18
Apr
2024
Metsera Secures $290M to Follow Fast in Obesity Drug R&D
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16
Apr
2024
New Tools & Techniques for Biology: David Liu on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is David Liu. David is a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University, and a core institute member at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. In biotech industry world, he’s a founder or co-founder of a long list of companies, including Beam Therapeutics, Prime Medicine, Editas Medicine, Chroma Medicine, and Exo... Read More
11
Apr
2024
Vertex Antes for Alpine, Regeneron Faces DOJ Scrutiny, & the Illumina Shakeup
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10
Apr
2024
Meet the Timmerman Traverse for Sickle Forward Team
I’m thrilled to announce a new initiative to raise $1 million to fight sickle cell disease. It’s the Timmerman Traverse for Sickle Forward. A team of 21 biotech leaders are banding together for Sickle Forward in 2024. It’s a nonprofit dedicated to improving newborn screening and treatment of sickle cell disease in Africa. When we hit that goal, we will... Read More
8
Apr
2024
Meet the Timmerman Traverse for Life Science Cares 2024 Team
The Timmerman Traverse for Life Science Cares is back for a $1 million mission to fight poverty in 2024. This year’s team is coming together in common cause. We will bond together on a pair of spectacular hikes in the Pacific Northwest. We will cover 20 miles of trails, with more than 7,000 feet of elevation gain, over two days... Read More
4
Apr
2024
A ProfoundBio Windfall, Amylyx Yanks Failed ALS Drug, & Verve’s Rough Patch
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4
Apr
2024
How CymaBay Survived a Safety Scare
In November 2019, Sujal Shah was the CEO of a public company with two promising late-stage clinical trials underway. The company was worth more than $900 million. A couple months later, he found himself cornered in a parking lot by an activist investor—one of a handful pressuring him to shut down and liquidate his company CymaBay Therapeutics. “I can smile... Read More
1
Apr
2024
Can Bayer CEO Liberate Pharma From Stultifying Bureaucracy?
Pharma colleagues: does this complaint sound familiar? This company is too bloated. It’s too slow. We have all these layers and layers of bosses where leaders at the top would decide on the strategy, and then it would just trickle down to the people who actually did a lot of the day-to-day work…. I am 10 layers below the CEO... Read More
28
Mar
2024
Boundless’ IPO, Merck’s Acceleron Win, & Moderna’s $750M Flu Vaccine Boost
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21
Mar
2024
Megarounds Return, AZ Buys a Radiopharma Player, & Lonza’s California Dream
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20
Mar
2024
Clasp, Backed by Catalio, Third Rock & Novo, Gets $150M for Specific T-cell Engagers
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14
Mar
2024
Madrigal’s Historic First for MASH, IFM’s Hat Trick, & BIO on Election Defense
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7
Mar
2024
Startups Challenge Vertex, BMS, Takeda & the Weight Loss Drug Revival Continues
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6
Mar
2024
Early Detection, and Treatment, for Alzheimer’s: Valerie Daggett on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Valerie Daggett. Valerie is the founder and CEO of Seattle-based AltPep. This company is working on an unusual diagnostic-and-therapeutic strategy against Alzheimer’s disease. I wrote about the company in June 2023 when it raised $53 million in a Series B financing that included Section32, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, and Eli Lilly among others.... Read More
21
Feb
2024
Joy, Gratitude and Next Steps for Timmerman Traverse
Reporting this morning from Tanzania. I’m feeling joyful and grateful. My latest biotech team wrapped up another $1 million Timmerman Traverse fundraising campaign for the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. All 20 members of the team reached the summit of Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa at 19,341 feet. We raised awareness of Damon Runyon’s national network of brilliant, brave... Read More
20
Feb
2024
Timmerman Traverse for Damon Runyon, Kilimanjaro 2024 Photo Gallery
The Timmerman Traverse for Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation is in the books. We have raised about $1.1 million for this national network of brilliant, brave and bold young scientists. All 20 members of the team made it to the summit of Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, at 19,341 feet. It’s an experience none of us will ever forget. ... Read More
17
Feb
2024
New Medical Podcast (Like Winter and the 2024 Red Sox) Offers Bleak Outlook, While Four Books Instill Hope
As Bostonians tentatively emerge from the bleak cold of another New England winter and begin to search for signs of spring, we instinctively turn to the Red Sox. Unfortunately, I am informed by my daughters that the team’s prospects appear dismal this season, so we’ll need to look elsewhere for hope. We might consider instead Boston’s other great preoccupation: biomedical... Read More
9
Feb
2024
Botox: A Luminous Example of Field Discovery
In this weekend’s Wall Street Journal, I review Death To Beauty, a new book by Dr. Eugene Helveston. It’s about the fascinating history of botulinum toxin and the California ophthalmologist, Alan Scott, who drove it into clinical use. The book review, of course, speaks for itself, but I wanted to highlight for TR readers an aspect of the story that... Read More
9
Feb
2024
CRISPR to Protect the Bone Marrow & Attack Cancer: Robert Ang on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Robert Ang. Robert is the CEO of Cambridge, Mass.-based Vor Bio. The company is working on what I think you could call an elegant application of CRISPR gene editing for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia. The idea here takes some explaining but is pretty simple. Patients with acute myeloid leukemia typically get... Read More
7
Feb
2024
Scion Starts with $310M to Build ‘Exceptional’ Biotech Startups
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