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This is the primary news channel of BiotechTV where you will find on the ground reporting by our journalists from biotech hubs throughout the world.
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Mar 27, 2025 • 14min
Miami based Galatea Bio raised $25M today to expand its 'Galatea Global Biobank', an initiative to sequence 10 million participants worldwide, with a focus on individuals of non-European ancestry
Founder and CEO Carlos Bustamante tells BiotechTV's AI Correspondent, Ryan Flinn, about the biobank and why it is important to better understand how diseases can have different profiles across diverse populations. Plus, how AI will play a role in this work.
Mar 27, 2025 • 11min
State of Possible: Winner of the MassBioDrive Startup of the Year Award last year, the Co-Founder and CEO of Eascra Biotech describes developing nanoparticles as a delivery vehicle for therapies
Mari Anne Snow describes the advantages she sees nanoparticles having over current modalities like viral vectors, LNPs, and others.
Mar 26, 2025 • 4min
State of Possible: Atlas Venture's Bruce Booth shares his take on the current state of biotech and what it takes to get through difficult times for the industry as an investor and for companies
He describes the 14th fund that Atlas raised at the end of last year, which was $450 million. Plus, his take on the environment, regulatory changes, China's impact on the sector, and improving biopharma's image.
Mar 26, 2025 • 8min
State of Possible: On the one-year anniversary of the spin-out of Seaport Therapeutics, Daphne Zohar describes the Glyph platform that powers it, and her thoughts on running depression trials
She describes the idea of leveraging Glyph to achieve oral dosing of medicines in cases where it would not be possible or tolerable. Plus, the lead clinical program, allopregnanolone, how the company thinks about avoiding high placebo responses in trials, and other programs.
Mar 26, 2025 • 13min
State of Possible: Beam Therapeutics' CEO John Evans discusses the company's recent alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency data, what's ahead for sickle cell disease, and the current environment for biotech
He describes the nine patient dose ascending data in AAT deficiency that was historic for being the industry's first in-vivo proof of concept of a gene editor. Plus, what's next for that program and sickle cell, and the decision to do an "over the wall" financing.
Mar 26, 2025 • 13min
State of Possible: Cigall Kadoch discusses her pioneering work in chromatin regulation that has led to Foghorn Therapeutics
She describes the science behind chromatin and gene regulation, previews upcoming preclinical data the company will have at AACR for its lead SMARCA2 program (partnered with Lilly), and discusses what she would like to see out of future phase 1 data.
Mar 26, 2025 • 12min
State of Possible: Kymera Therapeutics Founder and CEO Nello Mainolfi talks protein degradation, his take on recent industry data, and updates on the company's programs, including a new one to come
He gives a brief overview of this approach, comments on recent competitor data in cancer, and highlights Kymera's STAT6 and TYK2 programs.
Mar 26, 2025 • 6min
State of Possible: Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey discusses keeping the state on top in life sciences, global competition, and more
She describes the efforts that government is making to support medical research in the area, shares her thoughts on competition in science and for jobs from China, and her thoughts on how the industry can improve its messaging.
Mar 26, 2025 • 13min
State of Possible: Strand Therapeutics' Co-Founder & CEO Jake Becraft talks mRNA and getting into the clinic with the company's first program
He describes the intratumoral IL-12 program that is in the clinic today, and the preclinical progress Strand is making on its other programs. Plus, his thoughts on the current public perception of mRNA.
Mar 25, 2025 • 22min
At an R&D event hosted by the company in Kendall Square today, Alloy Therapeutics' CEO Errik Anderson talked the latest in science regarding bispecifics, TCR mimics, genetic medicines, and more
He described the discovery work that Alloy does with its client partners, and highlighted emerging areas of science. Plus, the importance of good murine models, and his take on Chinese competition.
