This is a previously recorded episode of The BioCentury Show from March 19, 2025. Subscribe to this channel to listen to each new episode. Visit TheBioCenturyYouTube.com to access and watch all prior episodes. Vertex’s approach to research, defined over a decade ago to beat the dismal odds of success in biotech, remains core to its strategy, even as the industry evolves and technologies expand. While that strategy, which EVP and CSO David Altshuler calls “serial innovation,” has seen the com...
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This is a previously recorded episode of The BioCentury Show from March 19, 2025. Subscribe to this channel to listen to each new episode. Visit TheBioCenturyYouTube.com to access and watch all prior episodes. Vertex’s approach to research, defined over a decade ago to beat the dismal odds of success in biotech, remains core to its strategy, even as the industry evolves and technologies expand. While that strategy, which EVP and CSO David Altshuler calls “serial innovation,” has seen the com...
Ep. 71 - Pazdur Unplugged: FDA Director Richard Pazdur on the Past, Future of Cancer Treatments
The BioCentury Show
41 minutes
8 months ago
Ep. 71 - Pazdur Unplugged: FDA Director Richard Pazdur on the Past, Future of Cancer Treatments
Richard Pazdur, director of FDA’s Oncology Center of Excellence, joined FDA in 1999. Looking back on his 25th anniversary, he draws a line between unpopular decisions at the start of his tenure and a surge in cancer drug development over the last 20 years. He believes this and other lessons from the regulation of oncology can be applied broadly across FDA. The BioCentury Show discussed these lessons, as well as Pazdur’s views about advisory committees, pragmatic trials, dose optimization and ...
The BioCentury Show
This is a previously recorded episode of The BioCentury Show from March 19, 2025. Subscribe to this channel to listen to each new episode. Visit TheBioCenturyYouTube.com to access and watch all prior episodes. Vertex’s approach to research, defined over a decade ago to beat the dismal odds of success in biotech, remains core to its strategy, even as the industry evolves and technologies expand. While that strategy, which EVP and CSO David Altshuler calls “serial innovation,” has seen the com...
