Galapagos UK’s Michael Smyth on COVID and RNA-based tech: the pharmaphorum podcast

In a new episode of the pharmaphorum podcast, web editor Nicole Raleigh welcomes Dr Carl Marci, chief psychiatrist and managing director of mental health and neuroscience at OM1 to discuss predictions for AI in mental health in the coming year, as well as what might truly make a difference in the field and lessen the mental health crisis.

It’s 2024 and in most clinical trials, data is still being moved from the EHR to the EDC manually – with employees reading data from one screen and typing it onto another. How did we get here? And how do we get past it? On today’s pharmaphorum podcast, host Jonah Comstock speaks with Iddo Peleg, CEO of Yonalink, about these very questions.

On today's episode of the podcast CEO and co-founder of 908 Devices Kevin Knopp joins as guest, discussing how such acceleration is by virtue of technological advancements, including the buzzword artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning when it comes to bioprocessing.

Last week, pharmaphorum Editor in Chief Jonah Comstock traveled to Philadelphia for Reuters Pharma USA. On today’s podcast, he chats with guest host and Deep Dive Editor Eloise McLellan about his biggest takeaways from the two-day event.

In a new episode of the pharmaphorum podcast recorded live on site at WIRED Health in London in March, web editor Nicole Raleigh spoke with Elise de Reus, co-founder of Cradle, the generative AI platform that helps scientists to design and program proteins.

Everyone says they want more affordable drugs for patients that need them, but people disagree quite a bit on who's to blame for the current status quo of sky-high prescription prices – not to mention how they might be corrected. To help unpack some of those trends and conflicting perspectives, Brandon Newman, CEO of healthcare analytics firm Xevant, joins host Jonah Comstock on today’s episode of the pharmaphorum podcast.

As Women’s History Month comes to its final week, today’s podcast sees web editor Nicole Raleigh in conversation with Debra Weiss, COO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute (Gates MRI), discussing her role as a female leader in the leader and the non-profit organisation’s work in developing novel biomedical interventions and lessening the burden of disease in LMICs.

On today’s podcast, host Jonah Comstock is joined by Meri Beckwith, cofounder of Lindus Health, a next-gen CRO that includes digital therapeutics among its specialties. They talk a little bit about often unseen difficulties of validating a digital therapeutic through a clinical trial.

As Women’s History Month continues, pharmaphorum web editor Nicole Raleigh welcomed a group of expert individuals onto the podcast to discuss not just the inequalities in women’s health, but female leaders within life sciences, too. The guests included: Trine Bartholdy, chief innovation executive at the BioInnovation Institute (BII) in Denmark; Karin Lykke-Hartmann, CEO and founder of Notify Therapeutics; Julia Sand Skovsted, co-founder and CCO of Oasicare; and Maj Hedtjärn, Entrepreneur in Residence for the CurE-Me project.

On today’s pharmaphorum podcast, Glen Gowers, cofounder of Basecamp Research, gets into the company’s recent pre-print paper and how it improves upon AlphaFold 2, the current gold standard for protein folding prediction.