Few CEOs have built a $20 billion biotech in under 15 years, as John Oyler has with BeiGene, managing to stay in that market cap band even through the downmarket. His strategy, to own clinical trials and manufacturing early on, looks particularly prescient in light of the cost and supply constraints threatening many biotechs today. On this episode of The BioCentury Show, Editor in Chief Simone Fishburn sits down with Oyler to discuss the early strategies that are now paying off for the global oncology company.

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00:00 - Introduction
11:20 – In-house Manufacturing
15:51 – BeiGene’s Pipeline
23:45 – Partnering Plans
27:00 – Building a High Value Biotech

There is good news in this year’s Association for Accessible Medicines report on savings from biosimilars, including a 30% increase over the last year in savings attributed to biosimilars. The report also explores the economic, policy and regulatory headwinds that are preventing the industry from generating savings at a level that would have a dramatic effect on the U.S. healthcare system.
In an interview with Washington Editor Steve Usdin on The BioCentury Show, Craig Burton, executive director of AAM’s Biosimilars Council, calls out business practices and government policies that are holding the industry back and discusses the ways a robust biosimilars market could promote biomedical innovation.

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00:00 - Introduction
03:45 - IRA
13:38 - Humira
20:44 - Biosimilars Pipeline

This is a previously recorded episode of The BioCentury Show from February 22, 2024. Subscribe to this channel to listen to each new episode. Visit TheBioCenturyYouTube.com to access and watch all prior episodes.

In a wide-ranging conversation with BioCentury, Bob Nelsen, co-founder and managing director of Arch Venture Partners, said he is excited by the potential for AI to “create a language of biology,” is cautious about investing in China given increasing geopolitical tensions, and is convinced that the U.S. healthcare system could do a far better job of delivering on the promise of rapidly progressing science.
Nelsen, who has helped finance and create more than 150 companies, including 47 that have reached valuations exceeding $1 billion, discussed his conviction that focusing on creating transformational medicines, rather than looking for short-term gains, is a key to success in the life sciences.

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0:00 - Introduction
01:59 - The Promise of AI
08:35 - The Inflation Reduction Act
15:38 - China
25:58 - Building Companies Around Big challenges