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Careers in Discovery is your window into the world of Pharma & Biotech. Featuring interviews each week with leaders in Drug Discovery and R&D, you’ll learn about the careers of these influential figures, the work they are doing, how they got to where they are and what advice they’d give their younger selves. Brought to you by Singular: Building Brilliant Biotechs. Connect with us at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/singular-biotech/ www.singular-biotech.com
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Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Yaniv Erlich, Eleven Therapeutics
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
"Academic freedom is a little like french fries - they're not really French, and it's not really freedom."
Yaniv Erlich is the CEO of Eleven Therapeutics, a global Biotech startup turning RNA drug development into a programmable process.
Yaniv talked to us about his journey from academia to the military and into Biotech, meeting Bill Gates and the importance of maintaining your optimism.
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Thursday Feb 09, 2023
Marcelo Bravo, OxVax
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
"I think of raising money as making a sale...instead of selling a house, I'm selling you my dream. First, you have to target the people you will sell to, then you create awareness and establish rapport, without selling....it's an ongoing process that can take years."
Marcelo Bravo is the CEO of OxVax, a Biotech company building a next generation dendritic cell cancer vaccine platform to take a new approach to some of the biggest challenges in oncology.
Marcelo joined us to discuss his journey from Chemical Engineer to Biotech CEO, how the pandemic changed fundraising and the power of asking questions with an untrained eye.
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Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Farid Khan, PharmaKure
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
"Not everything is driven by innovation. It's actually timing that proves to be more important than anything else."
Farid Khan is the CEO and founder of PharmaKure, a Biotech company taking a novel approach to treating complex neurological diseases.
Farid talked us through his fascinating entrepreneurial career, along with the opportunity presented by repurposing drugs and the learning curve involved in starting and building a Biotech business.
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Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Clare Jones, Talisman Therapeutics
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
"I've always learned the most when things were the most difficult, and I try to remind myself of that when I'm in the middle of something that feels really challenging. They're the most satisfying situations when you solve them."
Clare Jones is the Chief Scientific Officer of Talisman Therapeutics, a Biotech company committed to revolutionising the discovery of disease-modifying treatments for neurodegenerative diseases using stem cell technologies.
Clare talked with us about her career in Biotech, taking jobs where you both bring something and learn something, and the importance of clear, ongoing communication.
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Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Jonny Finlay, LockBody Therapeutics
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
"If you can't prioritise, rationalise and simplify, then the low-hanging fruit is probably all you're going to get to...the only way to understand your way [to the difficult things] is by removing as much noise from the system as possible."
Jonny Finlay is the CEO and founder of LockBody Therapeutics, a Centessa company, where he and his team are developing a new kind of antibody to fight cancer.
Jonny talked to us about his career, the principle of radical simplicity and the relative advantages of big Pharma and startup Biotech.
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Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Ali Tavassoli, Curve Therapeutics
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
"It's so refreshing to have the science come first. Universities and their funding models have changed over the past ten years - there's a lot more admin and red tape...science almost takes a bit of a back seat. Ideas that are high risk don't always get backed, [but in Biotech] things get done."
Ali Tavassoli is the Chief Scientific Officer at Curve Therapeutics, a company developing a revolutionary intracellular screening platform to power drug discovery for challenging targets.
Ali joined us to talk about his career, balancing academic work with building a Biotech company, resisting the pressure to publish when tackling major scientific challenges, and why following the science is crucial in building your life's work.
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Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
Darren Pitt, VisusNano
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
Darren Pitt is the Chief Scientific Officer of VisusNano, a company developing a novel drug-device combinationto treat issues surrounding cataract surgery, one of the most widely performed procedures in the world.
We talked to Darren about what these problems are and what he's learned in a varied career so far.
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Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
Lisa Patel, Istesso
Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
"It's not success that drives the cohesion of a team, it's facing a challenge together and having a shared commitment to solving that challenge that really builds the relationships. Once you see how a person faces difficulty you can understand them much better - that understanding builds trust and a sense that you're in it together. That then drives success."
Lisa Patel is the CEO of Istesso, a company striding into the unknown frontiers of immunometabolism to discovery new treatments for autoimmune conditions.
Lisa joined us to talk about her career so far, what it's really like moving from big Pharma into a startup, and the dynamics of high-performance teams.
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