STAT October 31, 2019
When Laura Indolfi set out to launch a biotech in Boston, she had an idea — and little else. She had never run a company before. She had no practical experience in fundraising.
But she was undeterred. In 2014 she founded PanTher Therapeutics, with the goal of turning a postdoctoral side project into a bona-fide drug delivery company.
“I took a leap of faith,” she told STAT.
Through her five-year odyssey, Indolfi learned a fundamental lesson about the biotech world: who you know can be as important — or even more important — as what you want to do.
First, her “leap of faith’’ needed to be backed up with data. But soon, she needed to match it with cold,...
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