This week, Harshil Patel, Director of Scientific Development at Seqera, joins the Data in Biotech podcast to discuss the importance of collaborative, open-source projects in scientific research and how they support the need for reproducibility. Harshil lifts the lid on how Nextflow has become a leading open-source workflow management tool for scientists and the benefits of using an open-source model. He talks in detail about the development of Nextflow and the wider Seqera ecosystem, the...

This week, we are pleased to have Stewart Fossceco, Head of Non-Clinical and Diagnostics Statistics at Zoetis and an expert in pharmaceutical manufacturing, join us on the Data in Biotech podcast. We sat down with Stewart to discuss implementing and improving Quality Assurance (QA) processes at every stage of biotech manufacturing, from optimizing assay design and minimizing variability in early drug development to scaling this up when moving to full production. Stewart talks from his...

This week, we are pleased to welcome to the Data in Biotech podcast Brendan McCorkle, CEO of SciNote, a cloud-based ELN (Electronic Lab Notebook) with lab inventory, compliance, and team management tools. In this episode, we discuss how the priorities of ‘Research’ and ‘Development’ differ when it comes to the data they expect and how they use it, and how ELNs can work to support both functions by balancing structure and flexibility. We explore the challenges of developing an ELN that...

This week, we are pleased to be joined on the Data in Biotech Podcast by Pierre Salvy, who recently became the CTO at Cambrium, and his colleague Lucile Bonnin, Head of Research & Development at Cambrium.  As part of the Cambrium team behind NovaColl™, the first micro-molecular and skin-identical vegan collagen to market, Pierre and Lucile share their practical experiences of using AI to support protein design. We ask why Cambrium, as a molecular design organization, decided to focus...

This week, we are pleased to welcome Jacob Oppenheim, Entrepreneur in Residence at Digitalis Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in solutions to complex problems in human and animal health. Jacob sat down with Ross to discuss the importance of establishing strong data foundations in biotech companies and how to approach the task. We explore the challenges biotech organisations face with existing tools. What are the limitations, and why are current data tools and systems not yet...

This week's guest is Joseph Pearson, Global Product Manager of OmicSoft at QIAGEN, a global provider of sample-to-insight solutions that enable customers to gain valuable molecular insights.   During this episode, we dive into OmicSoft, a powerful NGS analysis suite that can quickly explore and compare 500,000 curated omics samples from disease-related studies. Joseph outlines the challenges of acquiring and analysing NGS data sets, how customers can interact with OmicSoft data, and what he...

This week's guest is Wolfgang Halter, Head of Data Science and Bioinformatics at Merck Life Science, a leading global science and technology company.  Ross sat down with Wolfgang to discuss the work on the BayBE project, an open-source library built for Bayesian optimization. Throughout the episode, we go on to learn how BayBE is used for both experimental design and as a means to accelerate innovation. The pair also discusses the benefits and challenges of Bayesian optimization and the...

This week, we’re delighted to be joined by Annemie Ribbens, VP Science, Evidence and Trials at icometrix, a medical technology manufacturer that offers a portfolio of AI solutions to assist healthcare with various challenges in neurological disorders, such as brain trauma, strokes, dementia, and Alzheimer's disease. During this episode, Annemie opens up on icometrix’s mission in analyzing and treating neurological disorders, the work that went into developing the data infrastructure and the...

This week, we’re delighted to be joined by Lana Denysyk, Head of RWD Assets at Novo Nordisk. During this conversation, Lana shares how real-world data is used in biotech, diving into how it can help clinicians understand patient experiences outside clinical trials. Lana also discusses the challenges in acquiring and utilising real-world data, the importance of having a centralised team to manage it, and emerging data types like patient-reported outcomes and health equity data.  Data in...

This week, we’re delighted to be joined by Cody Schiffer, Associate Director, Machine Learning at SMPA - a biopharmaceutical company focused on delivering therapeutic and scientific breakthroughs in areas of critical patient need, During this conversation, Cody and Ross discuss the construction, maintenance, and application of a knowledge graphic in biopharma, including how to integrate structured and unstructured data to support tasks like literature searches, competitive intelligence and...

This week, we’re delighted to be joined by Vera Mucaj, Chief Scientific Officer at Datavant, a data logistics company for healthcare. During the interview, Vera shares how the organization helps companies overcome issues of data fragmentation and availability, which ultimately leads to better decision-making in healthcare, the importance of connecting clinical trial data with real-world data to improve research outcomes and the challenges of semantic interoperability in data sets. Data in...

Data in Biotech is a fortnightly podcast exploring how companies leverage data innovation in life sciences. This week, we’re delighted to be joined by James Winegar, CEO of CorrDyn, a data-driven technology consultancy that helps some of the largest biotechnology manufacturers in the US make smarter strategic decisions by unlocking the value of their data. In this conversation, James and Ross discuss the application of machine learning in biotech manufacturing quality control, their work...

Data in Biotech is a fortnightly podcast exploring how companies leverage data innovation in life sciences.  This week, we’re delighted to be joined by Harry Rickerby, Co-founder of Briefly Bio, a groundbreaking platform he's developing to streamline experimental design in life sciences using large language models (LLMs). Host Ross Katz speaks with Harry about how LLMs are used to facilitate experiment protocol structuring in the platform, the limitations of LLMs in scientific fields, how...

Data in Biotech is a fortnightly podcast exploring how companies leverage data innovation in life sciences. This week, we’re delighted to be joined by Jesse Johnson, Founder of Merelogic, a consultancy service for biotech startups who want to get their data under control so they can focus on the science. Host Ross Katz speaks with Jesse about the importance of data in biotech startups, the challenges of bridging the gap between biologists and data scientists, the need for more modular and...

Data in Biotech is a fortnightly podcast exploring how companies leverage data to drive innovation in life sciences.  This week, we're delighted to be joined by Tommy Tang, Director of Computational Biology at Immunitas Therapeutics - an immuno-oncology therapeutics company advancing multiple programs to the clinic. Host Ross Katz speaks with Ming “Tommy” Tang about the scalability of the cloud and its impact on improving biotech data, Keeping data in-house vs. big data warehouses (and...

Data in Biotech is a fortnightly podcast exploring how companies leverage data to drive innovation in life sciences.  This week, we're delighted to be joined by Miguel Cacho Soblechero, Ph.D., a senior data scientist at Prolaio - a biotech company that integrates clinical research and data science to improve research, access and outcomes for people with heart conditions. Host Ross Katz speaks with Miguel on the lessons learned transitioning from a Ph.D. into the data science industry of...

This week, we're delighted to be joined by Michelle Wiest, Director of IVD Biostatistics at Freenome - a high-growth biotech company that creates tools to help prevent, detect, and treat disease. Host Ross Katz speaks with Michelle on the use of biostatistics in the field of diagnostics, what biases can corrupt diagnostic tests and how to catch them early, the different types of data sets that are being used to develop diagnostic models and how to prepare to present data to regulatory...

This week, we're delighted to be joined by Markus Gershater, Chief Scientific Officer and CoFounder of Synthace - a digital experiment platform built for high-performance life science R&D teams to help them run more powerful experiments and accelerate scientific progress.  Host Ross Katz speaks with Markus on what’s broken about: What’s broken about how laboratories across the globe run biological experiments at scaleThe opportunity that exists for researchers in striving to achieve...

This week we’re excited to be joined by Pradeep Ravindra, Associate Director, Data Analytics, Manufacturing from Lyell Immunopharma. He shares his story on transitioning from military intelligence to life sciences analytics, the role of data analytics in manufacturing and delivering CAR-T therapies, and how to foster a culture of data-driven decision-making and collaboration within a biotech organization. --- If you’re a biotech company struggling to transform your business with data,...

Welcome to Data in Biotech, a podcast from CorrDyn where we explore how companies leverage data to drive innovation in life sciences.  In each episode, our host Ross Katz, sits down with an expert from the world of biotechnology to understand how they use data science to solve technical challenges, streamline operations, and further innovation in life sciences.