Behind The Headlines

In episode 27, Christopher Hopkins, PhD; Omkar Kawalekar, PhD; Barnaby Pickering; and Jerry Rosenbaum, MD, go behind the headlines.

Pfizer re-balances weight loss portfolio with Metsera, Bristol Myers Squibb and Roche make breast cancer progress, and Keytruda gets under your skin.

Alvin Jogasuria, ProBio; Matthew Lunning, University of Nebraska Medical Center; and Carl Schoellhammer, DeciBio, go behind the headlines to discuss the need for doing more with less.

Aaron Cowley, Recipharm Advanced Bio; Renee Hart, LumaCyte; and Vibha Jawa, EpiVax, go behind the headlines to delve deeper into recent market deals driven by Big Pharma patent cliffs and the complex manufacturing of ATMPs.

Jonathan D. Grinstein, PhD, Manfred Scholz, PhD, and Erik Wiklund, PhD, go behind the headlines to address a shifting policy landscape and what it means for the future of chronic disease, diagnostics, and next-generation cell and gene therapies.

Sascha Berger, private biopharmaceutical investor; Shannon Eaker, CTO of Xcellbio; Edwin Stone, CEO of Cellular Origins; and Bryce Sady, VP of Product Development at PSL Group go behind the headlines to talk CAR-T advancements, exciting M&A developments, and the impact of lost research funding on innovation.

Fabian Gerlinghaus, Alexander Seyf, and Knut Steffensen go behind the headlines and dive into the advanced therapy ecosystem.

Jamie Baumgartner, Jonathan Grinstein, and John Wilkerson go behind the headlines to discuss the implications of personalized gene-editing therapies, more HHS policy and funding updates, and the latest tariff-related investments.

Donald Ingber, MD, PhD; Miguel Forte, MD, PhD; Ali Pashazadeh, MRCS, MBA; and Adam Inche, PhD, MBA go behind the headlines to examine the fast-changing landscape of manufacturing re-shoring, tariffs, NIH budget cuts, and the outlook for cell and gene therapies.

Mike Exton, Andrew Thomson, Konstantinos Tsioris, and Cheryl Barton go behind the headlines to discuss the advancement of neuroscience, weight-loss drugs, and the evolving political climate’s impact on the industry.

Christian Cobaugh, Eswar Iyer, and Vincenzo Antignani go behind the headlines to discuss a mixture of investment trends, policy realignments, trade and stock recalibrations, and an apparent crusade against vaccines both new and old.

Neil Hunter, Alex Philippidis, Joanna Sadowska, PhD, EMBA, and Carl Schoellhammer, PhD go behind the headlines to discuss the impact of federal budget cuts on future pharma investments, reshoring efforts, and biotech buyouts.

Brian Feth, Xcell Biosciences; Thomas Heathman, Ori Biotech; and Matthew Lauber, Waters Corporation go behind the headlines and discuss commercialization challenges in the cell and gene therapy space; advances in new genomics tools from Roche, Illumina, and Eikon; and the latest development and manufacturing partnerships.

Benjamin McLeod, Abhi Naravane, PhD, MBA, and Marianna Tcherpakov PhD go behind the headlines to talk about the latest big acquisitions, GLP-1 Super Bowl advertising, and changes in NIH funding.

Brian Feth, Jonathan Grinstein, PhD, Beth Willers, and Laks Pernenkil go behind the headlines to discuss major news announcements made during the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, a wave of new Medicare drug price negotiations, and more.

Vanessa Almendro, Elliot Berger, Benjamin McCloud, and Turna Ray go behind the headlines to discuss their ‘wish list’ for the progression of trends in the bio/pharmaceutical industry.

Vanessa Almendro, Elliot Berger, Benjamin McCloud, and Turna Ray go behind the headlines to discuss 2024’s biggest trends in the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the unforeseen outcomes that took us by surprise.

Edwin Stone, Bernard Sagaert, and Khaled Yamout go behind the headlines to discuss what the ongoing measles outbreak in the UK means for pandemic preparedness and anti-vaccination trends; new mRNA approaches; and what Roche’s acquisition of Poseida means for complex cell therapies.

Brian Feth and Jonathan Grinstein go behind the headlines to discuss the impact of a Republican administration on Federal Trade Commission actions, tax relief, and Health and Human Services (HHS) leadership; as well as advancements in CAR-T.

Laks Pernenkil, Brian Feth, and Alex Philippidis go behind the headlines to discuss the impact of recent news, including FDA’s drug shortage list update, Nobel prize winners in microRNA and AI, and a big-potential research win for RNA editing.

This Behind the Headlines news roundup panel discussion on recent news items includes updates regarding sickle cell therapies (e.g,, Pfizer’s withdrawal of Oxbryta and Vertex’s choosing of Lonza as the commercial manufacturer of Casgevy); Emergent BioSolutions $400 million BARDA contract for an mpox vaccine; and the first in a generation novel schizophrenia drug, Cobenfy (xanomeline and trospium chloride). The panel also examines investment revival with ARCH Ventures $3 billion biotech fund raise and the $3.6 billion for Flagship Pioneering. Rounding things out is a discussion on COVID-19-associated childhood myopia and patent thickets artificially keep the price of drugs high.

This Behind the Headlines news roundup panel discussion discusses news items such as research results from the June Lab at the University of Pennsylvania presented at the Hanson Wade 9th CAR-TCR Summit; winter vaccine recommendations, particularly for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and Beyfortus access and deployment; upcoming early October Nobel prize announcement predictions; digital biology analytics, quantitation, alongside point of care (POC) and distributed manufacturing. The panel also talks about the Biosecure Act and manufacturing reshoring; Federal reserve interest rate cuts of a full half a percent (1); and the general investment and financial outlook.

This Behind the Headlines news roundup panel discussion covers news items such as the weight loss drugs battle between Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, entering new territory through Lilly’s partnership with HAYA Therapeutics and long non-coding sequence mining. There was much discussion on how the inflation reduction act and Medicare price controls may or may not pertain—given the uncertainty around the presidential election results, and subsequent policy directions. The Centers for Disease Control making cost free COVID-19 diagnostics and therapies available was also evaluated.

This Behind the Headlines news roundup panel discussion covers news items such as the resurgence of mpox in Africa, “medical tourism” in India, Eli Lilly’s new Boston CGT facilities, and contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) projected growth rates for the 2023–2029 period, and the reasons behind them.