Transcript
Introduction
Patrick
My guest today is Alex Telford. Alex is the founder of Convoke, a software platform that helps streamline drug development and commercialization. He has also been writing frequent blog posts on the biotech industry since 2019, keeping a pulse on the direction of innovation. He joined me today to talk about the history of the pharmaceutical industry and what's becoming possible in medicine in the coming years.
Alex helped breakdown the complexities of investing in new drug development, breakthroughs in gene therapy on the horizon and the dance between timely progress and restrictive regulation. This industry has a ton to unpack, and Alex thoughtfully lays out the landscape. Please enjoy my conversation with Alex Telford.
How Drugs Are Developed
Patrick
Alex, we're going to spend a ton of time today talking about pharmaceuticals, not just the industry, some of the companies, but the process by which the world has created incredible technologies for our health and also the impediments to creating more of them in the future. Can you give your version of just a sweeping overview of the process and evolution of how we find drugs?