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
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
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
8
Mar
2018
What’s Better Than Curing Cancer? Preventing It!
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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
15
Feb
2018
Mingle in Seattle with Genentech, Celgene, OrbiMed, 5AM & More, March 5
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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
23
Jan
2018
Leveraging June’s I-O Team at Penn, Tmunity Fetches $100M from Gilead, Parker & Ping An
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4
Jan
2018
Microsoft Makes Nine-Figure Bet on Adaptive’s TCR-Antigen Map; BioNTech Hauls in $270M for 10-Drug Cancer Pipeline
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18
Dec
2017
Walk & Talk With Me on Powell Street at #JPM18
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6
Dec
2017
Obsidian Therapeutics Gets $49.5M to Bring CAR-T Dosing Under Control
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6
Dec
2017
“You Went to SITC and All You Got Was This TR Post? (Part 2)
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29
Nov
2017
Codiak, Aspiring to Make Exosome Drugs for Cancer, Nabs $76M to March Into Clinic
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2
Nov
2017
Understanding Polio, Baseball and Cancer: Sometimes the “When” is as Vital as the “What”
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26
Oct
2017
VIDEO: Climbing Mount Everest to Support Cancer Research at Fred Hutch
Hi, I’m Luke Timmerman, a biotech journalist. I’m carrying my 80-pound training backpack, up and down the hills of Seattle, for a reason. I’m training to climb Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world, in 2018. Why do this? Of course, I love the mountains. But mostly, I’m doing it to support the top-notch research at the Fred Hutchinson... Read More
2
Oct
2017
KSQ Scores $76M, Lures Meeker to CRISPR Dream of ‘High Confidence Drug Development’
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8
Sep
2017
Replimune, Led by BioVex Vets, Snags $55M for New Oncolytic Viruses for Cancer
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7
Sep
2017
Gritstone Grabs $93M, Doubling Down on Personalized Neoantigen Cancer Vaccines
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