Most likely everyone reading this has been affected by cancer or knows someone who has had cancer.  Using natural cell degradation, today's guest and the team at Arvinas are treating previously undruggable diseases like cancer and Parkinson's. Their goal is to cure cancer or at a minimum, reduce it to a disease where you take your medication and continue living a full life without the terrible side effects of today's treatments. 

Dr. Ian Taylor, Chief Science Officer at Arvinas, explains how his team is accomplishing this with PROTAC. Arvinas is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing new therapeutics for cancers and other difficult-to-treat diseases.

If you are hoping for another treatment for cancer besides historical approaches (like chemotherapy), you need to listen to what Dr. Taylor has to say. It's innovating and extremely exciting. 

More about Dr. Ian Taylor:
Dr. Taylor came to the company after nearly 10 years at Pfizer Oncology, most recently as an Early Development Team Leader. In this role, Dr. Taylor was responsible for leading a cross-functional drug development team that conducted Phase 1 and Phase 2 clinical trials for multiple assets in several cancer indications. His initial role at Pfizer Oncology was as Senior Director of Translational Oncology. In this role, he was responsible for directing translational science activities, which included designing and executing translational research plans and leading companion diagnostic partnerships for programs in both preclinical and clinical (Phase 1 -3) stages. Prior to Pfizer, Dr. Taylor worked at Bayer Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, holding positions of increasing responsibility, including Vice President of Cancer Biology. In this position, he led the department responsible for all biology aspects of small molecule drug discovery of cancer therapeutics in the mechanistic areas of signal transduction, cell cycle regulation, angiogenesis and apoptosis. During his tenure, the Cancer Biology group delivered numerous molecules to the Development organization. He also started and led the Biomarker group, which contributed to the development of sorafenib. Dr. Taylor earned his B.A. from Bowdoin College and his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Harvard University. He also completed his postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Harold Varmus at the University of California, San Francisco and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Show notes

• https://www.arvinas.com
  
  
• Arvinas treatment pipeline: https://www.arvinas.com/pipeline-programs/pipeline
  
  
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