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BiotechTV - News

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This is the primary news channel of BiotechTV where you will find on the ground reporting by our journalists from biotech hubs throughout the world.

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May 31, 2026

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Tour of Scotland: Vicki Hazley, Associate Director of The Scottish National Investment Bank, discusses how The Bank invests in life sciences 13.03.2025

She describes The Bank's goal of supporting life sciences in Scotland and making a societal impact, how it aims to co-invest with likeminded investors. Plus, examples of investments such as Elasmogen and PneumoWave.

Professor Pieter Cullis and Jay Kulkarni, co-founders of NanoVation Therapeutics, discusses the next generation of lipid nanoparticle delivery 12.03.2025

Professor Cullis, one of the original pioneers of LNPs and co-founder of 11 biotechnology companies, describes the challenge of successfully using lipid nanoparticles to deliver payloads to places outside of the liver. Jay Kulkarni, a former postdoc of his who is co-founder and CSO of the company, describes the 'one-stop-shop' capabilities of NanoVation, which has already led to a partners...

Tour of Scotland: Edinburgh based Trogenix is developing an AAV based gene therapy platform for cancer that is designed to deliver combination immune payloads to the tumor 12.03.2025

CEO Ken Macnamara describes the science behind this idea and discusses recently presented preclinical data. He highlights the lead program for glioblastoma and plans for the future, and also explains how he believes a patient sample biobank Trogenix has built is key to the company's success in research.

Tour of Scotland: A leading investor who is focused on life sciences in Scotland shares his thoughts on the innovation happening in the area 12.03.2025

Andrew McNeill, Managing Partner of St. Andrews based Eos Advisory, introduces us to the firm and some portfolio companies including Dxcover and Laverock Therapeutics.

Acuitas Therapeutics is a pioneer in developing lipid nanoparticals, and already has seen two approved products: ONPATTRO and the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine 12.03.2025

Co-Founder & CEO Thomas Madden describes the science and history behind LNPs, and discusses what is currently in development, including trying to use them to deliver therapies outside of the liver.

Tour of Scotland: Edinburgh based Cumulus Oncology has built a hub and spoke model of creating multiple spin-out companies - it already has three disclosed assets 12.03.2025

Founder & CEO Clare Wareing describes the company's design, with an eye towards being capital efficient and investing over and again for the long-term. She describes the lead investments: a PARG inhibitor, GPR68 small molecules, and a GTPase inhibitor.

Tour of Scotland: Outrun Therapeutics is aiming to create a new category of therapeutics by stabilizing proteins via drugging E3 ligases 12.03.2025

CEO Carolyn Porter describes the beginning of the company, which spun out of University of Dundee's MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (PPU). The first goal is to go after hard to treat solid tumors.

Tour of Scotland: Tay Therapeutics is a product of University of Dundee's Drug Discovery Unit, and is working on small molecules - including a topical pan-BET that is in phase 2 11.03.2025

Founder and CEO Andrew Woodland describes how they made the decision to focus on inflammation for the pan-BET, which is partnered with VYNE Therapeutics. VYNE has also completed a phase 1a with Tay's oral selective BET inhibitor. Plus, how Tay is also working on a small molecule gene therapy program.

Tour of Scotland: University of Dundee has established a world-class Centre for Protein Degradation, one of the hottest emerging modalities in biotech 11.03.2025

Founder and Director Alessio Ciulli explains the science behind protein degradation. He then describes the facilities that have been built and the work that takes place at the centre, including founding companies like Amphista Therapeutics. Plus, his take on the field more broadly and targets that researchers are going after.

Tour of Scotland: The Head of Business Development at University of Dundee's Drug Discovery Unit talks about how the university helps biopharma companies translate science into medicines 11.03.2025

Charlotte Green describes the work that the unit does in tropical diseases, CNS, women's health, and oncology. She also highlights their pharma partnerships and licenses, and cases where independent biotech companies have spun out of the work.

Tour of Scotland: Sir Michael Ferguson introduces the work in life sciences that has built up at The University of Dundee and the specialized centers that have come from it 11.03.2025

He discusses speciality work relating to molecular cell biology / signal transduction, and translational science. Plus, the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (PPU), the Drug Discovery Unit, the soon-to-open Innovation Hub, and more.

A study published in JMIR today showed that Limbic's GenAI-powered chatbot elevated the standard of care for mental health patients in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) 10.03.2025

Limbic CEO Ross Harper describes how patients who interacted with Limbic Care attended 42% more therapy sessions and achieved a 25% higher recovery rate compared to standard treatment.

Analyst Thursdays: William Blair Senior Analyst Andy Hsieh talks about his new obesity sector report and the companies he initiated 06.03.2025

He discusses what to look for in safety and efficacy, new targets, and his thoughts on the potential role of oral therapies. Plus, comments on Structure Therapeutics, Corbus, Skye Bioscience, Zealand, Viking, Altimmune, Terns, and BioAge Labs.

On Rare Disease Day, Ultragenyx's Head of Gene Therapy Research explains the company's Rare Disease Bootcamp that helps families navigate drug development, and he also talks gene therapy science 28.02.2025

Matthew Fuller describes the course that Ultragenyx will be holding both in the Bay Area and Massachusetts. He also explains the improvements in vector delivery capabilities, and improving the yield and lowering the cost of future treatments, that is possible with the latest generation of gene therapy.

Cambridge, UK based Amphista Therapeutics is developing a new generation of targeted protein degradation therapies that do not rely on cereblon or VHL 26.02.2025

CEO Antony Mattessich describes the company's approach and the advantages he believes it has over other TPD. Plus, the lead program targeting BRD9, and how the company thinks about partnerships going forward.

Cambridge, UK based Ignota Labs raised a $6.9M seed funding today and will use AI to understand why otherwise promising therapies have failed on tox by surprise and then to reengineer them 26.02.2025

Co-Founder and CEO Sam Windsor describes the rationale for using AI to focus more on tox, not efficacy, and gives and example of a drug the company has already in-licensed from a pharma company. Plus, what today's raise will enable the company to do.

With unique license agreements in place with local universities and an additional $260M recently raised, Cambridge, UK based Apollo Therapeutics is building out a substantial pipeline 26.02.2025

CEO Richard Mason describes the company's philosophy, and covers programs such as a FGF21/GLP-1 that was recently licensed from a Chinese partner, an IL18, ZIP12, and more.

From Boston: Stifel Senior Analyst Paul Matteis talks about the orexin class of wakefulness medicines in development, and comments on recent news from companies he covers 24.02.2025

He shares his take on biotech and discusses Alkermes, Tekada, Centessa, Jazz, Biogen, Stoke, Alnylam, BridgeBio, Xenon, and more.

Australia based Aravax, which is using a peptide based approach to food allergy treatments with the goal of avoiding inflammation, is building out late stage manufacturing capabilities in Oxford, UK 21.02.2025

CEO Pascal Hickey introduces us to the company and describes the scale up work Aravax is doing with vendors for its lead peanut allergy program, while CSO Sara Prickett explains how the peptide approach aims to teach T-cells to correct allergies while not setting off allergic inflammation that today's therapies do.

Oxford based Theolytics is leveraging a library of 100M variants of adenoviruses for a bottom up approach to oncolytic virus cancer drug development 21.02.2025

CEO David Apelian describes the importance of choosing the right strain for the right type of cancer, and discusses the company's lead program for ovarian cancer.

With three approved products and filings for more over the near term, Axsome's CEO describes the scale and reach this company is building in the CNS space 20.02.2025

Herriot Tabuteau updates us on the commercialization of Auvelity and Sunosi, launch plans for the recently approved Symbravo, as well as numerous NDA filings and data readouts that Axsome has coming up over the near term. Plus, how he thinks about business development and the big picture.

Stoke Therapeutics' CEO Ed Kaye discusses today's partnership news with Biogen on Zorevunersen for the treatment of Dravet syndrome 19.02.2025

He describes the design of the global pivotal study, which will be initiating soon, why Stoke chose Biogen as a partner, and how today's non-dilutive financing could help Stoke realize its goal to be a platform company.

The CEO of Solid Biosciences discusses today's data release of the company's microdystrophin gene therapy candidate for Duchenne muscular dystrophy 19.02.2025

Bo Cumbo describes the efficacy biomarkers and safety profile they are seeing, and explains why he believes the cascade of observations from microdystrophin expression down to muscle integrity are important and pointed in the right direction. Plus, why the company secured a $200M raise before releasing the data publicly.

Paula Brown Stafford, CEO of the global CRO Allucent, discusses how the company is purpose built to partner with mid-to-small sized biopharma companies on their success 13.02.2025

Sponsored Content: She describes what appealed to her about Allucent when she took the CEO job in July of last year, and highlights the company's regulatory expertise, nimbleness, consulting and strategy skills, modeling and biostatistics knowhow, and more.

Welcoming Ryan Flinn as BiotechTV's new 'AI in Biotech' contributor 13.02.2025

Ryan is based in the Bay Area, and will will be covering AI news there on the ground and virtually worldwide for BiotechTV.

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