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BioBiz Buzz offers exclusive insights into the biotech, pharma, and medtech industries through interviews with top executives and visionaries.
Providing thought-provoking podcasts covering topics such as scientific advancements, emerging technologies, and market trends, to keep listeners informed about the latest developments in life sciences.
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17. Democratizing Drug Discovery: How Lilly ExploR&D Is Changing the Biotech Playbook
The traditional biotech funding model hasn't fundamentally changed in decades: brilliant founders with promising science face an impossible choice; build expensive internal R&D capabilities or negotiate partnerships on terms controlled by Big Pharma. Tom Hopkins, VP and Head of Lilly ExploR&D, is working to flip that script.
In this episode, Tom joins your host Mike Ward to discuss the four critical barriers early-stage biotechs face (expertise gaps, data infrastructure challenges, execution risk, and capital inefficiency) and how Lilly's integrated platform of capital, expertise, and infrastructure is removing those barriers.
Learn how the future of drug discovery isn't about companies innovating in isolation, it's about removing friction and accelerating the best science from wherever it exists toward patients.
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