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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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20
Apr
2023

The Supreme Court and the FDA

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12
Apr
2023

The Frontier of Epigenetic Editing: Chroma CEO Catherine Stehman-Breen

Today’s guest on The Long Run is Catherine Stehman-Breen. Catherine is the CEO of Boston-based Chroma Medicine. Chroma is working on therapies that control gene expression through epigenetic editing. People have heard a lot about editing of the genome with CRISPR, and then subsequent refinements of the technology known as base editing and prime editing. The question at Chroma is...
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10
Apr
2023

In Support of FDA’s Authority to Regulate Medicines

On Friday, April 7, a federal judge with no scientific training fundamentally undermined the bipartisan authority granted by Congress to the Food and Drug Administration to approve and regulate safe, effective medicines for every American. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk issued a decision that overturns the FDA’s 23-year-old approval of mifepristone, the primary medicine used in abortion and miscarriage care, and...
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8
Apr
2023

Tech, Pharma, and the Uneven Distribution of the AI-Enabled Future

The worlds of technology and entrepreneurship are captivated by recent advances in generative AI and large language models (LLMs).  The arrival of ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI (a startup partnered with Microsoft), caused Google to declare a “Code Red,” akin to “pulling the fire alarm,” the New York Times explained. The latest class of startups at Y Combinator are reportedly flocking...
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