Episodes

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Pamela Tenaerts, Chief Medical Officer at Medable. Tenaerts talks about how they improve accessibility for patients in the 15-year follow-up period mandated by the FDA for patients in gene therapy trials. Patients often travel from far (even internationally) for treatment, sponsors have to pay for infrastructure costs for maintaining multiple sites, and patients have to deal ...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Viraj Narayanan, CEO at Cornerstone AI. Cornerstone uses AI to clean and standardize healthcare data. Cleaning healthcare data is a non-sexy job that consumes staggering amounts of resources in the industry. When Narayanan was at McKesson, he had 25 PhD biostatisticians who spent 70% of their time on data cleaning. Cornerstone AI reduces data cleaning time from 8-12 weeks to...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Aaron Smith, Co-Founder of Unlearn, to talk about how they use digital twins to save resources in clinical trials and fast-track the most promising therapies. Unlearn increases the statistical power of clinical trials with fewer patients using disease-specific ML models. Leading biopharma companies are applying Unlearn’s technology in real-world clinical trials today. Abbvie ...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Ronen Veksler, Co-Founder and CEO at Promise Bio. Promise Bio is an early-stage tech-bio company coming out of AION Labs in Israel with strategic investors – AstraZeneca and Pfizer. They’ve built a cloud-based AI platform that uses advanced mass spectrometry-based proteomics and provides value for pharmaceutical companies in 4 ways: identifies new drug targets, predicts treat...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Miha Štajdohar, Co-Founder and CTO at Genialis. Genialis develops and markets an AI supermodel that can predict Therapeutic Response for cancer patients. Check out the main topics of discussion for this episode of the Life Sciences Today podcast: Tell me about your journey to Genialis? Who are your customers? How do you create value for your customers? How do you capture va...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. I am once again taking over for Danny to sit down with Andrea Douglas, Director Business Development Life Sciences at Surescripts, to talk about their electronic benefit verification! We kick this episode off by discussing some of the challenges behind benefit verification today. Then, we talk about what exactly electronic benefit verification is and how it works. Next, Douglas explains why li...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Ram Yalamanchili, Founder and CEO at Tilda Research. Tilda Research develops and markets a system of AI teammates that work alongside sponsor, site, and CRO research teams. AI Teammates for Clinical Trials is a system of agents – with product flavors for sites, sponsors, and CROs. Check out the main topics of discussion for this episode of the Life Sciences Today podcast: Wh...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Julio Martinez-Clark, CEO at Bioaccess, a CRO that specializes in executing first-in-human trials outside the US. Bioaccess empowers Medtech and Biopharma innovators to accelerate early feasibility studies and first-in-human trials via Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Australia’s 40% faster approvals, 50% quicker enrollment, and 30% lower costs. For sponsors, Bioccess is se...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. I took over for Danny this episode to sit down with Carter Dredge, Executive Director of the Intermountain Health Institute, to talk about Civica Rx and some of the other unique models that Dredge and his team are working on at Intermountain Health Institute! We kick this episode off by discussing why Intermountain decided to get into the pharma and life sciences business. Then we talk about w...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Meri Beckwith, Co-Founder of Lindus Health. Lindus Health, founded by Meri Beckwith in 2021, aims to fix broken clinical trial processes. Inspired by Beckwith’s VC and trial participant experiences, it offers fixed-cost, milestone-based contracts. Its tech platform, Citrus, integrates EDC, CTMS, and CDISC-compliant storage. Focused on psychiatry and other areas, Lindus priori...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Frederico Braga, the Head of Digital and IT at Debiopharm, a Swiss pharmaceutical company. We talked about how they are building data infrastructure to help take the company to real-time analytics for decision making. Debiopharm is moving from outsourcing to in-house clinical research & development. Their key rationale is: drug development data is critical IP that requires di...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Jodie Gillon, CEO of the Trade Organization at BioCT. Connecticut has great universities, big pharma like Pfizer, Boehringer Ingelheim, and a large number of life science startups. Gillon has built an organization with a wide web of activities, from legislation (and recently a tax credit bill that passed) to supporting startups with incubators. Check out the main topics of di...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Troy Astorino, Co-Founder and CTO at PicnicHealth. PicnicAI can collect medical records from everywhere in the US and transform them into meaningful data for patients, providers, and researchers. Their 8 BN parameter LLM outperforms frontier models on clinical data labeling and interpretation. Check out the main topics of discussion for this episode of the Life Sciences Today...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Alex Deyle, VP & General Manager, Clinical Research at Flatiron Health. Flatiron started out using humans and tech to turn unstructured data into clean, structured data and then moved on to develop their own community EHR for oncology. Today, they help pharma design clinical protocols that are more likely to succeed scientifically and commercially. They use their own EHR data...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Dipanwita Das, CEO at Sorcero, which provides medical intelligence to the Top 50 pharma and medical device companies. We had a great conversation talking about her journey to leading an enterprise SaaS company that helps commercial teams in pharma and devices gain confidence in the signals they get from their markets. Sorcero supports post-market surveillance and adverse even...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Dr. George Magrath, CEO at Opus Genetics, practicing ophthalmologist, and someone who’s quite literally restoring sight to the blind. Under George’s leadership, Opus is developing gene therapies for ultra-rare inherited retinal diseases, including one that recently gave a 39-year-old man the ability to see for the first time in his life. They’re also pioneering the use of AI ...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Ori Warshavsky, COO at PolyPid. With a platform that anchors drug delivery at the point of need, PolyPid has Phase 3 programs nearing FDA submission and a pipeline that could reshape how we think about infection control, post-op healing, and localized therapeutics. Ori joins us to talk about turning science into impact. Check out the main topics of discussion for this episode...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. Cloud-based, visual-first AI development and collaboration platform tailored for life sciences. Designed to make AI workflows accessible to both technical and non-technical users. Salt AI enables teams to build, deploy, and scale AI-powered solutions without extensive coding expertise. My guest today is Nate Beyor – Head of Life Science at Salt AI. Check out the main topics of discussion for t...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Dr. Rotem Kopel, Founder and CEO at ABILITY Neurotech. Their implantable neural recording system is a breakthrough in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) development, enabling robust communication pathways and enhanced autonomy for people affected by severe paralysis. I had 2 aha moments with Rotem. The first was when I realized how different their approach is from Neuralink (you’...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. I took over for Danny this episode to sit down with Mark Klarzynsk, CSO and Co-Founder at PEAK:AIO, to talk about AI-powered data! We kick this episode off by discussing the healthcare industry’s current status with AI-powered data infrastructures. Then we debate whether or not we are moving to the edge or the cloud, as well as discuss how we think this will evolve over time. Next, we take a l...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Loren Larsen, Founder and CEO at Videra Health: an AI-driven mental health assessment platform. Videra allows the patient to speak in their own words via text, chat, audio, or video. Videra automates screenings, assessments, check-ins, and monitoring for a myriad of behavioral health conditions. It’s available 24×7 for patients and never has a bad day. 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 guests today are Dr. Nisim Peretz, Co-Founder and CEO, and Dr. Nir Waiskopf, CTO, at Itay&Beyond. They are building what sounds like science fiction: a brain on a chip. Itay&Beyond is developing a drug discovery platform for autism spectrum disorders and neurological pathologies. Nisim’s background spans neurobiology, hardware systems, and deep-tech innovation. His team is taking on one o...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. This time I am with Dr. Lior Shaltiel, Founder and CEO at NurExone. We start this episode off with Dr. Shaltiel sharing how his personal and professional path led him to found NurExone and how he was able to get the necessary funding. Then we discuss what Dr. Shaltiel is building and why. We then take a look at his approach to see what makes it not just promising, but potentially game-changing...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. This time I am sitting down with Dr. Steven Charlap, Founder and CEO at SOAP Health to discuss SOAP Health’s autonomous AI Assistant. We start this episode by diving into Dr. Charlap’s background and what led him to found SOAP Health. Dr. Charlap then shares with us his story of why founding SOAP Health is a deeply personal mission to him. Next, we discuss the specifics of what an autonomous c...