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Alex Kesin's Pharmacopoeia

Alex Kesin

Ruminations about biotech and drug development - one overly earnest blog post at a time.

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Anti-Amyloids and Antichrist

Some thoughts on Peter Thiel's view of the beta-amyloid hypothesis as a lens for understanding the messy, slow cost of figuring out how to make drugs for complex diseases.

Last May, during a conversation with Ross Douthat, Peter Thiel turn...

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A Better Proxy Than the Rat and Dog

Disclosure: This profile was commissioned by Axiom Bio. The company provided access to its offices, team, and partner meetings and reviewed drafts for factual accuracy.


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Would Walter White Still Cook Meth in 2025?

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Fun with FGF21

In September 2021, Bristol Myers Squibb discontinued development of pegbelfermin, a PEGylated version of a hormone called FGF21, after spending years and probably hundreds of millions of dollars testing it in patients with liver disease. Th...

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How Amgen Lost The PCSK9 Patent War

Patent law rests on a simple covenant: inventors reveal their secrets, and society grants them temporary monopolies in return. But some companies want the monopoly without the showing. They want the treasure. They don’t want to draw the map...

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