Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.

BioRad.io

Science EN ↓ 23 episodes

Each month, join Kashef Qaadri, a biologist turned bioinformatician, as he interviews guests exploring real-world research informatics challenges through use-cases, providing insights and strategies for integrating and analyzing complex data that are driving BioPharma R&D.

Author

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.

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Science

Podcast website

www.bioradiations.com

Latest episode

Nov 10, 2025

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Episodes

Episode 22: Accelerating Innovation — The New Era of AI-Driven Drug Discovery 10.11.2025

Explore how AI is transforming drug discovery. Learn how generative and agentic AI, data integration, and workflow optimization can accelerate research, overcome challenges, and drive collaboration in pharmaceutical R&D.

Episode 23: From Bench to Machine — Making Research Data AI-Ready 10.11.2025

Learn how AI can help you manage complex biological data in biopharma. Explore strategies for better software, databases, and data standardization to stay compliant, enable innovation, and build a strong foundation for AI-driven drug discovery.

Episode 21: The Future Lab — Innovations in Digital Transformation 13.08.2024

Discover the future lab, an ecosystem where digital transformations shape the landscape of biopharma research, driving innovation and unlocking the potential of tomorrow's therapies.

Episode 20: Unified Insights — Bridging the R&D Data Divide 25.04.2024

Data silos and challenges around data fragmentation and interoperability hinder holistic insights and innovation in R&D. Employing strategy around the patient at the center of data interoperability can provide accelerated insights and innovation through a unified approach to data management.

Episode 19: Reimagining Cancer Drug Development 19.12.2023

Historically, cancer drug development has a high failure rate. Why is that, and how can we facilitate success? Listen in as we chat with the co-founder of a company that is trying to shift the paradigm using AI and machine learning.

Episode 18: The Future of Microbial Drug Discovery 07.08.2023

From antibiotics to cancer drugs, fungi and other microbes have long been a rich source of medicinal compounds. In this episode, we discuss how one company sequences and mines novel fungal genomes to discover and engineer new therapeutics.

Episode 17: Biomarker Identification for Early Disease Detection 09.05.2023

Early detection of cancer and other diseases can significantly improve patient prognosis. Join us for a practical discussion about the challenges of developing noninvasive early screening tools, from biomarker identification to clinical performance.

Episode 16: Digital Precision Medicine 14.02.2023

Precision medicine is a multifaceted approach to designing and delivering individualized patient treatments. Using multi-omic, environmental, lifestyle, and other data, researchers aim to more accurately develop treatment and prevention strategies tailored to each unique patient. The promise of precision medicine is huge, but it also creates new challenges around data capture, storage, computation...

Episode 15: Optimizing Drug Target Identification through Artificial Intelligence 11.10.2022

The relatively high failure rate of new candidate drugs is a key issue in pharma and biopharma R&D. Listen in as we discuss how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the ever-increasing availability of biological datasets can improve prospects.

Episode 14: The Rise of Digital Therapeutics 14.06.2022

Digital therapeutics are software-driven, evidence-based healthcare products. They can improve patient access to and involvement in their care, improving outcomes. Join us as we discuss the recent rise in digital therapeutics and what the future may hold.

Episode 13: The Realities of Personalized Medicine 12.04.2022

Personalized medicine is critical to the future of healthcare. However, implementation faces unique challenges. What changes are needed for personalized medicine to truly become a reality? What are some of the biggest obstacles? Listen in as we discuss.

Episode 12: The Future of Data Management 16.12.2021

High-throughput technologies have triggered a surge in scientific data generation and consumption, but managing these volumes of data is challenging. Listen as we discuss data fabric, an emerging solution that connects data sources in one environment.

Episode 11: The Synthetic Biology Revolution 07.09.2021

Synthetic biology is the design, testing, and construction of new, standardized biological parts and devices, and programming them to do something productive. Significant medical breakthroughs are already happening as a result of advances in synthetic biology. From antiviral treatment and immune cell engineering to biomonitoring, the applications of synthetic biology are endless, creating new oppo...

Episode 10: Next-Generation Therapeutic Antibody Discovery 01.06.2021

Technologies for therapeutic antibody R&D have evolved rapidly, but the informatics needed to support these processes have struggled to keep up. In this episode, we discuss challenges in antibody discovery and benefits of improved informatics.

Episode 9: The Future of Open Access Research Data 01.03.2021

Data liquidity, the ability of data to flow easily and securely, provides tremendous value for biopharma researchers. Open access is paving the way for increased collaboration and discovery. However, additional initiatives are needed to further promote the management and sharing of scientific data and ensure that information is quickly available to researchers. This episode highlights the needs, s...

Episode 8: Data Sharing and Collaboration 08.12.2020

Increasingly, pharma is looking at partnerships and collaborations to increase the velocity of drug discovery and development. Common data sharing platforms are not built to meet lab-specific requirements. In addition to discussing the necessity of simple and secure collaboration, listeners will learn about the dangers of not using proper tools.

Episode 7: Data Standardization 08.09.2020

As biopharma research and development continues to transform digitally, the industry as a whole struggles with guidance on how data and relevant metadata are captured, managed, and shared. Typically experimental data are siloed,

Episode 6: Genomic Data Disparities 10.06.2020

Sequencing is used to identify novel drug targets and genetically stratifying clinical trial patients, improving the power of precision medicine. However, the global disparity of genomic technologies is increasing. How will this affect drug development, particularly for non-European ethnicities? Why is it important to have a global context for targeted therapies?

Episode 5: Lab of the Future (LoTF) 12.02.2020

Life science companies are looking to modernize their research environments and build the Lab of the Future. From early discovery to preclinical research, how can technology help automate the lab and accelerate discoveries?

Episode 4: Active Learning in Drug Discovery 15.01.2020

What are the theories, algorithmic principles, and limitations of active learning? What are some current applications of active learning within BioPharma drug screening and optimization? How can active learning accelerate multi-dimensional drug discove...

Episode 3: Next-Generation Data Integration, Visualization, and Exploration 11.12.2019

What is the vision of interactive data exploration beyond enriching visualizations and facilitating the integration of data? Within the context of research, what are the challenges and opportunities in building next-generation visual analytics?

Episode 2: The Realities of AI/ML 12.11.2019

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are big topics getting lots of attention within BioPharma. What is the role of AI/ML in genomics? How can we separate the hype of AI/ML from reality? Listen in to find out this and more.

Episode 1: Moving to the Cloud 08.10.2019

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