26
Nov
2024
Meet the 2025 Timmerman Traverse for Damon Runyon Cancer Research Team
I’m excited to announce the 2025 Timmerman Traverse for Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation team. This group of 17 men and women are on a mission to raise more than $700,000 for the next generation of outstanding cancer researchers. In April, we’ll come together on the world-famous trek to Everest Base Camp, elevation 17,600 feet. We’re raising awareness for cancer... Read More
25
Nov
2024
How to Quit Smoking and Prevent Cancer: Jonathan Bricker on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Jonathan Bricker. Jonathan is a professor in the cancer prevention program that’s part of the Public Health Sciences Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle. This episode is a little different than most. Jonathan is a clinical psychologist by training. His research team focuses on how to use a combination of technology... Read More
24
Nov
2024
A Story of Hope For Kids With Rare Disease
As we head into Thanksgiving, I wanted to share a story that highlights the promise and possibility that can emerge from a devastating diagnosis, and emphasizes what can happen when industry, academia, and — especially — impassioned parents and advocates join forces. Consider the devasting rare genetic disease, spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA. According to Cure SMA, SMA is “a... Read More
21
Nov
2024
Dr. Oz to CMS, Amgen and Pfizer Get New CSOs, & SubQ Keytruda Arrives
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21
Nov
2024
Speaking Up for Science and Health. Even When Inconvenient
“By their fruits, ye shall know them” –Matthew 7:16 Immediately following the election of Donald Trump, a number of publications asked leaders of the biopharmaceutical industry and investment community to share their thoughts on how his likely policies and appointees to key positions of leadership will affect our industry. Many of these leaders counseled us to “wait and see” before making... Read More
21
Nov
2024
Startup Snapshots: A Tetra-Binder for Obesity, and a ‘Mirror Peptide’ Engine
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20
Nov
2024
US-China Partnership: Just Hitting its Stride, and Now Threatened
Curon, Chimagen, Hengrui, LaNova…the list goes on of Chinese biotech companies that have recently licensed potential blockbuster drug candidates for cancer, autoimmunity and more to US pharma and biotech companies for further development. Over the past year or so, there has been a dramatic increase in both the number of deals to obtain rights to assets discovered in China, and... Read More
19
Nov
2024
A Tale of Two Neds: Jupiter Debuts with $70M To Invest in Startups
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18
Nov
2024
Coastal Culture Clash Around AI in Biotech
“Does the crowd understand? Is it East versus West Or man against man? Can any nation stand alone?” Burning Heart, by Survivor – Rocky IV In national politics, the culture wars may pit the coasts against the rest of the country. In biotech, however, the AI culture war seems to pit the coasts against each other. Consider this recent LinkedIn... Read More
18
Nov
2024
In Vivo Gene Therapy Isn’t The Answer. Sickle Cell Patients Need Today’s Treatments
On his fourth birthday, Adamu couldn’t celebrate. The boy, from a rural village in Nigeria, had a flare up of his sickle cell disease known as a pain crisis. His parents tell me the rare days when he’s full of energy and playing with his friends feel like a precious gift. This year, he was given a cruel reminder of... Read More
14
Nov
2024
RFK Jr. to HHS. I Was Wrong
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14
Nov
2024
Save the Date: TR 10th Anniversary
Hard to believe, but the 10th Anniversary of Timmerman Report is coming up in March 2025. Time to party! The past 10 years of biotechnology have been remarkable. I’m fortunate. I’ve had a front-row seat to chronicle monumental advances at Timmerman Report, and occasionally influence events. Join me and a group of biotech leaders in Boston on Mar. 6 and... Read More
12
Nov
2024
Third Rock-backed Trace Neuroscience Debuts with $101M, RNA Drug for ALS
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11
Nov
2024
A Day to Thank Veterans
Happy Veteran’s Day. For some reason, this day doesn’t receive the same level of attention of most holidays on the American calendar. Let’s pause today to thank veterans in our communities. For real. Face to face. Or maybe on the phone. Not in a tweet. As I wrote last year: Today is a day when I honor my Dad. He... Read More
7
Nov
2024
What Will Trump Do? Look at the Record
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6
Nov
2024
Developing a New Class of RNA Therapeutics: Leslie Williams on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Leslie Williams. Leslie is the co-founder and CEO of Boston-based hC Bioscience. Her company is working to develop a new class of RNA medicines directed at transfer RNAs, also known as tRNA. The gist of the idea is to make these tRNA therapies, delivered with a lipid nanoparticle, that can carry instructions to... Read More
4
Nov
2024
Lessons from the Manure Digester
My first real journalism job flashed to mind this week. It was 1998. I was a kid reporter fresh out of the University of Wisconsin. My job was to cover Dane County government for The Capital Times, the progressive newspaper in Madison. Dane County had about 400,000 people. Half lived in the beating liberal heart of the City of Madison... Read More
4
Nov
2024
When Business and Politics Collide
I have always kept my business and political lives separate – and have had no trouble doing so. But now my political beliefs and my industry are threatened by the same plague. Donald Trump would not merely undermine our country, he would undermine the fundamental principle of our industry – and, speaking quite selfishly, my business…and yours. That principle is... Read More
31
Oct
2024
Aliada’s Mega Return, GSK & AbbVie Eye T-Cell Engagers, and IPO Scorecard
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31
Oct
2024
And Just Like That: What the Viral Adoption of a Clinical AI App Means for Pharma R&D
In 2011, we were experiencing the ascension of technologies like the cloud and the smartphone. Apps had become a thing: social network apps like Instagram (the iPhone “App of the Year” in 2011) and Twitter, utility apps like Evernote and Dropbox, navigation apps like Google Maps and Waze, and game apps like Angry Birds. Yet in medicine, as I wrote... Read More