Christophe Bourdon, LEO Pharma 🇩🇰 | Biopharma Turnaround | E31

We’re in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 with Christophe Bourdon, the CEO who turned a 116-year-old biopharma company from the brink of failure to success.We discuss the lessons behind the turnaround, innovation in dermatology, especially biologicals and I&I, and living in eight different countries.

⭐️ ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Christophe Bourdon came to be CEO of LEO Pharma in 2022, where he was tasked with the massive assignment of transforming the financially failing company into a success. Luckily, he had gained experience in roles of increasing leadership importance in many EU biotech companies, Sanofi, Amgen, and Alexion, as well as leading the smaller biotech, Orphazyme A/S, as their CEO. No,w Leo Pharma is in the green.

🔗 LINKS MENTIONED

- Marc de Garidel, Abivax | How to make two Billion-dollar exits (“smoothly”) | E09: https://flot.bio/episode/marc-de-garidel-abivax-exit/

- Jens Nielsen, BII | How to make translation of life science research work | E12: https://flot.bio/episode/jens-nielsen-translation-of-life-science-research/

- On the Origin of Species: Charles Darwin: https://tinyurl.com/2nbhkecs

- Gilead roars into JPM25, inking $1.7B inflammation deal with Leo Pharma: https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/gilead-roars-jpm25-250m-upfront-research-deal-leo-pharma

- Homepage LEO Pharma, history and pipeline: http://leo-pharma.com/

📜 TRANSCRIPT

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⏰ TIMESTAMPS

[00:00:00] Intro

[00:01:54] Turnaround of LEO Pharma

[00:08:47] Current products at LEO Pharma

[00:17:28] STAT6 Protein Degrader, deal with Gilead

[00:23:34] Immunology & Inflammation is hot

[00:28:26] Pipeline of LEO Pharma & Dealmaking

[00:38:20] Finance & IPO

[00:45:03] Living & working in 8 countries

[00:48:17] Quickfire