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At its R&D Day in London today, Gubra provided updates on obesity assets licensed to AbbVie and Boehringer Ingelheim, as well as highlighted its lead internal program UCN2
CEO Markus Rohrwild and CDMO Thomas Langenickel provide an update on the company's peptide based drug development side, as well as venture and CRO arms.
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Earlier this month, Agilent agreed to acquire Philadelphia based Proscia, a provider of digital pathology software for clinical and life-sciences customers, for $240M up front and up to $30M more
Co-Founder & CEO David West describes the deal and why Proscia believes Agilent can take the business to a new level, and discusses how AI is changing pathology.
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Mizuho Senior Biotech Analyst Salim Syed shares his take on biotech's current lull, and discusses companies he covers
He comments on Arcus, Vaxcyte, Cytokinetics, BridgeBio, Maze Therapeutics, and Century Therapeutics. Chapters General sentiment - 1:37 Arcus - 3:49 Vaxcyte - 6:40 Cytokinetics - 10:30 BridgeBio - 14:48 Maze Therapeutics - 17:40 Century Therapeutics - 19:47
7 days ago


Immuneering Co-Founder & CEO Ben Zeskind discusses the future of the third generation MEK inhibitor atebimetinib, which has shown promising data in first line pancreatic cancer
He goes over data presented at ASCO and discusses the company's pivotal trial, which is up and running and will read out in 2028. Plus, expansion into lung cancer in combination with a PD-1.
Oct 21


Barclays Biotech Analyst Ellie Merle previews this weekend's highly anticipated cancer vaccine data from Merck and Moderna at ESMO
She says that consensus is a hazard ratio of 0.6 and that degrees of success could be viewed whether the data comes in lower or higher than that.
Oct 21


Lexeo Therapeutics' CEO R. Nolan Townsend discusses a recent acquisition in Friedreich's ataxia and upcoming data in PKP2 arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy
He describes how the company has transformed from being a gene therapy company focused on cardiology to having a broader approach to treating the root of disease.
Oct 21


Penn spin-out Incuta Therapeutics is developing a long-lasting JAK inhibitor for hidradenitis suppurativa that is designed to concentrate at the site of the lesions
CEO Gerri Henwood, who has successfully led numerous biotech companies, describes what about this opportunity excited her, and what is needed to get the program into the clinic.
Oct 19


Biotech CEO Sisterhood: Biotech company chair, director, and former CEO Paula Soteropoulos discusses learnings from her career and announces a new book she and her daughter wrote about women's health
Interviewed by Sisterhood Editorial Board Member Erika Smith, Paula Soteropoulos describes her experiences working for companies across a variety of modalities. Plus, she highlights the new women's health book she and her daughter co-authored: Restoring Balance. Biographies Ms. Soteropoulos has more than 35 years of biopharma industry experience in strategic and operational leadership areas including drug development, global commercialization, manufacturing, new company forma
Oct 19


BioVenture VoiCes Episode 50: Third Rock Ventures' Bob Tepper
He describes working on biotech companies (Cell Genesis and Millennium) in the early days of the biotech sector before it was common, the founding of Third Rock Ventures, and the unique culture at Third Rock that has produced so many investors and company builders who have achieved great things in their careers. Chapters Intro - 1:17 Education - 4:36 Early days at MGH - 9:32 Cell Genesys - 13:01 Millennium - 22:54 Founding Third Rock - 37:09 Culture - 47:25 Personal life - 1:
Oct 19


London based IMU Biosciences announced today that it will use its immune system profiling platform with 80,000 blood samples from UK Biobank to create a large-scale picture of the human immune system
CEO John Baker describes how the project, done in collaboration with Ultima Genomics and Waters Corporation, will give researcher a tool to better understand the immune system. He also describes how IMU's blood sample based system works, and how it has been used for things such as to better understand which patients will respond to cancer immunotherapies.
Oct 19


Align Summit 2026: General Oncology was born from a family's effort to come up with something new for a woman with pancreatic cancer
CEO Jeff Glazier describes the backstory of how this treatment, which centers on melphalan, came about years ago, and is now in a clinical trial. He also discusses early clinical data that was presented at ESMO last year. Coverage brought to you by
Oct 15


Align Summit 2026: Relevium Medical is developing what it believes is the first TRPV1 agonist that mitigates the burning tolerability issue seen with others in the past
Co-Founder & CEO Alison Liddy describes Relevium's program, which is designed to be an extended release prodrug. The initial clinical indication will be osteoarthritis of the knee. Coverage brought to you by
Oct 15


Align Summit 2026: Calluna Pharma has a S100A4 (a DAMP) targeting program currently in phase 2 for IPF that will read out in Q1 2027
CEO Mark Gaffney walks us through the idea of targeting a DAMP and, in this case, S100A4 specifically, and describes the differentiated profile Calluna hopes to see compared to currently marketed therapies for IPF. Coverage brought to you by
Oct 15


Align Summit 2026: NeuroSkye Therapeutics is focused on getting medicines more efficiently across the blood-brain-barrier - both through its proprietary model and through a peptide based shuttle
Founder Fong Cho describes the unmet need, and the benefits of using the company's model and shuttle. She believes that NeuroSkye's peptide approach to its shuttle makes it an ideal platform to work together with a wide spectrum of therapeutic modalities. Coverage brought to you by
Oct 15


Align Summit 2026: Natick based MelliCell is targeting MNK (MAPK-interacting kinase), a genetic switch that could make a difference in fragile X syndrome and beyond
Founder Ben Pope describes the rationale of hitting the target and why he believes a clinical trial in Fragile X could provide evidence of the target's relevance in obesity, Alzheimer's, and more. Coverage brought to you by
Oct 15


Align Summit 2026: Unravel Biosciences spun out of Harvard's Wyss Institute and is using AI to analyze patient RNA samples to find existing compounds that can make a difference in rare disease
Co-Founder & CEO Richard Novak describes the screening process and the benefits of focusing on existing compounds for which the profile is already largely known. The lead program is already in the clinic for Rett syndrome and Pitt Hopkins syndrome. Coverage brought to you by
Oct 15


Align Summit 2026: Hiba Therapeutics is using AND-gating to try to make T-cell engagers safer and more effective for solid tumors
Founder & CEO Shariq Usmani describes the solid tumor problem that traditional T-cell engagers have faced and explains how Hiba's are designed to cleave only in the tumor microenvironment. Coverage brought to you by
Oct 15


Oxford, UK based OMass Therapeutics announced a $310M series C today, advancing its small molecule platform, including the lead MC2 (melanocortin-2) receptor antagonist that is in phase 1
CEO Ros Deegan describes the raise and the new investors that it brings into the company, and updates us on the company's pipeline progress.
Oct 15


At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, President & CEO Ben Ebert and Professor and Investigator Cigall Kadoch discuss the latest trends in cancer research
They discuss recent advances, what's ahead, Cigall's work in epigenetics, and how a new hospital will be purpose built for patients with the best new technologies in clinical research. Chapters Cancer research advances - 1:14 Cigall's work in epigenetics - 4:33 Dana-Farber's future new hospital - 9:29 AI centered approaches - 14:15 Looking ahead - 16:51
Oct 14


Eli Lilly Chairman & CEO David Ricks discusses GLP-1's, Alzheimer's, business development, and more
From the company's headquarters in Indianapolis, he describes where he thinks the obesity field could be headed in the next few years, what might be next after beta-amyloid in Alzheimer's, and how he plans to invest for the future.
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