Tagged with Biotech

France Inventiva is a French clinical-stage biotech company focused on developing oral small molecule epigenetic modulators in therapeutic areas with high unmet medical needs such as fibrosis, lysosomal storage disorders and oncology. Its most advanced program is a first-in-class drug candidate against NASH. Inventiva’s chairman, CEO and co-founder, Frédéric Cren, explains…

France Inotrem is a French biotech company developing a novel approach to target inflammatory diseases based on the TREM-1 pathway. Its CEO, Dr Jean-Jacques Garaud explains why he decided to leave Big Pharma for biotech, lays out Inotrem’s recent milestones, and outlines his internationalization strategy.   The TREM-1 pathway can be…

France Phillipe Archinard CEO of Transgene shares insights on the latest technologies being developed by the gene therapy specialist, explains how France’s innovation landscape is improving, and highlights the current opportunities in the market.   Thanks to their versatility, oncolytic viruses can, therefore, be very potent. Our Invir.IO™ platform will be…

China William Wei Cao, chairman and CEO of Gracell, shares the fascinating journey that inspired him to establish Gracell in Shanghai to tackle the four big challenges facing the global CAR-T industry; the four novel technology platforms Gracell is working on that are already drawing significant investor and Big Pharma interest;…

Korea YD Global Life Science is a Korean biopharmaceutical company with ambitions to become a global leader in new drug development with USD 1 billion in revenues. Its founder & CEO, Jin Woo Lee explains his strategy to reach this goal by licensing-out promising compounds acquired from research institutions, developing an…

France Christine Placet, CEO of French biotech Horama, discusses the objective of becoming one of the key players in the field of ophthalmic gene therapy. She explains how Horama’s unique pipeline can be a solution to unmet medical needs in retinal dystrophy and goes on to share her personal insights on…

France André Choulika, Chairman and CEO of Cellectis, discusses how UCART will revolutionize cell therapy as a universal gene-edited solution as opposed to the current therapies on the market which uses a patient’s own re-engineered T-cells. Choulika goes on to share how the company is positioning itself for its anticipated commercialization…

China Dr Jun Bao, appointed president and CEO of Impact Therapeutics in October 2018, shares his aspirations for Impact to be a leader in synthetic lethality in oncology; the importance of ‘operating locally but selling globally’; his learnings from his distinguished career across biotech and pharma companies in the US and…

China Dr John Yu, co-founder and CEO of CGeneTech, shares the exciting story behind the company’s establishment in 2010; its balanced philosophy on new drug development and the progress of their flagship Cetagliptin, a Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor of diabetes drug in Phase I clinical trials at the moment; the importance…

Korea Cure Therapeutics is a startup developing gene and cell therapies in Korea. Its founder David Kim explains where his passion for regenerative therapies stems from, breaks down the main hurdles standing in the way of success and describes how his company’s business model focused on flexibility and development speed through…

China Samantha Du, Chairman and CEO of Zai Lab, the flagship China biotech company, shares her inspirational story of being one of the pioneers to forge a path for Chinese biopharma innovation; the recent product launch of Optune® in Hong Kong in December 2018, Zai Lab’s second product on the market;…

Korea James Jungkue Lee, founder and CEO of Bridge Biotherapeutics, explains his strategy for risk mitigation in running a virtual biotech start-up. He also offers his insights into the company’s partnership strategy and shares his opinion on why Korea will become a global leader in biotech.   Biotech is a very…