pharmaphorum Podcast

Is precision psychiatry possible?

On today’s podcast, host Jonah Comstock is joined by Dr Amit Etkin, founder and CEO of Alto Neuroscience, a recently IPO'd biotech that wants to bring precision medicine to psychiatry. But what do we mean when we talk about precision, especially in a discipline like mental health that has historically involved a lot of objectivity?

Encouraging early engagement to revitalise Europe’s pharmaceutical landscape

In an on-site interview at Reuters Pharma Europe in Barcelona, this week’s podcast saw Tommy Bramley, SVP of market access and healthcare consulting at Cencora, discuss revitalising Europe’s pharmaceutical landscape and leveraging legislation for health and competitiveness.

Predictions for AI in mental health in the coming year

In a new episode of the pharmaphorum podcast, web editor Nicole Raleigh welcomes Dr Carl Marci, chief psychiatrist and managing director of mental health and neuroscience at OM1 to discuss predictions for AI in mental health in the coming year, as well as what might truly make a difference in the field and lessen the mental health crisis.

Fixing clinical trial data management

It’s 2024 and in most clinical trials, data is still being moved from the EHR to the EDC manually – with employees reading data from one screen and typing it onto another. How did we get here? And how do we get past it? On today’s pharmaphorum podcast, host Jonah Comstock speaks with Iddo Peleg, CEO of Yonalink, about these very questions.

Harnessing the velocity of biopharmaceutical advances

On today's episode of the podcast CEO and co-founder of 908 Devices Kevin Knopp joins as guest, discussing how such acceleration is by virtue of technological advancements, including the buzzword artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning when it comes to bioprocessing.

Conference report: Reuters Pharma USA

Last week, pharmaphorum Editor in Chief Jonah Comstock traveled to Philadelphia for Reuters Pharma USA. On today’s podcast, he chats with guest host and Deep Dive Editor Eloise McLellan about his biggest takeaways from the two-day event.

The future of AI: Machine learning working together with scientific expertise

In a new episode of the pharmaphorum podcast recorded live on site at WIRED Health in London in March, web editor Nicole Raleigh spoke with Elise de Reus, co-founder of Cradle, the generative AI platform that helps scientists to design and program proteins.

Understanding the politics of drug pricing in the United States

Everyone says they want more affordable drugs for patients that need them, but people disagree quite a bit on who's to blame for the current status quo of sky-high prescription prices – not to mention how they might be corrected.
To help unpack some of those trends and conflicting perspectives, Brandon Newman, CEO of healthcare analytics firm Xevant, joins host Jonah Comstock on today’s episode of the pharmaphorum podcast.

Female leadership and lessening disease burden

As Women’s History Month comes to its final week, today’s podcast sees web editor Nicole Raleigh in conversation with Debra Weiss, COO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute (Gates MRI), discussing her role as a female leader in the leader and the non-profit organisation’s work in developing novel biomedical interventions and lessening the burden of disease in LMICs.

The unique clinical trial challenges faced by digital therapeutics

On today’s podcast, host Jonah Comstock is joined by Meri Beckwith, cofounder of Lindus Health, a next-gen CRO that includes digital therapeutics among its specialties. They talk a little bit about often unseen difficulties of validating a digital therapeutic through a clinical trial.