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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349 episodes
Ep. 339 - Biotech M&A, In Vivo CAR Ts & FDA Tumult
Fueled by cancer, obesity and cardiovascular deals, $1 billion-plus takeouts in biotech are at their highest level in a decade with three weeks to go in the year. On the latest BioCentury This Week, BioCentury’s analysts discuss the rise in lar...
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Ep. 338 - Semaglutide’s Alzheimer’s Miss. Plus: Vaccine Policy, Cell, Gene Therapy Funding
Novo Nordisk’s highly anticipated data for semaglutide in Alzheimer’s dashed hopes that the GLP-1 therapy could become a game changer in the disease. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, Executive Editor Selina Koch discusses th...
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Episode 338
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Ep. 337 - FDA’s Moving Goalposts & China’s Innovation Arc
A baffling decision by FDA to issue a complete response letter for a pediatric medicine the medical community stood behind is just the latest example raising concerns that the agency is shifting the regulatory goalposts amid a lack of transpare...
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Episode 337
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Ep. 336 - Cautious Optimism and M&A Momentum
There is cautious optimism around continued M&A momentum and the public equities markets as biotech heads into the New Year. On a special edition of the BioCentury This Week podcast recorded in London during London Life Sciences Week, BioCe...
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Ep. 335 - Neurology's Coming Inflection Point
Voyager CEO and former head of R&D at Biogen Al Sandrock is more optimistic than ever about the prospect of bringing clinically meaningful solutions to patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. The threads of ...
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Ep. 334 - Pazdur’s New FDA Role, SITC & China RNAi
Richard Pazdur took the top job at FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research after receiving vows that he would be leading CDER free from political interference. On the latest BioC...
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Ep. 333 - Is This Korea’s Biotech Moment?
Today’s South Korean biotechs have a risk-on mentality, a willingness to partner, and strategies focused on globalization. On a special edition of the BioCentury This Week podcast recorded at Venture Café Cambridge, BioCentury is joine...
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Ep. 332 - Obesity in Focus. Plus: What’s Next for FDA
With ObesityWeek yielding eye-catching amylin data and a bidding war that ran to $10 billion for Metsera, weight loss companies were center stage in biotech last week. On the latest edition of the BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentu...
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Ep. 331 - Metsera M&A Melee & Tidmarsh Ouster
Novo Nordisk’s unsolicited $8.5 billion bid for Metsera has thrown a wrench into Pfizer’s plans to return to the obesity race via its acquisition of the New York-based start-up. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s ...
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Ep. 330 - China's Innovation Moment
China is setting a new bar for the speed of clinical development and redefining the time it takes an asset to get to the clinic. On a special edition of the BioCentury This Week podcast recorded on stage at the 12th BioCentury BayHelix...
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Ep. 329 - Novartis' $12B Avidity Buy. Plus: Base Editors
Novartis’ biggest deal in more than a decade gives the Swiss pharma three programs for muscular dystrophies that are close to the finish line. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s analysts discuss the $12 billion de...
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Ep. 328 - Brain Shuttles, GSK Q&A and FDA Vouchers
Next-generation platforms and technologies are getting closer to cracking one of biopharma’s biggest problems: delivering medicines, and mAbs in particular, to the brain. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s Selina ...
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Ep. 327 - Where Gene & Cell Therapy Go Next With Evotec's Bernd Mühlenweg
It’s been a tough year for cell and gene therapy — patient deaths, high-profile companies pulling out of the space, and sour investment sentiment. But the field has had some promising readouts in the clinic recently, and it continues to mature,...
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Episode 327
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Ep. 326 - Market Outlook, Biosecure Returns, Biotech M&A
Biotech’s fourth quarter began with a familiar feeling, with indicators pointing toward an improving public market even as political and regulatory uncertainty has buysiders reluctant to say industry has returned to sustainable growth. On the l...
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Ep. 325 - Pfizer MFN Deal, New Trial Paradigm & Billion $ Fund
The short-term consequences for Pfizer from its “most favored nation” drug pricing deal with the White House are negligible, but the long-term effects on the industry could be profound and permanent. On the latest BioCentury This Week
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Ep. 324 - Genmab, GSK and Drug Pricing
Genmab's $8 billion acquisition of multispecifics company Merus is the Danish biotech’s largest step toward marketing its own pipeline. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast,...
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Episode 324
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Ep. 323 - Agentic AI: From New Targets to the Clinic
AI is bringing sweeping changes to drug development, from how targets are discovered to optimizing clinical trials to maximize an asset’s chance for success. On a special edition of the BioCentury This Week podcast, IQVIA’s Greg Lever ...
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Episode 323
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Ep. 322 - Takeaways from BioCentury Grand Rounds Europe
Is this the U.K.’s moment to capitalize on its biotech ecosystem? That was one of the primary themes discussed at the debut Grand Rounds — Europe conference last week in Cambridge, U.K. BioMarin's James Sabry and Astex's Michelle Jones joined B...
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Ep. 321 - Pfizer’s Obesity Play & U.K. in Focus
A takeout that could be worth as much as $7.3 billion has Pfizer back in the obesity drug development race. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s analysts discuss Pfizer’s
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Ep. 320 - U.K. Biotech, U.S.-China, Insmed
Merck's announcement that it is moving its R&D out of the U.K. highlights concerns about the country’s life sciences policies. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioC...
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Ep. 319 - David Baltimore’s Legacy, Atlas Fund, MASH Pipeline and more
Molecular biologist and Nobel Prize winner David Baltimore made foundational contributions to the biopharma industry and was the essential figure behind such research institutions as the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the Broad...
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Ep. 318 - Newco Takes on CV Risk. Plus: Disrupting Vaccines
Two veteran biotech leaders are launching a new company with ambitions in the cardiovascular disease space. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s analysts discuss the
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Ep. 317 - Biotech IPOs, FDA-Stealth & Patent Threat
There’s been a rare IPO filing on NASDAQ as LB Pharma looks to test the market during a year that has seen little activity among U.S. biotechs even as green shoots continue to appear on th...
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Ep. 316 - Trends in Pharma Deals
BioCentury’s third annual analysis of pharma company deals finds that bispecifics and degraders are in, cell and gene therapies are out, and China is bringing much more than me-too assets to cross-border deals. On the latest BioCentury This...
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Episode 316
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Ep. 315 - China Speed: Data, Deals, First in Class
Dealmaking between Western and Chinese biopharmas has been one of the year’s bright spots, as a maturing biotech landscape in China converges with Western demand for innovative assets, driving record deal flow. At the same time, the Hong Kong s...
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