Cell & Gene: The Podcast

We love to hear from our listeners. Send us a message.In June 2023, PDA held its Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products Conference in Baltimore, MD. At the conference, Stephan Krause, Ph.D., Executive Director, AS&T, CT Global Quality at Bristol Myers Squibb, sat down with Cell & Gene: The Podcast Host Erin Harris to discuss the event's major themes and topics as well his focus areas for cell therapy in 2023 and beyond.Subscribe to the podcast!Apple | Spotify | YouTube Visit my website: Cell & Gene Connect with me on LinkedIn

We love to hear from our listeners. Send us a message.Dr. Francois Vigneault, Co-Founder, President, and CEO at Shape Therapeutics joins Cell & Gene: The Podcast's Erin Harris to discuss how RNA technologies are shaping the future of gene therapy. They also discuss AI's role in gene therapy as well as the how the CGT sector is benefiting from RNA, AI, and synthetic biology.Subscribe to the podcast!Apple | Spotify | YouTube Visit my website: Cell & Gene Connect with me on LinkedIn

We love to hear from our listeners. Send us a message.Dr. Andrew Anzalone, Head of the Prime Editing Platform and Scientific Co-Founder of Prime Medicine joins Cell & Gene: The Podcast to talk with Host Erin Harris about prime editing - what it is and why it is a major technological advancement in gene editing. Anzalone explains why prime editing has a broad applicability for different tissue and cell types to be used in different therapeutic applications.Subscribe to the podcast!Apple | Spotify | YouTube Visit my website: Cell & Gene Connect with me on LinkedIn

We love to hear from our listeners. Send us a message.Glenn Wright, President and CEO of Parenteral Drug Association (PDA), sat down with Cell & Gene: The Podcast's Erin Harris at the 2023 PDA ATMP conference to discuss not only the conference's theme, “Navigating Through CMC Challenges,” but also Wright's take on CGT manufacturing strategy based on his years in industry. Wright shares his insight on the past, present, and future of the cell and gene therapy space.Subscribe to the podcast!Apple | Spotify | YouTube Visit my website: Cell & Gene Connect with me on LinkedIn

We love to hear from our listeners. Send us a message.Dr. Usman "Oz" Azam is CEO of Inspirna now but has spent much of his career in the cell and gene therapy space dedicating years as Novartis’ Global Head of Cell & Gene Therapy, President and CEO of Tmunity Therapeutics, and more. Given Oz’s tenure in cell and gene therapy space, I invited him to Cell & Gene: The Podcast to get his valuable take on the state of the space. During our discussion, we cover best practices in engaging with the FDA, the potential in solid tumor cancer treatment, the biggest yet solvable hurdles facing the sector today, and much more.Subscribe to the podcast!Apple | Spotify | YouTube Visit my website: Cell & Gene Connect with me on LinkedIn

We love to hear from our listeners. Send us a message.Affini-T Therapeutics combines a validated TCR discovery platform with synthetic biology switches to attack tumor biology at its root cause. Co-Founder, CEO, and President Dr. Jak Knowles joins Cell & Gene: The Podcast Host Erin Harris to discuss how the company engineers immune cells to target oncogenic driver mutations, such as KRAS, the most prevalent oncogenic driver mutation in solid tumors, to minimize potential tumor escape mechanisms.Subscribe to the podcast!Apple | Spotify | YouTube Visit my website: Cell & Gene Connect with me on LinkedIn

We love to hear from our listeners. Send us a message.Parviz Shamlou, Vice President and Executive Director at Thomas Jefferson University joins Cell & Gene: The Podcast to talk to Host Erin Harris about Jefferson Institute for Bioprocessing (JIB), the full-service development and training organization specializing in biopharmaceuticals and biologics. Shamlou explains how JIB will move forward cell and gene therapies as well as  JIB’s partnership with NIBRT (National Institute for Bioprocessing Research & Training), and much more.Subscribe to the podcast!Apple | Spotify | YouTube Visit my website: Cell & Gene Connect with me on LinkedIn

We love to hear from our listeners. Send us a message.Shankar Ramaswamy, M.D., CEO & Co-Founder, Kriya Therapeutics joins Cell & Gene: The Podcast's Erin Harris for a discussion on the evolving role computational biology plays in gene therapy development. They also discuss the company's lessons learned from building its own North Carolina-based in-house manufacturing facility as well as Ramaswamy's insight on the future of gene therapy.Subscribe to the podcast!Apple | Spotify | YouTube Visit my website: Cell & Gene Connect with me on LinkedIn

We love to hear from our listeners. Send us a message.Dr. Linda Marbán, Ph.D., CEO of Capricor Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotech focused on the development of cell and exosome-based therapeutics for the treatment and prevention of serious diseases, joins Cell & Gene: The Podcast's Erin Harris to discuss the current state and the near-term future of exosomes. Marbán discusses Capricor’s exosome program and the company’s proprietary allogeneic cardiosphere-derived cells (CDCs) and engineered exosomes. She also covers the company's HOPE clinical trial series' progress to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).Subscribe to the podcast!Apple | Spotify | YouTube Visit my website: Cell & Gene Connect with me on LinkedIn

We love to hear from our listeners. Send us a message.In December 2022, Atara Biotherapeutics’ Ebvallo received European Commission approval as the first-ever therapy for adults and children with EBV+ PTLD. The ground-breaking approval represents the first approval of an allogeneic T-cell immunotherapy ever, globally. Atara Bio's CEO, Pascal Touchon, talks to Cell & Gene: The Podcast's Erin Harris about the biopharma's path to regulatory approval, commercialization plans for Ebvallo, an in-depth look at EBV+ PTLD, the connection between EBV and serious diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS), and much more.Subscribe to the podcast!Apple | Spotify | YouTube Visit my website: Cell & Gene Connect with me on LinkedIn