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He sees an optimistic turn after a challenging couple of years. Plus, highlighting Vicor, Camurus, Oculis, and BioArctic.

CEO Thomas Feldthus describes the challenge of making ion channel medicines selective enough to avoid unwanted side effects. He walks us through the Jazz and Acadia partnership, and highlights three other internally developed programs.

She describes the transferrin receptor based brain transporter technology, which the company recently signed another new partner (Novartis) on for $30M up front. Plus, the European approval of Leqembi, and how the Parkinson's program is progressing.

He describes the science behind the A1M protein that this is based on, and how Guard has chosen kidney protection for patients who are undergoing heart surgery as the lead indication. We walk through various scenarios ahead of the upcoming readout.

CEO Martin Welschof walks us through these two programs, which both target liquid and solid tumors. BI-1808 recently had data at EHA and will have solid tumor data later this year, while 2026 will be data rich for BI-1206.

CEO David Veitch walks us through the U.S. launch of Zevtera, and discusses where Cresemba is in its global commercial lifecycle. Plus, pipeline progress, and how Basilea's experience with BARDA funding has been a good sign of consistency for the field.

Christophe Weber discusses the 25 year journey from the discovery that orexin deficiency is the cause of narcolepsy to announcing two positive phase three studies with an agonist. He shares highlights of the World Sleep Congress data, and how he views emerging competitors in the class.

Founding Partner Stephen Thompson and Partner Jonathan Tobin list some of their recent investments, highlight the advantage of running speedy clinical trials in Australia, and comment on what the benefits to life sciences would be if the UK would allow pensions to invest in private venture funds.

Dr. Berger, whose experience in biotech goes back decades, including founding and running ARIAD for 25 years, is taking over this company that was publicly launched at the beginning of 2024 and came with it a funding commitment of up to $500 million from large investors.

CEO Neil Miller walks us through the hypothesis of how toxic proteins created by neurodegenerative diseases enter and damage the mitochondria, and how the company's small molecule inhibitors are meant to block this. With these funds, the company can enter the clinic in Parkinson's in early 2026.