The Business Of Biotech Podcast
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An Unanticipated Biotech Startup With OS Therapies' Paul Romness
11/3/2024
Becoming a biotech CEO wasn't on Paul Romness' bingo card. He'd forged his place in the biopharma industry as a foremost public and policy affairs expert. Thirteen years at J&J, more than 5 at Amgen, and half a dozen at Boehringer Ingelheim had earned him the right to coast into a consulting gig that would enable him to finish out his career on his terms. Then his daughter's best friend Olivia, a teenage girl and neighbor he'd watched grow up, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma.
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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.
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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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Biotech C-Suite Construction With Allan Shaw
10/13/2024
Allan Shaw is back with us this week to dig into the complexities of strategic hiring in biotech. If you're growing a biotech in these volatile times, this episode of the Business of Biotech offers veteran insight you won't want to miss.
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The Peptide Promise With NervGen's Mike Kelly
10/6/2024
Mike Kelly faced a self-reckoning before he took the job as CEO at NervGen Pharma, a company developing peptide therapeutics targeted specifically at central nervous system repair. The veteran of life sciences business development knew the ropes of the biotech C-suite. He’d been a CEO twice before. He knew how to launch drugs. He even knew how to sell them. On this episode of the Business of Biotech, we learn how Kelly reconciled that truth, and how NervGen is now leading the way for peptide therapeutics in spinal cord injury and beyond.
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Biotech Course Correction With Treehill Partners' Ali Pashazadeh
9/29/2024
It wouldn't be accurate to say that surgeon-turned-healthcare investment banker and consultant Dr. Ali Pashazadeh traded his scalpels for spreadsheets. In fact, he still wields a scalpel quite frequently, and on this episode of the Business of Biotech podcast, he offers a fantastic reason why.
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An AI Awakening With Profluent Bio's Hilary Eaton, Ph.D.
9/22/2024
Hilary Eaton, Ph.D. was a self-described AI skeptic, particularly regarding using the tool in drug discovery. Then, a series of professional and deeply personal life events and medical discoveries put her in a position to confront that skepticism head-on. On Business of Biotech, the Chief Business Officer at ProFluent Bio shares her story and makes a pragmatic case for the transformative value of AI to biotech builders.
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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!
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Embracing Biotech Chaos With Memo's Erik van den Berg
9/8/2024
Erik van den Berg is CEO and board member at Memo Therapeutics, and he's a student of biotech chaos. In fact, he's been embracing it with intention for the past 30 years. On this episode of the Business of Biotech, he walks us through the management of that chaos in specific detail.
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Pivoting To RNA With Circio's Dr. Erik Digman Wiklund
9/1/2024
This week, it’s another “Business of Biotech-meets-Business-of-RNA” takeover with Circio CEO Erik Digman Wiklund, Ph.D. and guest co-host Anna Rose Welch of Advancing RNA. While Circio’s legacy is in cancer immunology (it still boasts a cancer vaccine candidate targeting KRAS driver mutations), the company made a bold pivot, of sorts, when it committed headlong to the circular RNA future. Now, it’s in the throes of fine-tuning a platform for the development of novel circRNA medicines for rare disease, vaccines, and cancer.