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Too Much Talk About Technology
To adopt and use new technology effectively, leaders should focus on people and their problems, not the technology itself, according to former Google executive turned biotech CEO.  Continue Reading..
  • Using AI To Find And Develop Safer Medicines
    10/2/2023

    Montai Health CEO Margo Georgiadis is using what she’s learned at McKinsey, Discover, Google, Mattel, and Ancestry to reinvent drug discovery and development, with a focus on long-term safety.

  • Life Biosciences Grows Up: A Q&A With Jerry McLaughlin
    10/2/2023

    Through the boom and bust of anti-aging buzz cycles, Life Biosciences has continued its focus on epigenetic reprogramming with an increasingly focused pipeline and development strategy.

  • Taking A Fresh Approach To Finance At BMS
    9/1/2023

    A rising star in BMS’s finance department, Tatiana Simonelli, SVP, finance commercialization at BMS discusses her path to senior leadership, and how talent diversity can boost business results.

  • The L Word
    9/1/2023

    As buzzy development areas buckle down to face the realities of strict regulations, financial demands, and specific unmet needs, the language leaders use to describe their efforts can help, or hurt.

  • Biotech Veteran Pushes New Science And Regulatory Change
    9/1/2023

    Ashvattha Therapeutics CEO Jeff Cleland hopes to bring hydroxyl dendrimer therapeutics to market for the first time, while also pushing for policy and regulatory change as an advocate for BIO.

  • Novo Nordisk Returns To Growth, With Growing Pains
    8/1/2023

    Novo Nordisk’s return to growth is largely due to an explosion of demand for its anti-obesity products. However, challenges with supply and insurance coverage persist.

  • A Measure Of Improvement Needed
    8/1/2023

    New and improved ways of measuring disease symptoms and responses to therapy must overcome established forms of measurement used for regulatory approval. 

  • Vincerx Pharma: Finding Strength In Symbiosis
    8/1/2023

    Ahmed Hamdy and Raquel Izumi are putting the lessons, hard knocks, and experiential wisdom they have gained over a decade in biotech to work at Vincerx.

  • I-MAK’s Quest To Trim The Biopharmaceutical Patent Thicket
    7/3/2023

    I-MAK, a nonprofit focused on reforming the drug patent system, is bringing patients into the patent system to advocate against abuses that keep affordable drugs out of reach.

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Ben Comer

Ben Comer is chief editor of Life Science Leader magazine. He has covered the biopharmaceutical, medtech and medical device industries for 15 years as a reporter and editor, and worked as a senior manager in PwC’s Health Research Institute. Comer was most recently executive editor at In Vivo magazine, where he wrote feature stories, executive profiles and articles ranging from pre-clinical biotech strategy, fundraising, supply chain, manufacturing, and regulatory issues, to global commercialization efforts, market access and environmental, social and governance topics. He has interviewed hundreds of executives and experts at biopharmaceutical and life science companies, academic institutions, law firms, patient advocacy groups, payer and provider organizations, industry trade associations and regulatory bodies. Comer has presented and moderated panels at dozens of industry conferences, convened webcasts with industry leaders, and published news articles and other writing in Scrip, Pink Sheet, MedTech Insight, Generics Bulletin, Pharmaceutical Executive, PharmTech, Applied Clinical Trials, Medical Marketing & Media and PR Week, among others. Comer is a graduate of the College of Charleston and has worked in compounding pharmacies as a certified technician. You can find him on Twitter @BenMComer.