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 Denali Rose, VP at Veeva , and Co-Host of Note to File . Rose’s parents are outdoors people and named her after the national park in Alaska. Personally, this is one of the most fun shows we’ve ever done. ‘Nuff said – get in and listen! She is Vice President Sa...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Daniel Blumenthal, VP of Strategy at MDClone . I talk with MDClone’s VP Strategy about how the company evolved from an early synthetic data pioneer (2016) into a broader data-access and data-extraction platform in a now-crowded market (Snowflake, Oracle, Epic, many synthe...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is David Bates, Founder and CEO at Linus Health . I talk with David Bates about Linus Health’s mission to transform brain health from late-stage “sick care” to proactive, preventive care. David explains his journey from signal detection research and investing in built-enviro...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Philip Poulidis, CEO at Toronto-based ODAIA . Poulidis is tackling one of pharma’s biggest bottlenecks: slow, siloed commercial analytics. Spun out of academic research, ODAIA’s real-time AI platform unifies patient and HCP journey data, replacing months-old reports with...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Walt Pebley, Chief Scientific Officer at OFD Life Sciences . With over four decades in lyophilization, Walt Pebley has helped OFD become the gold standard in stabilizing probiotics, biologics, and therapeutics. His journey — from personal tragedy to pioneering new deliver...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Tiffany Callahan, Lead Architect of Agentic AI Systems at SandboxAQ . As a physicist, I love her approach to Large Quantitative Models trained on physics, chemistry, biology, and math to model the real world. Most of the companies in this space are building statistical mo...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Jeff Gombala, Founder and CEO at Evidexa . Jeff Gombala started Helios Innovation with an idea that seems obvious – use expert knowledge and AI models to validate healthtech and medtech products. We’re going to talk about Jeff’s journey, the value they are creating,...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is David Lazerson, Co-Founder and CEO at Briya . Briya started in 2020 with a bold idea — using cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs to make healthcare data shareable, secure, and compliant. Fast forward to today, they’ve just launched Briya AIRE,  a clinical-grade AI rese...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Shai Melcer, Head of the National Program for Bioconvergence at The Israel Innovation Authority . We kick this episode off by first learning what bioconvergence is. Then we talk about who The Israel Innovation Authority’s customers are. Next, we examine why this is...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Yann Gaston-Mathé, Co-Founder and CEO at Iktos . Iktos combines AI drug discovery with a robot chemist – AI designs novel compounds considering synthesis constraints, and robots automatically synthesize compounds (100 reactions in parallel vs 2 manual). Trained as a...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is James Hamrick, MD, MPH, Chairman of the Caris Precision Oncology Alliance at Caris Life Sciences . By combining massive amounts of genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic data with clinical outcomes, Caris has created one of the largest and most comprehensive multimodal da...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Aaron Brauser, General Manager Life Sciences at Carta Healthcare . AI should work in synergy with clinical expertise. This “Hybrid Intelligence” approach propelled Carta Healthcare to become a leader in clinical data abstraction, serving health systems and pha...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Tim O’Connell, Founder and CEO at emtelligent . Tim O’Connell and Anoop Sarkar started emtelligent in 2016 with a need that Tim had (and still has) as a practicing radiologist. How do you take the massive volume of unstructured text in healthcare and put it into a c...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Wessam Sonbol, Founder and CEO at Delve Health . Sonbol founded Delve Health after watching his mother struggle to access a cancer trial, despite his 25 years in the industry. His company now brings trials into patients’ homes with wearables, AI agents, and multilingual s...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Rajesh Krishna, Senior Distinguished Scientist at Certara and a recognized leader in drug development. With 25+ years of experience, he’s shaped model-informed strategies for biologics, vaccines, and small molecules, and is consistently ranked among the top 2% of influent...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Tigran Arzumanov , Founder and CEO at Basel-based BDaaS . BDaaS helps US life science companies expand into Europe by solving one of their toughest problems: hiring business development talent. Instead of choosing between juniors without connections and seniors without th...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Pamela Tenaerts, Chief Medical Officer at Medable . Tenaerts talks about how they improve accessibility for patients in the 15-year follow-up period mandated by the FDA for patients in gene therapy trials. Patients often travel from far (even internationally) for treatmen...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Viraj Narayanan, CEO at Cornerstone AI . Cornerstone uses AI to clean and standardize healthcare data. Cleaning healthcare data is a non-sexy job that consumes staggering amounts of resources in the industry. When Narayanan was at McKesson, he had 25 PhD biostatisticians...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Aaron Smith, Co-Founder of Unlearn , to talk about how they use digital twins to save resources in clinical trials and fast-track the most promising therapies. Unlearn  increases the statistical power of clinical trials with fewer patients using disease-specific ML models...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Ronen Veksler, Co-Founder and CEO at Promise Bio . Promise Bio is an early-stage tech-bio company coming out of AION Labs in Israel with strategic investors – AstraZeneca and Pfizer. They’ve built a cloud-based AI platform that uses advanced mass spectrometry-based...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Miha Štajdohar, Co-Founder and CTO at Genialis . Genialis develops and markets an AI supermodel that can predict Therapeutic Response for cancer patients. Check out the main topics of discussion for this episode of the Life Sciences Today podcast: Tell me about your journ...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. I am once again taking over for Danny to sit down with Andrea Douglas, Director Business Development Life Sciences at Surescripts , to talk about their electronic benefit verification! We kick this episode off by discussing some of the challenges behind benefit verification today. Then, we...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Ram Yalamanchili, Founder and CEO at Tilda Research . Tilda Research develops and markets a system of AI teammates that work alongside sponsor, site, and CRO research teams. AI Teammates for Clinical Trials is a system of agents – with product flavors for sites, spo...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Julio Martinez-Clark, CEO at Bioaccess , a CRO that specializes in executing first-in-human trials outside the US. Bioaccess empowers Medtech and Biopharma innovators to accelerate early feasibility studies and first-in-human trials via Latin America, Eastern Europe, and...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. I took over for Danny this episode to sit down with Carter Dredge, Executive Director of the Intermountain Health Institute, to talk about Civica Rx and some of the other unique models that Dredge and his team are working on at Intermountain Health Institute! We kick this episode off by di...