How To Grow A Biotech - Insights From Scientist-Entrepreneurs

Laura Soucek, a former In Vivo Rising Leader, and her co-founder have built their biotech, Peptomyc, around a previously undruggable target. They spoke about successes and learnings as scientist-entrepreneurs at BioEurope Spring.

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The last time In Vivo spoke with 2020 Rising Leader Laura Soucek about Peptomyc S.L., the Barcelona-based biotech she co-founded and is CEO of, she was preparing to start a Phase I trial for the company’s lead Myc inhibitor, OMO-103. [A# IV124628]

At the time, the story was that she was pushing up against established dogma. Myc was undruggable, according to most...

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