Regulatory
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Improving Cardiovascular Outcomes With Immediate Therapeutics' Atul Deshpande, Ph.D.
8/27/2025
On this week's Business Of Biotech episode, Atul Deshpande, Ph.D., CEO at Immediate Therapeutics, talks about partnering with American cities to conduct clinical trials during ambulance rides to the hospital, with the goal of preserving heart function and reducing mortality related to acute cardiovascular events, including heart attacks.
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Leading From Within with ISCT & Kiji's Miguel Forte, M.D.
8/11/2024
He's been a big pharma executive. He's a multi-time biotech founder and current biotech CEO. He was once a regulator. He's a physician. He serves on multiple boards. And as of this summer, he's president of one of the most influential global organizations dedicated to the advance of cell and gene therapies (ISCT), and an executive member of another (ARM). Miguel Forte, M.D. simply can't stop finding places to apply his talents and energy to influence the advanced therapies landscape.
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BoB@JPM: Kasper Roet, Ph.D., QurAlis
3/12/2025
On this episode of the Business of Biotech, Life Science Leader's Ben Comer joins to co-host a conversation with Dr. Roet that goes deep on his company's genetic medicine approach to ALS, and even deeper into his opinions on, and growing influence over, the regulatory environment.
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The Clinical Trials Conundrum With Allan Shaw
10/18/2021
The clinical trials status quo is a roadblock. They're slow, they're inefficient, and they're expensive. On this episode of the Business of Biotech, friend and frequent guest Allan Shaw shares some strong opinions on what's wrong with clinical trials, and what the industry (read: you) and the FDA need to do to make them right.
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Bringing Curative Cell Therapies To Market with Kite Pharma's Cindy Perettie
2/6/2026
On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, we're speaking with Cindy Perettie, Executive Vice President and Global Head at Kite Pharma, a Gilead-owned company focused on curing cancer with cell therapies.
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Biopolitics With Allan Shaw
11/24/2024
The notion that political influence has no place in biology appears poised for a test it hasn’t studied for. Trump administration nominations, from RFK, Jr. to HHS and Vivek Ramaswamy to the newly-proposed DOGE, are driving speculation over the implications for biotech and other life sciences industries. How should biotech builders be obviating? On the Business of Biotech, we’re joined for some reflection by none other than Allan Shaw.
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Transforming Chronic Kidney Disease With ProKidney's Bruce Culleton, M.D.
12/12/2025
On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, Bruce Culleton, M.D., CEO at ProKidney, talks about moving from academic research to industry and the role a key mentor played in his career path.
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Data Quality & Master Files With Dr. Robert Hariri
9/6/2020
If ever a biotech unwittingly begged for FDA scrutiny by virtue of its business model, it was Celularity. The company is working on a host of biologic therapies, the development of which is dependent on the large-scale collection of stem cells harvested from afterbirth in maternity wards across the globe. That's an approach that simply begs for FDA oversight, which is why Celularity founder Dr. Robert Hariri makes for an excellent discussion on the importance of data quality and complete master files for FDA submissions.
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Taking ADCs Across The Finish Line
8/13/2020
While Immunomedics CMO Loretta Itri, M.D. is no stranger to taking drugs across the commercial finish line in big pharma environments, her most recent win with TRODELVY was very, very different. On this episode, Dr. Itri shares insight on her small biopharma's first commercial launch, the manufacturing and regulatory approval challenges that were overcome to get there, and why antibody drug conjugates are coming of age.
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Gap Analysis With Dr. Pablo Valenzuela & Cristián Hernández-Cuevas
9/30/2020
On the season finale of the Business of Biotech, we're joined by biopharma pioneer Dr. Pablo Valenzuela and a rising star in Chile's biotech scene in Cristián Hernández-Cuevas for a candid discussion on biopharma's compute power revolution, the influence of technology on gap analyses and next steps for emerging biopharma, and what's driving biotech growth in South America.