The BioCentury Show
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Podcasting since 2024 • 57 episodes
The BioCentury Show
Latest Episodes
Ep. 105 - Recursion’s Najat Khan: AI Will Be Judged by the Medicines It Delivers
As AI spreads across biopharma, what will matter most is not who has the flashiest tools, but who can use them to make better medicines. In this episode of The BioCentury Show, Recursion CEO Najat Khan discusses where AI is showing mea...
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Ep. 104 - SoftBank’s Jacqueline Fok on AI Drug Development, Metsera and the U.K. Biotech Opportunity
There is a real opportunity for artificial intelligence to dramatically transform the speed, cost and efficiency of drug development over the long term, but the uptake of AI tools across biopharma has been much slower relative to the broader he...
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Ep. 103 - Kolchinsky: FDA Conservatism, MFN and IRA Are Slowing Drug Development
Caution: This episode of The BioCentury Show contains strong language.In a candid interview with BioCentury, RA Capital Managing Partner Peter Kolchinsky warns that staffing losses and growing conservatism at FDA are slowing dr...
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Ep. 102 - Psychiatry R&D: Steve Paul on Serendipity, Engineering and What Drives Real Breakthroughs
With disease biology still murky and trials notoriously noisy, psychiatry R&D is advancing fastest where teams can solve engineering problems. Delivery, selectivity and tolerability fixes are turning long-standing hypotheses into usable med...
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Ep. 101 - Why Science Stalls: Astellas CEO Naoki Okamura on Translation, Talent and Platforms
Why does great science so often stall before it becomes a medicine? Astellas Pharma CEO Naoki Okamura argues the bottleneck isn’t capital — it’s translation: a shortage of people, processes and platforms that can move ideas across the boundarie...
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