Alex Karnal

"PCSK9 medicines are amazing because what they do is they today can lower our bad cholesterol, that LDL cholesterol by 50%. And we now have outcome studies showing significant protection from ever developing and having a heart attack or a stroke."

"Semaglutide being Ozempic and Wegovy, tirzepatide being Zepbound and Mounjaro, our team's fundamental perspective is that they all achieve the same goals."

"Semaglutide being Ozempic and Wegovy, tirzepatide being Zepbound and Mounjaro, our team's fundamental perspective is that they all achieve the same goals."

"GLP-1 medicines are showing us what happens when we get to the root of disease. These medicines have the potential to do everything from protect us from being diabetic after being pre-diabetic all the way through lowering our risk of having a heart attack or a stroke."

"In 2026, we now have an oral version of Wegovy. We are seeing every week the oral version of Wegovy is setting record after record after record."

"I graduated from MIT and had just an amazing experience there"

"They added to their legions of salespeople a digital front end in Lilly direct that allowed people to get a prescription from their doctor and go get the medicine direct from Eli Lilly."

"He was the chief operating officer for for Bridgewater"

"There are companies like Exact Sciences and Guardant Health that have gone really hard at breakthrough innovations to help us screen for colorectal cancer."

"Guardant Health took it to the next step in terms of knowing that you can go after markers that would predict colorectal cancer, but recognizing that the commercial model around being able to get people to complete a stool-based test was complex, so they came up with a simple blood test."

"There are companies like whether that's Laya Sciences, Anaba, these are companies that you can basically ask the agentic system to develop you a molecule against a certain target and it can crack that code and give us something that we can work with in a month's time."

"There are companies like whether that's Laya Sciences, Anaba, these are companies that you can basically ask the agentic system to develop you a molecule against a certain target and it can crack that code."

"We have medicines today, whether they're statins, the PCSK9 inhibitors, that can do wonders to reduce our level of cholesterol."

"And um and so I end up at Merrill Lynch and and had some amazing mentors that were really inspiring to me"

"I spent then the next 15 years of my career helping to build Deerfield into that dream state of being the go-to source of capital for the industry"