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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Innovation as Antidote
inspiration typically comes from a very human place. DART Therapeutics CEO Gene Williams (MBA 1987) ("Your Own Medicine"), for instance, told us about a revelation he had during a 2002 trip to Rotterdam to observe clinical trials for the...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
Frontiers in Therapeutics is an ethics and management course on the world’s most pressing unsolved medical challenges. The impetus for the program came from recognizing that the biotech sector needs strong, ethical leaders who can break...
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- 25 Feb 2021
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Building Hope
a doctor’s office for a dose of ketamine and remains under the care of medical professionals for about an hour while the ketamine does its thing. Ketamine can induce out-of-body experiences, so a safe setting is an important part of the View Details
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Daniel Morrell
- 04 Sep 2019
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Accelerating Scientific Discovery
ask their scientists about therapeutics they are developing as their companies grapple with both clinical trial successes and failures. Classes also will focus on the most promising advances, including CRISPR-Cas9, base editing, RNA...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
digital therapeutics (app-based programs designed to improve health outcomes), he did not fully appreciate the bureaucratic hurdles the company would face. Developing the technology and processes to administer a contingency management...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Managing the Map
Health (NIH) undertook the Human Genome Project, an effort to map the extraordinarily intricate chemical composition of the human genome. Scientists have long believed that understanding the vast genetic code underlying all human life will enable the development of new...
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
musculoskeletal diseases. Theranostics, a combination of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to health care delivery, is a new and exciting field of nuclear medicine now offered at MRC, Tantawy says. “It’s a personalized, highly...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
deciding to stay for good. Long-heralded for its therapeutic applications, the global market for the bitter root was on the rise, driven by the expansion of the Chinese middle class; today, genuine Wisconsin ginseng can fetch $200 a pound...
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Francis Storrs
- 22 Mar 2022
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Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year
these virtual events included Moderna Therapeutics CEO Stefan Bancel (MBA 2000), JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon (MBA 1982), and the president and CEO of Amazon, Andy Jassy (MBA 1997). “We’ve all worked together to be able to provide...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
symptoms of diseases like diabetes or congestive heart failure. Before the implantable congestive heart failure monitor, for example, we had very poor diagnostic tools to alert the need for ASAP therapy, but these sensors can now alert providers when View Details
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April White
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
was more physical. A former triathlete, he was invited by his investment firm’s partners to a hot yoga class. “I could not believe how I felt afterward,” he recalls. “That halo effect after a good sweat—it opened up my chest, and I got the entire View Details
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Deborah Halber
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
love, instantly,” he recalls. His passion for the water prompted him to start training to sail competitively—and to leave his job in wealth management at Goldman Sachs in order to skipper his first therapeutic sail, for eight disabled...
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Jill Radsken
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
is a devastating disease that leaves cognitive abilities intact, but robs people of their ability to move, essentially making them prisoners in their own bodies,” Blum says. “The therapeutic hypothesis with tirasemtiv relates to slowing...
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Deborah Blagg
- 29 Apr 2016
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The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
needed it. Listening to music is still very therapeutic for me. Seeing how art has helped our artists express themselves and heal has made me want to take on painting, too.” Which HBS course (or courses) had the most profound impact on...
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- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
Pisano says. But vaccines don’t really fit the same business model as high-volume therapeutic drugs; they have an even higher bar for safety and effectiveness, because unlike most other drugs they are administered to healthy populations....
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
products. Stock predicts that the development pace for personalized therapeutics and preventive diagnostics will pick up speed, thanks to the beneficial add-on effects derived from identifying more and more biomarkers for particular...
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- 17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
Alumni Relations Boris Tsimerinov (PLDA16, 2017), the discussion focused on differences between the state of the COVID-19 crisis in Canada, the US, and the rest of the world. The webinar touched upon most recent clinical and therapeutic...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
information has a therapeutic use, we have to make a substantial investment - $350 to $500 million - in doing the clinical trial work. From a business standpoint, we need to protect our investment." "High, upstream knowledge should not be...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
pharmaceutical company, developing their own drugs. His offer was simple. "Is your son on any treatment that is a direct result of what you have done?" he asked. "No," admitted Tracy. "I'm going to change that," Williams said. DART (Disease Action Research Therapy)...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
a thriving organization of significant scale. Gordon M. Binder (MBA '62) played a key role in just such a transition at Amgen, which now ranks as the largest biotechnology firm in the world. A California-based firm that discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets...
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