Cellares secures $257 million Series D to scale automated cell therapy manufacturing
Series D backs global rollout of automated IDMO factories as Cellares targets lower costs, higher throughput, and commercial scale.
Biotech & Life Sciences
FDA approvals - January 2026
Copper replacement formalizes care for a fatal pediatric metabolic disorder.
Why Flatiron is betting on data quality, not hype, to power the next era of cancer care
With global oncology scale and nearly 2,000 scientific publications, Flatiron Health is positioning itself as the industry’s most trusted evidence partner by pairing AI-driven speed with uncompromising scientific rigor. “We don’t chase hype. We build trust, and in healthcare that’s non-negotiable.”
“Efficacy with safety”: the north star behind Outpace’s next-gen engineered cell therapies
Outpace Bio is using AI-powered protein design to build “software and hardware” into engineered cells aimed at durable solid-tumor responses. For CEO Marc Lajoie, “efficacy is still the fundamental problem that needs to be solved - efficacy and safety.”
From diagnostics to drug development: Scipher Medicine’s three-track strategy for high-impact immunology
As Scipher expands from predictive diagnostics into drug development, CEO Reginald Seeto stresses that technology must drive real clinical decisions: ‘You’ve got to bring technology to the point of greatest impact - otherwise even great innovations never get progressed.’
Why Novellia thinks the best biopharma data strategy starts with patients, not pipelines
“Everything that’s good for patients delivers extraordinary value for biopharma - that overlap is the entire company,” says Shashi Shankar, CEO. From symptom tracking to AI-driven normalization, Novellia builds patient-first data infrastructure that scales into biopharma-grade intelligence.
Mark Lappe’s lean biotech model: smaller teams, bigger wins
Inhibrx has built its drug discovery engine around tight, focused teams. The philosophy is simple: “We’re best when we’re smaller. When teams get too big, they stop innovating,” shaping how programs are advanced or spun out.
The lab-data marketplace powering precision medicine’s next wave
As pharma’s demand for real-time lab intelligence accelerates, Prognos Health is leaning in - and after six or seven years of building, the company now sees “a real path to delivering 20 billion health insights by 2050”, says CEO Sundeep Bhan.
Biotech's new superstructure: Vivodyne's bid to turn human tissues into scalable, searchable data
Vivodyne’s automated human-testing platform aims to deliver unprecedented scale, reproducibility, and biological fidelity in preclinical drug testing - powered by patient-derived tissues that “already know the instructions,” as CEO Andrei Georgescu puts it.
Inside Cellares’ $380M push to automate cell therapy manufacturing
With Bridgewater online and global facilities underway, Cellares is moving from platform development to commercial execution. CEO Fabian Gerlinghaus says, “Our factories can produce as many therapies as ten manual facilities - with just ten percent of the people.”
Why Allucent says its global footprint is now a competitive edge in early-stage trials
Paula Brown Stafford argues that real differentiation now comes from pairing global operations with smart, disciplined innovation. “We're adding AI as a teammate, but we still need our team to have their own expertise to ask the right questions.”
Building for zero failure: How 4G Clinical is redefining trial supply management
At 4G Clinical, David Kelleher articulates a leadership philosophy built on precision, flexibility, and the belief that execution failures in trials carry real human consequences: “We will never mis-randomize, stock out, miss dose, or compromise the blind.”
How DNAnexus is enabling precision medicine from research to the point of care
DNAnexus is pushing precision medicine out of research silos to improve care delivery. As CEO Thomas Laur puts it, “The future isn’t moving data into one big bucket. It’s moving algorithms to federated data,” enabling distributed clinical decisions at scale.
‘The moat is data’: Marc Tessier-Lavigne on building an AI-native drug company
As traditional drug discovery reaches its limits, Xaira is pushing toward a more predictive, AI-native model. CEO Marc Tessier-Lavigne says, “we’re turning this broken, artisanal endeavor into something much closer to an engineering discipline.”
The long game in cancer screening: Freenome’s data-first strategy
“If we don’t detect cancer early and intervene, it’s very hard to talk about a cure.” Freenome is betting that data scale, commercial discipline, and blood-based screening can finally close oncology’s early-detection gap.
Why Trevi Therapeutics’ Jennifer Good believes treating cough means targeting the brain
For these patients, cough isn’t just a symptom - it rules their day. Trevi Therapeutics is targeting triggers in the lung as well as cough’s neurological roots,” says CEO Jennifer Good.