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Progress, Potential, and Possibilities Podcast / ShowBill Taranto - President, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund - Scaling Impactful InnovationSend us a textBill Taranto is President of the Merck Global Health Innovation Fund ( MGHIF - https://www.msdghifund.com/ ).The Merck Global Health Innovation Fund was established in late 2010 as a strategic response to the challenges surrounding Merck’s core business of discovering, developing and marketing innovative drugs and vaccines.Bill has more than three decades of experience in the healthcare industry. MGHIF is a $750m evergreen fund focused on identifying opportunities that are adjacent to Merck’s core business of pharmaceuticals and vaccines. Under Bill's leadership, MGHIF has inves...2025-07-2945 min
Slice of Healthcare#504 - Bill Taranto, President at Merck Global Health Innovation FundJoin us on the latest episode, hosted by Jared S. Taylor!Our Guest: Bill Taranto, President at Merck Global Health Innovation Fund.What you’ll get out of this episode:Bill Taranto’s Journey: From Johnson & Johnson to leading Merck’s $600M GHI Fund focused on digital health and technology.Four Core Investment Areas: Drug discovery, clinical development, supply chain, and patient access/data.Portfolio Spotlights: Companies like Npower, Unnatural Products, Aerosafe Global, Cure AI, and Prognos are driving impactful innovation.Strategic Value of CVCs: Beyond capital, CVCs offer startups technical expertise, commercial agreements, and lo...2025-06-1818 min
Street Smart NaturalistCSI: Critter Scene InvestigationWe ventured down to Arizona last week to attend the amazing Tucson Book Festival: 130,000 attendees and 320 authors. It’s a book dork’s idea of heaven. While down in the desert, we saw two, curious natural history scenes, both worthy of closer investigation and consideration. Unfortunately, both also centered on dead animals my wife and I found on a morning walk on a road.The first was a tarantula. I assume the spider had ventured out in search of food, perhaps triggered by the rain that had fallen in the night. Since the body was not...2025-03-2006 min
Speaking Of Show & Making Healthcare Work for YouSolving Use Cases, Driving Patient Outcomes by Investing in Integrated Solutions: Interview with Bill Taranto, Merck Global Health Innovation FundHealthcare heavyweight investor, Bill Taranto, President of Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, joins us to share his investment strategies.
Taking a patient-first approach, he looks for use cases that need solved, and finds aligned organizations to create an integrated solution that will positively impact patients.
This interview is an absolute can’t-miss!! Bill shares how he evaluates opportunities, the relationship between CVC investors and tech investors, the regulatory environment, and shares some career successes.
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1:41 - Ecosystems are better for patient care - evaluating opportunities
3:17 - Use case...2025-01-3124 min
CVC UnpluggedM&A and liquidity making a slower comeback in healthcare, but CVCs are stepping up to the plateAt the beginning of the year, I spoke to Bill Taranto, president of the MSD Global Health Innovation Fund about what he expected over the course of the year in the healthcare space. He had predicted that M&As would make a moderate comeback and more liquidity would be coming into the market from private equity firms, and that we would see a wave of consolidations taking shape as smaller “point solutions” get integrated into larger platforms.
The post M&A and liquidity making a slower comeback in healthcare, but CVCs are stepping up to the...2024-11-1131 min
The Super Switch Club: A Nintendo PodcastS7E7 - STAR TROPICS - Chapter 8: The Final Battle!“Our planet no longer exists, but we'll not cry for the past..." - Princess Mica of Argonia
Wow, we've done it. At last, it's the long-awaited finale to our "Star Tropics" (NES) season! In this epic final chapter our intrepid hero, Mike Jones (armed with his trusty yo-yo), finally comes face to face with the sinister Zoda - the tyrannical leader of the "Evil Aliens" hellbent on destroying the last of the Argonians and conquering Earth! Will Mike be able to stop Zoda, retrieve the third Magic Cube, escape the alien ship, get the bananas out of hi...2024-06-301h 55
La Sveglia di Giulio CavalliLa disuguaglianza ormeggiata a GenovaSe ieri mattina aveste scattato una foto al porto di Genova avreste potuto cogliere l’istantanea del momento storico italiano. Guardando dai balconi dei palazzi che si affacciano sul mare a sinistra si scorgeva la Celebrity Ascent, nave da crociera affittata per il matrimonio dei rampolli indiani Anant Ambani e Radhika Merchant, ormeggiata a ponte Doria, nel porto di Genova. Mille e duecento invitati a bordo della nave, affittata dal magnate indiano Mukesh Ambani, padre dello sposo, che il giorno precedente hanno occupato la piazzetta di Portofino, una vera e propria invasione dal mare, come nei peggiori incubi di certa pr...2024-06-0402 minProgress, Potential, and Possibilities Podcast / ShowWilliam Taranto - President, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund - Recalibration And Consolidation Of Digital Health In 2024Send us a textBill Taranto is President of both the Merck Global Health Innovation Fund ( MGHIF - https://www.merckghifund.com/ ), and Merck Global Health Private Equity (GHIPE). He is the founder of MGHIF and is responsible for leading the global health capability for Merck ( https://www.merck.com/ ). The Merck Global Health Innovation Fund was established in late 2010 as a strategic response to the challenges surrounding Merck’s core business of discovering, developing and marketing innovative drugs and vaccines. MGHIF is a $500m evergreen fund focused on identifying opportunities that are adjacent to Merck’s core...2024-05-0256 minCVC UnpluggedBill Taranto: MSD Global Health Innovation FundMost people think that the Covid-19 pandemic has a supercharging effect on digital health – while that’s certainly true of things like telehealth services, is it necessarily the case for the rest of the sector? Maybe not, according to today’s guest – but independent of Covid, digital health is a booming area. Joining me today is Bill Taranto, President of MSD Global Health Innovation Fund – as it’s known outside North America – to talk about his outlook on the healthcare space – particularly in digital health – in the coming year and the shifts in the venture market.
The post Bill Ta...2024-01-2245 minProgress, Potential, and Possibilities Podcast / ShowBill Taranto - President, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund - Episode #2 - Tips For Surviving In A Period Of "Down Rounds"Send us a textBill Taranto is President of both the Merck Global Health Innovation Fund ( MGHIF - https://www.merckghifund.com/ ), and Merck Global Health Private Equity (GHIPE). He is the founder of MGHIF and is responsible for leading the global health capability for Merck. The Merck Global Health Innovation Fund was established in late 2010 as a strategic response to the challenges surrounding Merck’s core business of discovering, developing and marketing innovative drugs and vaccines. Mr. Taranto has more than three decades of experience in the healthcare industry. MGHIF is a $500 Million evergreen fund focused on...2023-07-2443 minProgress, Potential, and Possibilities Podcast / ShowBill Taranto - President, GHI Fund, Merck - Corporate Venturing For Integrated Healthcare SolutionsSend us a textBill Taranto is President of the Global Health Innovation Fund at Merck (https://www.merckghifund.com/taranto.html) and founding partner since inception in 2010. Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (Merck GHI) is a corporate venture capital group utilizing a healthcare ecosystem strategy, investing globally in platform companies with proven technologies or business models where Merck's expertise can accelerate revenue growth and enhance value creation to ultimately develop integrated healthcare solutions. Merck GHI has $500M under management per an evergreen model and invests broadly in the domain of digital health, and other segments, and...2022-09-2054 min
SportsbyFryPessimism for Portland, Tim Taranto on the move and retiring WA footy icons (Ep. 251)Today's SBF podcast pays tribute to the late, great Bill Russell straight off the bat before J-Lo and I dive into an offseason review of the NBA teams in the Northwest Division (5:34). We then discussed our AFL Fantasy teams and our trade plans with three rounds to go (36:06) before talking about the Giants salary cap woes and which players rival clubs should look at (48:11). To close, we paid homage to retiring WA footy legends David Mundy and Josh Kennedy before closing the pod with a Mt Rushmore draft centred around the best AFL players who never won a Brownlow (1:00:13).2022-08-031h 15
Breaking HealthEpisode: 155 - Bill Taranto on Merck’s Global Health Innovation (GHI) Fund and Using Multiple Assets with Groundbreaking Technology to Solve Major Digital Health Problems When Bill Taranto pitched the Global Health Innovation (GHI) Fund, he envisioned an independent venture that mimicked a private firm but maintained the backing and power of a big health company. The Fund's partnership with Merck allows them to make groundbreaking investments in the digital health space. Following what is often known as "ecosystem investing," the GHI Fund matches two or more companies, each solving a portion of a healthcare problem, to solve the issue effectively and thoroughly. In addition, GHI maintains a strong focus on the future of healthcare, including patient identification and aggregation as well as data s...2022-06-2133 min
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine PodcastREBOOT #145 Hepatorenal SyndromeTackle the complex pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of hepatorenal syndrome in this Curbsiders classic from #NephMadness 2019 featuring @kidney_boy Joel Topf, HRS expert Juan Carlos Velez (@veleznephhepato), and self-proclaimed most-handsome-nephrologist Bill Whittier (@TWhittier_RUSH) episode! Topics: hepatorenal physiology, renal ultrasound, urine electrolytes, terlipressin, norepinephrine, midodrine and octreotide, albumin challenge, crystalloids vs colloids, and more! Original show notes here.
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Written and produced by: Justin Berk MD, Nora Taranto MD
Infographic by: Alex M @nephroguy
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Edited by: Matthew Watto MD...2022-03-281h 08The Curbsiders Internal Medicine PodcastREBOOT #145 Hepatorenal SyndromeTackle the complex pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of hepatorenal syndrome in this Curbsiders classic from #NephMadness 2019 featuring @kidney_boy Joel Topf, HRS expert Juan Carlos Velez (@veleznephhepato), and self-proclaimed most-handsome-nephrologist Bill Whittier (@TWhittier_RUSH) episode! Topics: hepatorenal physiology, renal ultrasound, urine electrolytes, terlipressin, norepinephrine, midodrine and octreotide, albumin challenge, crystalloids vs colloids, and more! Original show notes here.
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Written and produced by: Justin Berk MD, Nora Taranto MD
Infographic by: Alex M @nephroguy
Host: Matthew Watto MD
Edited by: Matthew Watto MD...2022-03-281h 08
Méthode Taranto LE PODCASTChronique : L’Art des claquettes, des bidonvilles à Hollywood .Méthode Taranto-Le podcast par Céline Taranto. Connues du grand public grâce aux fabuleuses comédies musicales édulcorées des années 50, les claquettes sont nées dans un contexte tout autre ! A tous ces grands artistes qui ont nourrit cet art : Master Juba, Bill Robinson, John Bubbles, Jimmy Slide, Sammy Davis junior, les Nicholas Brothers , Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Ginger Rogers, Shirley Temple, Eleonor Powell et tant d’autres, qui même s’ils n’ont pas tous eu la lumière qu’ils méritaient, ont l...2021-11-0708 min
Gaule's Question TimeBill Taranto Merck GHI Fund. Digital Health Innovation and VenturingBill has over 30 years of experience in healthcare and investing and he will share his many years of experience. Since April and during the pandemic the Merck GHI fund has invested in more than 5 completely new investments. Bill’s approach to eco system and what Aimava term Innovative New Value Chain investing we believe is a leading approach to Corporate Venturing and was featured in our book Purpose to Performance. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Purpose-Performance-Innovative-Value-Chains/dp/161961653X Future events at Aimava Eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/aimava-global-advisory-firm-119382961632020-12-1433 min
Shot of Digital Health TherapyShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Bill TarantoSeason 2 Episode 2 of "A Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy": Jim Joyce and I had a blast as usual with William Taranto - we talked #CVC vs. #VC, private equity, virtual due-diligence and how things have not seemed to slow down much on the deals. We of course reminisced about our last trip to Barcelona for HealthXL, found out that Bill misses Francesca Wuttke and talked European #digitalhealth #startups and their scaling potential. oh and I took my first shot on the show, shamed Jim Joyce into doing pushups and we all agreed we cant wait to be back on a plane... plus a...2020-07-1635 min
Beer O'Clock AustraliaEpisode 18 - The Otter's Promise & Lockdown SequelitisEpisode 18 - Show Notes
Melbourne is back in COVID-19 lockdown & so is the Beer O'Clock Australia Podcast. Hopefully the podcast brings you more joy than lockdown... Hope everyone out there is coping with the constantly evolving situation we all find ourselves in. We've got a bumper episode for you all this week!
If this is your first time listening to a Beer O'Clock Australia podcast, welcome! We change the segments up a little each month, however most months we'll discuss some of the latest news from the beer world, we'll talk about some beers t...2020-07-151h 42
The HealthXL Digital Health PodcastPodcast #10 - Bill Taranto – the Wolf of MerckIn our latest podcast, we talk to Bill Taranto, President and General Partner of the Merck Global Health Innovation Fund. The son of a career Air Force pilot, Bill grew up in Florida. In the early 80s, Bill swapped sailing and boat racing for New York and Wall Street. After a couple of years in healthcare investment, Bill was offered to join Johnson & Johnson and started putting capital to work in digital health long before anybody else (though at the time it was vaguely known as ‘IT adjacency’). The move to Merck came years later in 2010, when Bill got the oppo...2020-06-2641 min
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The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast#145 NephMadness: Hepatorenal Syndrome vs AKIDoes your sympathetic nervous system get activated when you notice acute kidney injury in patients with cirrhosis? Ever wonder how to really diagnose hepatorenal syndrome (HRS)? Think you have the bile-acid-stones to start diuretics on a patient requiring pressor support for kidney failure? You have come to the right place! Listen to @kidney_boy Joel Topf, HRS expert Juan Carlos Velez (@veleznephhepato), and self-proclaimed most-handsome-nephrologist Bill Whittier (@TWhittier_RUSH) tackle the complex pathophysiology and treatment of hepatorenal syndrome in this NephMadness 2019 special episode!
Fill out your bracket for NephMadness 2019 today and sign up as part of The Curbsiders...2019-03-251h 19The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast#145 NephMadness: Hepatorenal Syndrome vs AKIDoes your sympathetic nervous system get activated when you notice acute kidney injury in patients with cirrhosis? Ever wonder how to really diagnose hepatorenal syndrome (HRS)? Think you have the bile-acid-stones to start diuretics on a patient requiring pressor support for kidney failure? You have come to the right place! Listen to @kidney_boy Joel Topf, HRS expert Juan Carlos Velez (@veleznephhepato), and self-proclaimed most-handsome-nephrologist Bill Whittier (@TWhittier_RUSH) tackle the complex pathophysiology and treatment of hepatorenal syndrome in this NephMadness 2019 special episode!
Fill out your bracket for NephMadness 2019 today and sign up as part of The Curbsiders...2019-03-251h 19
Mark Simone ShowMark Simone Show 7/19/2017 Hour 1James Taranto WSJ Editor, Health care bill, Russian meeting with Trump Jr.2017-07-1932 min
Corven GroupGaule's QT: Bill Taranto, Global Health Innovation Fund, MerckAndrew Gaule speaks to Bill Taranto, Managing Director of Global Health Innovation Fund, Merck2012-11-2611 min
Boxcars711 Old Time RadioLineup - Eddie Gaynor Framed For Murder (07-20-50)The Lineup is a realistic police drama that gives radio audiences a look behind the scenes at police headquarters. Bill Johnstone plays Lt. Ben Guthrie, a quiet, calm-as-a-cupcake cucumber. Joseph Kearns (and from 1951 to 1953, Matt Maher) plays Sgt. Matt Grebb, a hot-tempered hot plate who is easily bored. The director and script writer often rode with police on the job and sat in on the police lineups to get ideas for The Lineup. They also read dozens of newspapers daily and intermeshed real stories with those that they used in the show. With Dragnet a smash hit, realism...2009-11-0430 min