The Long Run with Luke Timmerman

Becky Pferdehirt, CEO of Emeryville, CA-based Radial, the life sciences unit of Astera Institute, on reimagining biology to take advantage of advances in AI.

Jeremy Levin, executive chair of Ovid Therapeutics, discusses his new book "Biotech in the Balance: Saving a Strategic Industry in an Age of Distrust."

Alkermes CEO Richard Pops reflects on his 35-year career leading the company and its new opportunity in orexin biology for sleep disorders and more neurological conditions.

Marty Burke, a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois and co-founder of Excelsior Sciences, on making small molecule synthesis more automated for AI.

Abbas Kazimi, CEO of Boston-based Nimbus Therapeutics, on computation and culture for drug discovery.

Viswa Colluru, founder and CEO of Boulder, Colo.-based Enveda, on drug discovery with a chemistry platform inspired by natural products.

Otello Stampacchia, founder and managing director of Omega Funds, on attempting to reform Europe's biotech investment climate.

Ken Song, CEO of San Diego-based Candid Therapeutics, on developing bispecific T-cell engaging antibodies for autoimmune disease.

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Ron Renaud, CEO of Waltham, Mass.-based Kailera Therapeutics, on developing GLP-1 based medicines to help people lose weight and live healthier lives.

Kate Haviland, former CEO of Blueprint Medicines, on how the company transitioned to a precision immunology company and was acquired by Sanofi for $9.5 billion.

Emily Conley, CEO of Berkeley, CA-based Renasant Bio, on developing small molecule correctors and potentiators for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD).

Neil Kumar is founder and CEO of Palo Alto, Calif.-based BridgeBio Pharma, a rare disease drug developer.

Marc Tessier-Lavigne, CEO of South San Francisco-based Xaira Therapeutics, on reinventing drug discovery with AI.

Art Krieg, founder and CEO of Zola Therapeutics, on developing innate immune system activators for cancer.

Eric Fischer, a professor at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, on creating a new class medicines -- targeted protein degraders.

Bruce Levine, a CAR-T cell therapy researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, and Mags McCarthy, a country music star, discuss their new song about science and hope for cancer patients.

Dr. Lachelle Weeks is a physician-scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute working on a project to predict leukemia risk based on widely available blood samples.

Jen Adair, professor and associate director of the Horae Gene Therapy Center at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, on creating more affordable and accessible cell and gene therapies.

Sabah Oney, CEO of Philadelphia and San Francisco-based Dispatch Biotherapeutics, on engineering CAR-T cells that can kill solid tumors.

Andy Rachleff and Yung Lie, board chair and CEO of Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, on creative ways to support science amid budget cuts.

Claire Mazumdar, CEO of Boston-based Bicara Therapeutics, on developing a bifunctional antibody for head and neck cancer.

John Rinn, professor at the University of Colorado and co-founder of Lincswitch Therapeutics, on exploring long non-coding RNA.

Marea Therapeutics CEO Josh Lehrer and CSO Ethan Weiss on a new angle of attack against cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

Peyton Greenside, co-founder and CEO of BigHat Biosciences, on machine-learning guided biologic drug discovery.

Kevin Parker, CEO of Cartography Biosciences, on finding new cancer drug targets.

David Roblin, CEO of London-based Relation Therapeutics, on building a techbio discovery company.

Andy Scharenberg, CEO of Seattle-based Umoja Biopharma, on developing in vivo CAR-T cell therapies.

Najat Khan, chief R&D and chief commercial officer of Recursion, on using technology to improve drug discovery.

Robert Blum, CEO of South San Francisco-based Cytokinetics, on building a fully integrated biopharma to treat muscle disorders.

Mostafa Ronaghi, co-founder and executive board member of Cellanome, on developing technology to look at live cells and cellular interactions at scale.

Ram Aiyar, CEO of Cambridge, Mass.-based Korro Bio, on RNA editing medicines.

David Schenkein, general partner at GV, on investing in the future of biotech.

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals chief scientific officer Kevin Fitzgerald on the past, present & future of RNA interference medicines.

Jonathan Bricker, professor in the cancer prevention program at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, on how to quit smoking with help from tech and biotech tools.

Leslie Williams, CEO of Boston-based hC Bioscience, on developing transfer RNA therapies.

Chris Garcia, professor at Stanford University and co-founder of several biotech startups, on using protein engineering to advance new treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases.

Zach Hornby, CEO of San Diego-based Boundless Bio, on tackling cancer drug resistance.

Ted Love, chairman of BIO, and Dr. Alan Anderson, executive director of Sickle Forward, on how to improve quality of life for sickle cell disease patients around the world.

Sarah Boyce, CEO of San Diego-based Avidity Biosciences, on RNA medicines for rare muscle diseases.

Sean McClain, CEO of Absci, on using AI to speed up biologic drug discovery.

Jeff Stein, CEO of San Diego-based Cidara Therapeutics, on a long-lasting drug against flu.

Abe Ceesay, CEO of Boston-based Rapport Therapeutics, on a precision medicine approach to neuroscience drug discovery.

Jimi Olaghere is one of the first patients to have been functionally cured of sickle cell disease with a CRISPR gene-edited cell therapy.

David Younger and Randolph Lopez, co-founders of A-Alpha Bio, on using synthetic biology and AI to discover new biologic drugs.

Vineeta Agarwala, general partner at A16Z's Bio & Health fund, on investing in AI for drug discovery.

David Liu, professor of chemistry at Harvard University and co-founder of multiple biotech companies, including Beam Therapeutics and Prime Medicine.

Valerie Daggett, founder and CEO of Seattle-based AltPep, on early detection and treatment of Alzheimer's.

Robert Ang, CEO of Cambridge, Mass.-based Vor Bio, on using CRISPR gene editing to alter bone marrow transplants and improve treatment of acute myeloid leukemia.

Rick Young, professor at MIT and co-founder of Syros Pharmaceuticals, CAMP4 Therapeutics, Omega Therapeutics, and Dewpoint Therapeutics, on studying gene expression for drug discovery.