Olivia Vizier

CMO 360

A CMO’s Perspective on Designing Clinical Trials for a Psychedelic-Derived Drug Candidate

From a trial design perspective, we’ve tried to make these trials as familiar to stakeholders – regulators, prescribers, payors – as possible. What’s remarkable here are the qualities of the drug that we’re developing, MM120, a pharmaceutical formulation of LSD; we don’t need to do anything inconsistent with the history of psychiatric clinical trials beyond

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Recce Pharmaceuticals Advances Antibiotic Development to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance

At the World AMR Congress, Recce Pharmaceuticals contributes by making strides with a synthetic compound designed to target bacterial mutations, underscoring the need for innovation in addressing antimicrobial resistance (AMR). “Our compound is entirely synthetic,” Graham said. “We started with first principles, designing a compound that remains effective with repeated use.”

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Translating ‘nature’s cues’ into breakthrough immunotherapies

Discover how Cue Biopharma harnesses the curative potential of the body’s intrinsic immune system to develop treatments for oncology and autoimmune diseases. Here, Anish Suri, Chief Scientific Officer of Cue Biopharma, explains how its platforms and biologics are designed to selectively modulate disease-specific T cells to restore immune balance, aiming to improve efficacy and minimise

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Teaching Tolerance to Address Autoimmune Diseases

The traditional approach to treating autoimmune disease has relied on ways to suppress the immune system. COUR Pharmaceuticals is developing first-in-class therapies that instead seek to reprogram the immune system to create antigen-specific tolerance. We spoke to COUR CEO John Puisis and COUR Vice President of Research Adam Elhofy, about how the company’s immune-modifying nanoparticles

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Biotech2050podcast

Transforming Gene Therapy: Exclusive Insights from Zandy Forbes, President & CEO of MeiraGTx

Zandy Forbes, Founder, President, and CEO of MeiraGTx, joins host Rahul Chaturvedi in this compelling episode. Zandy shares her inspiring journey from academia, where she developed a deep interest in molecular biology and genetics, to her significant role in biotech investing, and eventually leading a groundbreaking gene therapy company

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New Landscape for Controlling Obesity and Lowering Incidence of Related Diseases with Dr. Steffen-Sebastian Bolz Aphaia Pharma

Dr. Steffen-Sebastian Bolz, Chief Scientific Officer of Swiss-based Aphaia Pharma, shines a light on the excitement around weight loss drugs due to the discovery that GLP-1 agonists and points out the shift in the perception of obesity as a root cause of various health issues.

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Cell Gene Podcast

Developing an mRNA Therapy for DMD with Elixirgen Therapeutics’ Aki Ko on Apple Podcasts

Elixirgen Therapeutics’ Aki Ko joins Erin Harris to detail the company’s Bobcat mRNA therapeutic and how it differs from traditional exon-skipping drugs and AAV-microdystrophin in treating DMD. Regarding delivery, Ko explains the advantage of the mRNA approach over the AAV approach.

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