Finance & Capital Markets

  1. Creating Competitive Differentiation With Allan Shaw 9/13/2021

    The biologic therapy market is crowded, and judging by the recent parade of IPOs, competition for investment, mindshare, talent, and ultimately share of market is only getting stiffer. On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, our friend and biotech business guru Allan Shaw joins us for a foundational conversation on creating competitive differentiation at every stage of biopharma growth. We cover the connections between developmental strategy and the competitive commercial landscape, the moral obligation to differentiate between promise and plausibility, the commoditization of brilliant science, and the necessity to align balanced plans with wild dreams.

  2. Funding Tips And Moving From R&D To Commercial With Madrigal Pharmaceuticals' Mardi Dier 11/5/2025

    On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, Mardi Dier, CFO at Madrigal Pharmaceuticals, talks about building relationships in investment banking and investor relations before moving into business development and becoming a chief financial officer. 

  3. Big Pharma Insights For Building Biotech Startups With Uniquity Bio's Brian Lortie 4/24/2025

    On this episode of the Business of Biotech, host Ben Comer speaks with Brian Lortie, President and CEO of Uniquity Bio, about his "no jerk" policy and how his experience building teams at GSK, Endo Pharmaceuticals, and Onspira Therapeutics informs his leadership at Uniquity, a clinical-stage immunology startup backed by Blackstone Life Sciences.

  4. A $1B AI Bet With Foresite Labs' Vik Bajaj, Ph.D. 12/15/2024

    This past spring, Xaira Therapeutics launched with $1 billion in backing, a who's-who mashup of Silicon Valley and biopharma stars led by Marc Tessier-Lavigne in the C-suite, and a mission to develop AI-generated drugs. On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, we're digging into the company's origin story and its place on the greater techbio landscape with one of the men bearing responsibility for Xaira's launch.

  5. Embracing Biotech Chaos With Memo's Erik van den Berg 9/8/2024

    Erik van den Berg is CEO and board member at Memo Therapeutics, and he's a student of biotech chaos. In fact, he's been embracing it with intention for the past 30 years. On this episode of the Business of Biotech, he walks us through the management of that chaos in specific detail.

  6. Building Flagship Pioneering With Avak Kahvejian, Ph.D. 4/26/2023

    Flagship Pioneering is fertile ground for a bevy of blossoming biotechs, and one of its most prolific sowers is General Partner Avak Kahvejian, Ph.D. Dr. Kahvejian counts Seres Therapeutics, Rubius Therapeutics, Codiak BioSciences, Cygnal Therapeutics, Ring Therapeutics, Cellarity, Laronde, and Generate Biomedicines among the companies he's played a leading hand in launching. On this episode of the Business of Biotech, Kahvejian takes us under the hood of one of the most burgeoning businesses in biotech, sharing details on the people, processes, and technologies fueling its rapid growth.

  7. Biotech Capital Markets Forecast With Allan Shaw 1/23/2022

    As Allan Shaw likes to say, "there have never been so many people with their hands out, and there has never been so much money to go around." But how sustainable is this seemingly perennial boom in the biotech capital markets? Will the road go on forever and the party never end, or are there signs of a slowdown on the horizon? Shaw once again joins us to break down the market activity he's seeing, and what he anticipates for early-stage biotech leaders in 2022. 

  8. Art Of The Pivot With Elevation Oncology's Joe Ferra 1/3/2024

    Relatively new CEO Joseph Ferra has orchestrated some pretty significant change at Elevation Oncology in the two(ish) years since the Business of Biotech last hosted the company. In that short time, Ferra advanced from CFO to CEO, a move that aligned very closely with the company's difficult decision to shelve the late phase 2 anti-HER3 monoclonal antibody candidate it was founded on.

  9. The Innovation Reduction Act With Allan Shaw 5/31/2023

    Allan Shaw posits that the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will stifle momentum in the biopharma industry and suggests its impact will ultimately cost patients and payers more. Tune in to learn why.

  10. A Look Behind, A Look Ahead With Allan Shaw 1/4/2021

    The Business Of Biotech kicks off the new year with an up-close-and-personal talk with biotech investor and CFO extraordinaire Allan Shaw. We talk through last year's ups and downs and do a little prognosticating on what we're feeling bullish about--from unprecedented regulatory action to exciting progress on the cell and gene front--as we head into the new year.