Chris Spivey is director of Industry Relations and Strategic Partnership, MJH Life Sciences.
BIO 2024: CDMOs Focus on Complex Technical Challenges to Boost Startup Biotechs
October 29th 2024Marianna Tcherpakov, PhD, director of Business Development, CMC Services, at Frontage Laboratories, spoke on the CDMO’s role in tackling complex technical challenges to enable startup biotechs solve scale up problems.
Behind the Headlines: GLP-1 Shortage, Nobel Prize, RNA Editing, and More
October 24th 2024Laks 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.
Behind the Headlines: Sickle Cell Therapies; Mpox Vaccines; and ARCH Ventures’ Biotech Fund
October 3rd 2024This 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.
Sexy Science in Pharmaceuticals: Hot-Melt Extrusion
October 2nd 2024This premiere episode of Sexy Science in Pharmaceuticals features Professor Jonathan Pokorski, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, and Dr. James DiNunzio, Senior Principal Scientist at Merck & Co., Inc. in Rahway, NJ, discussing the benefits of hot-melt extrusion.
Behind the Headlines: Weight Loss Drugs; Price Controls; and Free COVID Therapies
September 5th 2024This 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.
Behind the Headlines: Mpox Resurges; Eli Lilly Adds CGT Facilities; FDA Updates
August 21st 2024This 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.
Cellares Cell Shuttle is More Valuable Than the Sum of the Value of the Individual Parts
March 18th 2024Cellares CEO Fabian Gerlinghaus discusses the nuts and bolts of counterflow centrifugal elutriation and electroporation innovations and optimization, while hinting at big news on future release testing of products, as a product itself.