BioCentury This Week
BioCentury This Week
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Ep. 382 - Summer’s venture wave; drugging beta-catenin; Capricor & FDA
25 minutes Posted Aug 18, 2026 at 1:00 am.
Introduction
Venture Rounds
Drugging β-catenin
Capricor & FDA
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A baker’s dozen of biotechs shrugged off the summer haze to raise nearly $800 million in venture cash. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury’s analysts discuss the financings, which included money for a potential challenger to Amgen’s blockbuster Tepezza and a new venture from immunology professor Georg Schett with backing from Deerfield Management, Boulevard Bio. The analysts also discuss new approaches to drug cancer’s “undruggable” β-catenin pathway, and whether Capricor’s...