Life Sciences Today
The Life Sciences Today podcast by Healthcare IT Today brings you strategic conversations with life science founders. Hosts Danny Lieberman and John Lynn and their guests reveal the patterns behind sustainable competitive advantages. Subscribe to the Clear Thinking newsletter by Danny Lieberman fo...
Recent Episodes
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Aug. 28, 2026
Making Your Life Science Research Impossible to Overlook - Life Sciences Today Podcast Episode 76
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Dr. Boris Gorelik, Founder and CEO at Loud Camel. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Gorelik, who did his PhD in computational biology in the pharmacology department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Although he’s an expert in machine learning in life sciences, his new startup is something else. Check out the main topics of discussion for this episode of the Life Scien
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Aug. 21, 2026
Blue Matter— AI Transformation in Drug Discovery - Life Sciences Today Podcast Episode 75
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Tara Austraat-Churik, Partner at Blue Matter Consulting. Her background spans IBM Watson Health, where she led $50M+ enterprise deals during the first AI wave in pharma, EY’s Health Science and Wellness practice, an MSc in Translational Medicine from Edinburgh, and time as an FBI intelligence analyst. She calls it “Compound Expertise” — depth earned across domains that produc
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Aug. 14, 2026
Evogene - Can a Platform Company Become a Real Business? - Life Sciences Today Podcast Episode 74
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Gabi Tarcic, Chief Development Officer at Evogene. In this episode, I sit down with Tarcic to ask a question the industry has been asking for twenty years: how does a platform company become a real business? Evogene has lived through every wave of “compute will transform biology” — genomics, systems biology, computational biology platforms, and now generative AI — and built a
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Aug. 7, 2026
How TheraNow Scales Physical Therapy Without New Clinics - Life Sciences Today Podcast Episode 73
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Dr. Ashok Gupta, Founder and CEO at TheraNow. In this episode, I speak with Dr. Gupta about why the real bottleneck in physical therapy isn’t quality — it’s access. Dr. Gupta explains how TheraNow built a virtual physical therapy model that helps health systems expand capacity without adding buildings or staff, and why 99% of the company’s revenue now comes from hospitals and
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July 31, 2026
How to Get 7 Figure Savings in Clinical Trials Without AI - Life Sciences Today Podcast Episode 72
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Dr. Jurate Lusienne, Clinical Trial Optimization at Jura Lasas Consulting. Lusienne helps small biotechs run early clinical trials faster, cheaper, and with more control—without relying on big CROs or fancy AI. Drawing on experience across academia, CROs, and sponsor-side clinical ops in the US, Japan, UK, and Lithuania, she explains how founders can avoid expensive default d
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July 24, 2026
Breaking Clinical Data Chaos - Life Science Today Podcast Episode 71
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Raj Indupuri, Co-Founder and CEO at eClinical Solutions. Why is clinical development still run like a sequence of handoffs instead of a continuous learning system? In this episode, I talk with Indupuri about the industry’s biggest anti-pattern: milestone-based, sequential trials. We discuss clinical data chaos, AI in regulated environments, the real moat behind trusted execut