27
Feb
2019
Staying Resilient, Finding a Way Forward: Julia Owens on The Long Run
Julia Owens is today’s guest on The Long Run. Owens is the CEO of Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Millendo Therapeutics. This company develops drugs for rare endocrine disorders. Prader-Willi syndrome, a terrible genetic disorder that causes young people to develop voracious appetites and which leads to severe obesity, is the focus of the company’s lead drug candidate. It’s entering a pivotal...Read More 
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20
Feb
2019
The Boston Cancer Summit and SF Cancer Summit. See the Agenda & Get Your Tickets
The Boston Cancer Summit is loaded with a stellar lineup of speakers on Apr. 16. Same deal with the San Francisco Cancer Summit on Apr. 18. I’m excited to announce the agendas for these special idea-and-networking forums. Hal Barron of GSK, David Schenkein of GV, Cindy Perettie of Foundation Medicine, and Ira Mellman of Genentech are a few of the...Read More
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6
Feb
2019
Get Tickets Now: The Cancer Summit Series is Coming to Boston, SF, Seattle
We live in a time of tremendous possibility for cancer R&D. Checkpoint inhibitors, cell therapies, molecular diagnostics that catch cancer early and can guide effective custom treatment – these fields are brimming with progress. All were considered speculative at best a decade ago. The science has never been more promising. Yet pricing and access to this new world of cancer...Read More
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20
Dec
2018
Relay Therapeutics Hauls in $400M to Push Frontier in Computational Drug Discovery
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12
Dec
2018
First Everest, Now Kilimanjaro: Climb With Me and a Great Biotech Team to Fight Cancer
Summiting the highest peak in the world and raising $340,000 for cancer research at Fred Hutch was the start. It was the start of something bigger. Today, I’m overjoyed to say that an outstanding team of biotech executives and investors will join me on the Kilimanjaro Climb to Fight Cancer. This will be a 7-day expedition to the summit of...Read More
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11
Dec
2018
OSI Veterans, and Versant Ventures, Unveil Startup To Fight Allosteric Resistance Mutations in Cancer
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21
Sep
2018
WuXi Eyes A Fresh $1B, California Aims at AbbVie, and MSK’s Industry Ties in the Spotlight
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17
Jul
2018
Nine Observations on Leadership and Teamwork from Mt. Everest
Most of you have heard by now that I reached the summit of Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world, on May 22. Not only was this a dream come true, it was the culmination of my charity fundraising campaign, the Everest Climb to Fight Cancer. It fetched $339,000 for cancer research at the Fred Hutch, a leading center...Read More
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13
Jun
2018
EHA18 Preview: Blood Drugs to Watch in Stockholm
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23
May
2018
Re-Starting a Company, Keeping Hope Alive: Chip Clark on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Chip Clark. He’s the CEO of Cambridge, Mass.-based Genocea Biosciences. This vaccine platform company got into a jam last summer. It completed a Phase II trial with its lead therapeutic vaccine for genital herpes. Clark tried to insist the trial was a success and the product had a future. The market disagreed. The...Read More
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20
Apr
2018
Harnessing What Was There All Along. Book Review of ‘A Cure Within’
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26
Mar
2018
Mt. Everest: It’s Time
Six months of hard training is in the bank. Tomorrow morning, I will lug a pair of 120-liter gear bags to the airport and get on the plane for Kathmandu. Destination: Mt. Everest, 29,029 feet/8,848 meters. The summit of the highest mountain in the world. No matter what happens, three things are certain: I’ve given it everything I’ve got to prepare...Read More
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21
Mar
2018
TCR2 Therapeutics Grabs $125M to Take TCR Therapies, Sans HLA Screens, To the Clinic
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12
Mar
2018
Photo Gallery: The Boston Cancer Summit
What a whirlwind last week was! The Seattle and Boston Cancer Summits were an East-West combo punch on behalf of the Everest Climb to Fight Cancer fundraising campaign for Fred Hutch. These events did the job: Bringing together leading thinkers and doers on both coasts, they both drew sellout, highly engaged crowds. The fundraising tally now stands at $326,000!! The...Read More
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12
Mar
2018
Photo Gallery: The Seattle Cancer Summit
What a whirlwind last week was! The Seattle and Boston Cancer Summits were an East-West combo punch on behalf of the Everest Climb to Fight Cancer fundraising campaign for Fred Hutch. These events did the job: Bringing together leading thinkers and doers on both coasts, they both drew sellout, highly engaged crowds. The fundraising tally now stands at $326,000!! The...Read More
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8
Mar
2018
What’s Better Than Curing Cancer? Preventing It!
You don’t have to be an oncologist to know that fighting cancer is tough. Nearly 1.7 million Americans will be diagnosed with cancer this year, and about 600,000 will die from the disease. But here’s some good news: overall U.S. cancer deaths have been in a steep decline for over 25 years. Much of this reduction is tied to a...Read More
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5
Mar
2018
Getting to Precision Medicine for I-O Combinations – It’s Even More Complicated
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16
Feb
2018
All-Star Lineup for Boston Cancer Summit, March 7: Novartis, J&J, Third Rock, Atlas
Timmerman Report is bringing together major East Coast cancer R&D players for an intimate half-day event on March 7: the Boston Cancer Summit. Join an all-star gathering of pharma executives, hot startups, and VCs making things happen in the treatment and diagnosis of cancer. Tickets are sold out. The conference will be at Sanofi Genzyme’s flagship building in the heart of Kendall Square....Read More
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15
Feb
2018
Mingle in Seattle with Genentech, Celgene, OrbiMed, 5AM & More, March 5
Exclusive Event, Powerhouse Lineup: Seattle Cancer Summit Seattle biotech events don’t get any better than this. Timmerman Report is bringing together major West Coast players for an intimate half-day event on March 5: the Seattle Cancer Summit. Tickets are limited and going fast. And all proceeds go to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, as part of my Everest Climb to Fight...Read More
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29
Jan
2018
The Boston Cancer Summit & Seattle Cancer Summit. Two Can’t-Miss Events
Cancer wasn’t that exciting to write about when I started 15 years ago. It is now. Survival rates for several forms of cancer are going in the right direction. Immunotherapy, targeted therapy, new information on genes and proteins that redefine the molecular nature of malignancy? It’s coming together. The science is bursting with creativity, and moving fast. I’m thinking and...Read More
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