Episode 80

Hosts Brad Loncar, Tim Opler, Josh Schimmer, Dawn Bell and Yaron Werber discuss the latest industry news on this week’s episode of Biotech Hangout. They cover several upcoming conferences including the American Heart Association, which the hosts say will highlight market moving data and a “biologics revolution”, plus ACR, which will highlight CAR-T data, and the Liver Meeting. The hosts also discuss Eli Lilly’s drug approval for weight management, Cargo Therapeutics’ IPO terms and Adverum’s 3-year AMD data. There is also news in the I&I space from Moonlake Therapeutics, who was off by more than 20% after announcing psoriatic arthritis data and Ventyx Biosciences halting its Phase 2 TYK2 trial. Other topics include BioNTech’s R&D day, Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine data and activist investor Elliot Investment Management buys over $1B stake in BioMarin. *This episode aired on November 10, 2023