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Send us Fan Mail After a two-generation family history of heart disease, Dr. Meesha Dogan set out to change how the disease is detected. As founder and CEO of Cardio Diagnostics, she built and commercialized what the company describes as the first epigenetics-based clinical test for heart disease driven by AI, then took the company public on Nasdaq in 2022. Since then, it has earned a dedicated AMA CPT code for its PrecisionCHD test, won a Vizient innovative technology contract, and launched ...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to your essential overview of the global biotech and pharmaceutical landscape for October 2026! This month was defined by a wave of oncology approvals, a head-to-head data drop that reshuffled the GLP-1 race, and M&A activity that shows Big Pharma is quietly pivoting away from oncology toward rare disease, pain, and RNA therapeutics. The FDA approved dostarlimab in locally advanced rectal cancer, tucatinib in HER2-positive breast cancer, and talazoparib plus enzal...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Petri Dish Perspectives, we explore Endeavor Health, the Chicago-area hospital system most Illinoisans have driven past but couldn’t name. Born from Evanston Hospital in 1891, grown into NorthShore University HealthSystem, expanded through a 2022 merger with Edward-Elmhurst Health, and rebranded as Endeavor Health in December 2023, this is a system that has been quietly becoming one of the largest in the state. We break down Endeavor’s origins, its nine-hos...

Send us Fan Mail After years of building discovery engines inside diagnostics, Kristin Gleitsman has become one of the more skeptical voices in AI and biology. A Caltech chemistry PhD, Kristin built Veracyte’s Discovery Research function from the ground up and helped shape the strategy behind its acquisition of C2i Genomics. Now, as Chief Science Officer of Eigen Bio, the focus is on a harder question than building bigger models: what has an AI model actually earned the right to claim? In thi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Petri Dish Perspectives, we explore Revolution Medicines, the precision oncology company that spent over a decade trying to drug one of cancer’s most notorious targets: RAS. With mutations present in roughly 30% of all new cancer diagnoses, including pancreatic, lung, and colorectal cancers, RAS has long been considered undruggable. Revolution bet their entire company on proving that wrong. We break down the science behind their tricomplex inhibitor platfor...