Life Sciences Today

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Rachel Timberlake, Director of Business Development, Bend Bioscience . Contract manufacturing is a ~$275B global industry most people outside pharma have never heard of. Every drug you’ve ever taken and most of the medical devices you’ve ever used were made, a...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Dr. Darren Klugman, Founder at Alumni Ventures . In this episode, Klugman and I confront the most uncomfortable truth in life sciences — that the financial model gates the science, and the patients who need innovation most (children) are the ones the market systematically...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Iris Shtein, Co-Founder and CEO at Mentaily . Due to limited resources and social misconceptions, only 44% of US adults are receiving the treatment they need. Patients endure long wait times due to traditional intake processes. Mentaily – a patented AI model –...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Tony Page, Senior Vice President of Insight Analytics at Within3 . Page spent years applying military intelligence doctrine — structured analysis, adversarial thinking, decision superiority — before bringing those frameworks into pharma. As SVP of Insight Analytics at Wit...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Ayelet Geva, Innovation and Business Development at the Jusidman Cancer Center at Sheba Medical Center . Most oncology innovations die, not in the lab, but in the gap between clinical proof and real-world implementation. Geva’s seen what separates the solutions that scale...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Theo Mastrokostopoulos, Co-Founder and CEO at Pleo Flow. This episode explores one of the biggest anti-patterns in medtech: building a technology first and only later trying to figure out who buys it, how it gets reimbursed, and whether the economics work. Mastrokostopoul...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Anita Modi, Co-Founder and CEO at  Peer AI . Peer AI is a medical writing acceleration tool for pharma/biotech regulatory teams, and  submission platform for FDA documentation. Their customers are Heads of Medical Writing at mid-to-large biotechs or pharma companies who a...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Bonnie Anderson, Head of Humanitarian Programs, Rare Diseases at Sanofi . For more than 30 years, Sanofi’s Rare Humanitarian Program has provided free enzyme replacement therapy to patients with lysosomal storage disorders — Gaucher, Fabry, Pompe, ASMD, MPS I and II...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Jennifer Ernst, Co-Founder and CEO at Valion Bio (formerly Tivic Health). Ernst has built companies at the intersection of breakthrough science and market opportunity — from Xerox PARC’s open innovation lab to printed electronics to bioelectronic medicine. As Co-Founder o...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Scott Chetham, Co-Founder and CEO at Faro Health . In this episode, I sit down with Chetham to explore why the clinical trial industry is still designing $100M+ studies in Microsoft Word — and what’s finally being done about it. Chetham shares his journey from the Gold Co...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Shai Policker, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Edge Medical Ventures ! I sit down with Policker to challenge a provocative thesis: that Israeli medtech is trapped in a cycle of underfunding, walking-dead companies, and missed commercialization opportunities. I bring th...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Pedro Coelho, Founder and CEO at Biorce ! In this episode, I sit down with Coelho to explore how his team went from flagging protocol mistakes to building AI that fixes them — and in doing so, became the first company to submit an AI-generated protocol to the FDA. Coehlo...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Eddy Ben-Ami, Founder and CEO at NeuraLight ! NeuraLight is tackling one of neurology’s biggest problems: how crudely we measure disease progression in conditions like Parkinson’s, MS, ALS, and Huntington’s. Despite MRI and gene sequencing, the current “gold standard” is...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Alison Holland, Chief Customer Officer at Medable ! In this episode, I talk with Holland about how her journey from London nurse to Covance veteran to digital trial leader shapes Medable’s strategy. Holland started at the bedside and then spent nearly 20 years at a major...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Kim Boericke, the new CEO at Veristat ! In this episode, I sit down with Kim to explore what it really takes to build and lead a durable CRO in a rapidly shifting life sciences landscape. We discuss Kim’s leadership journey, how value is created and captured in services-h...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Josh Haimson, Co-Founder and CEO at Inductive Bio ! Josh Haimson joins me to talk about how their virtual lab can run millions of in silico experiments to predict how molecules will behave in the body and surface the strongest hypotheses to test in the wet lab. Check out...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Olympian-turned-founder Simon Arkell joins Life Sciences Today to explain how Ryght.ai is reinventing clinical trial site selection. He unpacks digital twins for 100,000+ sites, AI agents, and why EMR-centric models are an anti-pattern—showing how sponsors can slash enrol...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Asta Ratkeviciene, Co‑Founder and CEO at MedSyntra . In this episode of Life Sciences Today , I talk with Ratkeviciene about building a global, ethically sourced medical imaging data infrastructure across radiology, pathology, oncology, and women’s healthcare. Ratkevicien...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Erez Lampert, Founder and CEO at PathKeeper Surgical ! I talk with Lampert about his journey from Israel’s aerospace industry and Invisalign’s Itero scanner to founding PathKeeper in 2018–2019. We dig into the core problem in spine surgery—surgeons “flying blind” between...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Kiril Pevsner, Co-Founder and CTO at Protai . We kick this episode off by discussing how Pevsner creates and captures value with pharma. Then we talk about where AI meaningfully shapes decisions in the early discovery and preclinical work. Next, we take a look at where ph...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Sagi Sigali, Father and Founder of Rafa’s Moonshot – a non-profit dedicated to Landing a Cure for STXBP1. Sagi and I discuss how Rafa’s Moonshot is turning a rare genetic disorder (STXBP1) into an investable, de‑risked therapeutic opportunity. Sagi explains ho...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Zina Sarif, Founder and CEO at Yendou . Zina Sarif is one of the most dynamic and inspirational founders I’ve met. She grew up in Morocco until age 20 and, after her PhD in biology, spent a decade in cancer drug discovery before leading clinical research at Parexel and Ph...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is John Chinnici, CEO at Ledger Run . I talk with Chinnici about his journey from consulting (Andersen, IBM) to Viva, where he helped launch and grow Vault, and eventually to leading Ledger Run. Ledger Run focuses on the “unsexy but critical” operational layer of clinical tr...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Gary Zammit, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer at Clinilabs . We often imagine medical breakthroughs as the result of data, protocols, and lab science alone. But Gary Zammit has seen firsthand that bringing therapies to patients requires far more: resilient teams...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guests today are Jamie Luu, RDN, LDN, Strategy and Nutrition Manager, and Ronja Kröger, Nutrition & Product Expert, M. Sc. Nutritional and Food Sciences at Almased . The Almased-type diet can boost natural satiety signals via GLP-1 and PYY — that is real and meaningful.  But the new...