Finance & Capital Markets

31. Building A Biotech Hub With Intellia Therapeutics' John Leonard, M.D. 1/13/2024

    We spend a lot of time talking with our guests about building biotech companies. That’s true of this episode too, but today we’re taking a step further with John Leonard, M.D., longtime CEO at Intellia Therapeutics.

32. Financing Biopharma Innovation With Allan Shaw 12/19/2022

    Friend and frequent guest Allan Shaw rejoins the Business of Biotech to reflect on his recent presentation on innovative biotech financing at the BioFuture event in NYC. We also dig into Bruce Booth's "Atlas Venture Year In Review," revisiting and unpacking some quoteworthy material and metrics from both sources. Allan offers up plenty of prognostication and professional insight in a preview of what's to come in 2023, complete with his signature "Allanisms" and colorful analogies. A can't-miss episode as we round the turn to a new year!

33. Biotech Dealmaking with Regeneron's Nouhad Husseini 11/22/2023

    When it comes to landing and executing strategic partnerships, Regeneron puts on a clinic. Partnerships, acquisitions, licensing agreements, and other deals large and small with Intellia, Decibel Therapeutics, BARDA, Alnylam, and Sonoma Therapeutics are just a sampling of those making news this year alone. The man behind much of that dealmaking is none other than Nouhad Husseini, SVP and Head of Business Development and Corporate Strategy at Regeneron.

34. Building On Pandemic Progress With Barinthus Biotherapeutics' Bill Enright 10/27/2024

    It sure seems like Bill Enright has a knack for making big moves at inopportune times, then turning the expected outcome on its ear. For example, he signed on as CEO at Altimmune when the company was struggling mightily. Enright had a turnaround plan in hand, but as he was in the thick of a non-deal road show to execute said plan, Lehmen Brothers collapsed. On this episode of the Business of Biotech, we'll learn how he flipped the script and other harrowing tales from the trenches. 

35. Picking Biotech Jockeys With SR One's Simeon George, M.D. 9/15/2024

    SR One Capital Management CEO Simeon George, M.D. has a seemingly innate ability to pick winning biotech builders. On the Business of Biotech, Dr. George shares insight into the decision-making processes that have contributed to his success at picking winners as an investment banker and biotech venture capitalist. Listen now!

36. The Legend Steve Gorlin's Golden Rules 11/1/2023

    Shortly after Thalidomide became a household word—albeit a very, very bad one—a biotech investor bought it for a couple hundred grand. Who on earth would want a drug pulled from the market for causing birth defects? Steve Gorlin did.

37. Athersys' Ivor Macleod On Bringing Big-League Financial Experience To An Emerging Biotech 8/13/2020

    The Business Of Biotech "Summer Executive Sessions" kick off with a candid conversation with Athersys CFO Ivor Macleod, who brings years of finance leadership at Roche, Merck, and other big pharmas to Athersys as the company readies its lead candidate for life beyond clinical trials. Join us for a discussion on how Macleod is applying big-league finance principles to an emerging biopharma company, and what he's learned about managing funds in a pre-commercial biotech environment.

38. Foundations Of Biopharma Finance With Smital Shah, MBA 11/9/2020

    Smital Shah brings a trifecta of chemical engineering, consulting, and finance experience earned at heavyweight companies like JP Morgan, Leerink, and Gilead to her role at clinical-stage RNA therapy biotech ProQR Therapeutics. We sat down for a deep conversation on the recipe for successful business and finance operations in an emerging biopharma organization.

39. Risk Mitigation With MeiraGTx's Zandy Forbes, Ph.D. 12/30/2024

    Zandy Forbes, Ph.D., combines science and finance expertise to manage biotech risk. With a Ph.D. from Oxford, a postdoc fellowship, and over a decade as a Wall Street healthcare investor, she now leads Meira GTx as President & CEO. On Business of Biotech, she discusses how her investment experience informs her approach to biotech leadership.

40. Episode 3: The Biopharma Exit Strategy With Dr. Francois Nader 8/13/2020

    Every new, emerging biopharma company shares a common goal: creating value for its employees, its board, its investors, and ultimately, patients. Along the way, that value creating might get a boost from an IPO, a merger, an acquisition, or steady growth as a private entity. On this episode of The Business Of Biotech, we talk with Dr. Francois Nader—a man who's orchestrated several wildly successful biotech exits—about why it's imperative to begin with the end in mind, and how to navigate your options when the time is right.