29
Jun
2021
Lab Supply Shortages Persist, Slowing Down Everyday Experiments
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24
Jun
2021
Lander Pushes ARPA-H, Lilly Follows Fast in Alzheimer’s, & Wyden Moderates on Price
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24
Jun
2021
The Other Half: Decentralized Research is The Path to All-Inclusive Medicine
More than half of the U.S. population is projected to be “other than non-Hispanic white” by 2045. If the current clinical research process doesn’t adapt to these changing population demographics, the life sciences industry will continue developing drugs and devices that are only shown to work for a select few, leaving out the “other half.” Despite efforts, including those from... Read More
24
Jun
2021
EQRx, Exscientia Team Up to Accelerate R&D for Lower-Priced, Better Drugs
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23
Jun
2021
F-Prime Leads $60M Bet on Adela, Scanning the Methylome for Early Signs of Cancer
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23
Jun
2021
Third Rock-Backed Abata Secures $95M for T-reg Cell Therapy Against MS
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23
Jun
2021
Biopharma’s Racial Justice Work is a Start. But More Needs to Happen
Biopharma leaders have pledged to make their companies more diverse and inclusive. MassBio created an open letter on culture, recruitment, development, sustainability and accountability that has been signed by presidents and CEOs of more than 200 member companies. Large and small companies have described some of their specific efforts in public. Bristol-Myers Squibb aims to double the number of executive... Read More
17
Jun
2021
Novavax Nails Vaccine Trial, CureVac Fails, & Flagship Sails on With $3.4B
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17
Jun
2021
On Juneteenth, Honoring 22 Black Biotech Leaders
A few Black people have risen to prominence in biopharma. Ken Frazier, Tony Coles, Rob Perez and Ted Love are among the most visible. But there are many other Black leaders in the industry who are making important contributions to the science and business of human health. Today, let’s recognize the Juneteenth holiday coming up June 19. It’s a celebration... Read More
17
Jun
2021
Versant, RA Bet $47M on LENZ Therapeutics to Restore Near Vision in Middle Age
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15
Jun
2021
After Devastating New Study, Is There A Future For Workplace Wellness – And Has Peloton Figured It Out?
This is a story about the tension between what we desperately want to believe and what the data suggest we should believe, and — surprise! — this isn’t about the contentious recent approval of the Biogen drug aducanumab for Alzheimer’s Disease. Rather, it’s about a powerful and important study just published in Health Affairs, examining the outcomes of a workplace wellness program in a... Read More
15
Jun
2021
Mentoring Young Scientists: Jay Bradner and Andy Plump on The Long Run
This episode of The Long Run is a little different. I invited a couple previous guests on The Long Run to discuss a specific issue: How the industry can do a better job of mentoring young scientists, and creating on-ramps to careers in the biopharma industry for people from underrepresented groups. Jay Bradner, the president of the Novartis Institutes for... Read More
14
Jun
2021
Biotech Pride: 19 Industry Leaders Who Identify as LGBTQ
Scientists have created mRNA vaccines that are saving millions of lives. Better cancer drugs are in the works. Gene editing technologies, and gene therapies, offer potential cures. Teams of dedicated people are making these things happen, and many of the people on these teams identify as LGBTQ. As part of Pride Month, I asked TR readers to nominate members of... Read More
10
Jun
2021
Biogen’s Alzheimer’s Controversy, Cytokine Startups Reload, and Vaccines Beat Variants
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10
Jun
2021
Bright Peak Therapeutics Raises $107M to Advance Cytokine Engineering
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10
Jun
2021
T-cell Diagnostic Tests: COVID-19 Pushed Us, and We Can See Where This Leads
In late February 2020, when it became clear that COVID-19 was spreading around the world, our senior management team at Adaptive Biotechnologies took a gamble. We had a hunch that our ability to evaluate T-cell immunity, combined with advanced bioinformatics, could help the scientific community better understand the novel coronavirus. The entire world, it seemed, was focused on B-cell derived... Read More
3
Jun
2021
Amgen’s KRAS Triumph, Eric Lander in the Saddle, and EQRx Takes Aim at PD-L1
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3
Jun
2021
Stablix, Seeking to Stabilize Instead of Degrade Proteins, Raises $63M
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2
Jun
2021
Spatial Biology Coming Into Focus: Brad Gray on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Brad Gray. Brad is the CEO of Seattle-based NanoString Technologies. NanoString started out in the early 2000s by making digital “bar codes” that allowed it to do multi-plex gene expression – the analysis of multiple genes at once, and the extent to which they were dialled on or off in a given sample.... Read More
1
Jun
2021
Learning from Mistakes in a Pandemic, Aspiring to Make Better Decisions Each Day
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