BioCentury This Week Ep. 260 - VC Funds, New Chapter for MS, Wave's Data
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 with NIH’s Daniel Reich on data that could shape drug development’s future for progressive multiple sclerosis, and neurodegeneration broadly, as well as how the first clinical data from an RNA-editing oligonucleotide therapy from Wave Life Sciences demonstrate that it’s possible to change a single base in an RNA to correct a disease-causing mutation in patients.
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00:00 - Introduction
02:48 - VC Funds
11:50 - New Chapter for MS
23:48 - Wave's Data
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