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19
Dec
2022

A New Way to Treat Depression: Barry Greene on The Long Run

Today’s guest on The Long Run is Barry Greene. Barry is the CEO of Cambridge, Mass.-based Sage Therapeutics. Sage is developing a new medicine for the treatment of major depressive disorder and postpartum depression. Sage, and its partner, Biogen, recently completed a New Drug Application to the FDA for permission to start marketing zuranolone. The drug is a once-daily oral...
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14
Dec
2022

Reprofiling ‘Drug Repurposing’

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4
Dec
2022

Hot Topics in Biopharma: Initial Impact of Digital, Data Dilemmas in Clinical Studies, and the Search for ‘New Normal’

For today: topics relevant to many drug developers (and others): The initial impact of digital The dilemma of data collection in early clinical studies The elusive search for “new normal” ways of working Initial impact of digital in biopharma The sexy promise of digital/data/AI in biopharma was that emerging digital technologies were going to solve our most important and vexing...
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15
Nov
2022

Team Julie: Fighting Back Against Glioblastoma

Thirty-seven years ago, I met a lovely and talented young woman while we were both pursuing our PhDs. We were married during our last year in graduate school, and have spent every day since raising a family; working in STEM-Medicine careers; and engaging with our communities. We had just retired in 2019 and begun making plans to travel and enjoy...
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14
Nov
2022

ICYMI – Recommended Reading and Listening for Biotech Innovators

Searching for a good listen or an interesting read? Here are my latest suggestions. Everything is awesome! Looking for something thoughtful and uplifting? A great place to start is this recent interview with tech VC Marc Andreessen, who discusses, persuasively, why he is still so optimistic about technology. Particularly useful: Andreessen’s ability to contextualize the evolution of technology, including the...
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7
Nov
2022

Delivery of Genetic Medicines: Shehnaaz Suliman on The Long Run

Today’s guest on The Long Run is Shehnaaz Suliman. Shehnaaz is the CEO of Menlo Park, California-based ReCode Therapeutics. Recode is working on lipid nanoparticles to improve the delivery of genetic medicines. These little packages have made it possible to deliver billions of mRNA COVID vaccines in people’s arms, saving millions of lives. It’s been two decades of hard work....
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28
Oct
2022

It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over

If you’re still curious about COVID-19, then good for you. Many people apparently have stopped paying attention, but COVID-19 remains a relevant topic. Here’s where things stand this fall with viral variants and our countermeasures. We are starting a period of the Omicron epidemic in which the numbering is no longer B1, B2, B3, B4, B5. We’re into the Omicron...
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