Talking Precision Medicine

This episode features two guests, Jennifer Goldsack and Yashoda Sharma, of the Digital Medicine Society, or DiMe. We’re going to get into the nitty gritty of healthcare disparities in terms of access and outcomes, and how digital solutions are a big part of the overall solution. Episode 36 links: ⁠⁠⁠TPM E36⁠⁠⁠ for highlights and links from this episode >Genialis’ Upcoming EventsGenialis™ krasID

In this episode Genialis CEO Rafael Rosengarten sat down with Dr. Carolina Haefliger, head of translational medicine at Debiopharm, the privately held Swiss biopharma company focused on oncology drug development. They talked about de-risking promising new cancer drugs, and what it takes from the science to the team to the technologies. Episode 35 links: Visit ⁠⁠⁠TPM E35⁠⁠⁠ for highlights and links from this episode >Learn more about Genialis™ krasID >New Genialis RNA Biomarker Accurately Predicts KRAS Outcomes in Lung Cancer Patients >

Today we turn the mic around, as our guest Adam Stasio hosts an excellent podcast of his own. Adam’s day job, however, is running SciMed, a boutique life sciences software development company. Adam and Genialis CEO Rafael Rosengarten discuss the state of scientific software, the importance of agility and communication, and approaches to building a lasting company culture. Visit ⁠⁠TPM E34⁠⁠ for highlights and links from this episode.

Our guest today is Dr. Ashley Zehnder, co-founder and CEO of Fauna Bio. Fauna is a revolutionary young biotech company using comparative genomics of an array of non-traditional mammalian models to discover new therapeutic opportunities for people. What do ground squirrels have to do with treating battlefield trauma? Only one way to find out … Visit ⁠TPM E33⁠ for highlights and links from this episode.

In this episode, Genialis CEO Rafael Rosengarten sits down with Ajay Gopal, CEO and founder of Rx Studio. Rx Studio is a technology company using data science to tackle a major limitation to personalized medicine: drug dosing. Visit TPM E32 for highlights and links from this episode.

In this episode, Genialis CEO Rafael Rosengarten speaks with BCG management consultant and healthcare innovation expert Amy MacDougall. They discuss emerging trends in healthcare, the role of AI, ethics and more, as well as BCG’s recently released 50 Most Innovative Companies List. Visit TPM E31 for highlights and links from this episode.

This episode, Genialis’ thirtieth, is a bit different from the previous ones. CEO Rafael Rosengarten has not one, not two, but three guests, including the entire leadership team at Genialis. The gang discusses Genialis’ twin quests to build a great place to work and a business that makes a positive impact on the world. Visit TPM E30 for highlights and links from this episode.

Our guest this episode is Dr. Susanna Harris, community lead at Vibe Bio. Susanna is a dedicated scientific communicator and an outspoken advocate for the mental health of PhD students and other science researchers. She has chronicled her journey from the academic lab bench to a venture incubator to a promising biotech company for a substantial social media following, and joins us today to dive into these topics and more. Visit TPM E29 for highlights and links from this episode.

In this episode, our host and Genialis CEO Rafael Rosengarten spotlights Vibe Bio. Vibe Bio is a new biotech aiming to disrupt how we finance drug development through stakeholder communities and cryptocurrency, starting in the rare disease arena. Our guest is Alok Tayi, co-founder and CEO of Vibe. Alok is a successful serial entrepreneur and a rare disease community member. Visit TPM E28 for highlights and links from this episode.

This episode features Jason Springs, co-founder and CEO of Endpoint Health, an ascendant precision therapeutics company. Jason is a serial entrepreneur, who with the co-founders of his previous company, is building Endpoint Health to bring together under one roof the data science, diagnostics and therapeutics necessary to achieve truly personalized care. Visit TPM E27 for highlights and links from this episode.

In this episode 26, our host Rafael sits down with Harry Glorikian. Harry is an investor, author, podcaster and veteran of the healthtech industry. Harry walks us through his latest book, The Future You, and expounds on the ways that wearable devices, personal health data and artificial intelligence are changing healthcare as we know it. Visit TPM E26 for highlights and links from this episode.

Earlier this summer, Rafael sat down with Peter Vranes and Hitesh Mehta, co-founders of Nutromics. Nutromics is developing a next generation lab-on-skin, a wearable device for continuous monitoring of health-critical biomarkers. Let’s get right to it. Visit TPM 25 for highlights and links from this episode.

Our guest is Dr. Angeli Moeller, Head of Pharma International Informatics at Roche. Angeli and our host, Rafael, discuss data science in the big pharma leagues; geek out on data standards; and dive deep on patient data rights and barriers to care. Visit TPM E24 for highlights and links from this episode.

Our guest for this episode of Talking Precision Medicine is Liang Schweizer from HiFiBiO Therapeutics - one of the most exciting young biotechs out there. They have built a discovery engine encompassing single cell, immune profiling and machine learning. Visit TPM E23 for highlights and links from this episode.

Our guests for this episode of Talking Precision Medicine are Elissa Prichep and Cameron Fox of the World Economic Forum. Elissa and Cameron take us through the W.E.F’s precision medicine initiative, and explain how anticipating ethical tensions is key to envisioning policies for precision medicine across the globe. Visit TPM E22 for highlights and links from this episode.

Reboot Rx is a different kind of biotech startup. Reboot’s mission is to find generic non-cancer drugs that can benefit cancer patients quickly and affordably. And as a not-for-profit, Reboot can stay focused on its mission. Given the number of paradigms Reboot hopes to shift at once, we decided to talk with all three co-founders: CEO Laura Kleiman, COO & CTO Pradeep Mangalath and CSO Catherine Del Vecchio Fitz. Each one provides perspective on their part of the puzzle. Visit TPM E21 for highlights and links from this episode.

Today Rafael is joined by Dr. Sarma Velamuri, founder and CEO of Luminare. Luminare is a Houston-based digital health company dedicated to ending sepsis—the number 1 cause of death in US hospitals. In the conversation that follows, Dr. Velamuri explains how Luminare saves lives by streamlining hospital workflows, and by changing the behaviors of nurses and doctors. They’ve also made a giant leap into covid tracking, emerging as national leaders on this front. Visit TPM E20 for highlights and links from this episode.

Today’s news is dominated by the corona virus and COVID-19 pandemic. Rightfully so. But today we’re bringing you a story of another class of viruses, called Phage. Phage are viruses that find and kill bacteria, and Felix is a Bay Area biotech harnessing the power of phage to fight the scourge of antibiotic resistant infections. So join our conversation with founder and CEO, Dr. Rob McBride, from wherever you have socially distanced yourself or locked down on quarantine, and learn about the viruses that are actually saving lives. Visit ⁠TPM E19⁠ for highlights and links from this episode.

Today’s episode is a bit different — different in that we are rejoined by a previous guest — David Mittelman. David is CEO of Othram, the first genomics-based forensics company. The audience response to our first conversation was so overwhelming we wanted to have David back on. And the timing couldn’t be better. Since our last chat, David and Othram have been all over the news, and have launched a new database product. Visit ⁠TPM E18 for highlights and links from this episode.

Today our guests are Charlie Silver and Nigel Beard. Charlie is CEO, and Nigel CTO, of Mission Bio. Mission Bio is a single-cell analysis platform company empowering researchers to cure cancer. They are the first company to deliver simultaneous measurement of the genotype and phenotype at single-cell resolution. In this episode, we talk about the audacious mission at Mission Bio, and how their groundbreaking platform enables a whole new set of questions to be answered in cancer research. We also go deep on potential clinical applications and the future of single-cell multi-omic datasets. Visit ⁠⁠TPM E17⁠ for highlights and links from this episode.