Rx for Biotech

In this podcast episode, hear from Diakonos Oncology President and Chief Operating Officer Jay Hartenbach, who provides an update on the company's innovative dendritic cell vaccine therapy designed to tackle some of the most challenging cancers, including glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer

Dr. Thomas Chen is a world-renowned neurosurgeon, Director of Surgical Neuro-Oncology at the University of Southern California, and the founder and CEO of NeOnc Technologies. In this podcast episode we discuss the company’s unique approach to treating glioblastoma and other aggressive brain cancers.

Our guest in this podcast episode is Sreekanth Gopi, a leader in generative AI and machine learning. Sreekanth has applied AI to fields as diverse as physiological monitoring, meditation, and even generating multi-track Indian classical music. He’s published award-winning research on EEG spectral analysis and adaptive quiz generation using large language models, participated in over 12 AI hackatho...

Arvinas is a biotech company dedicated to improving the lives of patients suffering from debilitating and life-threatening diseases. In this podcast episode, Dr. Randy Teel discusses the company's PROTAC protein degrader technology platform and its pipeline of clinical-stage assets, with a focus on vepdegestrant, the company's lead asset that is being co-developed together with partner Pfizer, for...

HLTH brings together all the ecosystem stakeholders each year to discuss the innovations that will help solve some of healthcare's biggest challenges. In this podcast episode, Noe Gutierrez, the Head of Commercial Operations at Genoplex, Inc., shares many of the key themes and insights from the biggest health tech conference of 2024.

Next Generation Gene Therapies is developing novel gene therapies for the treatment of many rare diseases. In this podcast episode, the company's Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Guang Qu, discusses how the company's dual-functional vector tech platform is being used to target many diseases.

Immunotherapies continue to redefine treatment for many types of cancer and one of the first immunotherapies approved and used clinically as a therapeutic is Interleukin-2, or IL-2. Aulos Bioscience is an immuno-oncology company that has developed AU-007, a potential best-in-class IL-2, that improves on many of the other IL-2 products in development. In this episode, we discuss the promise of AU-0...

In this podcast episode, we discuss the importance of addressing health equity for the rare disease community with Tamar Thompson, Head of Corporate Affairs at Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease. Tamar discussed her efforts to champion health policy, advocacy, equity, and awareness for rare diseases. Link to NMOSD video mentioned in episode: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJQx_6LtucSB9GGeiW...

In this podcast episode, we sit down with Christopher Heery, the Chief Medical Officer at Arcellx to learn about the company's pipeline and lead cell therapy, anitocabtagene autoleucel, or anito-cel, that is in development for multiple myeloma. Multiple myeloma, like lymphoma and leukemia are types of cancer that start in your blood cells.

In this podcast episode, Dr. James Zou, Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Faculty DIrector of the AI for Health department at Stanford University, shares current use cases for AI in healthcare and oncology and discusses how we can overcome challenges with LLMs to unlock the full potential of AI.

In this episode, Genoplex Founder and CEO, Chris Leidli, and CTO, Shoukri Kattan, take a dive deep into their shared passion for health, wellness, and longevity, and explore how technology is revolutionizing patient access to advanced therapies. Chris and Shoukri discuss the groundbreaking work happening at Genoplex, including how the company's Advanced Therapy Connect digital platform is transfor...

Our guest for this podcast episode is Robb Richards, Corporate Director of Cell Therapy and Transplant at University of Pennsylvania, Penn Medicine. In this episode, we discuss how Penn Medicine is working to improve patient access to cellular therapies and how technology has evolved to streamline operational and clinical workflows to enhance patient experience.

Our guest for this episode is Balaji Gopalan, CEO and Co-Founder of MedStack where we discuss how MedStack's tech stack is enabling digital health start-ups to be healthcare data compliant. MedStack streamlines compliance with out-of-the-box HIPAA controls and ready-to-use privacy policies, enabling the faster and more cost-effective development of digital health applications. With built-in securi...

Our guest for this podcast episode is Mike Kelly, President & CEO of NervGen Pharma. NervGen is a clinical-stage biotech company at the forefront of developing treatments that empower the nervous system to repair itself following damage from injury or disease.

In this podcast episode, your host, Chris Leidli, MS, MBA, goes beyond the ASCO 2024 headlines and puts a spotlight on the new clinical data for advanced therapies you don't want to miss.

In this episode, we preview the top American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) 2024 annual meeting abstracts with guests Dr. Emily Walsh Martin from Tremont Therapeutics Consulting and Lynnea Olivarez, Incoming Chair of the ASGCT Communications Committee.

Over the years, electronic health records (EHRs) have revolutionized medical practice, digitizing patient data and streamlining care. But the current systems are not well suited to support collection of real-world data or the tracking of longitudinal outcomes across patient populations. This is particularly true for hematopoietic stem cell transplant and cellular therapies. Our special guest, Dr....

Our guest for this podcast episode is Simon Arkell, CEO of Ryght. Ryght is developing the next generation of safe and secure generative AI to empower Life Science companies to ingest real-time data and make actionable knowledge directly available to discovery, clinical, and commercial teams.

Our guest for this podcast episode is Doron Behar, MD, PhD, co-founder and CEO of Igentify, a digital health, artificial intelligence and genetic counseling company. In this episode, Dr. Behar shares how his company has developed a medical-grade tech platform that optimizes genomic workflows and produces AI-generated personalized genetic counseling for patients.

This episode features a preview of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy Annual Meeting scientific symposium on the impact of Generative AI on cell and gene therapy (CGT); best practices and real-world applications for communicators. Dr. Rory Bricker-Anthony shares insight into what attendees can expect to learn from the May 2024 session, including current tools and applications for CGT co...

Our guest in this podcast episode is Chris Dokomajilar, Founder and CEO of DealForma. DealForma’s comprehensive life science database includes meticulously researched licensing deal financial comps, up-to-date profiles, and historic company and pipeline data. In this special spotlight episode, we take a deeper dive into the investment landscape for advanced therapies and also AI investment and par...

We often don’t get the chance to hear from survivors and patient advocates whose lives have been impacted by advanced medicines; so that makes this podcast episode special as we talk to Chris White, a cancer survivor who faced the unimaginable when diagnosed with Mucosal Melanoma in 2018—a rare and aggressive cancer which makes Chris's journey even more exceptional. Today, Chris is not just a surv...

Our guest for this podcast episode is Mark Carbone, the CEO of PN Medical. PN Medical is a leader in respiratory care and research. The company created “The Breather”, the world’s first combined respiratory muscle training device to strengthen respiratory muscles to optimize blood flow, lung function and strengthen the cardiopulmonary system.

In part 2 of this special round table podcast series, we discuss the future trends and advances in cell therapy manufacturing and the impact of AI on the evolving cell therapy analytics space.

In part 1 of this special round table podcast series, we discuss the current trends and advances in cell therapy manufacturing and the impact of evolving manufacturing processes on the analytics space.