Category Archives: Patients

By Ivana Magovčević-Liebisch, CEO of Vigil Neuroscience, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC Patients and their care partners are at the center of our work in the life sciences industry – but at what point during

By Ivana Magovčević-Liebisch, CEO of Vigil Neuroscience, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC Over my many years in the biopharma industry, working across disease areas, including orphan indications, I have learned that to impact patients’ lives

By Josh Brumm, CEO of Dyne Therapeutics, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC One morning in early June I was reading my LinkedIn feed and saw something that caught my eye – a university was establishing

By Joachim Boekelmann and Joshua Brumm, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC.   At first blush, we may seem an unlikely duo: An attorney for a global insurance company living with a rare form of muscular dystrophy

This blog was written by Samantha Truex, CEO of Quench Bio, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC. Due to meetings in London on a Friday and in Dortmund on the following Monday, I spent the weekend

This blog was written by Samantha Truex, Atlas EIR and CEO of Quench Bio, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC. Recently I read the article What’s Wrong With Me? that I saw re-posted on Twitter.  It’s

Today we recognize and celebrate #RareDiseaseDay to raise awareness of rare diseases and their impact on patients’ lives. Nearly 1 out of 10 Americans lives with a rare disease – more than 30M people in the United States.  NORD has documented over

My experience as an adaptive ski coach has been nothing short of life-changing. I don’t say that with hyperbole. By bringing together my passion for the mountains with my profession as an investor in biomedical therapies, adaptive coaching completes the

This blog was written by Jason Gardner, CEO and co-founder of Magenta Therapeutics, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC.            There’s a proverb that goes like this, “If you want to go

This blog was written by Ros Deegan, CBO of Bicycle Therapeutics, as part of the From The Trenches feature of LifeSciVC. As a child, I once played the fiddler in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’. I was a horrible violinist with

Snow sports are a passion of mine; almost any day up on a mountain is a great day. By combining this passion with a bigger purpose, I’ve recently tapped into a true vein of inspiration, integrating both my professional and