Greg Verdine's guest appearances

Greg Verdine

First Rounders

HUMAN PROOF OF CONCEPT

Hopkins Biotech Podcast

Craig Mello

James Wilson

Robert Langer

George Church

Feng Zhang

Daniel Cohen

Joe Allen

Una Ryan

Anthony Atala

Noubar Afeyan

Michael West

Anu Acharya

Alexis Borisy

Pardis Sabeti

Carl June

OwlTail

Greg Verdine is a professor at Harvard University, and CEO and president of FogPharma and LifeMine Therapeutics. He is co-founder of more than 10 companies. His talk with Nature Biotechnology covers growing up in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, the importance of excelling in the lab versus the classroom, and drugging the undruggable.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greg Verdine is a professor at Harvard University, and CEO and president of FogPharma and LifeMine Therapeutics. He is co-founder of more than 10 companies. His talk with Nature Biotechnology covers growing up in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, the importance of excelling in the lab versus the classroom, and drugging the undruggable.  Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Greg Verdine has evolved from merely being a Harvard prof, to consulting for big pharma, to starting biotech companies, to being a Venture Partner, and even to co-founding a non-profit institute – not just sequentially, but largely in parallel.He has teamed up with Third Rock Ventures, TPG Biotech, AppleTree Partners, and he unveils his brand new gig with WuXi Ventures.Greg co-founded the biotechs Enanta (ENTA), Tokai (TKAI), Gloucester (now Celgene), Aileron, Warp Drive, WaVe (WVE), and Fog. His day job today, if forced to list just one, is CSO of Warp Drive Bio. He reveals a couple of secrets about Warp Drive strategy and lifts the fog off of Fog Pharma, his latest – and still stealth – newco.As different as these companies are, a common theme runs through them: to cure the incurable by drugging the undruggable.  With apologies to Star Trek, that is Greg’s personal mission: to boldly go where no drug has gone before.In fact Greg wants to blow up the conventional meaning for the word "drug". He sees beyond the pharma industry’s small molecules plus the biotech industry’s biologics, because they seem positively “puny” in the context of human biology. And he has clever tricks and other modalities at his disposal – not to mention the blueprints: 135,000 bacterial genomes, where the answers cannot hide.

Greg Verdine has evolved from merely being a Harvard prof, to consulting for big pharma, to starting biotech companies, to being a Venture Partner, and even to co-founding a non-profit institute – not just sequentially, but largely in parallel. He has teamed up with Third Rock Ventures, TPG Biotech, AppleTree Partners, and he unveils his brand new gig with WuXi Ventures. Greg co-founded the biotechs Enanta (ENTA), Tokai (TKAI), Gloucester (now Celgene), Aileron, Warp Drive, WaVe (WVE), and Fog. His day job today, if forced to list just one, is CSO of Warp Drive Bio. He reveals a couple of secrets about Warp Drive strategy and lifts the fog off of Fog Pharma, his latest – and still stealth – newco. As different as these companies are, a common theme runs through them: to cure the incurable by drugging the undruggable.  With apologies to Star Trek, that is Greg’s personal mission: to boldly go where no drug has gone before. In fact Greg wants to blow up the conventional meaning for the word "drug". He sees beyond the pharma industry’s small molecules plus the biotech industry’s biologics, because they seem positively “puny” in the context of human biology. And he has clever tricks and other modalities at his disposal – not to mention the blueprints: 135,000 bacterial genomes, where the answers cannot hide.

Greg Verdine will not take “undruggable” for an answer