Bioverge

Kiersten Stead, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of DCVC Bio sits down with Neil to discuss her firm’s approach to deep tech investing in biotech, her focus on platform technologies, and how to separate what’s real from what’s hype in AI

Andrew Lo, Professor of Finance, and the Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at the MIT Sloan School of Management, sits down with Neil to discuss his application of portfolio theory to address the challenges of funding drug development and how a Netflix subscription model can address the coming crisis in funding high-priced curative therapies approaching the market.

Faizzan Ahmad, Co-Founder and CEO of Cure8bio, sits down with Neil to discuss its growing portfolio of regenerative medicines in development, its hub-and-spoke business model designed to leverage resources and reduce risk, and its push toward curative therapies.

Nathan Hunkapiller, Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder of Curve Biosciences, sits down with Neil to discuss liquid biopsies, the company’s efforts to expand the use of these blood-based tests to improve the treatment of chronic diseases, and how it is enabling earlier intervention.

Drew Titmarsh, Co-Founder and CEO of Dynomics, sits down with Neil to discuss that lack of innovative therapies to treat heat disease, the company’s discovery platform that uses engineered cardiac organoids that function like adult human heart tissue, and how the company is using this to develop precision therapies to address the root causes of heart failure.