RIFs (reduction in force) and pipeline culling announcements are often read as negative and they are for those who lose their jobs or when culling an important program. In some cases (well-funded company, ancillary program) these announcements also indicate that management is

NEVER DOUBTED IT!!! Great news for patients! GO Alnylam Pharmaceuticals!!!! #soAlnylamProud

Love this message. ❤️

This was a big week for my Alnylam Pharmaceuticals friends and colleagues, and it was because of a molecule once called ALN-TTRsc02, now vutrisiran or AMVUTTRA. Some of you may be curious to learn its story. 1/

Don’t think in terms of what books you want to read. Think in terms of which books you want to live with. Because if you can read 1000 books in this life, every book you choose to read is a -1 from your 1000. The same applies to people. Who do you want to live and create with?

The CEOs who often bring to our conversations thoughts like "Am I the right CEO? If the board doesn't fire me, maybe I should fire myself?" are usually the best CEOs. Because these thoughts show how much they care. These folks are brave enough to be willing to look inside and

This post from Angelos Georgakis 👇🏻 Much needed in a society where vulnerability is often viewed as a weakness. I think the leader Angelos Georgakis describes puts company, team, and mission 1st and does so regardless of their own ego or ambition. This also shows understanding for.. 1/x

In Jan 2021, we launched our “Alnylam P5x25” strategy for building a top 5 biotech by end of 2025… On Friday, we achieved that milestone! AMGN > VRTX > REGN > GILD > ALNY Congrats to the amazing Alnylam Pharmaceuticals team!

This is a big day for Exscientia! Today we announced our definitive agreement to combine with Recursion, which will bring together world-class expertise & talent to accelerate the discovery of better drugs for patients faster & at lower cost. 🧡🚀 Exscientia - I can't wait to

The best gift a CEO can give to their team... I received a long text from a CEO this morning, and as I read it, I'm like... this person is grounded like hell! Ninja-focused, calm, sharp. They are texting me about the vision of their company, and while doing so, they are

Life begins at 40. Up until then, you are just doing research. — Carl Jung. Jung gave my soul the best birthday gift this summer…

The CEO’s job is to create a collective genius. Imagine a graph of nodes and edges. Can you make a “genius graph” out of non-genius nodes? Or can you make a super genius graph out of genius nodes? That’s your job.

17/ Finally, I feel this this quote by Josh Boger of Vertex pretty deeply. Building drugs is one of the hardest things we do as a society. I'm thankful that we've been able to work on these problems with this team for so long, and we still just starting x.com/angelosgeo/sta…

What’s special about leadership in biotech? What are the leadership challenges that are unique to this industry? Why are people & culture as important as science when developing breakthrough medicines for patients? These are questions that I try to address liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ge…

Solid read. 🧬🧫👔 Angelos Georgakis

Biotech and Urgency – Inspiration from Alnylam Akshay Vaishnaw: “If I write to John Maraganore 🇺🇦🇮🇱 right now, I know I will get a response in the next five minutes. The urgency is linked to the idea that we never let the sun set on a problem. We never let problems go without action.

This post - so many important takeaways that I specifically identify with and look for when choosing a role, company, founder, etc… Here are a few I like: “So people want kinetic action. They want energy because they want to see that they're working towards something.”

He told the graduates he had learned from a children's book that the human body was composed of seventy-five trillion cells and that each had a job to do. Bob Duggan had taken on-the-job learning to an entirely new level. He was learning about the human body from children's books