Pets, Perseverance, And Manufacturing Facility Bring Biotech Success

By Ed Miseta, Chief Editor, Clinical Leader

Patricia Lawman, cofounder and CEO of the biotech firm Morphogenesis, has always been amazed at how our bodies can defeat illnesses and usually do it better than drugs. “In my younger days, it seemed the only things we had available for most diseases were drugs that addressed the symptoms of a disease, not the disease itself,” says Lawman. “I often wondered why we couldn’t figure out a way to help our bodies do what they do best — maintain health and fight disease.”