Finance & Capital Markets
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Clinical Leadership with Cue Biopharma's Anish Suri, Ph.D. & Dan Passeri, J.D.
10/20/2023
On a road trip to Boston, the Business of Biotech caught up with podcast alum Dan Passeri, J.D., CEO at Cue Biopharma, and enjoyed a two-for-one with CSO and President Anish Suri, Ph.D. at Cue's headquarters just feet below the Auerbach Center. Among other things, we discussed the duo's complementary leadership approach as the company takes multiple candidates into the clinic, why Passeri leans into his biotech legal background almost every day he's at work, why Cue's discretely targeted IL-2 approach eliminates the absurdity of early IL-2 failures, and a whole lot more.
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Biopharma Comebacks With Vincerx's Ahmed Hamdy, MD
6/28/2023
Ahmed Hamdy, MD didn’t ask to be the subject of Nathan Vardi's new book For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug. In fact, he’d rather not relive that chapter.
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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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CAR T Therapy Cost Control With Laurence Cooper, M.D., Ph.D.
10/26/2020
Controlling the cost of personalized medicine: We go behind the scenes of the effort to build a system that simplifies production and reduces the cost of non-viral T cell therapies with Ziopharm Oncology CEO Laurence Cooper, M.D., Ph.D.
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Biotech Cash Management With Allan Shaw
8/2/2023
It’s been said that clinical trials are where emerging biotechs go to die. If the science doesn't kill quickly, poor cash management will slowly. On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, our favored biotech finance management maven, Allan Shaw, offers pointed advice on stretching cash runways for the long run.
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Foundations Of Biopharma Finance With Smital Shah, MBA
11/9/2020
Smital Shah brings a trifecta of chemical engineering, consulting, and finance experience earned at heavyweight companies like JP Morgan, Leerink, and Gilead to her role at clinical-stage RNA therapy biotech ProQR Therapeutics. We sat down for a deep conversation on the recipe for successful business and finance operations in an emerging biopharma organization.
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Athersys' Ivor Macleod On Bringing Big-League Financial Experience To An Emerging Biotech
8/13/2020
The Business Of Biotech "Summer Executive Sessions" kick off with a candid conversation with Athersys CFO Ivor Macleod, who brings years of finance leadership at Roche, Merck, and other big pharmas to Athersys as the company readies its lead candidate for life beyond clinical trials. Join us for a discussion on how Macleod is applying big-league finance principles to an emerging biopharma company, and what he's learned about managing funds in a pre-commercial biotech environment.
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The Innovation Reduction Act With Allan Shaw
5/31/2023
Allan Shaw posits that the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will stifle momentum in the biopharma industry and suggests its impact will ultimately cost patients and payers more. Tune in to learn why.
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Veteran Advice From The C-Suite With Citius' Leonard Mazur
10/4/2023
Leonard Mazur has been in the business of biotech for a long, long time, and he has no intention of stopping now. He’s faced challenges won, lost, and ongoing, and he’s willing to share his experiences—from winning FDA approvals to bootstrapping his current effort at Citius Pharmaceuticals—with the transparent confidence of an industry veteran.
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Deal And Investment Trends With Investment Banker David Sans
4/2/2025
Today we're talking life sciences investment trends and risks with David Sans, an investment banker with an academic background in chemical engineering and molecular modeling, and a professional background that began in Big Pharma and shifted to investing over 15 years ago.