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Discussing hot button issues for biotech, and how they do or don't affect the mechanics of M&A, with one of the most experienced bankers in healthcare, Jefferies' Philip Ross
He describes how some front and center issues for biotech either do or don't affect the M&A environment such as China, negative enterprise values, th…
1 year, 2 months ago
William Blair biotech analyst Andy Hsieh takes stock of the obesity space after attending the 2025 American Diabetes Association's (ADA's) 85th Scientific Sessions in Chicago
He discusses data presented at #ADA25 including Eli Lillys Orforglipron and Bimagrumab, Novo Nordisk's CagriSema, and Amgen's MariTide. Plus, thought…
1 year, 2 months ago
Checking in with the co-founders of Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, which now has one program in pivotal, another that may start soon, and earlier stage clinical programs that will have data this year
Josh Cohen and Justin Klee walk us through the lead program, avexitide, which is a GLP-1 antagonist and is currently in a pivotal study that will rea…
1 year, 2 months ago
Oxford, UK based Pathios Therapeutics is targeting GPR65 for cancer, a signaling pathway that becomes active in the low pH tumor microenvironment and causes immunosuppression and high angiogenesis
CEO Paul Higham describes the biology of GPR65 inhibition, something that pharma companies have previously tried to do, and explains how cancer patie…
1 year, 2 months ago
Emeryville based Fauna Bio launched Fauna Brain, an AI platform that uses both internal and external data sets, and an analysis of the literature, to allow users to identify and score targets
Co-Founder Linda Goodman describes the product and the numerous components that go into the scoring.
1 year, 2 months ago
The Co-Director of Cardiff University's Medicines Discovery Institute talks about the specialized work that happens here in neuroscience, cancer, and beyond
Simon Ward, Co-Director along with John Atack, describes the founding of the institue and why Cardiff University was a good fit. He describes the goa…
1 year, 2 months ago
SV Health Investors Managing Partner Kate Bingham shares the firm's investment philosophy and gives her take on the current state of life sciences in the United Kingdom and beyond
Kate Bingham describes the type of investments SV makes, which was in the news this week for being the founding investor of the neuropsych company Dr…
1 year, 2 months ago
AI News: Alameda based Infinimmune launched its GLIMPSE-1 antibody engineering platform that is based on a protein language model focused on native human antibody sequences
Co-Founder and CEO Wyatt McDonnell describes why Infinimmune believes that learning directly from the human adaptive immune system is an ideal way to…
1 year, 2 months ago
Draig Therapeutics launched from stealth today with a total of $140M investments to tackle neuropsych conditions. Co-Founder & Executive Chair Ruth McKernan tells the backstory and why she is excited
An Operating Partner at SV Health Investors, she describes how the company came together after reaching out to Cardiff University Professors John Ata…
1 year, 2 months ago
BIO International 2025: Sweden's Alligator has a phase three ready CD40 asset for pancreatic cancer and is looking for a partner to move it forward
CEO Søren Bregenholt describes Alligators phase 2 data, as well as regulatory feedback it has received regarding the phase three trial design. He des…
1 year, 2 months ago