Biotech Business with Fexingo: Life Sciences Startups, Drug Discovery, and FDA Approvals
FexingoLucas and Luna step into the clean, cool world of biotechnology startups, where drug discovery meets the harsh realities of FDA approvals and venture capital. Each episode takes a single biotech company—from Moderna to a tiny CRISPR spinout—and dissects its science, its business model, and the regulatory path that determines its fate. Lucas brings the numbers: clinical trial phases, patent cliffs,... more
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 121 | Founded | 2 months ago |
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Biotech startups are turning to single-cell sequencing to uncover how individual cells drive disease, enabling more precise drug targets and patient stratification. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore two companies: ScaleBio and Parse Biosciences... more
Episode 120 of Biotech Business with Fexingo explores base editing, a genome editing technology that chemically converts one DNA base pair to another without cutting the double helix. Lucas and Luna dive into a specific case: how startup Beam Therape... more
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how biotech startups are leveraging artificial intelligence to design novel proteins from scratch. They discuss the case of David Baker's lab at the University of Washington and the spinout company Protein Desi... more
This episode drills into the emerging world of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) — but not for oncology. Lucas and Luna explore how startups like Mersana Therapeutics and others are repurposing the ADC platform to target fibrosis, autoimmune disease, a... more
In this episode of Biotech Business with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore the fast-growing field of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) — cancer treatments that deliver potent chemotherapy directly to tumor cells. They break down the science behind ADCs, ... more
Lucas and Luna dive into synthetic lethality, a precision oncology approach that exploits cancer cells' specific weaknesses. They focus on the real-world case of AstraZeneca and Merck's Lynparza (olaparib), the first PARP inhibitor approved for BRCA-... more
Episode 115 dives into how biotech startups are using artificial intelligence to find new drug targets, moving beyond the 5,000 or so proteins targeted by existing medicines. Lucas and Luna explore the story of Insitro, a startup using machine learni... more
In this episode of Biotech Business, Lucas and Luna explore how biotech startups are engineering bacteria to discover and produce new drugs, moving beyond traditional small-molecule screening. They focus on the case of Synlogic, a startup that uses s... more
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A analytically driven show that dissects biotechnology startups from the science to the business and regulatory path. Each episode centers on a single company—ranging from well-known biopharma players to smaller biotech spinouts—and unpacks the science, the business model, burn and runway, patent considerations, and the complex FDA approval landscape. Expect data-driven takes on clinical trial phases, market dynamics, and the economics of drug development, with an emphasis on how regulatory hurdles shape strategy, funding, and value creation. The hosts balance hard science with practical business insight, helping listeners evaluate news, trial readouts, and company trajectories without hype.
Noteworthy is the show's willingness to tackle c... more
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