Introducing Fierce Biotech’s 2024 Fierce 15

One of our Fierce 15 honorees dove deep into the ocean for inspiration from the sea squirt to develop new human therapeutics. Another thought the adorable 13-lined ground squirrel, with its polka dots and hibernation habits, might provide a clue to new treatments.

And there’s the biotech that looked at the Human Genome Project and thought, what else can it do?

There’s a company looking at psychedelics in a whole new way, rising on the recent interest in repurposing the illicit substances for something better, like improving mental health.

And then, over in New Zealand, one tiny company is...