Talking Precision Medicine

Earlier this summer, Rafael sat down with Peter Vranes and Hitesh Mehta, co-founders of Nutromics. Nutromics is developing a next generation lab-on-skin, a wearable device for continuous monitoring of health-critical biomarkers. Let’s get right to it. Visit TPM 25 for highlights and links from this episode.

Our guest is Dr. Angeli Moeller, Head of Pharma International Informatics at Roche. Angeli and our host, Rafael, discuss data science in the big pharma leagues; geek out on data standards; and dive deep on patient data rights and barriers to care. Visit TPM E24 for highlights and links from this episode.

Our guest for this episode of Talking Precision Medicine is Liang Schweizer from HiFiBiO Therapeutics - one of the most exciting young biotechs out there. They have built a discovery engine encompassing single cell, immune profiling and machine learning. Visit TPM E23 for highlights and links from this episode.

Our guests for this episode of Talking Precision Medicine are Elissa Prichep and Cameron Fox of the World Economic Forum. Elissa and Cameron take us through the W.E.F’s precision medicine initiative, and explain how anticipating ethical tensions is key to envisioning policies for precision medicine across the globe.  Visit TPM E22 for highlights and links from this episode.

Reboot Rx is a different kind of biotech startup. Reboot’s mission is to find generic non-cancer drugs that can benefit cancer patients quickly and affordably. And as a not-for-profit, Reboot can stay focused on its mission. Given the number of paradigms Reboot hopes to shift at once, we decided to talk with all three co-founders: CEO Laura Kleiman, COO & CTO Pradeep Mangalath and CSO Catherine Del Vecchio Fitz. Each one provides perspective on their part of the puzzle. Visit TPM E21 for highlights and links from this episode.

Today Rafael is joined by Dr. Sarma Velamuri, founder and CEO of Luminare. Luminare is a Houston-based digital health company dedicated to ending sepsis—the number 1 cause of death in US hospitals. In the conversation that follows, Dr. Velamuri explains how Luminare saves lives by streamlining hospital workflows, and by changing the behaviors of nurses and doctors. They’ve also made a giant leap into covid tracking, emerging as national leaders on this front. Visit TPM E20 for  highlights and links from this episode.

Today’s news is dominated by the corona virus and COVID-19 pandemic. Rightfully so.  But today we’re bringing you a story of another class of viruses, called Phage. Phage are viruses that find and kill bacteria, and Felix is a Bay Area biotech harnessing the power of phage to fight the scourge of antibiotic resistant infections. So join our conversation with founder and CEO, Dr. Rob McBride, from wherever you have socially distanced yourself or locked down on quarantine, and learn about the viruses that are actually saving lives. Visit ⁠TPM E19⁠ for highlights and links from this episode.

Today’s episode is a bit different — different in that we are rejoined by a previous guest — David Mittelman. David is CEO of Othram, the first genomics-based forensics company. The audience response to our first conversation was so overwhelming we wanted to have David back on. And the timing couldn’t be better. Since our last chat, David and Othram have been all over the news, and have launched a new database product. Visit ⁠TPM E18 for highlights and links from this episode.

Today our guests are Charlie Silver and Nigel Beard. Charlie is CEO, and Nigel CTO, of Mission Bio. Mission Bio is a single-cell analysis platform company empowering researchers to cure cancer. They are the first company to deliver simultaneous measurement of the genotype and phenotype at single-cell resolution. In this episode, we talk about the audacious mission at Mission Bio, and how their groundbreaking platform enables a whole new set of questions to be answered in cancer research. We also go deep on potential clinical applications and the future of single-cell multi-omic datasets. Visit ⁠⁠TPM E17⁠ for highlights and links from this episode.

Welcome to the Talking Precision Medicine podcast. In this series, we sit down with experts on the application of AI and big data analytics in the drug discovery space. Our guests are innovators, business decision makers and thought leaders at the intersection of data and therapeutics. We discuss the promise, practice, challenges, and myths of AI in precision medicine.  This show is brought to you by Genialis, and Rafael, our CEO, is your host. Genialis is focused on data integration and predictive modeling of disease biology to help accelerate the discovery and de-risk the development of novel therapeutics.  Today our guest is Tina Larson. Tina is COO of Recursion Pharmaceuticals, where she is tasked with building the team, the operations and the culture to tackle Recursion’s audacious goals. Tina has over 20 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, and was recently awarded the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award from her alma mater Colorado State University. In this episode, we talk about the language of multidisciplinary teams, recruiting top talent while fostering inclusivity, and the promise of melding tech and biology to advance treatments at unprecedented scale.