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From Bench to Boardroom: What Drug Development Actually Takes

From Bench to Boardroom: What Drug Development Actually Takes

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 Guest: William Pao In this episode of Boba & Biotech, Armon sits down with William Pao, a physician-scientist who has run oncology R&D at Roche, served as Chief Development Officer at Pfizer, and is now CEO and Co-Founder of Revelio Therapeutics. Few people have seen drug development from as many angles. They get into the real economics behind why a single molecule can cost $600M to advance, what it actually feels like to kill a program you believe in, and why the jump from pharma to biotech is more disorienting than most people expect. Plus: where AI in drug development is genuinely useful, where it isn't, and what the Paxlovid story reveals about why institutional memory matters more than anyone talks about. William Pao is a physician-scientist whose career has spanned academia, industry, and biotech. As a faculty member at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and Vanderbilt University, he was a practicing oncologist recognized for ground-breaking work in targeted cancer therapeutics and personalized medicine. Through executive leadership at Roche and Pfizer, he oversaw the development of molecules now approved across cancer, rare diseases, ophthalmology, infectious diseases, neuroscience, and immunology. He is currently CEO and Co-Founder of Revelio Therapeutics, co-founder of MyCancerGenome, and author of Breakthrough: The Quest for Life-Changing Medicines. He holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard and an M.D. and Ph.D. from Yale. Links Armon’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/armonsharei/ William’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-pao-md-phd-40719295/ William’s book - https://breakthroughbypao.com/ Credits Hosted by Armon Sharei, PhD Research by Julie Kim, MBA Produced by Arielle Nisseblatt of Pinwheel, Andressa Carroll, Portal Edited and mixed by David Woje
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