Denatured

In this episode of Denatured, you’ll hear from Max Bronstein, CEO of Aviva Strategies and Teresa Barnes, Chief Executive Warrior of PF Warriors. We dig into why U.S. patients are losing access to rare disease trials happening abroad and how the FAIR Act’s accelerated, harmonized reviews could help the U.S. keep pace while getting lifesaving studies to patients faster.

In this episode of Denatured presented by Curium, Jennifer Smith-Parker speaks to Mike Patterson, CEO North America and Professor Sabine Brookman-May, vice president and head of Global Clinical Development. We look at the momentum behind radioligand therapy and how its diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities are improving care for more than 14 million patients worldwide.

In this episode of Denatured, you’ll hear Philip Jacob Rosenfeld, professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Miami Health System and Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, and Wesley Jackson, chief science officer at Valitor. We talk about the eye condition call wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the limits of anti‑VEGF therapy and the push for true durability to change a patient’s life.

In this episode of Denatured, sponsored by SK pharmteco, Jennifer Smith-Parker speaks to Arvind Singh, vice president and global head of supply chain. In this episode, we explore how CDMOs are reshaping supply‑chain strategy for a new generation of complex modalities.

In this episode of Denatured, you’ll hear from Christina Takke, managing partner at V-Bio Ventures and Mariette van der Velden-Roesink, founding partner at Curie Capital. We explore why the Benelux region remains scientifically strong, but investment fragmented, and what it will take to turn it into a more unified biotech investment corridor.

In this episode of Denatured, you’ll hear from Hilary Rosselot, executive director at the National Fragile X Foundation and Jordi Fàbrega, co-founder & CEO at CONNECTA Therapeutics. From trial endpoints and placebo effects to neuroplasticity modulation, we explore what it will take to build a sustainable path to the first approved therapy.

In this episode of Denatured, you’ll hear from Ian McGowan, Chief Medical Officer at Synklino and James Hunter, associate professor of transplantation at Oxford University. We explore transplantation and antiviral innovation and why CMV remains one of the most persistent and consequential challenges facing transplant patients today.

In this episode of Denatured, you’ll hear from Diana Saraceni, founder and managing partner at Panakès Partners and Fabrizio Calisti, medical director at Angelini Ventures. We explore how Italy’s life sciences ecosystem has evolved over the last decade—from stronger tech transfer and growing venture capital to the gaps that still keep it from matching the UK, Germany or France in company creation and scale.

In this episode of Denatured, you’ll hear from Hans Eriksson, chief medical officer at FundaMental Pharma and Steve Levine, chief patient officer at Compass Pathways. We explore why treatment-resistant depression remains so difficult to address, and how new approaches—from rapid-acting antidepressants to psychedelic therapy—may reshape the treatment paradigm.

In this episode of Denatured presented by Arvinas, Jennifer Smith-Parker speaks to Arvinas President and CEO Randy Teel about the strategic discipline and leadership required to successfully refocus a company on an early-stage pipeline after a lead asset is outlicensed, discontinued or otherwise falls away.