For more than a year now, COVID has been society’s focus—and rightly so. But today we turn our attention to another virus—HIV. After 40 years, there is still no cure or a vaccine for the disease. In this episode, we hear from Dr. Anthony Fauci and CEO of innovative company American Gene…

COVID-19 has caused major changes to work, travel, and learning. Whether changes to visa policies impacting foreign workers or foreign students’ ability to study in the United States, the pandemic continues to impact the biotechnology sector. Foreign workers’ jobs are unfilled Visa holders have…

When BIO launched the BIO Equality Agenda last year, its goal was to counteract the systemic inequality, injustice and unfair treatment of underserved communities. Through its three pillars for change – Promote Health Equity, Invest in the Current and Next Generation of Scientists, and Expand…

August is National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM) and it couldn’t come soon enough. COVID cases are rising nationwide, with the largest increases in states where full vaccination rates are below the U.S. average of 49.2%. However, equally important and troubling, there have been declining…

Young women should be encouraged to pursue careers in science By Sulagna Bhattacharya CEO, Nanoscope Therapeutics, Bedford Texas With our nation emerging from the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, this is a good time to encourage more women to pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics…

“You will have a better, stronger company which makes better decisions if you have diversity.” That’s how Dr. Ted Love, President and CEO of Global Blood Therapeutics (GBT), summed up the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) to the success of biotechnology companies during a…

June 2021 was a particularly special Pride Month for BIO—and not only because many of us got the chance to celebrate with our friends in person thanks to the COVID-19 vaccines. BIO was thrilled to announce our new chair, Paul Hastings, CEO of Nkarta Therapeutics—and the first openly LGBTQ chair of…

Black Americans have lost 3.25 years of life expectancy and Hispanic Americans have lost 3.88 years as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research published by the British Medical Journal. This is just the latest among the longstanding health inequities brought to light by the…

When you think about the banana, what comes to mind? Banana pudding? Banana peel jokes? A banana split? Well, the history and journey of today’s banana and how it gets to our stores is covered in the latest episode of the I am BIO podcast, which explores the plight of the banana as a case study in…

Admittedly, it feels good to believe that something as simple as planting trees will solve the climate crisis. It’s why companies promise to plant a tree for every purchase or tout carbon neutrality by protecting faraway forests. But the truth is that trees alone can’t solve our climate issues. …