Regulatory
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Manipulating Milestones In Pandemic Times With AGTC's Sue Washer
12/21/2020
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt biopharma clinical trials, especially those conducted with at-risk patient populations. From patient recruitment to data collection, clinical trials execution became considerably more challenging in 2020. On this episode of The Business Of Biotech, AGTC CEO Sue Washer gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the creative measures her company took to serve a geographically dispersed clinical patient population and ensure her company met clinical milestones.
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Obesity Tx End-Around With Skye Bioscience's Punit Dhillon
10/20/2024
While the trend toward CB1 inhibition for obesity took a small hit with the release of Novo Nordisk's small molecule oral cannabinoid receptor (CB1) inverse agonist monlunabant last month, Skye Bioscience Chairman and CEO Punit Dhillon is shaking it off. He's confident that his company's antibody-based approach to CB1 inhibition will make a moot point of the neuropsychiatric side effects that put a damper on Novo's data. On this episode of the Business of Biotech, we're digging into the uber-hot business of weight loss therapeutics.
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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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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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Engineering B Cells With Immusoft's Sean Ainsworth
12/5/2025
On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, Sean Ainsworth, CEO and Chairman at Immusoft, talks about transitioning from the research bench to entrepreneurship, his M&A experiences as a biotech founder, and why engineered B cell therapies offer a better, more patient-friendly administration for lysosomal storage diseases currently treated with enzyme replacement therapies.
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Novel Peptide Delivery With Revolo's Woody Bryan, Ph.D.
12/1/2024
Revolo Biotherapeutics President and CEO Woody Bryan, Ph.D. is pushing the boundaries of peptide therapeutic delivery. On this episode of the Business of Biotech, we dig into Dr. Bryan’s transition to the CEO chair at the company and how that coincided with an aggressive strategic decision to alter the course of administration of its peptide candidates in allergic and autoimmune diseases.
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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.
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T-Cells For The Win With Adaptimmune's Adrian Rawcliffe
11/17/2024
In August of this year, the first TCR cell therapy to be approved for use in the U.S. was greenlighted by the FDA for patients with unresectable or metastatic synovial sarcoma who have previously received chemotherapy. It marked the first new treatment for those patients in more than a decade; a win for those patients, and a win for Adrian Rawcliffe, who’s had a hand on the wheel at Adaptimmune, the therapy’s developer and manufacturer, since he joined the company as CFO in 2015.
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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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Preparing For The Clinic With Amolyt Pharma's Dr. Thierry Abribat
3/8/2021
Amolyt Pharma is developing a therapeutic peptide program targeting rare endocrine and metabolic diseases including hypoparathyroidism and acromegaly. Fresh on the heels of its lead candidate's foray into phase 1 clinical trials, we're joined by the company's founder and CEO, Thierry Abribat, Ph.D., for a deep dive into Amolyt Pharma's pre-clinical preparation, including his financing, talent acquisition, and clinical study strategies.