CEO Corner

71. Collaborating To Stem The Tide Of Emerging Antimicrobial Resistance 8/9/2017

    Jeffrey Stein, Ph.D., president and CEO of Cidara Therapeutics, discusses what needs to be done now by drug companies and healthcare providers alike to stem the tide of emerging antimicrobial resistance, including collaboration to address market barriers.

72. The Biotech CEO — It's Not For Everyone 7/7/2017

    I’ve often described the challenge of developing new medicines as analogous to the difficulty of climbing the highest mountains on Earth. If one follows that analogy, then seeking to develop a new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease is like climbing K2, the second highest peak — in winter.

73. The Case For A Healthcare Futures Market 6/7/2017

    Now is the time to develop a novel financial instrument which will provide risk transfer, transparency, and more certainty. A futures market in healthcare is a product whose time has come.

74. Understanding The Many Faces Of Innovation 4/7/2017

    By its very definition, innovation may travel long and painful paths, require repeated failure, and invite numerous mistakes to gather experience for bringing forward something new. Lady luck also intervenes occasionally, as well.

75. Why More Incentives Are Needed To Tackle Antibiotic Resistance 2/1/2017

    Antibiotic resistance is a real and immediate threat that is beginning to garner the global attention it needs and deserves. During a meeting of the United Nations in September 2016, the entire General Assembly — 193 nations — reaffirmed its commitment to developing national action plans on combatting antibiotic resistance.

76. An Insider's View Of Life Outside The Academic Gilded Cage 1/1/2017

    There is a lyric from an old Bob Seger song in which the aging songwriter, lamenting the loss of his youthful prowess once filled with vim and vigor, wonders where the time went (“20 years now; where’d they go; 20 years; I don’t know”).

77. Can Financial Markets Solve The Ever-Increasing Costs of Healthcare? 11/1/2016

    Why hasn't the healthcare industry evolved into vertical segmentation like other industries? Until now, it's because there has been no systematic way to hedge/transfer either institutional or operating risk in the healthcare system because information gathering and delivery is generally limited and poorly organized.

78. Biotechnology: The Hope For Rare Diseases 10/1/2016

    John Crowley, chairman and CEO of Amicus Therapeutics discusses why biotechs in the rare disease space face particularly unique and fundamental challenges.

79. Drug Company Discovery & Commercialization: An Election Year Analogy 9/1/2016

    As I consider the move from clinical to commercialization, it reminds me of the American electoral system – primary elections that are tightly focused and a general election where a candidate faces a vastly broader audience and has the opportunity to engage on a much larger stage and with far greater impact.

80. The Constant Search For More Efficient Paths To Approval 8/1/2016

    There are several general principles that can help accelerate clinical development, beginning and ending with a focus on getting the drug to the patients that need it.