It's Summertime, And The Livin' Is Easy, ...

... but the?Business of Biotech?and?Bioprocess Online?have been hopping. We kicked off our July podcast lineup with some super innovative guests, including Claris Bio 's Clarke Atwell , who's busy bringing topically-administered biologics to the front of the eye, Syncromune? 's Eamonn Hobbs , whose experience constitutes a masterclass in navigating the complexity of biologic drug/device combination therapies, and Aulos Bioscience CEO Aron Knickerbocker , who holds the unique distinction of putting the first AI-designed antibody into humans. Catch up on all the latest episodes?here.??? ??

On this month's?Bioprocess Online Live, I dug into the ADC burgeon among small biotechs with Mythic Therapeutics, Inc. COO Sandra Poole , Vincerx Pharma CMO Amy Johnson , Ph.D, and DeciBio ADC expert Joe Daccache, Ph.D. Watch that on-demand here.??? ???

From July 22 to 24, I'll be in D.C., hanging with the single-use elite at the Bioprocess Systems Alliance's annual conference. Let me know if you're in town.??? ???

On the supplier front, we're bringing you a jam-packed, three-day, virtual and interactive display of the latest upstream, downstream, and quality/analytical solutions with BioExpo Live July 30 through August 1. Register (free) for?one or more of those sessions here.??? ???

Phew! I just got back from a beach vacation, and I already feel like I need another.

Keep it dialed on the?Business of Biotech?and?Bioprocess Online?to make sure you don't miss anything. Meanwhile, here's a roundup of my top picks from the Life Science Connect community's raging river of biopharma business content. Grab a cold one and enjoy!

Matthew Pillar , Business of Biotech host and chief editor, Bioprocess Online

Biotech Beat

Antibodies, Linkers, An Uber, And John Wick

My pal Anna Rose Welch leans hard into pop culture analogies in much of the content she writes over at?Advancing RNA. I'm not as good at it, but I gave it a go in?this commentary?on the wild progress we're seeing on the ADC landscape. It might have taken a hundred years, but a combination of tech advances and sheer grit are combining to pay BIG ADC dividends. READ NOW →

Ethical Access To Co-opetive Clinical Data

What could accelerate your clinical development program faster than unfettered access to a trove of historical clinical data from peer companies in your oncology space? The CEO Rountable On Cancer is a who's-who of biopharma CEOs working with the largest privately-held software company in the world to make it happen safely, legally, and ethically.?Life Science Leader's? Ben Comer caught up with the project's lead man?here. READ NOW →

WuXi For The Win

Over at?Outsourced Pharma, our Louis Garguilo has been diligently giving readers a blow-by-blow account of the Biosecure Act saga, with a focus on its implications for WuXi. The biotech leaders I've recently spoken with in the ADC space, in particular, have been gnashing teeth and wringing hands over it. Looks like they can rest easy — for now. But, as Louis states in?this article, while the Act has been tabled, the fallout remains. READ NOW →

mRNA Hot Takes

Speaking of Anna Rose Welch , she's been cranking out a series of hot takes on mRNA development. Since COVID, it's been too easy to watch this space through rose-colored glasses, but in these assessments, she's not pulling any punches. This one was published in June, so it's a good place to start dialing into Anna Rose's perspectives, which just keep coming. READ NOW →

Quotes Of The Month

"We got a big pharma partnership for an ophthalmology program that continues to advance and it looks incredibly exciting, but we're not ophthalmology experts. We're cell transplant experts. So the point is scale."

― Brian Culley , CEO, Lineage Cell Therapeutics ,?Episode 207?

"Every VC that you talk to, their first thought is,?how do I just get rid of this??And if they can't come up with a reason, then they start to get interested and they move forward."

― Clarke Atwell , Founding CEO, Claris Bio ,?Episode 208?

"Most biotech companies fail because the hypothesis failed, and that's with brilliant minds that have M.D.s, Ph.D.s, making phenomenally good decisions that turned out to not be correct."

― Eamonn Hobbs , President & CEO, Syncromune? ,?Episode 209?

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