Beyond Biotech - the podcast from Labiotech
Welcome to the official Labiotech.eu podcast - Beyond Biotech! Each week, we talk about what's happening in the world of biotech, with news and interviews with experts from companies around the world. Join us as we cover the latest news, breakthroughs and innovations shaping the life sciences industry.A new podcast episode is available every Friday. The host is Dylan Kissane.
Episodes
222 episodes
Antisense oligonucleotides
German-headquartered Isarna Therapeutics is developing a portfolio of antisense therapies targeting an emerging therapeutic field in human biology – transforming growth factor beta (TGF-B) signaling. Precise modulation of TGF-B p...
Making waves in cardiovascular disease treatment
Cytokinetics is a late-stage, specialty cardiovascular biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing first-in-class muscle activators and next-in-class muscle inhibitors as potential treatments for debilita...
New ways to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic disorder with progressive muscle degeneration and weakness due to changes in the protein dystrophin, which helps keep muscle cells intact. There are few treatments for DMD, altho...
Overcoming clinical trial challenges
This week, we have a conversation about clinical trial design with Gen Li, the president and founder of Phesi, a global provider of patient-centric data analysis. Earlier this year, Phesi’s global analysis of all clinical tri...
The biotech investment landscape in 2024
RTW is a global multi-strategy investment firm focused on supporting innovative biotech and biopharma companies across the US, Europe, and China. The company invests in both public and private companies across their entire li...
Redefining chronic pain treatment
Doloromics is a precision neuropharmaceuticals company. It was set up four years ago, to use newer technologies, particularly in the omics space, to take advantage of different single-cell transcriptomic technologies or proteomic technologie...
Colossal aims to bring back mammoth by 2028
Based in Austin, Texas, biotech Colossal Biosciences is at the forefront of de-extinction, critically endangered species protection and the repopulation of critical ecosystems. Its mission is to use CRISPR technology to bring...
New treatments being developed for schizophrenia
It would appear that 2024 is shaping up to be a big year for the development of treatments for schizophrenia, with several clinical trials under way.Recently, Boehringer Ingelheim and Sosei Group Corporation (Sosei Heptares) annou...
Reformulating psychedelics for neurodegenerative diseases
There is a clear demand for novel, neurological treatments. While it’s widely known psychedelics hold enormous therapeutic potential, there are a host of challenges, including dosing and potential side effects for the patient.Our ...
How AI immune system mapping can boost drug discovery
Immunai is mapping the immune system at unprecedented scale and granularity. The map, paired with machine learning, looks at how the immune system will respond to drug targets, offering an affordable way to prevent expensive drug failures.&n...
Is Tome writing the final chapter in genomic medicine?
Tome Biosciences recently exited stealth mode with almost a quarter of a billion dollars in funding. The company has developed a new approach to gene editing, programmable genomic integration (PGI), which it says represents the...
Transforming treatments for epilepsy
After decades of lagging nearly many other disease areas, neurology is finally seeing signs of significant innovation. One of the biggest reasons it’s trailed behind has been the difficulty in teasing out complex neurobiology...
How does AI assist drug discovery?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is certainly in the news constantly; however, it’s been used in drug discovery for some time.A new collaboration between artificial intelligence drug discovery company Insilico Medicine and University ...
Biosimilars and what’s new in cell and gene therapies
This week on the podcast, we have a conversation with Fran Gregory, vice president of Emerging Therapies at Cardinal Health. The discussion covers the company’s role in healthcare, biosimilars, the latest in cell and gene therapi...
BioSenic developing severe knee osteoarthritis treatment
BioSenic, a Belgian clinical-stage company specializing in serious autoimmune and inflammatory diseases and cell therapy, will share data on its late-clinical asset JTA-004 at the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) World C...
Boosting fertility by changing the vaginal microbiome
Freya Biosciences is a clinical-stage biotech company dedicated to reimagining women's health and redefining fertility for those previously deprived of options. With a focus on microbial immunotherapies, Freya addresses immun...
Epic Bio - gene editing without cutting DNA
Epic Bio is an epigenetic editing company, leveraging the power of CRISPR without cutting DNA. The company’s proprietary Gene Expression Modulation System (GEMS) includes the smallest Cas protein known to work in human cells, ena...
Could natural killer cells transform Alzheimer’s treatment?
A US company, with its origins in South Korea, is using natural killer (NK) cells to treat Alzheimer’s disease, with remarkable results.This week, we have a conversation with Dr Paul Song, CEO of NKGen Biotech, a company with its ...
Gene editing in the microbiome to treat acne
Eligo Bioscience is a gene-editing company focused on addressing diseases driven by the expression of bacterial genes from the microbiome. Its first target is moderate to severe acne vulgaris, an inflammatory disease that af...
Tackling challenging diseases with vaccines
Vaxxinity, Inc. is a U.S.-based biotechnology company looking to develop vaccines for several hard-to-treat diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The company is pioneering a new class of medicines through its propriet...
Using worms to treat diseases
Is there a connection between worms being eradicated from the gut in the early 20th Century and an increase in allergies and autoimmune disease? This week, we have a conversation with Holoclara CEO Andrea Choe, who not only believe...
Ipsen advances liver disease treatment
Jennifer Schranz is senior vice president and global head of rare diseases in the R&D division at Ipsen. On the podcast this week, she discusses a breakthrough treatment for primary biliary cholerangitis and cholestatic liver...
New class of small molecule therapeutics introduced
On this week’s podcast we have a conversation with Jordi Mata-Fink, co-founder and chief executive officer of the newly-launched U.S. company Gate Bioscience.00:45-01:06: About Gate Bioscience 01:06-02:09: What a...