The Business Of Biotech Podcast
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Dye Drug Conjugates For Cancer With Lahjavida's Lyle Small
9/11/2025
On this week's Business Of Biotech episode, Lyle Small, Founder and CEO at Lahjavida, a dye drug conjugate start-up, talks about creating the famous color-changing technology that turned the mountains blue on cold Coors Light beer cans, to launching a dye-drug conjugate startup developing targeted cancer therapies.
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Investing In The Biostack With Modi Ventures' Sahir Ali, Ph.D.
9/4/2025
On the Business of Biotech this week, Sahir Ali, Ph.D., founder and general partner at Modi Ventures, a family office investing at the intersection of technology and biology, talks about adapting the Markowitz model to improve returns and balance risk, his concept of the "biostack" for making direct investments into life sciences companies, and the revolutionary potential of scientific super intelligence.
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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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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.
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Biotech Product Partnership with Coya Therapeutics' Arun Swaminathan, Ph.D. and Dr. Reddy's Milan Kalawadia
8/13/2025
On this week's Business Of Biotech episode, Milan Kalawadia, CEO, North America, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, and Arun Swaminathan, Ph.D., CEO, Coya Therapeutics discuss their unique partnership to develop COYA 302, a novel dual-mechanism immunotherapy for the treatment of ALS.
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How To Hire And Build A Winning Executive Team With Occam Global's Bill Holodnak
8/6/2025
On this week's Business of Biotech episode, Bill Holodnak, Cofounder and CEO of Occam Global, a life sciences executive recruitment firm (and occasional investor), shares insights from his decades of experience pairing executives with drug development companies, and talks about the psychology of successful biotech leadership.
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The Generalist Biotech CEO With Seekyo's Oury Chetboun
7/30/2025
On this week's Business Of Biotech episode, Oury Chetboun, co-founder and CEO of Seekyo, a French biotech, talks about the range of experiences that prepared him to lead a company focused on developing innovative solid tumor treatments that target functional proteins in the tumor micro-environment.
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Innovating On The Frontier Of Radiopharmaceuticals With RadioMedix's Ebrahim Delpassand, M.D.
7/23/2025
On this week's Business of Biotech episode, Ebrahim Delpassand, M.D., founder, CEO, and chairman of the board at RadioMedix talks about his personal journey standing up and growing a radiopharmaceutical company focused on oncology.
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Building An Efficient Biopharma With South Rampart Pharma's Hernan Bazan, M.D.
7/16/2025
On this week's Business of Biotech, Dr. Hernan Bazan, M.D., co-founder and CEO at New Orleans-based South Rampart Pharma, talks about building an ultra-lean drug development company to address an unmet need observed in his own patients as a surgeon: safe treatments for acute pain.
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The Business And Science Of Obesity With Roger Cone, Ph.D., Founder Of Courage Therapeutics
7/9/2025
On this week's episode, Roger Cone, Ph.D., Founder and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board at Courage Therapeutics, talks about discovering obesity-related protein receptors in the brain, how he spun his academic discoveries out into a biotech company developing new obesity drugs, the need for obesity treatments with fewer side effects than currently available GLP-1 therapies, and the value of pairing scientific leadership with a strong business partner as CEO.