16
Jun
2020
A Busy IPO Calendar: Forma, Repare, Progenity, Genetron
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15
Jun
2020
DNA Sequencing Startups Aim to Reduce Cost, Increase Meaning in the Data
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13
Jun
2020
A Conversation About Race: Ted Love on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Ted Love. Ted is the president and CEO of Global Blood Therapeutics, or GBT for short. The company is based in South San Francisco. GBT is focused on sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease affects about 100,000 people in the US, the vast majority of whom are black. About 20 million are thought... Read More
11
Jun
2020
AstraZeneca Opens Its Digital Komono
AstraZeneca has emerged with a reputation as one of the industry’s most imaginative pharmas – it was named the “most innovative” global pharma company by IDEA Pharma in November 2019, and was cast as Gallant to GSK’s Goofus in a recent Financial Times piece examining their contrasting trajectories. In this context, I was especially excited when I saw what looked... Read More
11
Jun
2020
Inconvenient Truths and Rays of Light
The information world that we built sometimes has a way of distracting us. It downplays and marginalizes what’s important. Not this week. Let’s start with a few timely, inconvenient truths. As of this writing on June 11: The US has 113,865 dead from COVID-19 and counting. 2 million+ confirmed cases. 20,000 new cases adding up every day. 21 states are... Read More
10
Jun
2020
Fighting COVID-19 & Racism: Andy Plump on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Andrew Plump. Andy is the president of research and development, and a member of the board of directors, at Takeda Pharmaceutical. Takeda doesn’t get a lot of attention in the US, but it’s one of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies by revenue, ranking a little behind AbbVie and a little ahead of Bristol-Myers... Read More
10
Jun
2020
Making Drugs at the Edge of Reason
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10
Jun
2020
Let’s Turn the Black Nod Into a Collective Nod
I first met Ken Frazier, the CEO of Merck, at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco in January 2018. It was my second year as an operator in biotech. I was still getting familiar with the whole bewildering experience of JPM. I was trained as a cancer immunologist at Dartmouth, did a stint in life sci strategy consulting,... Read More
9
Jun
2020
Versant Bets $50M on Lycia to Make Protein Degraders Against Extracellular Targets
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9
Jun
2020
Complexity in Motion: Multi-Omics Tools Unravel Path From Genotype to Phenotype
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8
Jun
2020
Atlas Venture Closes Fund XII at $400 Million, Promotes Gladstone to Partner
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8
Jun
2020
Accent CEO Shakti Narayan on Targeting RNA-Modifying Proteins for Cancer
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5
Jun
2020
Tech Integration Into Pharma: A Report From The Front Line
Most biopharma companies can talk at some length about embracing data science, and sometimes it’s hard to get beneath the surface of what they’re doing, at least publicly. But it was my privilege recently to frame and moderate a very insightful recent conversation – recorded for on-demand viewing at this year’s virtual BIO 2020 conference. This provided an unusual opportunity... Read More
4
Jun
2020
Anger, Pain, and Hope
The emotions this week were especially intense. Anger. Fear. Despair. But there was also hope. That gets me up in the morning. In this slice of America, the biotech industry, many people are mission-driven. People in this industry work every day to improve the human condition by making better medicines. Not everyone feels the full weight, but many in this... Read More
2
Jun
2020
Digital Natives and Skilled Operators: Weaving Data Science Into Pharma R&D
An abiding challenge at the intersection of technology and pharma R&D is the need to bring together two historically disparate cultures. Tech companies tend to be led by engineers. Pharma R&D is generally run by chemists and biologists in the early stages, and by physicians further on in development. Each of these domains has its own distinct language, culture and... Read More
2
Jun
2020
Puretech Focuses on the Long-Term Lung Complications in COVID-19 Survivors
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31
May
2020
Biopharma Can Dig Deep and Fight Hard Against Injustice. Here’s How
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31
May
2020
Adtech Data For Health: Time To Get Past The ‘Ick’ Factor
If you were responsible for the health of a large population, and could access just one of the following types of data, what would you choose (assuming all were acquired legally and responsibly)? (a) Genetics and other –omics data; (b) EHR data; (c) Consumer/adtech data. For at least the last 20 years, we’ve been obsessively focused on the first two... Read More
28
May
2020
The Infodemic Summer
The US death toll from COVID-19 exceeded 100,000 this week. Another 40 million people are unemployed. We’ve been on this terrible trajectory for what seems like forever, with 20,000 new cases a day and 1,500 or so deaths every day. The New York Times lists 18 states where new cases are increasing and 19 states where cases are decreasing. Memorial... Read More
27
May
2020
The Recovery: A Long Road Ahead for Patients, Healthcare Workers, and Hospitals
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