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Business columnist and associate editor at @BostonGlobe. Host of @GlobeOpinion podcast "Say More." @GBH @BosPublicRadio contributor

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In 2018 it was all-male conference panels and topless dancers. With women in the CEO seat, biotech looks very different now.

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By Shirley Leung Verified
| EIN News
It’s a global group with about 350 members, but the epicenter is here in Massachusetts, the world capital of life sciences, where 100 women — mostly current CEOs, with some formers in the mix — are part of the sisterhood. Since forming in 2022, the sisters have quietly become a force, and you can see it in the Boston-Cambridge ecosystem, where women run or have founded some of the industry’s most prominent companies and new ventures.
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Boston Globe: Biotech is back, baby! A wave of life science deals is pumping cash into the sector.

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By Jon Chesto Verified, Shirley Leung Verified
| massbio.org
The following is an excerpt from Jon Chesto and Shirley Leung’s Power Play newsletter on July 23, 2026: Now, head up to the 40th floor at 53 State St. Drop in on Jeff Leerink and his merry band of health care investment bankers. Leerink Partners just handled its first pair of $10 billion transactions, representing Crinetics in its sale to Boston’s Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and GSK in its purchase of Cambridge-based Nuvalent. Everyone is bustling and hustling.
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Meet the Media 2026

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By Shirley Leung Verified, Jon Chesto Verified, Jon Keller
| Humanitix
Note: Doors open for networking at 8 AM. The program will run from 9 to 10:30 AM. Innovating. Pivoting. Creating niches in a fractured landscape. The regional media market continues to adapt and evolve to economic pressures, searching for sustainable models and launching new platforms within legacy media. Meanwhile, the challenges for local journalists only intensify. Their work is more essential than ever and yet they see their ranks diminishing and more disruption around the corner.
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