Regulatory
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Steering Through Setbacks with AVEO Oncology's Michael Bailey
8/18/2024
For all the drug commercialization successes he's played a leading hand in during his tenures at GSK, Genentech, and ImClone — Androderm, Augmentin, necitumumab, and Erbitux among them — Michael Bailey concedes that he's likely better known for his failures. After hearing his stories on this episode of the Business of Biotech, I tend to disagree.
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The Business Of CNS with Acumen's Jim Doherty, Ph.D.
1/26/2025
The Business of Biotech welcomes Dr. Jim Doherty of Acumen Pharmaceuticals to discuss the challenges and advances in Alzheimer's treatment, including controversies around amyloid-targeting drugs and the role of biomarkers in personalized therapy.
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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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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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CMC Considerations For In-Human Studies With Drs. Edith Perez And Nathan Ihle
9/23/2020
Bolt Biotherapeutics CMO Dr. Edith Perez and VP of CMC & Quality Dr. Nathan Ihle bring a unique combination of patient and production process expertise to the table for an enlightening conversation on preparing chemistry, manufacturing, and controls for an IND and ensuing first in-human studies.
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How To Apply For BTD And Win It With Drs. Ira Gupta & Shanthi Ganeshan
8/23/2021
Everyone in the business is looking for breakthroughs, but only a select few win breakthrough therapy designation from the FDA. Under the guidance of Ira Gupta, M.D. and Shanthi Ganeshan, Ph.D, GSK has a few BTDs under its belt. Dr. Gupta is VP of Medicine Development at GSK and Dr. Ganeshan is formerly VP of Global Regulatory Affairs there, having recently joined Gilead as Head of Regulatory for Oncology. On this episode, we go deep on how to apply for--and win--breakthrough therapy designation with two women who couldn't be more qualified for the discussion.
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Biotech Down Under with BiomeBank's Dr. Sam Costello
12/20/2023
Merry Christmas, Business of Biotechers! On this Christmas Day release, we’re taking a trip to the land down under to visit with Dr. Sam Costello, managing director and co-founder at Adelaide, Australia-based BiomeBank. We covered some ground on this one, most notably the unique path BiomeBank took to chalking up the first donor-derived microbiome therapeutic approval of its kind, anywhere in the world. In a segment of biotech that’s been particularly battered of late, that’s a big, big win.
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Gap Analysis With Dr. Pablo Valenzuela & Cristián Hernández-Cuevas
9/30/2020
On the season finale of the Business of Biotech, we're joined by biopharma pioneer Dr. Pablo Valenzuela and a rising star in Chile's biotech scene in Cristián Hernández-Cuevas for a candid discussion on biopharma's compute power revolution, the influence of technology on gap analyses and next steps for emerging biopharma, and what's driving biotech growth in South America.
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How To Be A Policy Advocate For Biotech With NewYorkBIO's Jennifer Hawks Bland
6/25/2025
On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, Jennifer Hawks Bland, CEO of NewYorkBIO, shares insights on New York State's life sciences ecosystem while reflecting on her journey from Capitol Hill to biotech advocacy.
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Manipulating Milestones In Pandemic Times With AGTC's Sue Washer
12/21/2020
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt biopharma clinical trials, especially those conducted with at-risk patient populations. From patient recruitment to data collection, clinical trials execution became considerably more challenging in 2020. On this episode of The Business Of Biotech, AGTC CEO Sue Washer gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the creative measures her company took to serve a geographically dispersed clinical patient population and ensure her company met clinical milestones.