Life Science Success

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I interviewed Mark Charbonneau. Mark is a biotechnology R&D leader with cross-functional expertise in live biotherapeutic drug development, mechanistic modeling, computational biology, and biomarker assay development. He integrates technical acumen and emotional intelligence to build high-functioning teams and foster innovation.

Send us Fan Mail This week on the Life Science Success podcast my guest is Jenifer Wheat. Jenifer has a unique combination of skills in scientific, regulatory, legal, and business development expertise. She has extensive knowledge of biopharmaceutical manufacturing and business life cycles. Given her background and career, she has negotiated agreements internationally in the US, EU, Korea, Japan,...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Life Science Success Podcast my guest is Yan Leyfman, MD is a unique individual in life sciences and is someone we all need to be paying attention to. Yan was raised in the medically deprived community that was ravaged by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Today, we are going to talk about his experience with Chernobyl, how that led to his career in medicine and what he...

Send us Fan Mail Lee is a results-focused operations executive in biotech and medical devices with deep experience in leveraging lean six sigma methodologies to drive cost-saving initiatives and improve operational efficiency in an organization. He has a great ability to motivate, encourage, and develop high-performing teams helping individuals take their performance to the next level.

Send us Fan Mail This week on the Life Science Success podcast my guest is Tom Denison. His passion is mentoring, advising, and funding biotech startups. He has engaged with over 200+ startups, at all stages, from concept to exit. Tom is the Founder and Chief Relationship Officer of SmartHealth Catalyzer, the hub for Midwest Biotech Venture Creation.

Send us Fan Mail We discuss her journey from passionate Scientist to an inventor to entrepreneur. In her newest venture, she is helping new science become transformative therapeutics. Elaine is a cutting-edge Life Science leader helping companies become a reality from Oaklahoma.

Send us Fan Mail In this interview, I speak with Laura Prisc the Most Trusted Authority on Conscious Leadership for High-Performance Organizations. For more than 20 years, she's worked side-by-side with leaders at all levels in organizations of every size imaginable, from one-location operations through the full continuum of multi-site global organizations.

Send us Fan Mail This week on the podcast I interview Jacob Glanville, PhD we discuss Jacob's journey that led him to Distributed Bio then to Centivax and his work on the Netflix show Pandemic. Jacob Glanville is a serial entrepreneur and computational immuno-engineer. He built and sold his first company Distributed Bio from founding in March of 2012 to a 104M dollar sale to Charles River Lab...

Send us Fan Mail This week's guest is Dave Bjork the Research Evangelis t. He is a Patient Advocate, Lung Cancer Survivor, Speaker and Advisor. His career spans more than 20 years of progressive experience in nonprofit marketing, patient advocacy and fundraising leadership roles including Vice President of Development, National Foundation for Cancer Research, Bethesda, MD. In this role, He la...

Send us Fan Mail In this interview, I have the tremendous opportunity to speak with Preveen Ramamoorthy PhD of Regenerative Medical Solutions. We talk about his journey from India to Clemson and the work that he is currently doing with Regenerative Medical Solutions. His current work on Type I and Type II diabetes and his work at the University of Colorado Denver. 

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I interview Debora Barton, MD, and we discuss Carisma Therapeutics (CAR-T, CAR-M, Macrophage, and Cancer Therapies) as well as her new board role at Tigerlily Foundation.

Send us Fan Mail In this week's podcast, I interview Neil Sankar and we talk about his work in helping teams bring cancer therapies to market. He has worked at the National Cancer Institute and for the past 20 years has been working with large and small pharmaceutical companies that are trying to bring drugs to market. His experience spans small molecules, biologics, and antibody-drug conjuga...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the podcast my guest is Chris Conley.  Chris is the founder of DNA consulting.  In her interactions with Life Sciences companies, she leverages her network to help her clients get things done from bench science to launched product.  

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I interview Francesco Salituro Independent Consultant at Salituro MedChem Solutions. Francesco has a tremendous background in drug development and he is helping a lot of early-stage companies. Additionally, Frank has supported the Epilepsy Foundation of New England for years because of his son Joseph. Joseph passed away from SUDEP (Sudden Unexplained Death in Epil...

Send us Fan Mail Michael Papadimitrious is the Medical Affairs Manager for Miltenyi Biomedicine.  In this episode, Michael and I have a fantastic conversation about CAR-T therapy, delivering personalized cancer therapy and what the future may hold as science continues to evolve. 

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast, I interview Gary McAuslan who has a consulting company GMAC Pharma that has been helping companies with their drug pipelines and commercialization activities. Additionally, Gary has now started ATGC Ventures a CDMO in Ireland. We cover Gary's history in pharma, how lean and an agile approach can help pharma companies and the key role that CDMO's will pla...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast, I interview Norris Turner the Principal for Turner Healthcare Quality Consulting.   We have a great discussion about his career, healthcare economic disparities, and his work with organizations around building a market access strategy and a healthcare quality strategy for their organizations and products.  Norris has also published some great blog posts that chall...

Send us Fan Mail Today I interview Michael Fero the Founder and President of TeselaGen. Michael and the team at TeselaGen have created an AI enabled operating system that can help biopharma companies design their next drug.  TeselaGen uses methods from machine learning and synthetic biology to help Pharmaceutical companies build and optimize cancer fighting drugs and vaccines by letting experiment...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we discuss Ray's background in business development for three different companies.  Ray has spent time in Japan and in France working for a couple of different organizations.  Additionally, he completed his MBA in France.  Ray's employer, Phenovista is doing some interesting imaging work for their clients who are working on Phenotyping samples for assay...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I interview Janik Jaskolski CEO and product architect of Semalytix a company with an AI-driven way to gather patient insights about the treatments they are receiving. Semalytix is working with pharma companies to gather real-world evidence about patient experiences, outcomes, burdens, and needs.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I interview Ken Banta Founder and Principal of the Vanguard Group. Ken has distinctly worked in the Life Sciences Industry with Pharmacia & Upjohn and Schering-Plough. He continues to work with CEO's and teams growing capabilities and changing the landscape for leadership in healthcare and life sciences. We dive into the shifts he has seen over the past y...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I discuss with Patrina her career journey from Microscopy to Medical Affairs. She describes the contemplation of her early career choices leading to something that she loves with the Medical Affairs team at MedEvoke. At MedEvoke Patrina is working with companies on everything from conference posters through ensuring that critical communication methods are used in...

Send us Fan Mail Julio is the CEO of Bioaccesss (https://www.bioaccessla.com/) a CRO that focuses on transferring Life Science and Medical Device technologies into Latin America. Julio also hosts the LATAM Med Tech Leaders podcast and has written for Med Device Online. In this interview, we discuss trends in Latin America, the impact of COVID on his business and how his organization has had to thi...

Send us Fan Mail Carlos is the Founder of Lacerta Bio, Lacerta Bio is a pharmaceutical business development consultancy. We work with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, diagnostic, and other life science companies. We also work with venture capital and private equity firms that invest in these companies. He is also the CEO of Connexin Therapeutics, Inc. an early-stage glaucoma drug dev...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I interview Caroline Ceniza-Levine.  Caroline works with individuals and organizations as a career coach, including professionals from Amazon, Conde Nast, Goldman Sachs, Google, JPMorgan Chase, McKinsey, Tesla and other start-ups thru global companies. Her specialty is career change -- She is the author of “Jump Ship: 10 Steps To Starting A New Career“. Additional...