Hanadie Yousef leads Juvena Therapeutics, a company developing protein based therapeutics that are tissue restorative for muscle and metabolic diseases
She describes the process of how the company's computing platform sorts through proteins that are secreted by stem cells and screens them for therapeutic potential. Plus, the lead clinical program for muscle conditions and also a partnership with Lilly in the obesity space.
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Catherine Pickering is leading iOnctura, which is focused on solving the problem of cancer resistance both at the tumor and around its environment
She discusses the approach and the company's lead program, which targets PI3Kδ. Plus, and autotaxin program for cancer and TGF-β.
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Sheila Gujrathi is an experienced leader in biotech, a co-founder of the Biotech CEO Sisterhood, and has a new book coming out next month
Dr. Gujrathi describes the beginning of the Sisterhood, discusses her new book, "The Mirror Effect," and shares her take on biotech and what types of companies and teams she likes to work with.
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Stacy Blain is the Founder and CEO of Concarlo Therapeutics, which is the first company to target CDK4/6-driven cell proliferation and CDK2-driven resistance
She describes the unmet need for patients who no longer respond to the large CDK4/6 class of medicines, and the decades of work she has put into solving the problem of adding CDK2 inhibition into the equation.
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Catherine Sabatos-Peyton is running Larkspur Biosciences, a company targeting cancer cell fitness
She describes the work the company is doing, which has a lead program targeting PIP4K2C and is scheduled to be in the clinic later this year.
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