The Long Run with Luke Timmerman
Jun 16, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min · 18 segments
Sri Kosuri, co-founder and CEO of Emeryville, Calif.-based Octant Bio, on small molecules designed to correct protein misfolding and mistrafficking at the root of many diseases.
Sri KosuriGuest
Luke TimmermanHost
And I want to start with a human interest story that I think some folks who follow you on social media may have seen.
But it's a story that's kind of like every parent's worst nightmare of your kid having cancer.
It was a long road, but we're really thankful for the care and the drugs that she got to be on, and it's been a really good story thus far.
Well, so for those who aren't familiar with this, can you just tell the story in short? Sure.
Yeah, you know, around Thanksgiving in 2024, my daughter started developing a swelling above her eye, her left eye.
And then actually during JPM, got a call after they looked at it and they were worried.
There's other things that could be that are cancer adjacent, but they were worried.
And that was essentially starting the fall through the rabbit hole of various diagnoses and a lot of confusion as to what it was.
And I want to start with a human interest story that I think some folks who follow you on social media may have seen.
But it's a story that's kind of like every parent's worst nightmare of your kid having cancer.
It was a long road, but we're really thankful for the care and the drugs that she got to be on, and it's been a really good story thus far.
Well, so for those who aren't familiar with this, can you just tell the story in short? Sure.
Yeah, you know, around Thanksgiving in 2024, my daughter started developing a swelling above her eye, her left eye.
And then actually during JPM, got a call after they looked at it and they were worried.
There's other things that could be that are cancer adjacent, but they were worried.
And that was essentially starting the fall through the rabbit hole of various diagnoses and a lot of confusion as to what it was.
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