Episodes

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Asta Ratkeviciene, Co‑Founder and CEO at MedSyntra. In this episode of Life Sciences Today, I talk with Ratkeviciene about building a global, ethically sourced medical imaging data infrastructure across radiology, pathology, oncology, and women’s healthcare. Ratkeviciene explains how MedSyntra aggregates and de-identifies millions of imaging studies, provides a highly curated...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Erez Lampert, Founder and CEO at PathKeeper Surgical! I talk with Lampert about his journey from Israel’s aerospace industry and Invisalign’s Itero scanner to founding PathKeeper in 2018–2019. We dig into the core problem in spine surgery—surgeons “flying blind” between low‑cost, high‑radiation fluoroscopy and ultra‑expensive robotics—and how PathKeeper offers a third way usi...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Kiril Pevsner, Co-Founder and CTO at Protai. We kick this episode off by discussing how Pevsner creates and captures value with pharma. Then we talk about where AI meaningfully shapes decisions in the early discovery and preclinical work. Next, we take a look at where pharma teams hesitate to act on AI-driven insights, even when the science looks strong. We conclude this epis...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Sagi Sigali, Father and Founder of Rafa’s Moonshot – a non-profit dedicated to Landing a Cure for STXBP1. Sagi and I discuss how Rafa’s Moonshot is turning a rare genetic disorder (STXBP1) into an investable, de‑risked therapeutic opportunity. Sagi explains how his tech/entrepreneur background shapes a for‑profit mindset around fundraising, biopharma partnerships, and making ...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Zina Sarif, Founder and CEO at Yendou. Zina Sarif is one of the most dynamic and inspirational founders I’ve met. She grew up in Morocco until age 20 and, after her PhD in biology, spent a decade in cancer drug discovery before leading clinical research at Parexel and PhIII oncology trials at AstraZeneca. Driven by the vision of a cancer-free world, she built Yendou to accele...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is John Chinnici, CEO at Ledger Run. I talk with Chinnici about his journey from consulting (Andersen, IBM) to Viva, where he helped launch and grow Vault, and eventually to leading Ledger Run. Ledger Run focuses on the “unsexy but critical” operational layer of clinical trials: contracting and paying investigative sites. Chinnici explains how delayed, incorrect, and bureaucrati...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Gary Zammit, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer at Clinilabs. We often imagine medical breakthroughs as the result of data, protocols, and lab science alone. But Gary Zammit has seen firsthand that bringing therapies to patients requires far more: resilient teams, disciplined processes, and cultures that can weather setbacks. In his new book, Beyond the Science: How P...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guests today are Jamie Luu, RDN, LDN, Strategy and Nutrition Manager, and Ronja Kröger, Nutrition & Product Expert, M. Sc. Nutritional and Food Sciences at Almased. The Almased-type diet can boost natural satiety signals via GLP-1 and PYY — that is real and meaningful. But the new GLP-1-RA drugs go much further: they hijack those same signals, ramp them much higher, and translate into large...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Denali Rose, VP at Veeva, and Co-Host of Note to File. Rose’s parents are outdoors people and named her after the national park in Alaska. Personally, this is one of the most fun shows we’ve ever done. ‘Nuff said – get in and listen! She is Vice President Sales & Strategy, Site Solutions at Veeva. That’s her day job – she’s also the Co-Host and Producer of the Note To File po...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Daniel Blumenthal, VP of Strategy at MDClone. I talk with MDClone’s VP Strategy about how the company evolved from an early synthetic data pioneer (2016) into a broader data-access and data-extraction platform in a now-crowded market (Snowflake, Oracle, Epic, many synthetic data vendors). Our discussion explores MDClone’s core “nexus” capability of extracting privacy-protecte...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is David Bates, Founder and CEO at Linus Health. I talk with David Bates about Linus Health’s mission to transform brain health from late-stage “sick care” to proactive, preventive care. David explains his journey from signal detection research and investing in built-environment technologies to founding Linus Health around the insight that behavior is the primary observable outp...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Philip Poulidis, CEO at Toronto-based ODAIA. Poulidis is tackling one of pharma’s biggest bottlenecks: slow, siloed commercial analytics. Spun out of academic research, ODAIA’s real-time AI platform unifies patient and HCP journey data, replacing months-old reports with dynamic insights that help reps, liaisons, and marketers target the right physicians at the right time — im...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Walt Pebley, Chief Scientific Officer at OFD Life Sciences. With over four decades in lyophilization, Walt Pebley has helped OFD become the gold standard in stabilizing probiotics, biologics, and therapeutics. His journey — from personal tragedy to pioneering new delivery platforms — highlights how freeze drying shapes the future of medicine, from shelf-stable powders to nove...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Tiffany Callahan, Lead Architect of Agentic AI Systems at SandboxAQ. As a physicist, I love her approach to Large Quantitative Models trained on physics, chemistry, biology, and math to model the real world. Most of the companies in this space are building statistical models by: integrating large datasets for target identification by analyzing genomic and multi-omic data vir...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Jeff Gombala, Founder and CEO at Evidexa. Jeff Gombala started Helios Innovation with an idea that seems obvious – use expert knowledge and AI models to validate healthtech and medtech products. We’re going to talk about Jeff’s journey, the value they are creating, how they’re turning that into a business, and where they want to take customers by 2026. Check out the main topi...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is David Lazerson, Co-Founder and CEO at Briya. Briya started in 2020 with a bold idea — using cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs to make healthcare data shareable, secure, and compliant. Fast forward to today, they’ve just launched Briya AIRE, a clinical-grade AI research platform that promises to let researchers ask questions in plain English and get scientifically robust ...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Shai Melcer, Head of the National Program for Bioconvergence at The Israel Innovation Authority. We kick this episode off by first learning what bioconvergence is. Then we talk about who The Israel Innovation Authority’s customers are. Next, we examine why this is such a unique opportunity for Israel. But no opportunity is without its competition, so we talk about how Melcer ...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Yann Gaston-Mathé, Co-Founder and CEO at Iktos. Iktos combines AI drug discovery with a robot chemist – AI designs novel compounds considering synthesis constraints, and robots automatically synthesize compounds (100 reactions in parallel vs 2 manual). Trained as a mathematical engineer, Yann Gaston-Mathé crossed from numbers into biology, carrying a belief that drug discover...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is James Hamrick, MD, MPH, Chairman of the Caris Precision Oncology Alliance at Caris Life Sciences. By combining massive amounts of genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic data with clinical outcomes, Caris has created one of the largest and most comprehensive multimodal databases of combined molecular and clinical outcomes data in the world – more than 600,000 matched patient r...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Aaron Brauser, General Manager Life Sciences at Carta Healthcare. AI should work in synergy with clinical expertise. This “Hybrid Intelligence” approach propelled Carta Healthcare to become a leader in clinical data abstraction, serving health systems and pharma companies. Their platform leverages a combination of AI, LLMs, and clinically guided expert models to analyze EHR d...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Tim O’Connell, Founder and CEO at emtelligent. Tim O’Connell and Anoop Sarkar started emtelligent in 2016 with a need that Tim had (and still has) as a practicing radiologist. How do you take the massive volume of unstructured text in healthcare and put it into a clean, structured format? Check out the main topics of discussion for this episode of the Life Sciences Today podc...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Wessam Sonbol, Founder and CEO at Delve Health. Sonbol founded Delve Health after watching his mother struggle to access a cancer trial, despite his 25 years in the industry. His company now brings trials into patients’ homes with wearables, AI agents, and multilingual support — aiming for 90%+ compliance, cutting rare-disease dropout rates, and automating many of the manual ...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Rajesh Krishna, Senior Distinguished Scientist at Certara and a recognized leader in drug development. With 25+ years of experience, he’s shaped model-informed strategies for biologics, vaccines, and small molecules, and is consistently ranked among the top 2% of influential scientists. Drug development is too slow and expensive. Certara helps companies design better trials, ...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Tigran Arzumanov, Founder and CEO at Basel-based BDaaS. BDaaS helps US life science companies expand into Europe by solving one of their toughest problems: hiring business development talent. Instead of choosing between juniors without connections and seniors without the energy for outreach, BDaaS offers an experienced EU sales team, complete with infrastructure and tech stac...