotumab vedotin) for the treatment of... Read More
16
May
2023
Boundless Bio Gets $100M to Fight Cancer, NewLimit Gets $40M to Defy Aging
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15
May
2023
Biopharma Innovation – Beyond The Breathless Headlines
Biopharma relies on innovation to stay in business. Success depends on our collective ability to discover, develop, and deliver new products that cure or meaningfully mitigate disease over and over again. Patents allow for innovators to be rewarded, for a while. When patents expire, allowing us to purchase powerful generic medications like atorvastatin for pennies, manufacturers must come up with... Read More
11
May
2023
Thinking Big About Community Impact
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8
May
2023
Creating a New Class of Medicines: John Maraganore on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is John Maraganore. John is best known as the former CEO of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, the RNA interference drug developer. He spent 19 years there as CEO, before stepping down at the end of 2021. Alnylam figured out how to make a new therapeutic modality — gene-silencing with double-stranded oligonucleotide therapies. Alnylam’s technology has now... Read More
4
May
2023
Lilly’s Alzheimer’s Win, Astellas Breaks Out Checkbook, & a RSV Vaccine First
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1
May
2023
Preserving the Biotech Social Contract – We Should All Be Pitching In
[Editor’s Note: This is a preface by Jeremy Levin supporting the following essay by Steve Potts.] Biotech is an industrial tapestry woven together by remarkable people with deep intellect, determination, passion, and bravery all driven to create the next and best medicine. Underpinning it is an immense and complex infrastructure including capital formation, regulatory processes, patient advocacy, policy making, health... Read More
27
Apr
2023
Big Week for RNA Medicines, BMS Gets a New Boss, and a Microbiome First
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26
Apr
2023
Orbital Secures $270M to Make New RNA Medicines
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25
Apr
2023
Vedanta Biosciences Secures $106.5M to Advance Oral Microbiome Therapies
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24
Apr
2023
Gene Editing Therapies Delivered In Vivo: Ensoma’s Emile Nuwaysir on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Emile Nuwaysir. Emile is the CEO of Boston-based Ensoma. Ensoma is developing gene-editing therapies that can be delivered in a single shot, in vivo, inside the body. The name is derived from the Greek word for ‘in the body.’ The basic idea is to make these gene editing medicines so they can be... Read More
20
Apr
2023
The Supreme Court and the FDA
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20
Apr
2023
Abdera Gets $142M To Make Potent, Safe, Radioantibodies for Cancer
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