Security and privacy within biotech are critical points of consideration and discussion as the industry continues to innovate at speed, and it is such aspects that are central to today’s podcast with Zach Powers, chief information security officer at Benchling, the R&D cloud platform for the biotech industry.

While at Reuters Pharma Europe in Barcelona the other week, pharmaphorum web editor Nicole Raleigh spoke with Florian Schnappauf, VP of enterprise commercial strategy at Veeva Europe, about commercial strategy and digitalising commercial operations.

On today’s podcast, host Jonah Comstock is joined by Dr Amit Etkin, founder and CEO of Alto Neuroscience, a recently IPO'd biotech that wants to bring precision medicine to psychiatry. But what do we mean when we talk about precision, especially in a discipline like mental health that has historically involved a lot of objectivity?

In an on-site interview at Reuters Pharma Europe in Barcelona, this week’s podcast saw Tommy Bramley, SVP of market access and healthcare consulting at Cencora, discuss revitalising Europe’s pharmaceutical landscape and leveraging legislation for health and competitiveness.

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...

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.

In the latest episode of the pharmaphorum podcast, host Nicole Raleigh speaks (virtually) with Nathan Clark, founder and CEO of Ganymede, a modern data platform and Cloud infrastructure for science, to discuss the evolving role of the Cloud in biopharma and some rather revolutionary tools in AI drug discovery.

On today’s podcast, host Jonah Comstock welcomes Jane Reed, director of life sciences at IQVIA NLP, the new name for recent IQVIA acquisition Linguamatics. Jane talks through some of these different technologies and use cases and describes how natural language processing has exciting potential in translating real-world conversations on social media into pharmaceutical adverse event reports.

In today’s podcast, host Nicole Raleigh welcomes Dr Jeffrey Gross, founder of ReCELLebrate, neurological surgeon, and expert in the field of regenerative medicine, to discuss this development. Their conversation delves into the recent appetite for the use of stem cells for longevity and explores the ‘health span’ notion that is being ever more frequently spoken of.

It's been a couple of months since pharma’s annual JP Morgan Chase Healthcare Conference, where the mood around pharma M&A this year was optimistic, albeit with a few caveats. On today’s podcast, host Jonah Comstock is joined by Cody Powers, principal of portfolio and business development at ZS Associates, to discuss those trends and predictions and how they’re shaking out so far. 

In this episode of the pharmaphorum podcast, host Nicole Raleigh speaks with Dr Mohit Jain, founder and CEO of Sapient, a biomarker discovery lab providing expert services and actionable insights to better personalise disease prediction, diagnostics, and therapies.

For all the advances that have been made in it, drug discovery is still a hit or miss process, as much an art as a science. But new technologies are changing that, allowing companies to approach the process with more precise eye. On today’s episode of the pharmaphorum podcast, Jason Park, CEO of Empress Therapeutics, discusses his company's novel approach to small molecule drug discovery. 

In a new episode of the pharmaphorum podcast, host Nicole Raleigh speaks with Dr Brigham Hyde, co-founder and CEO of Atropos Health, and Ardy Arianpour, co-founder and CEO of SEQSTER, about their latest partnership, with its goal of personalised registries and the notion of the digital front door for patient information.

On today’s podcast, host Jonah Comstock welcomes Christina Corridon, global lead of oncology at ZS Associates and Sandeep Sangwan, who leads the knowledge services R&D team at ZS. They discuss how research conducted in space can advance life sciences research, especially in oncology.  

In this episode of the pharmaphorum podcast, web editor Nicole Raleigh welcomed Dr Hans Eriksson, chief medical officer at HMNC Brain Health, a precision psychiatry biopharma company, to discuss his work exploring current studies into the use of ketamine in mental health, HMNC Brain Health having last year announced topline results from a Phase 2 study looking at a take-at-home, oral ketamine option for Treatment Resistant Depression (or TRD).

In today’s episode of the pharmaphorum podcast, Editor in Chief Jonah Comstock welcomes Jirair Ratevosian, a candidate for California’s 30th District with a doctorate in public health and experience leading infectious disease-fighting efforts for the Biden administration.