Luke Timmerman

Your Edge in Biotech

Your Edge in Biotech

Your Edge in Biotech

Ken Frazier, Tony Coles, Rob Perez and Ted Love are among the biggest names in the biopharma industry. They also happen to be Black. But there are many other Black people making significant contributions, and who aren’t so widely known. Let’s recognize some of these folks today on the Juneteenth holiday. On June 19, 1865... Read More

Today’s guests on The Long Run are Ted Love and Alan Anderson. Ted is the chairman of the board of directors at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization. He’s perhaps best known for serving as CEO of Global Blood Therapeutics, the San Francisco Bay Area company that developed voxelotor (marketed as Oxbryta), a novel small molecule for... Read More

The 4th annual Timmerman Traverse for Life Science Cares wrapped up last month, but I’m feeling a bit remiss for not telling the whole story. This year’s successful $1 million campaign came in two parts. First, there were a pair of back-to-back day hikes in the North Cascades with a team composed mostly of newcomers... Read More

Zach Hornby is today’s guest on The Long Run. Zach is the CEO of San Diego-based Boundless Bio. The company is seeking to target cancer cells in an unusual way. It is developing small molecule drugs that take aim at DNA that resides outside the usual home on a chromosome. These oncogene amplifications occur in... Read More

The folks at Nucleate, the global network for young scientific entrepreneurs, asked me a bunch of interesting questions.  I was the guest on the Nucleate Podcast. This was an hourlong interview which covered some turning points in my life. I also offered some commentary on the current state of biotech. The co-hosts wrote: In this... Read More

Happy Veteran’s Day. For some reason, this day doesn’t receive the same level of attention of most holidays on the American calendar. Let’s pause today to thank veterans in our communities. For real. Face to face. Or maybe on the phone. Not in a tweet. As I wrote last year: Today is a day when... Read More

Hard to believe, but the 10th Anniversary of Timmerman Report is coming up in March 2025. Time to party! The past 10 years of biotechnology have been remarkable. I’m fortunate. I’ve had a front-row seat to chronicle monumental advances at Timmerman Report, and occasionally influence events. Join me and a group of biotech leaders in... Read More