pharmaphorum Podcast
pharmaphorum is one of the leading global channels for insight into the pharma and healthcare industry – and is essentially a group of passionate people who like asking excellent questions. Our podcasts offer a chance to pose some of these questions to the keenest minds in our industry to look at the big issues and opportunities facing pharma, biotech and healthcare today. With interviews and contributions from a host of industry experts and insiders, the pharmaphorum podcast is a must-listen for those who want insight into the future of health and medicine.
Episodes
![Roche, big data and patient outcomes: the pharmaphorum podcast](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog9188274/pharmaphorum_podcast-Episode-17_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Jan 08, 2020
Wednesday Jan 08, 2020
In the first pharmaphorum podcast of 2020 Roche’s Conor Megaw talks about his company’s approach to big data
![Pfizer and the UK cancer landscape: the pharmaphorum podcast](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog9188274/pharmaphorum_podcast-Episode-16-NEW_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Dec 11, 2019
Wednesday Dec 11, 2019
Pfizer’s Dr Olivia Ashman joined me for episode 16 of the pharmaphorum podcast, which focuses on the UK
![Life sciences leadership: the pharmaphorum podcast](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog9188274/pharmaphorum_podcast-Episode-15_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Nov 14, 2019
Thursday Nov 14, 2019
Episode 15 of the pharmaphorum podcast marked a return visit for leading life sciences industry authority Professor Brian
![AstraZeneca and lung cancer: the pharmaphorum podcast](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog9188274/pharmaphorum_podcast-Episode-14-1200x675_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Aug 07, 2019
Wednesday Aug 07, 2019
This episode of the pharmaphorum podcast focuses on lung cancer, with AstraZeneca’s VP, Global Franchise Head, Tagrisso TDR
![Lung cancer’s patient information gap: the pharmaphorum podcast](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog9188274/pharmaphorum_podcast-Episode-13-605x340-2_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
For episode 13 of the pharmaphorum podcast I went to AstraZeneca’s London base to meet Paul Naish, who’s
![The state of UK drug discovery: the pharmaphorum podcast](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog9188274/pharmaphorum_podcast-Episode-12_300x300.jpg)
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Friday Jul 19, 2019
The UK environment for drug discovery, the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on medicines research and the role of complex cell models were all on the agenda for episode 12 of the pharmaphorum podcast.
On it I spoke with Chris Molloy, who’s CEO at the UK’s Medicines Discovery Catapult, about the Catapult’s State of the Discovery Nation publication, a joint report with the UK’s biotech trade body the BioIndustry Association.
![Addressing global health challenges: the pharmaphorum podcast](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog9188274/pharmaphorum_podcast-Episode-11-1400x1400_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Jun 19, 2019
Wednesday Jun 19, 2019
For episode 11 of the pharmaphorum podcast our CEO and founder Dr Paul Tunnah took the helm to record a special roundtable episode in Philadelphia with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI).
![Gene therapy and market access: the pharmaphorum podcast](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog9188274/pharmaphorum_podcast-Episode-10-1400x1400_300x300.jpg)
Friday May 31, 2019
Friday May 31, 2019
For episode 10 of the pharmaphorum podcast I spoke to Nicola Redfern, who’s general manager at bluebird bio in the UK.
The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company has gone from being a gene therapy start-up to having three potential blockbusters on its books, with a CAR-T cancer medicine and potential treatments for a type of sickle-cell disease and a rare and deadly genetic brain disease.
![AMR research and Matoke Pharma: the pharmaphorum podcast](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog9188274/pharmaphorum_podcast-Episode-9-1400x1400_300x300.jpg)
Monday May 13, 2019
Monday May 13, 2019
Re-engineered honey has proved to be a novel and successful development for Matoke Pharma, as well as a crucial step on the UK biotech company’s plans to target antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
In episode 9 of the pharmaphorum podcast Alan Westwood explains the research behind Matoke’s SurgihoneyRO, an antimicrobial wound gel that has a CE mark in Europe, and how the company is taking that product’s reactive oxygen (RO) component to develop novel pharmaceutical antimicrobials.
![GSK and digital disruption: the pharmaphorum podcast](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog9188274/pharmaphorum_podcast-Episode-8-1400x1400_300x300.jpg)
Friday Apr 05, 2019
Friday Apr 05, 2019
Digital innovation and disruption in healthcare are the subject of this episode of the pharmaphorum podcast, for which I visited GlaxoSmithKline at their Stockley Park base to speak with Kai Gait, a senior global digital strategy director at the company.