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BioCentury This Week

BioCentury"s streaming commentary on biotech industry trends, plus interviews with KOLs.For three decades, BioCentury has helped biopharma executives and investors make business-critical decisions and build larger networks with peers across the innovation ecosystem.

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Ep. 268 - Biosecure Setback & Novartis' $1B PTC Deal

BioCentury This Week ·

2024/12/10

A pair of lawmakers have dealt the Biosecure Act a setback that could derail the legislation, even as Congress continues its push to reduce reliance on China in the life sciences. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, Washington Editor Steve Usdin explains why Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) refused to sign off on inclusion of the anti-China biotech bill in the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act, what provisions the defense bill has that seek to enhance U....

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Ep. 267 - Trump's NIH Pick & Multi-targeted CAR Ts

BioCentury This Week ·

2024/12/03

On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, Washington Editor Steve Usdin and colleagues discuss how President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead NIH, Jay Bhattacharya, would lead NIH and how that could affect the biopharma industry.The BioCentury team then discusses its analysis of abstracts released ahead of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) and Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) annual conferences, highlighting methods for applying dual or bispecific CAR T cell designs to sol...

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26:32

Ep. 266 - Jefferies Recap, FDA Commissioner &...

BioCentury This Week ·

2024/11/26

Positive vibes about biotech emanating from the Jefferies Healthcare Conference were overshadowed by the uncertainty that is ahead because of the result of the U.S. elections. On the latest BioCentury This Week, BioCentury’s editors discuss how the unconventional cabinet nominations of the incoming Trump administration have cast a pall over what had been growing enthusiasm for the prospects of the biotech sector. Washington Editor Steve Usdin also discusses what the nomination of Marty Makary...

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29:42

Ep. 265 - RFK Jr. & HHS, Blenrep's Comeback, China Deals

BioCentury This Week ·

2024/11/19

Giving RFK Jr. control of HHS would be disastrous, argues Washington Editor Steve Usdin on the latest BioCentury This Week podcast. Expanding on his Editor’s Commentary, Usdin explains why Kennedy would be an unmitigated disaster for FDA, NIH and CMS, for biopharmas and for patients. He calls on biopharma leaders to speak out and affirm basic truths, even if it puts them in harm’s way.BioCentury’s editors also discuss why new data for GSK's Blenrep — an oncology therapy withdrawn two years ag...

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Ep. 264 - Prepping for Trump & Alzheimer's Ethics

BioCentury This Week ·

2024/11/12

Trump 2.0 presents opportunities and challenges for leaders of the biopharma industry, which needs effective public policy to thrive. On the latest BioCentury This Week, BioCentury Washington Editor Steve Usdin explains what those opportunities are and lays out the potential impact on the public policy environment, which could have repercussions on FDA and beyond.BioCentury’s editors then analyze how companies, academics and advocates are pushing back on claims that they should have disclosed...

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Ep. 263 - Alzheimer Insights: Anti-Amyloid Safety &...

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2024/11/05

It’s too soon to conclude anti-amyloid therapies are safe for use by Alzheimer’s patients in the real world, even as early reports are encouraging, argues BioCentury Executive Editor Selina Koch on the latest BioCentury This Week podcast. Koch and colleagues discuss takeaways from this year’s Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease annual meeting, including conclusions from adverse event data for Leqembi lecanemab and what the true test of appropriate use and safety for the drug might look lik...

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Ep. 262 - EGFR Case Study, FDA & Politics

BioCentury This Week ·

2024/10/29

Twenty years of innovation in therapies targeting EGFR provides a case study in how generation of differentiated products against the target can drive market growth. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s editors discuss EGFR as a prime example of the value in best-in-class development strategies, with meaningful improvements across multiple modalities delivering substantial therapeutic benefits to patients. Analogous best-in-class opportunities aren’t limited to cancer, but...

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Ep. 261 - China Summit: Reinventing Your China Strategy

BioCentury This Week ·

2024/10/24

Cross-border geopolitical tensions and a prolonged capital crunch are compelling biopharma companies from Beijing to Boston to rethink their strategies on everything from deal-making and raising capital to manufacturing and use of CROs. On a special edition of the BioCentury This Week podcast, McKinsey’s Franck Le Deu and Wendy Pan of BayHelix and Goodwin join BioCentury on the eve of next week’s eleventh annual BioCentury-BayHelix China Healthcare Summit in Shanghai to discuss the dynamics a...

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31:18

Ep. 260 - VC Funds, New Chapter for MS, Wave's Data

BioCentury This Week ·

2024/10/22

At least 25 venture firms have raised a total of more than $17 billion in funds this year, with Forbion unveiling the largest-ever European biopharma fund at €1.2 billion last week. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s editors discuss how Forbion deployed its prior fund and quickly raised fresh funds and what that — and other funds — say about the state of financing private biotechs in Europe and elsewhere.The editors then assess takeaways from BioCentury’s conversation wi...

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Ep. 259 - Causal Biology and Big Data, Ultra-Rare...

BioCentury This Week ·

2024/10/15

There is a growing mandate among researchers and VCs to provide proof of causal human biology for new targets. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s editors discuss the different strategies being deployed to identify causal links to disease using observational patient data or human cell models, including the challenges that come with each approach and the various computational methodologies companies are using.They also discuss the outcome of FDA’s advisory committee meetin...

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Ep. 258 - Breaking the Bear: 4Q Public Markets Preview

BioCentury This Week ·

2024/10/08

Biopharma buysiders and bankers at long last believe the conditions are ripe for biotech growth and outperformance, BioCentury’s Stephen Hansen says on the latest BioCentury This Week podcast. Hansen and colleagues take stock of the sector’s growth potential after three long years of the bear market as they discuss BioCentury’s 4Q24 Public Markets Preview.Also on this week’s show, Washington Editor Steve Usdin discusses his Editor’s Commentary, in which he argues that FDA leaders planned refo...

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Ep. 257 - Schizophrenia, Sickle Cell Drugs, D.C. Update

BioCentury This Week ·

2024/10/01

Approval of BMS’s first-in-class schizophrenia drug is good news for patients and the company’s thinning pipeline alike, but maximizing Cobenfy’s commercial potential depends on readouts in additional indications. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s editors assess the significance of the new therapy and what the pharma needs to do to make its launch a success.They also discuss the impact of the withdrawal of Pfizer's sickle cell therapy; the work left unfinished on biotec...

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Ep. 256 - ESMO Recap: Keeping TIGIT Alive, Rybrevant...

BioCentury This Week ·

2024/09/26

The ESMO Congress yielded another win for cancer immunotherapy target TIGIT, but the readout resurfaced worries about the mechanism’s past failures to turn positive earlier stage data into Phase III success. On a special edition of the BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s editors deliver their takeaways from this year’s meeting, including analysis of data for TIGIT blocker belrestotug from iTeos Therapeutics, a colorectal cancer readout featuring J&J's Rybrevant and an antibody-drug...

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Ep. 255 - Pediatric PRVs, Biosecure & Novo's Obesity...

BioCentury This Week ·

2024/09/24

Rep. Frank Pallone’s misunderstanding of how the pediatric priority review voucher program works has been one factor undermining support for an incentive that brings new drugs to kids, argues Washington Editor Steve Usdin on the latest BioCentury This Week podcast. Usdin explains how the voucher process works and why it’s valuable to the country’s youngest patients, as well as to small biotechs and larger biopharma alike.Usdin also discusses the latest twists and turns for the Biosecure Act, ...

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Ep. 254 - Takeaways from Grand Rounds 2024

BioCentury This Week ·

2024/09/20

On a special edition of the BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s editors deliver their takeaways from the debut Grand Rounds conference, which focused on whether biotech can write a more successful playbook for translating from target to product. Weaving together takeaways from the panels, fireside chat and keynote at the conference, the editors assess the tensions between generalizability and fit-for-purpose models, between having control and capturing complexity, and, in human data, b...

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Ep. 253 - IPOs, GLP-1 & Obesity, AI & Biotech

BioCentury This Week ·

2024/09/17

On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s editors assess the shifting market for biotech IPOs, including the profiles of the three companies that went public on NASDAQ last week, the aftermarket performance of the year's IPO class, and the prospects for more companies to make their own debut in the coming months. BioCentury’s editors also discuss whether the rush to GLP-1s for obesity will mirror the development of PD-1s for cancer and the impact on biopharma of the recent main...

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Ep. 252 - Akeso's Bispecific, Vaxcyte & Woodcock's...

BioCentury This Week ·

2024/09/10

Will bispecifics be the drugs to dethrone cancer’s biggest blockbusters? Akeso is the latest company with a bispecific to impress in a head-to-head study, this one for non-small cell lung cancer. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s editors discuss the latest data from Akeso’s ivonescimab, a VEGFxPD-1 bispecific antibody that went up against Keytruda pembrolizumab in one of its largest indications, first-line non-small cell lung cancer.The editors also discuss data from&nb...

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Ep. 251 - Eyes on the target: a Back to School Overview

BioCentury This Week ·

2024/09/07

In this year’s series of Back to School essays, BioCentury’s editors ask whether the era of human first, causal biology and personalized medicine can reshape drug discovery to solve the weakest link in biotech — translation to the clinic. On a special edition of the BioCentury This Week podcast, the three authors of BioCentury’s 32nd Back to School edition, Editor in Chief Simone Fishburn, Executive Editor Selina Koch, and Executive Director of Biopharma Intelligence Lauren Martz, discuss how...

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Ep. 250 - Biosecure, Priority Review Vouchers &...

BioCentury This Week ·

2024/09/04

A vote on the Biosecure Act in the U.S. House of Representatives early next week shines the spotlight back on legislation seeking to rein in Chinese CDMOs and genomics companies, as Congress returns to work. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s editors handicap the legislation’s chances of passage in the House and Senate and assess what’s at stake for the law authorizing rare pediatric disease priority review vouchers.They also discuss the results of BioCentury’s snap poll...

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Ep. 249 - Biotech IPO Buzz, Pharma Deal Trends,...

BioCentury This Week ·

2024/08/27

Shaking up an underwhelming year for fresh biotech paper, a trio of biotechs filed to go public on NASDAQ last week. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s editors discuss the IPO filings by MBX and Massachusetts companies Zenas and Bicara. Washington Editor Steve Usdin returns to the podcast to provide updates on the Inflation Reduction and Biosecure acts, as well as the life sciences policies of presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. And Director of Biopha...

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