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Legends lost: 2021’s departed comprise an industry dream team 

Remembering the foundational leaders who shaped an ecosystem of innovation

Finance

Fred Frank, co-founder of the biotech industry, is dead at 89

The influence of Fred Frank, one of the biotech sector’s first analysts and investment bankers, can be found on the deals that built the biopharma ecosystem.

His influence can be found on deals that built biopharma ecosystem

Politics, Policy & Law

Remembering Alan Mendelson, mentor to biotech lawyers, CEOs

Revered lawyer made his mark at Amgen, Cooley, Latham & Watkins and beyond

Remembering Gilead’s John Martin, whose therapies saved ‘millions’

Friends, colleagues and peers pay tribute to John Martin as they recall his lasting impact on Gilead, the biopharma industry and patients around the world. 

Friends, colleagues and peers pay tribute to John Martin

Richard Lerner, pioneering chemist and Scripps leader, dead at 83

Receipt of the Prince of Asturias Award in 2012 among Lerner’s career highlights

Nobel winning chemist Grubbs passes

Longtime Caltech professor served on Aileron’s SAB

Tachi Yamada, R&D leader and global health advocate, passes away at 76

Yamada revamped R&D at GSK and Takeda, and built companies at Frazier. 

Yamada revamped R&D at GSK, Takeda, built companies at Frazier

Kirk Raab, first BIO chair and early Genentech CEO, dies at 85

Across more than 50 years in biopharma, Kirk Raab helped guide over 20 companies and pioneer the way biotech companies sell their drugs today.

Fifty year biopharma vet helped guide more than 20 companies 


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Nobel Laureate and SAB member of Aileron Robert Grubbs passed away on Dec. 19. He was 79.Grubbs was a co-winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for de...