Heather McKenzie

Heather McKenzie

Senior Editor

Heather McKenzie is a professional journalist with more than 8 years’ experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. Since joining BioSpace, she has written more than 300 features and breaking news articles, including multiple award-winning stories. Her particular focuses are neuroscience, rare disease and regulatory science. She has also traveled internationally to cover global biotech hubs, including Israel. In previous roles, she has covered current affairs, sports, education and politics. She previously spent eight years as a senior content producer for executive-level business conferences in the pharma/biotech, legal, energy and business strategy sectors. In her free time, Heather enjoys creative writing, watching her American League champion Toronto Blue Jays, spending time with family and playing with her energetic Russian Blue cat Roofus. She hails from Toronto and has also lived in Chicago and Chesapeake, Virginia. You can reach her at heather.mckenzie@biospace.com.

BioSpace caught up with Roland and Ben Buelow of Ancora, and Lightspeed Venture Partners’ Galym Imanbayev to talk about the AstraZeneca deal and the company’s unique business model.
BioSpace spoke with several Black individuals working within the life sciences to get their thoughts on the current representative disconnect and what they believe can be done to fix it.
Black/African American hematological cancer patients tend to have the worst outcomes. This is partly driven by a lack of access to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant and available donors.
BioSpace caught up with Tara Frenkl and Nelson Ambrogio ahead of ASCO to discuss Bayer’s goal of becoming a top 10 oncology company by 2030.
The initiative, a partnership between non-profit biotech company n-Lorem and Columbia University, focuses on developing personalized experimental ASO medicines for nano-rare ALS patients.
This summer, BioSpace will release a series of reports looking at the current state of diversity and inclusion in the life sciences.
In honor of ALS Awareness Month, BioSpace spoke with leading researchers like Dr. Matthew Harms of Columbia University and Drs. Howard Berman and Stanley Appel at Coya Therapeutics.
Orna announced first-ever data from its lead isCAR program that validates both the technology and its LNP delivery platform. BioSpace spoke with ORNA CEO Tom Barnes.
With regulatory approvals beginning to break through, attendees at ISCT’s annual meeting set out along the translational pathway. Organizers shared their findings with BioSpace.
BioSpace sat down with Sven Kili, 2022 ISCT Annual Meeting co-chair, to preview the event, which will focus on 4 key subject areas including launch and commercialization of cell and gene therapies.
Alnylam announced another delay, this one caused by a much more sinister reason – the invasion of Ukraine, now heading into its third month and causing disruption on a multi-faceted and global scale.
The Q1 results for Voxzogo gave BioMarin the confidence to raise its 2022 full-year guidance to between $100 million to $125 million (net product revenue) for the drug.
Triebel holds the distinction of having discovered LAG-3 in 1990. Today, the company he founded is leveraging the handy molecule against cancer and autoimmune disease.
Boehringer Ingelheim made a splash on Tuesday, announcing its intention to pump €25 billion ($27 billion) into its R&D pipeline over the next five years.
BMS partnered with digital oncology company GRYT Health to convene a series of “courageous conversations” between patients, practitioners, caregivers, clinical trial teams and public health leaders.