Finance & Capital Markets

1. Episode 4: Building Your Pitch With Leslie Williams 8/13/2020

   Leslie Williams is a multi-time biotech founder and board member who's honed her pitch-building skills to a fine point. On this episode of The Business Of Biotech, Williams shares best practices for building your pitch deck, how to draw out the nuance that makes your story unique, what to expect in your initial pitch session and follow-on meetings, and why the human element trumps everything else in an otherwise formulaic pitch process.

2. IL-2 Program Profits With Bonum's Drs. John Mulligan And Neela Patel 12/13/2023

   On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, we welcome two extraordinary guests - Dr. Neela Patel, a molecular biologist-turned-Chief Business Officer, and Dr. John Mulligan, an academic-turned-founder of newly-formed Bonum Therapeutics. Together, Neela and John will pull back the curtain on Bonum's transition from its predecessor, Good Therapeutics, which was fueled by a high-profile asset sale to Roche.

3. Resilient Biopharma Leadership With Ambrx's Dan O'Connor 5/17/2023

   Since Dan O'Connor stepped in as CEO at Ambrx late last year, the company's stock has rallied on the revival of a previously-shelved anti-HER2 ADC. It also raised $78 million and completed its ATM (at-the-market) offering. O'Connor is no stranger to overcoming adversity, which we discussed at lenght on this episode of the Business of Biotech.

4. Biotech M&A Trends With Allan Shaw 3/21/2022

   On this episode of the Business of Biotech, Allan Shaw waxes on his expectations for mergers, acquisitions, and collaborative partnership opportunities for new and emerging biotechs in 2022 and beyond. We tackle questions biotech leaders should be asking about intentionality, what's attractive to potential suitors, and why startups that aren't prepared to take a candidate to the finish line have already conceded a major factor in partnership or buyout negotiations. Don't miss Shaw's advice for startup success in a suddenly tumultuous market.

5. The Implications Of China's Growing Biotech Industry With Allan Shaw 4/16/2025

   Business of Biotech MVP Allan Shaw is back to talk about the rise of China's biotech sector, and its evolution from fast follower to global innovation powerhouse.

6. Clinical Leadership with Cue Biopharma's Anish Suri, Ph.D. & Dan Passeri, J.D. 10/20/2023

   On a road trip to Boston, the Business of Biotech caught up with podcast alum Dan Passeri, J.D., CEO at Cue Biopharma, and enjoyed a two-for-one with CSO and President Anish Suri, Ph.D. at Cue's headquarters just feet below the Auerbach Center. Among other things, we discussed the duo's complementary leadership approach as the company takes multiple candidates into the clinic, why Passeri leans into his biotech legal background almost every day he's at work, why Cue's discretely targeted IL-2 approach eliminates the absurdity of early IL-2 failures, and a whole lot more.

7. Biotech Story Time With Tal Zaks, M.D. (Part 2) 1/5/2025

   Dr. Tal Zaks joins the Business of Biotech for the second part of "Story Time With Tal," discussing his transition from Moderna's CMO during the COVID-19 pandemic to co-founding Exsilio Therapeutics, an mRNA startup. The episode explores Exsilio's foundation, scientific focus, team recruitment, and its $82 million Series A funding led by Novartis Venture Fund and Delos Capital, with support from prominent investors like OrbiMed, CRISPR Therapeutics, and J.P. Morgan Life Sciences Private Capital.

8. Public Sector Forged, Private Sector Tested With Renovaro BioSciences' Mark Dybul, M.D. 12/6/2023

   During his leadership of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief during the George W. Bush administration, Dr. Mark Dybul, M.D. shepherded programs credited with saving more than 25 million lives. For many years after that public service drew to a close, he continued the mission as executive director of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria--working in lockstep with not only the world's leading scientists, but the likes of Bono and Sir Elton John along the way. 

9. Building A Biotech Incubator And Accelerator With Swiss Rockets Founder And CEO Vladimir Cmiljanovic, Ph.D. 8/21/2025

   On this week's episode, ex-handballer Vladimir Cmiljanovic, Ph.D., Founder and CEO at Swiss Rockets, talks about co-discovering bimiralisib with his sister Natasa Cmiljanovic, Ph.D. (and COO at Swiss Rockets), losing his company to a hostile takeover, buying the company back, and building out Swiss Rockets as an incubator with manufacturing capabilities and shared scientific expertise.

10. Venture Philanthropy For Type 1 Diabetes With T1D Fund's Katie Ellias 1/19/2022

    The JDRF's T1D Fund is exemplary of an indication-specific advocacy group's aggressive pursuit of a cure through venture philanthropy. Put simply, unlike traditional VC firms who entertain myriad and often diverse pitches from biotech startups, the T1D fund creates financial and advisory incentives for the biotechs in its portfolio to pursue candidates and formalize programs around Type 1 Diabetes therapies.