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ARTICLE | Strategy

A conversation with Gregory Verdine

April 21, 2011 7:00 AM UTC

What will drugs look like in the coming decade? This is the question being posed by Gregory Verdine and the next-generation therapeutic modalities team he leads at Third Rock Ventures. One answer, Verdine believes, is hybrid platforms of synthetically modified biomolecules that combine the advantages of small molecules and biologics.

SciBX met with Verdine at his Harvard University office to talk about the science that is driving the discovery of new drug modalities and the challenges of bridging the gap between good science and commercialization.Verdine is director of the program in cancer chemical biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvardand, since 2009, a venture partner at Third Rock...