Biotech Blueprint

By Katerina Roznik

Connecting with biotech, pharma, and academic professionals to explore the latest in science, startups, market trends, and breakthroughs.

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November 08, 2025 Trump Reshapes Obesity Drug Prices, Novo Tops Pfizer Again — This Week in Biotech #77
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Pfizer’s courtroom gamble to block Novo Nordisk’s $10B Metsera takeover failed, and Novo immediately fired back with an even higher bid, leaving Pfizer two days to respond before the Nov. 13 vote. Meanwhile, Trump struck landmark pricing deals with Novo and Lilly to bring GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro to Medicare at $245 a month. Moderna tightened its belt and beat expectations with $1 B in revenue, J&J scored an FDA win for Caplyta in depression, and Viking’s next-gen GLP-1 showed it can actually reverse metabolic syndrome.

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October 31, 2025 Novo tops Pfizer’s obesity bid; FDA moves to speed biosimilar approvals; Moderna–Merck rumors build — This Week in Biotech #76
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October 26, 2025 Drug launch prices soar; mRNA shots linked to longer cancer survival — This Week in Biotech #75
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October 21, 2025 How mRNA Could Defeat Latent Viruses and Train Immunity Against Cancer
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About this episode: mRNA’s next chapter isn’t just flu and COVID. We break down why latent viruses (CMV, EBV, HSV) persist, why T cells matter, and how multi-antigen mRNA vaccines aim to control reactivation. We also cover Moderna’s CMV Phase 3 (mRNA-1647) as a platform stress test and the rise of personalized neoantigen cancer vaccines (V940) that cut melanoma recurrence vs Keytruda alone in Phase 2b and are now in Phase 3. What success here would mean for public health, operations, and the mRNA platform.
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October 19, 2025 Trump cuts IVF & Medicaid drug prices; Novo buys Omeros; Lilly's GLP-1 orforglipron shines — This Week in Biotech #74
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October 03, 2025 Pharma Tariffs on Ice, FDA Limits Filings, Amgen’s PCSK9 Win — This Week in Biotech #72 Pharma Tariffs on Ice, FDA Limits Filings, Amgen’s PCSK9 Win — This Week in Biotech #72
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September 19, 2025 ACIP votes, Roche-89bio deal, Regeneron’s FOP win — This Week in Biotech #70
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September 18, 2025 The mRNA Revolution: Beyond COVID to Cancer, Flu and Herpes Vaccines
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In this special episode, I teamed up again with Hartaj from the Biotech Capital Compass for part one of our mRNA therapeutics mini series. We covered the foundational science behind how RNA became medicine, the decades of bioengineering breakthroughs that made COVID vaccines possible, and what’s coming next in the infectious disease space. From Moderna’s ambitious pipeline targeting everything from flu-COVID combo shots to latent viruses like CMV and EBV, to Moderna’s and BioNTech’s custom cancer vaccines, we mapped out what's actually coming in the next few years.
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September 12, 2025 Novo’s Layoffs, Novartis’ $1.4B Buy, Pancreatic Cancer Progress — This Week in Biotech #69
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September 05, 2025 Ionis' Olezarsen Win, Novartis Licenses Arrowhead, CDC Vaccine Fight — This Week in Biotech #68
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FAQs about Biotech Blueprint:

How many episodes does Biotech Blueprint have?

The podcast currently has 32 episodes available.