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Episode 74: Dr. John Murphy on Building an Audience

Send us Fan Mail After years of running a school on the rigid rhythm of bells, Dr. John Murphy walked away from K-12 education and into something he never trained for: p

Episode 73: Anew Labs

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Petri Dish Perspectives, we explore Anew Labs, the AI drug discovery company that emerged from one of the most unexpected places in b

Episode 72: Dr. Elliot Justin on S3xual Wearable Health Tech

Send us Fan Mail After a career spent racing against the clock in emergency rooms, Dr. Elliot Justin found himself chasing a very different kind of vital sign, one most

Episode 71: Fate of Pharma M&A

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Petri Dish Perspectives, we take a step back from individual companies to examine one of the most powerful forces shaping the pharmac

August 2026: Biotech & Pharma NEWS Roundup

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to your essential overview of the global biotech and pharmaceutical landscape for August 2026! This month was defined by major dealmaking, a re

Episode 70: Cellares

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Petri Dish Perspectives, we explore Cellares, the biotech company trying to solve one of the biggest and least discussed challenges i

Episode 69: Summit Therapeutics

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Petri Dish Perspectives, we explore the remarkable rise of Summit Therapeutics, a biotech that transformed itself from an infectious-

Episode 68: Guardant Health

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Petri Dish Perspectives, we explore the story of Guardant Health, one of the companies leading the shift toward blood-based cancer de

Episode 67: Epic Systems

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Petri Dish Perspectives, we explore the story of Epic Systems, the privately held healthcare technology company that has quietly buil

July 2026: Biotech & Pharma NEWS Roundup

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to your essential overview of the global biotech and pharmaceutical landscape for June 2026! This month was dominated by AI cementing itself as

Episode 66: Scribe Therapeutics

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Petri Dish Perspectives, we explore the story of Scribe Therapeutics, one of genome editing's most ambitious companies aiming to

Episode 65: Apogee Therapeutics

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Petri Dish Perspectives, we explore the story of Apogee Therapeutics, one of biotech's newest immunology companies aiming to red

Episode 64: Conception Bio

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Petri Dish Perspectives, we explore the story of Conception Bio, one of the most ambitious biotechnology companies working at the int

Episode 63: Enveda Biosciences

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Petri Dish Perspectives, we explore the story of Enveda Biosciences, one of the most exciting AI-native biotech companies redefining

Episode 62: Isomorphic Labs

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Petri Dish Perspectives, we explore the story of Isomorphic Labs, Alphabet's ambitious drug discovery company born out of DeepMi

June 2026: Biotech & Pharma NEWS Roundup

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to your essential overview of the global biotech and pharmaceutical landscape for June 2026! This month was dominated by a relentless wave of s

Episode 61: Danaher

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Petri Dish Perspectives, we explore how two brothers transformed a small industrial holding company into one of the most influential

Episode 60: Hims & Hers

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Petri Dish Perspectives, we dive into the rise of Hims & Hers Health, the telehealth company that transformed direct-to-consumer heal

Episode 59: Illumina

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Petri Dish Perspectives, we dive into the remarkable story of Illumina, from a small sequencing startup born during the Human Genome

Episode 58: UnitedHealthcare

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Petri Dish Perspectives, we dive into the remarkable rise of UnitedHealthcare and its parent company, UnitedHealth Group. From its or