Daphne Zohar

@daphnezohar.bsky.social

I don’t check this account often. Founder & CEO of www.SeaportTx.com developing new medicines for neuropsychiatric disorders. Co-founder Karuna Tx (KarXt/Cobenfy now at BMS). Founding CEO & Senior Advisor PureTech. Co founder/host @BiotechCH. Board of BIO

Proud of the work of our Seaport team & collaborators published today in @ScienceTM. This ~13 page peer reviewed paper is the first comprehensive data disclosure of our GlyphAllo™ program from discovery through initial human proof‑of‑concept

Seaport Therapeutics@seaporttx.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New paper in Science Translational Medicine features GlyphAllo as first triglyceride-mimetic prodrug to achieve therapeutically relevant drug levels in humans & further validates Glyph platform to effectively enable oral dosing. Paper: tinyurl.com/2mff276w Release: tinyurl.com/5hdenetm

Co‑founder & Board Chair Dr Steve Paul joined BioCentury's podcast to discuss the past, present & future of neuropsychiatric drug development – from the depression space to potential of psychedelics - & what we’re building at Seaport w/our Glyph platform: bit.ly/4r2gRCy

Serendipity drives discovery in psychiatry, engineering gets it across the line, says Steve Paul

With disease biology still murky and trials notoriously noisy, psychiatry R&D is advancing fastest where teams can solve engineering problems. Delivery...

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Sounds “cute” as in puppies talking to each other but quite ominous and will soon be too late to shut down. AI bots are organizing, agreeing on how they interact in their own language, identifying “human in the loop” vulnerabilities (“my human clicks approve without reading”) lnkd.in/eNSbNhp3

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Ok here it is - out of 44 FDA approvals this year, 31 are small molecules (70%), 26 of those are oral drugs (84%), 22 of them are chiral (71%). This is the largest number and percentage of chiral FDA approved molecules in a single year. Fitusiran is not a small molecule, bonus.

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Today Co-Founder & Board Chair Dr. Steve Paul joins Technology Innovation Studio’s Breakthrough Biotech Builders fireside chat on his role in the dev of CNS blockbusters Zyprexa®, Cymbalta® and Cobenfy™ (KarXT) which originated at PureTech (founded/led by @daphnezohar.bsky.social) luma.com/5rfgvqfd

Breakthrough Biotech Builders: Session with Steve Paul · Luma

This discussion would be a private gathering designed to foster high-level dialogue and genuine connections in the area of biotech leadership. We hope that…

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Important provisions added to reconciliation bills would be positive for bio if passed: ORPHAN Cures Act included, amend IRA PBM reforms delinking compensation from list price, increasing transparency & banning spread pricing in Medicaid Tax fix to allow for immediate deduction of R&D costs