The Business Of Biotech Podcast

1. Finding New Opportunities In Obesity With Moonwalk Bioscience's Alex Aravanis, M.D., Ph.D. 9/17/2026

   On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, Alex Aravanis, M.D., Ph.D., CEO of Moonwalk Biosciences, talks about the opportunity in obesity beyond GLP-1s.

2. Biotech Finance And Investor Update With Independent Board Director Allan Shaw 9/9/2026

   On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, Independent Board Director and five-time public company CFO Allan Shaw returns to the show for an update on current biotech financing and the strategies needed to secure capital now.

3. Funding A Virtual Biotech Without Institutional Capital With Sarcomatrix's David Craig 9/3/2026

   On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, David Craig, Cofounder, President, and CEO at Sarcomatrix, explains why the old biotech playbook breaks down in today’s funding environment and what it takes to build a lean virtual drug development company without institutional financing.

4. Picking Biotech Winners Beyond The Hype Cycle With Andera Partners' Olivier Litzka 8/26/2026

   On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, Olivier Litzka, Partner at Andera Partners, talks about what it really takes for biotech companies to attract capital, stay focused, and survive the moments when biology and execution punch back.

5. Biotech Investing At The Earliest Stages With Santé Ventures' Omar Khalil 8/19/2026

   On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, Omar Khalil, Managing Director at Santé Ventures, describes forming and funding startups and early-stage biotech companies with a focus on clinical data and differentiation as the key value drivers.

6. Getting To A First Product Approval With Celcuity's Brian Sullivan 8/13/2026

   On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, Brian Sullivan, CEO at Celcuity, talks about winning the company's first FDA approval for Revtorpyk, a kinase inhibitor for breast cancer patients, and why targeting an “untreated disease mechanism” can beat chasing a single mutation.

7. Cell Therapy Advances And Biotech Leadership With Nkarta's Paul Hastings 7/31/2026

   On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, Paul Hastings, Founding CEO and Board Member at Nkarta, an allogeneic cell therapy developer, talks about building off-the-shelf CAR NK cell therapies for autoimmune disease.

8. A Rescue Model For Shelved Drug Candidates With Annette Bakker, Ph.D. And Andrew Lo, Ph.D. 7/30/2026

   On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, Annette Bakker, Ph.D., CEO at the Children's Tumor Foundation, and Andrew Lo, Ph.D., Finance Professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering, talk about the methods and economics for turning abandoned drug candidates into new therapies for patients.

9. Using Genetics To Discover New Treatments With Regeneron Genetics Center's Aris Baras, M.D. 7/23/2026

   On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, Aris Baras, M.D., SVP, Head of Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC) and Co-Head of Regeneron Genetic Medicines, talks about using large-scale human genetics to find better drug targets based on "superhuman" variants.

10. Late-Stage Development And Commercial Planning With CervoMed's Matt Winton, Ph.D. 7/15/2026

    On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, Matt Winton, Ph.D., Chief Commercial and Business Officer at CervoMed, talks about preparing for the late-stage development of neflamapimod in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and commercial planning for an anticipated launch.