The Bioinformatics CRO Podcast

Tom Weaver, scientist, serial entrepreneur, and co-founder and chairman of CellCodex, discusses his career building biotechnology companies, the importance of translating scientific innovation into successful products, and the potential of AI-driven drug discovery to transform our ability to treat disease. Our host, Grant Belgard, is also a co-founder and the CTO of CellCodex. The Bioinformatics CRO serves the computational biology needs of academic researchers, nonprofits, and biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.

Cooper Stansbury, Senior Director of Scientific Operations at iReprogram, discusses the science behind cellular reprogramming and iReprogram's goal to make cell state programmable. The Bioinformatics CRO serves the computational biology needs of academic researchers, nonprofits, and biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.

Michael Fanous, founder and CEO of FanousPhotonics, discusses imaging systems for pathology and Scanimus, a research-use only hybrid microscope scanner system. The Bioinformatics CRO serves the computational biology needs of academic researchers, nonprofits, and biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.

Trevor Nicks, founder and CEO of Caravel Bio, discusses biological compute, protein spores, and how to leverage intrinsic biological properties for protein engineering. The Bioinformatics CRO serves the computational biology needs of academic researchers, nonprofits, and biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.

Shannan Ho Sui, Principal Research Scientist in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core, discusses what bioinformatics core facilities do and how new technologies let us answer new research questions.  The Bioinformatics CRO serves the computational biology needs of academic researchers, nonprofits, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.

Professor Zameel Cader, a clinician scientist and Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology at Oxford University, discusses his work at the intersection of headache and pain disorders, human genetics, induced pluripotent stem cell models, blood-brain barrier biology, and translational drug discovery. The Bioinformatics CRO serves the computational biology needs of academic researchers, nonprofits, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.

Dr. Adam Woolfe, computational biologist and bioinformatics R&D leader at Bio-Rad, discusses building bioinformatics tools for scientific instruments and new approaches to antibody discovery. The Bioinformatics CRO is a fully distributed contract research company that serves the computational biology needs of academic researchers and biotechnology companies, with a focus on genomics. https://www.bioinformaticscro.com/

Beth Cimini, leader of the Cimini Lab within the Imaging Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, discusses her work at the intersection of microscopy, computational biology, open source software, and scientific community building. The Bioinformatics CRO is a fully distributed contract research company that serves the computational biology needs of academic researchers and biotechnology companies, with a focus on genomics. https://www.bioinformaticscro.com/

Dr. Ben Langmead, professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins, director of the Langmead Lab, and founder and principal of InOrder Labs, tells us about his work building tools and resources for life scientists and his current focus on pangenomics. The Bioinformatics CRO is a fully distributed contract research company that serves the computational biology needs of academic researchers and biotechnology companies, with a focus on genomics. https://www.bioinformaticscro.com/

Elliott Margulies, Director of Bioinformatics at BillionToOne, discusses the application of molecular diagnostics to clinical testing.  The Bioinformatics CRO is a fully distributed contract research company that serves the computational biology needs of academic researchers and biotechnology companies, with a focus on genomics. https://www.bioinformaticscro.com/