BioCentury This Week
BioCentury's streaming commentary on biotech industry trends, plus interviews with KOLs.
For three decades, BioCentury has helped biopharma executives and investors make business-critical decisions and build larger networks with peers across the innovation ecosystem.
Episodes
394 episodes
Ep. 384 - Back to School Special: The global FIH trials race
China has changed the global narrative on delivering early human clinical data, with a new bar for speed and efficiency. And now drug developers and policymakers around the world have gotten the message and know that this is no time for complac...
Ep. 383 - Moderna, Genentech obesity deal, Trump's FDA pick
A Phase III win for a melanoma vaccine from Moderna and Merck & Co. has opened the door to personalized neoantigen vaccines. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s analysts discuss the vaccine’s prospects and the ...
Ep. 382 - Summer’s venture wave; drugging beta-catenin; Capricor & FDA
A baker’s dozen of biotechs shrugged off the summer haze to raise nearly $800 million in venture cash. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s analysts discuss th...
Ep. 381 - FIH urgency in the U.S. Plus: federated learning, biotech IPOs
Pressure is on FDA, policymakers and academic centers in the U.S. to respond to challenges from China, Australia, and beyond to run first in human trials faster and more efficiently. On th...
Ep. 380 - AZ-BMS rumors, Replimune, psychedelics
Rumors flew this weekend about a mega-merger of AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers — but would such a deal make sense? On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s analysts explain why they
Ep. 379 - Argenx M&A, AI giants and biopharma, catalyst scorecard
Argenx the tier-jumping European biotech, believes its proposed $2.2 billion purchase of Forte Biosciences will add a second multi-indication product upon which it can run the strategy that has made autoimmune drug Vyvgart efgartigimod alfa a b...
Ep. 378 - U.K. cabinet shuffle, Taiwan biotech and Biogen data
The departure of U.K. Science Minister Patrick Vallance is a blow for U.K. biotech. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s analysts discuss what Vallance’s exit,...
Ep. 377 - Trends in life sciences talent with CBRE's Ian Anderson
After nearly three years of sluggish job growth, hiring is turning a corner in the U.S. life sciences industry, while the talent pool is expanding beyond the sector’s traditional hubs. On a special episode of the BioCentury This Week p...
Ep. 376 - M&A momentum: 3Q public markets preview
M&A enthusiasm is carrying biotech amid tepid reception for launches. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s analysts discuss BioCentury’s 3Q26 Public Markets Pr...
Ep. 375 - Novartis' ADC gambit & regulation as catalyst for U.K. biotech
Novartis is deepening its antibody-drug conjugate capabilities with its $1.1 billion acquisition of U.K. biotech Myricx Pharma. On the latest episode of the BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s analysts discuss how the deal fits ...
Ep. 374 - Parkinson's deep dive & FDA trial reforms
New Parkinson’s disease programs aim to move beyond the historical norm of symptom management, branching into targeted therapeutics and cell therapies. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s
Ep. 373 - AbbVie M&A, FDA reversals, a CAR T first
AbbVie's $10.9 billion deal to acquire Apogee will expand its immunology pipeline by delivering assets for atopic dermatitis and asthma. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCent...
Ep. 372 - Biotech IPOs, Biosecure Act, cachexia pipeline
Biotech IPOs that are getting out remain hot — but will that continue into the fall? On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s analysts discuss the market for fresh biotech paper on NASDAQ, including the $770 million
Ep. 371 - Moving faster at the academia-industry interface
Getting into the clinic fast to de-risk assets has become the name of the game in biotech, and at the academia-industry interface, too.From AI to NAMs to starting a Phase I trial in the U.S., BioCentury’s 3rd Grand Rounds-U.S. conference br...
Ep. 370 - Calmer waters for FDA; Servier, Lilly deals
FDA’s new leadership is sailing the agency into calmer waters amid a search for a permanent commissioner and permanent center directors. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury Washington Editor Steve Usdin discusses how...
Ep. 369 - ASCO advances, China innovation & U.S. science under threat
Revolution Medicines continues to impress with more pancreatic cancer data, earning a standing ovation at ASCO over the weekend. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s analysts discuss the detailed data for the compan...
Ep. 368 - ASCO Preview, China Policy, ADC Linkers
At ASCO among presentations focused on pancreatic cancer innovation beyond KRAS; however, abstracts for the cancer conference also highlight ADCs, bispecifics and diagnostics that are broadening the field’s approach to the cancer. On the latest...
Ep. 367 - FDA, obesity targets and the rise of DACs
Marty Makary wasn’t the only official on the outs at FDA last week in another tumultuous turn of events for the regulatory agency. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioC...
Ep. 366 - Europe's need for speed: Bio€quity takeaways
China’s speed in generating first-in-human data has catalyzed a race across the globe to reshape regulatory requirements to compete. BioCentury’s analysts, along with special guests Detlev Mennerich, head of Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund, a...
Ep. 365 - Thin ice for Makary, redosing AAVs
Marty Makary’s hold on the top job at FDA is slipping, with White House leaks about President Donald Trump’s displeasure with the FDA commissioner shifting the question from whether he wil...
Ep. 364 - UCB’s Candid buy, Grand Rounds and leukodystrophies
UCB is the latest biopharma player to consummate a multibillion-dollar deal amid a surge in biotech M&A activity, acquiring Ken Song’s Candid Therapeutics, one of the leading T cell en...
Ep. 363 - New targets at AACR, biopharma deals, Kurma fund
More than 175 new oncology targets surfaced at this year’s American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting in San Diego, with the focus on new ways to enhance the immune response against solid tumors and to make existing immunotherapies...
Ep. 362 - AACR: Data and de-risking
Bispecific antibodies and dual-payload antibody-drug conjugates were in the spotlight at this year’s American Association for Cancer Research meeting in San Diego as biotechs unveiled thei...
Ep. 361 - Kelonia, Kailera, pyschedelics and T cell engagers
The past week has delivered the largest M&A deal ever for a private, venture-backed biopharma, the second-largest follow-on ever for a NASDAQ-traded biotech and what could soon become the largest biotech IPO ever on NASDAQ. On the latest
Ep. 360 - FDA’s FIH plans. Plus: billion-dollar deals, funds
A pathway proposed by FDA to cut the time it takes biopharma companies to get to first-in-human trials is more ambitious than similar policies in Australia, China and the U.K. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s an...
