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BIO Panel "Perspectives on Target Selection: How Companies Approach a Critical Decision"

Songsong CaO

A great session on target selection at BIO "Perspectives on Target Selection: How Companies Approach a Critical Decision", including experienced leaders like Jo Viney, Shelia Violette, and Juliet Williams.


By and large, the panelists agree on a few universally important considerations:


1. Unmet needs

2. Biological or clinical validation

3. Differentiation


Over the last few years working with a number of platform companies on target selection, I haf one key observation: there is a huge performance chasm between those companies that really put a lot thoughts into target selection vs. those winging it. The driving force behind it is how much drug development experiences the management team has.


Surpringly, inexperienced scientific founder isn't necessarily a predictor for poor performance, as long as the founder is humble enough to surround her/himself with right experts from early on. One such example I saw from BIO is the founder and CEO of Bioage Labs Kristen Fortney.



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