In Vivo Podcasts

Lyme disease is spreading, the last US vaccine was withdrawn in 2002, and the most recent attempt at a new one (Pfizer and Valneva's Phase III candidate) missed its primary endpoint earlier this year. Into that gap steps Tonix Pharmaceuticals with a different idea entirely: skip the vaccine and deliver the antibody directly. In Vivo's David Wild talks to Tonix CEO Seth Lederman about TNX-4800, a f...

This debut video episode of the In Vivo podcast examines the successes and pitfalls of the commercial launch of Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel), Kite Pharma’s CAR-T therapy for relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma. David Wild, senior reporter at In Vivo, is joined by Harris Kaplan, who consulted on the launch and conducted interviews with physicians, nurses, and hospital administrators bef...

AI, Philips, Healthtech, Future Health Index 2026

GATC Health wants to give drug developers a “FICO score” for clinical risk. In this episode, David Wild talks with GATC chief business officer Tyrone Lam about Derisq, an AI‑driven report that simulates human biology to predict a drug candidate’s safety, efficacy, and off‑target risks before the first patient is enrolled. They discuss how GATC’s Operon platform underpins Derisq and the company’s o...

A conversation with Jeremy Levin — physician-scientist, former Teva CEO, and author of Biotech and the Balance — on why America's biotech industry is at a strategic inflection point. Levin examines the forces undermining innovation: short-term capital structures mismatched to drug development timelines, eroding public trust in science and vaccines, and the hollowing out of NIH, FDA, and CDC. He ou...

Interventional cardiologist and Soley Therapeutics CEO Yerem Yeghiazarians joins In Vivo’s David Wild to unpack how decoding cell stress with live‑cell imaging and AI is driving a new oncology pipeline, and what it takes to build a platform‑plus‑pipeline biotech while still practicing medicine.

Kurma Partners has closed BioFund IV at €215m — its largest fund to date, but roughly €35m short of its initial target. For partner Amanda Gett-Chaperot, that gap is more than a fundraising footnote: it points to a structural problem that has long constrained European biotech's ability to build at US scale. Tags: Venture capital, European biotech, Fundraising, Exits, Early-stage investment

Arcutis Biotherapeutics' CEO Frank Watanabe joins In Vivo’s David Wild to talk about building a patient‑first culture and turning a three‑person startup into a commercial‑stage immunodermatology company. He explains how Zoryve (roflumilast) is reshaping care in chronic inflammatory skin diseases, why Arcutis is pushing beyond dermatology offices into primary care and pediatrics, and how new assets...