Working for a mature form of genomic medicines

In a new episode of the pharmaphorum podcast - recorded back in March, during Women’s History Month - web editor Nicole Raleigh spoke with Johan van Hylckama Vlieg, co-founder and chief scientific officer of Freya Biosciences, a Series A-financed, clinical stage, microbial immunotherapy company in women’s health, discussing the role of the vaginal microbiome in fertility, before he was due to speak at the first-of-its-kind Microbes in Women’s Health Congress in Copenhagen.

Sustainability is all important for the planet and its people, and in today’s podcast web editor Nicole Raleigh speaks with Harriet Lewis, director of public affairs and communications at Chiesi UK & Ireland, about how partnerships between the NHS and pharma industry can support the journey to more sustainable practices, from R&D and drug reimbursement to medicines and recycling.

The microbiome is ever more frequently spoken about of late, and so the pharmaphorum podcast invited Leo Grady, founder and CEO of Jona, to speak about at-home personal microbiome profiling, uncovering the relationship between human health and the gut.

In a conversation held earlier in the year as the four-year anniversary of the pandemic approached, the pharmaphorum podcast had as guest Murray Aitken, executive director of the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science, to discuss the state of global medicines and the future outlook when it comes to research and development, and usage and spending appetites.

In a new episode of the pharmaphorum podcast, web editor Nicole Raleigh discusses stem cell therapy, and accessibility to and affordability of such treatment, with Rafael R Carazo Salas, founder and CEO of CellVoyant, an AI-first biotechnology company spun out from the University of Bristol.

In this episode of the pharmaphorum podcast, web editor Nicole Raleigh speaks with Rob Pears, VP and head of automotive, manufacturing, and life sciences at Capgemini, which partners with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology.

On today’s podcast, Dr. Fred Aslan, CEO of Artiva Biosciences, joins host Jonah Comstock to talk more about this newer avenue in cell therapy. They discuss the potential of NK cells to provide effective allogeneic cell therapy, the potential of the therapy in auto-immune disease, and the importance of a robust manufacturing process that can get a high number of doses from a small amount of donated tissue.

In a new episode of the pharmaphorum podcast, Rahul Kakkar, CEO of gene editing company Tome, speaks with web editor Nicole Raleigh about programmable genomic integration (PGI) technology.

On today’s episode Web Sun, president and cofounder of Komodo Health and Tracy Mayne, SVP regulatory and life sciences research at Slipstream IT, talk about this trend, where the industry is now, and what they’re doing to move it along.

In today’s podcast, web editor Nicole Raleigh speaks with PASQAL’S technical business developer Europe, Krisztian Benyo, PhD, about the pharma applications and commercialisation of quantum science.