Between the Biotech Waves

Today’s episode features a remarkable leader in the field of gene therapy, Dr. Bobby Gaspar. With over 25 years of experience as a physician and scientist, Bobby has played a pivotal role in redefining treatment options for severe genetic disorders. As the co-founder and current CEO of Orchard Therapeutics, recently acquired by Kyowa Kirin, Bobby has been at the forefront of advancing gene therapy...

I am thrilled to welcome Steve Paul to Between the Biotech Waves. With nearly 50 years of experience as a physician-scientist, Steve has made significant contributions to the fields of neuroscience, molecular neuropharmacology, and CNS drug discovery and development. He is the scientific co-founder of Sage Therapeutics, where he played a key role as the interim head of Research and Development dur...

Today, I are excited to welcome Kent Rogers, the Chief Executive Officer of EveryONE Medicines. Kent brings a wealth of experience to his new role, having held executive leadership positions at renowned pharmaceutical companies as well as emerging biotech firms. With over 30 years of expertise in brand and generic pharmaceuticals, specialty pharmacy, and healthcare supply chain management, Kent ha...

Sound Bite with Bill Hicks looking at the market and financing in real time.

Welcome to a Between the Biotech Waves sound bite , a short podcast to provide insight into the rapidly changing biotech environment - I am pleased to welcome Paul Matteis Managing Director, Head of Therapeutics Equity Research in Biotech at Stifel to discuss the current market dynamics affecting our biotech industry. RECORDED April 7th 2025

In this episode, I am thrilled to welcome Dan Lynch, an Executive Venture Partner at Google Ventures and a seasoned leader in the biotechnology sector. Since joining GV in 2021, Dan has partnered with life sciences CEOs and executives, providing invaluable guidance as a trusted advisor and coach. His commitment to fostering long-term relationships underscores his belief that collaboration is essen...

In today's episode, I am honored to welcome Stanley Crooke, the founder and CEO of Ionis Pharmaceuticals the first and leading antisense oligonucleotide biotech and founder, CEO and Chair of N-Lorem, a not for profit entity developing ASOs for ultra rare diseases. Stan is THE pioneer in the field of antisense oligonucleotide based RNA-targeted therapies. With a deep passion for science and in...

Welcome to ‘Between the Biotech Waves,’ the podcast where we navigate the dynamic world of biotechnology and explore the minds driving its innovation. I’m your host, Nessan Bermingham, and today, we have a true visionary in the field, Peter Barrett. Peter is a partner at Atlas Venture, where he has been a key player in the creation of numerous novel therapeutic and drug discovery platform companie...

Now that JPM '25 is behind us, where the weather was great but the mood was somber, back to podcasting! Welcome back to 'Between the Biotech Waves,' the podcast where we explore the frontiers of biotechnology and the remarkable individuals driving innovation. I’m your host, Nessan Bermingham, and today, we are honored to have Dr. Matt Porteus with us, a true pioneer in the field of...

Welcome back to Between the Biotech Waves. I am sorry for the lack of episodes over the past few months, unfortunately life threw me a curve ball that I have been taking care of but now back and ready to go! Today it gives me great pleasure to introduce Mike Curtis, President and CEO of eGenesis. You may recall seeing eGenesis on the front cover of the New York Times recently following the first s...

Today we have an unusual (& long) podcast where we talk to key members of the Triplet Therapeutics management team. Triplet was founded to develop antisense oligonucleotides targeting the DNA damage response pathway that has been implicated in driving repeat disorders including Huntington's disease - the lead indication for Triplet. The team discusses the challenges in building the compan...

Today I am talking to Eliot Forster xCEO of F-star Therapeutics. Eliot was at helm of the company as they reversed merged into Springbank Pharmaceuticals & through the recently announced acquisition by Sino Biopharma, a transaction that generated a lot of interest given the very public interactions with CFIUS. Prior to F-star, Eliot was CEO of Immunocore, Creabilis and Solace Pharmaceuticals f...

Today we are talking to Barry Greene, CEO of Sage Therapeutics. Barry has had an amazing career spanning over 30 years in the biotech industry. Prior to Sage Barry was President of Alnylam shepherding it with John through its evolution from basic science through commercial product launch. Prior to ALNY Barry was general manager of Oncology at Millennium where he was directly involved in the approv...

Today we are talking to Tim Yu. Tim is attending physician at the division of genetics and genomics at Boston Children’s Hospital and assoc prof of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. The scope of work that Tim does is well beyond what can be covered in this intro however I have gotten to know Tim through his leading the emerging filed of N of 1 plus drugs. Tim worked with Julia Vitarello to dev...

Today we are talking to Rachel Meyers. Rachel was most recently the CSO of Faze Medicines a company she launched with TRV to focus on the regulation of biomolecular condensates to treat disease. Prior to Faze she was an EIR at TRV prior to which she spent nearly 2 decades at Alnylam. I have had the pleasure of working with Rachel getting an appreciation not only of her as a scientist, entrepreneur...

Today we are talking to Joel Marcus. He has shaped the life sciences industry through ARE from the buildings we use to venture and fund investing. His impact can be directly seen in major cities across the US from Boston to NY to San Francisco with over 22million sq ft of space. Beyond Alexandria he is a philanthropist who supports veterans and their families, and through his initiatives people su...

Today we are talking to Aofie Brennan, president and CEO of Synlogic. Aoife was trained as a doctor at Trinity College Dublin following which she moved to the US. After completing her postdoctoral research at Beth Israel Aofie joined TolerX focused on developing autoimmune therapies for type I diabetes. Following which Aoife spent 6 years at Biogen ultimately becoming head of Rare Disease Innovati...

Today we are talking to Drew Weissman. Drew is the Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research at Perelman School of Medicine and Director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania. Drew has spent his career working on RNA biology and vaccine development. He, along with his colleague Katalin Kariko, have been pivotal in the development of mRNA vaccines most notabl...

Today we are talking to Rodolphe Barrangou. Rodolphe is the Todd R Klaenhammer Distinguished Professor at NC State University. He is a scientist entrepreneur who has co-founded a multitude of biotech companies around CRISPR based approaches including CRISPR Biotechnologies, Ancilia Biosciences, TreeCo and Intellia Therapeutics. He is one of the pioneers in CRISPR-Cas9 dating back to his time as R&...

I am delighted to welcome back Jim Birchenough to Between the Biotech Waves. Jim is Vice Chair Wells Fargo Biopharmaceutical Investment Banking. In 2022 Jim joined the podcast to discuss the market dynamics and learnings from prior market corrections. I am welcoming him back to take stock of where we are, what the bright spots in 2022 were and crystal ball gaze into ’23. What should be watching fo...

I am delighted to welcome back John Hoffman to Between the Biotech Waves. John is managing director & head of healthcare equity capital markets at Credit Suisse. In mid 2022 John joined the podcast to discuss the market outlook for ’22 and many of his predictions were spot on. It was also one of the most downloaded podcasts of the year. I am welcoming him back to review ’22, lessons learned an...

Today we are talking to Jeremy Levin. Jeremy is chairman and CEO of Ovid Therapeutics, focused on rare and orphan disease of the CNS. He is the immediate past chair of BIO.  Jeremy has a storied career in biotech having served as president and CEO of Teva Pharmaceutica’s, a member of the exec committee of BMS where he had global responsibilities for strategy, alliances and transactions. There he d...

Today we are talking to Laksh Aithani, Co-founder and CEO of Charm Therapeutics. Laksh is a scientist turned entrepreneur. He received his degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge. While at University he co-founded Genei, an AI company that automatically summarizes background reading producing blogs, articles and reports (I would note but not podcasts!). He joined Exscientia whe...

Today we are talking to Tom Barnes. Tom is CEO of Orna Therapeutics, a circular RNA focused biotech developing in situ CAR therapeutics. Orna recently announced a series B with a multi billion $ mega-deal with Merck. Prior to Orna Tom and I worked together at Intellia and also Ascelagen. Tom has also had leading positions at Eleven Bio and Millennium. Tom has deep biological pathway domain experti...

Today we are talking to JeanFrancois Formela. I have known JF for over 2 decades having worked with him at Atlas in building multiple biotech companies. JF is a partner at Atlas Venture which he joined in 1993 to build the US LS presence which has ultimately become the Atlas we all know today. He co-founded, invested in and played pivotal roles in a multitude of companies including Intellia Therap...