Interviews on biotechnology

Interview 2 May 2023

Generative AI in novel drug development

Within months of its release, ChatGPT is finding use in almost all industries, including biotech, pharma, and healthcare. ChatGPT and other large language models like it belong to a family of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies dubbed generative AI. Based on statistical associations gathered from large datasets, generative AI models produce content similar to the data […]

May 2, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Sachin Rawat

Interview 8 Mar 2023

Phacilitate’s Women in Advanced Therapies program supports women in science

Marlin Frechette is the chief quality and compliance officer at FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific. But she has another role. Frechette is also a member of Phacilitate’s Women in Advanced Therapies program, and was formerly a mentor, and she tells us here how the program supports women in executive level life science roles. Frechette takes up the […]

March 8, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Interview 8 Mar 2023

How to ensure gender diversity in clinical trials

Labiotech sat down with Alicia Staley, VP, patient engagement at Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, to discuss underrepresentation of women in clinical trials and the importance of making trials more diverse. What does the current landscape look like with regards to gender diversity in clinical trials? While we’ve come a long way since the 1990s […]

March 8, 2023 - 6 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Interview 3 Mar 2023

Interview: how has the first gene therapy for hemophilia B transformed research?

Hemophilia B, a rare disease that affects more than 230,000 people worldwide is caused by the lack of or defective clotting protein factor IX often due to a spontaneous mutation in the F9 gene, leading to excessive bleeding. Until recently, routine prophylactic infusions of factor IX replacement therapy to maintain enough clotting factor to prevent […]

March 3, 2023 - 8 minutesmins - By Roohi Mariam Peter

CAR-T cell therapy, cancer therapy, cell therapy

Interview 17 Feb 2023

The benefits – and challenges – of in-house CAR T-cell therapy

The Sheba Medical Center in Israel has an advanced hemato-oncology center that offers in-house CAR T-cell therapy, the revolutionary immunotherapy that alters a patient’s white blood cells to kill cancer cells. By keeping the entire process at the hospital, and not sending the cells to an external lab, the quality of the T-cells are better […]

February 17, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Interview 1 Feb 2023

Foundation for the National Institutes of Health: partnering to tackle cancer

The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) takes on cancer through public-private research partnerships on prevention and early diagnosis. Dr Stacey Adam is associate vice president for research partnerships at the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. In her role, she leads the cancer research partnership programs. Adam is a molecular pharmacologist/cancer […]

February 1, 2023 - 8 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Interview 26 Jan 2023

Scopio on the future of telehematology

Through full-field digital cell morphology, Scopio Labs’ technology can automate the analysis of tens of thousands of cells at a time. This could mean bringing earlier detection and diagnosis of cancers, infections, and other diseases, expediting patients’ access to better care and life-saving treatments. Erez Na’aman, co-founder and CTO of Scopio Labs, tells us about […]

January 26, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Jose Bengoechea professor Queen’s University in Belfast Northern Ireland

Interview 24 Jan 2023

Watch: Queen’s University tackling antimicrobial resistance

One of the biggest global challenges facing healthcare systems is bacteria and viruses becoming resistant to drugs. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributes to the deaths of around 700,000 people annually. Without new drugs or ways of dealing with AMR, the number of deaths could reach as many as 10 million per year by 2050 and cause […]

January 24, 2023 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Interview 23 Jan 2023

Watch: pHion Therapeutics talks about next-generation mRNA vaccines

pHion Therapeutics is a U.K.-based vaccine development company. It is developing a pipeline of therapeutic and prophylactic vaccines focussed on viral infections and oncology. The company’s proprietary RALA platform can deliver anionic molecules, such as mRNA and DNA, in a stealth-like way, evading detection, to generate a potent antigen-specific CD8+ T-cell response. The RALA peptide-based […]

January 23, 2023 - 1 minutemin - By Jim Cornall

Interview 19 Jan 2023

Interview: Proscia talks about digital pathology

Labiotech recently interviewed Nathan Buchbinder, chief product officer at Proscia, about digital pathology. AI has been a hot topic in drug discovery. Can you outline how it’s being applied to pathology data? Sure, it’s always great to start with such an exciting topic! There are two broad applications of AI that I want to highlight. […]

January 19, 2023 - 8 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

cancer protein degradation sibylla biotech

Interview 14 Dec 2022

Sibylla Biotech: how physicists met biologists to discover new drugs

Discovering new drugs remains an inefficient, trial and error-based process. The founding team behind the Italian startup Sibylla Biotech explain how their interdisciplinary approach can speed up drug discovery in the protein degradation space. Protein degradation is a hot field in the biotech industry, with many pharmaceutical companies forging lucrative deals with protein degradation players. […]

December 14, 2022 - 9 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Interview 5 Dec 2022

Interview: why the recently approved fecal microbiome product is causing a rumble

The news last week of the FDA approving Ferring Pharmaceuticals’ first fecal microbiome product, Rebyota, caused quite a stir in the field. The news was described as a huge step, a giant leap forward and simply fantastic. Paul Feurstadt is the director of non-inflammatory bowel disease research at the Medical Research Center of Connecticut. He also […]

December 5, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

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