The Business Of Biotech Podcast

  1. Biosimilars And Complex Medicines For All With RNA Therapeutics' Sarfaraz Niazi, Ph.D. 4/9/2026

    On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, we speak with Dr. Sarfaraz Niazi, Ph.D., about how biosimilar regulations have taken shape, from early FDA uncertainty to citizen petitions, lawsuits, and guideline changes.

  2. Radiotherapeutics For Neuroendocrine Tumors With Perspective Therapeutics' Thijs Spoor 4/2/2026

    On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, Thijs Spoor, CEO at Perspective Therapeutics, a company developing Pb 212 (lead)-based therapeutics, talks about why radiopharmaceuticals are surging again and why biodistribution is the make-or-break variable when your payload is a radioactive isotope.

  3. Investing In Early-Stage Oncology With Yosemite's Dan McHugh 3/26/2026

    On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, Dan McHugh, head of the investment team at Yosemite, explains the San Francisco VC group's approach to investing in early-stage cancer therapeutics and funding academic research through unrestricted grants.

  4. Commercializing CAR T Cell Therapy With Legend Biotech's Alan Bash 3/20/2026

    On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech we're speaking with Alan Bash, President, Carvykti, at Legend Biotech, about how Carvykti became a blockbuster, category-leading CAR T therapy for multiple myeloma.

  5. Radiotherapeutics For CNS Cancers With Plus Therapeutics' Marc Hedrick, M.D. 3/11/2026

    On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech we speak with Dr. Marc Hedrick, M.D., President and CEO at Plus Therapeutics, about the company's pivot from cell therapy to radiotherapeutics for brain cancers, and what's behind the choice of Rhenium-186 as the radioisotope for its lead development candidate, Reyobiq.

  6. Developing Novel Cancer Drugs On A Budget With Iterion Therapeutics' Rahul Aras, Ph.D. 3/5/2026

    On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech we speak with Rahul Aras, Ph.D., President and CEO at Iterion Therapeutics, about capital efficient drug development in oncology and progressing a novel therapeutic with relatively small funding amounts. 

  7. Making Biologics Orally Available With Vivtex's Thomas von Erlach, Ph.D. 2/25/2026

    On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, we're speaking with Thomas von Erlach, Ph.D., Cofounder and CEO at Vivtex, a company spun out of the Langer Lab at MIT that's focused on developing orally available biologics.

  8. An Anthropological Lens On Leadership In Life Sciences With Bunka's Monika Sumra, Ph.D. 2/19/2026

    On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech we speak with Monika Sumra, Ph.D., about how leadership, culture, and performance emerge from the environment and conditions inside an organization.

  9. Company Turnarounds And AI For Infectious Diseases With Seek Labs' Jared Bauer 2/12/2026

    On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, Jared Bauer, Cofounder and CEO at Seek Labs, talks about his adventures in company turnarounds, and setting up Seek Labs to improve patient diagnoses and to discover and develop new treatments for infectious diseases.

  10. Bringing Curative Cell Therapies To Market with Kite Pharma's Cindy Perettie 2/6/2026

    On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, we're speaking with Cindy Perettie, Executive Vice President and Global Head at Kite Pharma, a Gilead-owned company focused on curing cancer with cell therapies.