11
Jul
2023
Septerna, Backed by Third Rock and RA, Gets $150M for GPCR Drug Discovery
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10
Jul
2023
Detecting Cancer Early When It’s Most Treatable: Kevin Conroy on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Kevin Conroy. Kevin is the chairman and CEO of Madison, Wis.-based Exact Sciences. Exact Sciences has grown over the past decade into a success story for cancer screening and diagnosis. It’s best known for marketing the noninvasive Cologuard test that screens people for colorectal cancer. It also markets the Oncotype DX test that’s... Read More
10
Jul
2023
Lessons Learned from the Intense Back-and-Forth Over a $1B Acquisition
Since 2018, about 90 biotech companies have been acquired for more than $500 million. That’s only about 15 to 20 companies per year, a tiny fraction of the approximately 10,000 biotechnology companies around the world. I was privileged to be part of one of those transactions, the sale of Albireo Pharma to Ipsen in January for $952 million upfront, plus... Read More
29
Jun
2023
Vertex Gears Up for T1D, GSK TB Vaccine Gets Boost, & Regeneron Stumbles
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27
Jun
2023
Becoming a Biotech CEO: Jodie Morrison on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Jodie Morrison. Jodie is the acting CEO at Waltham, Mass.-based Q32 Bio. It’s a company developing treatments for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. It has an antibody in development with Horizon Therapeutics aimed at IL-7 receptor alpha, in Phase II for the treatment of atopic dermatitis. It also has wholly-owned programs aimed at the... Read More
27
Jun
2023
Biopharma Has a Primary Care Problem
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22
Jun
2023
Lilly Buys Dice, Sarepta Wins FDA Approval, & PhRMA Fights the IRA
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22
Jun
2023
AltPep, Backed by Section32 and Lilly, Gets $53M to Catch and Treat Early Alzheimer’s
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21
Jun
2023
ARTBIO, Backed by F-Prime and Omega, Gets $23M for Targeted Radiotherapies for Cancer
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17
Jun
2023
Learning From History How to Think About the Technology of the Moment
Generative AI, the transformative technology of the moment, exploded onto the scene with the arrival in late 2022 of chatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot developed by the company OpenAI. After only five days, a million users had tried the app; after two months: 100 million, the fastest growth ever seen for a consumer application. TikTok, the previous record holder, took nine... Read More
14
Jun
2023
Immunotherapies for Cancer and More: Aaron Ring on The Long Run
Aaron Ring is today’s guest on The Long Run. Aaron is an associate professor of immunobiology at Yale University for a little while longer. He’s moving his lab to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle in the summer of 2023. Early in his scientific career, Aaron has done some fascinating work in protein engineering and immunology. He has founded... Read More
13
Jun
2023
Gilead Test Drives A-Alpha Bio Platform to Find Long-Acting Biologics Against HIV
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8
Jun
2023
Startup Profiles: Upstream Bio Gets Another $200M, Kate Therapeutics Debuts with $51M
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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