Designing a cancer vaccine
The great blogger known as owlposting has an awesome new podcast episode with Alex Rubinsteyn and Ben Vincent, two scientists who work on cancer immunotherapy, on ‘How to design a cancer vaccine’. The general idea behind…
Biotech & Pharma
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Biotech's financial engineering tricks
Drug development fails 95% of the time, making biotech a brutal investment environment. So how does the industry keep the money flowing? Abhishaike Mahajan, also known as Owl Posting, has a great post on the financial en…
Catching up on biotech news you missed
Separately, Niko McCarty and I wrote a round-up of news you might have missed in biotech and medicine . For example, did you know that organ donations have become vastly more efficient because of improvements in preservi…
BioNTech's founders plan their third startup
I’ve also been following the BioNTech announcement that co-founders Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci will leave the company by year-end to start a new biotech focused on next-generation mRNA therapeutics (their third startup)…