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7
Apr
2026

Computation, Chemistry & Culture For Drug Discovery: Abbas Kazimi on The Long Run

Abbas Kazimi is today’s guest on The Long Run. Abbas is the CEO of Boston-based Nimbus Therapeutics. It’s a privately held company that discovers and develops oral small molecule drugs. It does this through a combination of computational chemistry, medicinal chemistry, AI, and the combined effort of a small group of talented and hardworking people. Nimbus is probably best known...
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4
Apr
2026

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Lifestyle

It wasn’t quite like the dream where you’re standing in front of an audience and suddenly realize you’re not wearing pants, but at a recent Harvard Business School function, I felt a flush of affinity. The occasion was an annual event for students in the Harvard life sciences MS/MBA program, designed to recognize the hard work of students and faculty,...
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31
Mar
2026

Inspired by Mother Nature, Discovering New Drugs: Viswa Colluru on The Long Run

Viswa Colluru is today’s guest on The Long Run. Viswa is the founder and CEO of Boulder, Colo.-based Enveda. The startup company, founded in 2019, is focused on discovering and developing small molecule drugs with novel mechanisms of action. It relies on a chemistry-based approach to drug discovery, drawing inspiration from products found in nature. The privately held company has...
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17
Mar
2026

Europe’s Biotech Investment Crisis: Otello Stampacchia on The Long Run

Otello Stampacchia is today’s guest on The Long Run. Otello is the founder and managing director of Omega Funds. It’s a transatlantic biotech venture firm with offices in Boston and Geneva, Switzerland. He’s a native of Italy and you might say a true international businessman, deeply rooted in the issues startups face in various geographies around the world. This conversation...
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11
Mar
2026

What the Timmerman Traverse Is All About

The Timmerman Traverse has become a phenomenon in the biotech industry.  Numbers tell part of the story. More than 200 biotech industry leaders have participated since 2019. More than $15 million has been raised to support high-risk/high-reward cancer research, poverty alleviation, and newborn screening for sickle cell disease. Nonprofit organizations have seen awareness of their work, and their donor networks,...
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27
Feb
2026

Agency: The Motivational Currency of Health

Last night I offered some remarks at February’s Boston Health Innovation Night, a monthly gathering of innovators, entrepreneurs, and investors in Boston’s extraordinary biomedical ecosystem, organized by digital health advisor and investor Steven Wardell. Several people asked whether I’d written the ideas up, which I took as encouragement to share them here (along with a few photos from the event)....
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