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La SiesteOn this day (José)José / novembre 2025 / 57min0301 Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington / Contemplating The Moon02 Joshua Burnside / Up And Down03 Constant Smiles / In Place Of Time04 Georgia Harmer / Last Love05 Insecure Men / Tulse Hill Station06 Damien Jurado / Paper Canoe - Version 207 Joe Westerlund / Can Tangle08 Snowy Band / Shortchanged09 Daudi Matsiko & Tiger Cohen-Towell / Tiger’s Dream10 Hilary Woods / Faults11 Jeff Tweedy / Cry Baby Cry12 Bruce Springsteen / Losin’ Kind - Nebraska Outtakes13 Cindy / The Thousand First14 Elanor Moss / Again My Love15 Dear Scout / Peace With The Damage16...
2025-11-3000 minLa SiesteOn this day (José)José / novembre 2025 / 57min0301 Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington / Contemplating The Moon02 Joshua Burnside / Up And Down03 Constant Smiles / In Place Of Time04 Georgia Harmer / Last Love05 Insecure Men / Tulse Hill Station06 Damien Jurado / Paper Canoe - Version 207 Joe Westerlund / Can Tangle08 Snowy Band / Shortchanged09 Daudi Matsiko & Tiger Cohen-Towell / Tiger’s Dream10 Hilary Woods / Faults11 Jeff Tweedy / Cry Baby Cry12 Bruce Springsteen / Losin’ Kind - Nebraska Outtakes13 Cindy / The Thousand First14 Elanor Moss / Again My Love15 Dear Scout / Peace With The Damage16...
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Axial PodcastModern Computational Tools for Chemistry with Corin WagenCorin Wagen is the Founder and CEO of Rowan. During our conversation, we talk about Corin's journey from the Jacobsen Lab at Harvard to starting Rowan with his brother. Rowan builds design and simulation software for chemistry. The company uses machine learning on quantum mechanics data to predict molecular interactions with high accuracy. Rowan trains its models on internal data and information from publicly available datasets. The key part of the product is reducing the time to make these predictions. Legacy, often on-prem, software can take weeks of computing to calculate, say the pKa or redox potential...
2025-03-2350 min
Axial PodcastEvolutionary Intelligence and Biologics Discovery with Jeremy AgrestiJeremy Agresti is the Founder and CTO of Triplebar Bio.
2025-03-2351 min
Axial PodcastAI Workflows for Biopharma with Alex TelfordAlex Telford is the Co-Founder and CEO of Convoke.
2025-03-2357 min
Axial PodcastAI Legal Software with Scott StevensonScott Stevenson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Spellbook.
2025-03-2356 min
Axial PodcastScaling Proteomics with Milad DagherMilad Dagher is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nomic Bio.
2025-03-231h 00
Axial PodcastProteomics and AI with Peter CimermančičPeter Cimermančič is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tesorai.
2025-03-2357 min
Axial PodcastComputational Protein Design with Costas MaranasCostas Maranas is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Penn State.
2025-03-2349 min
Axial PodcastPatents, AI, and Business Intelligence Software with Simeon GraupeSimeon Graupe is the Co-Founder and CEO of PatentPlus.
2025-03-2352 min
2025-03-2348 min
Axial PodcastAnalysis of Clinical Trials with Spencer HeySpencer Hey is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Prism Analytic Technologies.
2025-03-231h 08
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Axial PodcastSoftware Native Biotech with Bogdan KnezevicBogdan Knezevic is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kaleidoscope Bio.
2025-03-231h 07
Axial PodcastNew Research Tools with Ryan Du and Vineeth SendilrajRyan Du and Vineeth Sendilraj are the founders of Yuno.
2025-03-2347 min
Axial PodcastPrecision Medicine in Surgery with Julien HedouJulien Hedou is the Co-Founder and CEO of Surge.
2025-03-2350 min
Axial PodcastProtein Design with Geometric Deep Learning with Karolis MartinkusKarolis Martinkus is a senior scientist at Prescient Design, the machine learning arm of Genentech.
2025-03-1956 min
Axial PodcastDirected Evolution of Antibodies with Doug ChapnickDoug Chapnick is the Co-Founder and CEO of BioLoomics. A platform company using directed evolution to discover antibody therapeutics. Combining cell line engineering, machine learning, and imaging.
At the core of BioLoomics' technology is directed evolution, a process that mimics natural evolution in the lab. The company uses this to create biologics for a given property like target engagement or stability. Traditional directed evolution relies on displaying proteins on the surface of cells or viruses and using binding or activity assays to isolate variants with enhanced characteristics. However, this approach has limitations, especially when evolving complex proteins...
2024-04-1254 min
Axial PodcastBuilding the Ultimate Patent Assistant with Evan ZimmermanEvan Zimmerman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Edge, that helps patent attorneys, patent agents, and inventors make the patent process less painful and more effective.
He earned a Juris Doctor (JD) degree from the UC Berkeley Law School, where he specialized in IP law. Seeing the potential of AI to transform the patent system, Zimmerman teamed up with Len Boyette, an early employee at Okta. Together, they went through the Y Combinator accelerator program in 2022 to build Edge.
Edge's AI-powered patent assistant aims to automate and streamline every step of the patent process, from...
2024-04-111h 00
Axial PodcastImproving Software Engineering in Biostatistics with Daniel Sabanés BovéDaniel Sabanés Bové is a senior principal data scientist at Roche. In our conversation, we discuss the need for better software in biotech and his career in data science.
Daniel studied statistics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany, earning his PhD in 2013 from the University of Zurich in Switzerland. His doctoral research focused on Bayesian model selection. After completing his PhD, Daniel began his at Roche as a biostatistician. There, he applied statistical principles to clinical trials and research in areas like oncology, immunology, and neuroscience.
In 2018, Daniel joined Google as a data...
2024-04-1053 min
Axial PodcastTransforming biomanufacturing using software with Martin PerminExcited to have a conversation with Martin Permin, Founder and CEO of Invert. The company is on a mission to transform biomanufacturing through advanced software and data analytics. We discuss the founding of Invert, what capabilities they give their customers, and the importance of biomanufacturing to grow biological products like proteins, enzymes, and specialty chemicals. Production from bioreactors allows us to produce important medicines, sustainable materials, biofuels, and other products that will shape our future. However, it's incredibly complex with so many variables to control. A perfect place for software to shine. And where Invert comes in.
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2024-03-0351 min
Axial PodcastLet the Best Drug Win with Errik AndersonErrik Anderson is the CEO and Founder of Alloy Therapeutics. Founded in 2017, the company democratizes access to drug discovery platforms and services. In our conversation, we discuss Alloy's product offering and story.
Alloy has rapidly grown into a thriving ecosystem empowering the global scientific community. The company's innovative business model is centered on 3 pillars: platforms, services, and company creation. Alloy develops technologies such as its ATX-Gx humanized transgenic mice antibody discovery platform and makes them available to partners through non-exclusive, affordable licensing. This allows even academic labs and small biotechs to use powerful tools previously only accessible to large pharm...
2024-01-0457 min
Axial PodcastLeadership and Bioengineering with Omar AliOmar Ali is the Senior Director of Research at Lyell Immunopharma. Omar discusses leadership lessons he's picked up across 2 decades working at the intersection of bioengineering and drug development. Starting his first company during grad school at Harvard. Afterwards spending ~7 years at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Setting up his second startup, Immulus, focused on immune cell expansion. That was acquired by Lyell. Omar is an expert in a wide-range of fields from biomaterials and immunotherapy to drug deliver, cancer vaccines, and chemistry; however, his superpower is managing interdisciplinary teams and leadership.
2023-07-091h 20
Axial PodcastSynthetic Biology and Rapid Evolution with Chang LiuChang Liu is a professor at UC Irvine pioneering the application of rapid evolution in synthetic biology and protein engineering. We discuss his career and what it takes to startup & lead a new academic lab. Chang's work spans the fields of genetic engineering, synthetic biology, chemical biology, cell biology, and directed evolution. Where his lab engineers specialized genetic systems that go beyond what nature’s genetic systems can do. Where they are especially interested in creating living cells that dramatically accelerate the speed of evolution, that reinterpret the genetic code, and that can record transient information as heritable genetic mutatio...
2023-07-091h 00
Axial PodcastFounding Unlearn and Revolutionizing Clinical Trials with Charles FisherCharles Fisher is the Founder and CEO of Unlearn, that creates digital twins with AI to enable more efficient clinical trials. Founded in 2017, Unlearn started as a generative AI company looking for a problem, ending up on clinical trials & transforming how they are run. A digital Twin is a longitudinal/clinical record using baseline data from a patient before they receive their 1st treatment. To predict how the patient would likely progress in the trial if given a placebo. And increase statistical power of the trial without enrolling more patients. Unlearn sells their TwinRCT product to companies & institutions to...
2023-07-091h 04
Axial PodcastImaging Dyes and Microscopy with Luke LavisLuke Lavis is a senior group leader and head of molecular tools and imaging at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus. Luke Lavis works at the interface of chemistry and biology, developing small-molecule fluorescent dyes to illuminate biological samples. Lavis and his team use modern organic chemistry to design and synthesize bright fluorescent labels for imaging structures inside living cells. By combining these novel compounds with advances in instrumentation, protein engineering, and genetic manipulation, the Lavis Lab and their collaborators devise sophisticated bioimaging experiments at different scales ranging from tracking single molecules to measuring neural activity in cells and animals....
2023-07-091h 26
Axial PodcastAutonomous Microscopy with Kevin DeanKevin Dean is a professor at UT Southwestern pioneering autonomous microscopes and applying them to study rare biological events, mainly metastatic colonization. In our conversation we talk about his research and the current status of microscopy. Kevin was raised in a small town in Northern California earning his BA in Chemistry at Willamette University in Oregon, and was recognized twice as an ESPN Regional Academic All-American Running Back. He then received his PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Colorado in the labs of Amy Palmer and Ralph Jimenez. Where he focused on spectroscopy, protein engineering, and multi-parameter high-throughput...
2023-07-0954 min
Axial PodcastBiotech Company Building, Partnering, Investing Towards Better Medicines with Vikas GoyalVikas Goyal has one of the best records in biotech having spent over 8 years at SR One partnering with companies like Nimbus and Morphic Therapeutic before joining Pandion Therapeutics (acquired by Merck) full-time after investing in it as well. Now starting Trekk Venture Parners, Vikas' story uniquely blends success across investing, operations, and company building.
Starting off his career at McKinsey, Vikas went on to work with dozens of start-ups and early-stage companies as a consultant at Extera Partners then went off to earn his MBA in healthcare management from Wharton. He started work...
2023-07-0955 min
Axial PodcastFounding Hoxton Farms and Creating the Future of Food with Max JamillyMax Jamilly is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hoxton Farms, a London-based startup develop cultivated fat as an ingredient for the meat alternatives industry. We discuss his journey from scientist to founder starting at Oxford where Max earned his PhD in synthetic biology. Along with his work at Microsoft Research, Gen9, and in venture capital. Leading up to founding Hoxton with his childhood friend.
2023-07-0951 min
Axial PodcastFounding Y-Trap and Protein Engineering with Rishi BediRishi Bedi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Y-Trap a biotech company developing multifunctional fusion proteins for cancer immunotherapy. We discuss the founding story of Y-Trap, the current status of protein engineering and computational biology, along with his career leading up to Y-Trap. Rishi's experience spans machine learning, immuno-oncology, and drug development.
Previously, Rishi built the machine learning team at Herophilus (fka System1 Biosciences), leading the analysis of multi-omics and imaging datasets to identify deep phenotypes of neuropsychiatric diseases in cerebral organoids. Before that, he studied computer science at Stanford, where he developed machine...
2023-07-081h 02
Axial PodcastFounding AgBiome with Eric WardEric Ward is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of AgBiome, an agtech company that analyzes crop microbiomes to develop crop protection products & traits. Founded in 2012, AgBiome has no managers; rather, the company uses committees of employees to handle core functions like business development and financials. AgBiome has built a wide-ranging platform, called Genesis, integrating plant genomics with breeding and gene editing to characterize the plant microbiome to do this. On the tools side, AgBiome has more scalable plant screening methods and a growing database of plant microbiomes. AgBiome’s work creates a pretty large database of microbes (>80K, growing by 10Ks...
2023-07-0856 min
Axial PodcastChemistry to Build New Imaging Tools & Probe the Brain with Anand MuthusamyAnand Muthusamy is a graduate student at Caltech working in the Lester Lab at the intersection of chemistry and neuroscience. In our conversation we discuss his journey starting at Penn where he studied biochemistry with a strong grounding in philosophy. Working in the Petersson lab, focused on unnatural amino acid mutagenesis to control enzyme function and organic synthesis for the development of fluorescent probes, set up Anand to work under Luke Lavis at Janelia.
While at Janelia, Anand used synthetic organic chemistry to make molecular probes often having application for imaging in neuroscience. We...
2023-07-0852 min
Axial PodcastProteomics and Deep Learning with Melih YilmazMelih Yilmaz is a PhD student at the University of Washington. Where he focuses on computational biology and develop machine learning tools. Advised by William Noble and Sewoong Oh, Melih's current research interests are around proteomics, particularly building deep learning methods to analyze mass spectrometry data.
We start off the conversation talking about his journey to biology and consequently the United States. Around 2016-2017, deep learning had began to gain pace, drawing Melih in. Around the same time, peers of his were going to the US. Slightly influencing Melih to land a research internship...
2023-07-071h 08
Axial PodcastHow Our Microbiomes affect Nutrition & Pharmacology with Peter TurnbaughPeter Turnbaugh is a professor at UCSF studying the human microbiome’s effect on pharmacology and nutrition. In our conversation, we discuss his journey to become a scientist and help pioneer the microbiome field starting in graduate school. We talk about his research as a fellow at Harvard then professor at UCSF, and his lab’s current work. A key theme across the conversation is learning by doing.Peter’s work has been anchored around predicting and controlling the metabolism of complex microbial communities. Going to a liberal arts college, Whitman College, Peter gravitated more to science because the gr...
2023-07-061h 02
Axial PodcastFounding Infinimmune & Developing Breakthrough Tools for Antibody Discovery with Wyatt McDonnellIn our conversation with Wyatt McDonnell, the Co-Founder and CEO of Infinimmune, we discuss his journey to 10X Genomics, his work there, and the founding of Infinimmune. Wyatt is a world-class inventor & immunologist working across a wide range of projects at 10X from launching BEAM (barcode-enabled antigen mapping), working on the Immune Profiling v2 product, and developing various immune repertoire technologies. After making a significant impact on 10X, Wyatt along with 4 other colleagues that had worked together founded Infinimmune to transform human antibodies into drugs.
A key theme of the conversation is that tool users greatly...
2023-03-2456 min
Axial PodcastBecoming a World-Class Scientist & The Rules of Enzymes with Margaux PinneyMargaux Pinney is a Sandler Fellow at UCSF and in our conversation we discuss her journey to become a scientist & leader in her field and her work around enzyme evolution. The Pinney Lab studies how enzymes work, how they got there, and how they will adapt in the future. Margaux grew up in a small town outside of Seattle; Black Diamond, WA named after the high quality coal the town used to produce. As someone "obsessed with details," she thrived in chemistry while in high school. Margaux first considered chemistry as a potential career after a teacher told her...
2023-03-0449 min
Axial PodcastCatalyzing Drug Discovery with AI and Scaled Chemical Libraries with Devon CayerExcited to put out a conversation with Devon Cayer, Co-Founder and CEO of 1859, a platform biotech company merging pico-scale screening and AI to scale small molecule discovery. We talk about his story that led him to founding 1859, how the company was built, and the long-term vision. Devon discusses how to set and measure core metrics for drug discovery platforms and business model design. A key theme across the conversation is "[creating] an ecosystem of solutions to problems." A framework Devon picked up during his scientific career and still applies to growing 1859.
Devon first got interested in science t...
2023-02-2548 min
Axial PodcastBuilding a SaaS Company in Biotech with Abhishek JhaIn our conversation with Abhishek Jha, Co-Founder and CEO of Elucidata, we talk about what it takes to build a SaaS company in biotech, the impact of AI on life sciences, & the prerequisites to build a startup. Abhishek and I discuss his journey as an academic scientist to Agios Pharmaceuticals to founding Elucidata in 2015.
From his journey, a key quote is that “life doesn’t let you do a control experiment.” While making the transition from academia to industry, Abhishek was also exploring D.E. Shaw, where he would have probably stayed to this day, and Elucidata might...
2023-02-1848 min
Axial PodcastChemistry to Control Biology & Building a World-Class Lab with Bryan DickinsonIn our conversation, Bryan discusses everything from directed evolution and drugging RNA to what it takes to start a lab. The Dickinson Lab at the University of Chicago is a unique group composed of biochemists & synthetic chemists to cell biologists & synthetic biologists. The lab set up shop in 2014 to use chemistry to control biology with both evolutionary and rational methods. Bryan's research is heavily influenced by his career starting as an undergrad at Maryland with mentorship from David Fushman to graduate research with Chris Chang at UC Berkeley and a postdoc with David Liu at Harvard. At each point, p...
2023-02-1148 min
Axial PodcastImmunometabolism, Inflammation and Chemistry Intersecting with Greg TimblinGreg is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UCSF studying macrophage immunometabolism in cancer and infection. What makes him truly unique is his ability to do groundbreaking research while training to qualify for the Olympic Trials marathon. Although Greg didn’t make it to the Trials due to injury, he did get a Nature Metabolism publication for his work connecting mitohormesis to immunity, with implications in cancer, longevity, and beyond. Greg grew up in a small Nebraska town where his mother, a kindergarten teacher, cultivated an interest in science. Summer biochemistry research at the University of Colorado spurred Greg to go...
2023-02-0350 min
Axial PodcastImage-Activated Cell Sorting with Keisuke GodaKeisuke Goda has set the standard for sorting cells based on images. As a professor at the University of Tokyo leading a lab of 53 scientists, Keisuke is developing new tools to explore biology at different scales. During grad school at MIT, he studied gravitational waves in the LIGO group where a collaboration at Caltech led to an opportunity to move into biology at UCLA. By bringing LIGO technology, and a physicist's perspective, to cytometry, Keisuke has been able to pioneer the field of sorting cells by an image. In our conversation, we touch upon his career starting in Japan, 15 y...
2022-10-2040 min
Axial PodcastNK Cells and Curing Cancer with Nina HorowitzNina is one of the up-and-coming superstars in biotech. Having just earned her PhD in bioengineering at Stanford in the Sunwoo Lab this summer, she has the scientific horsepower and storytelling ability to make a large impact on drug development, business, and the lives of patients. At the age of 8, Nina was diagnosed with an ovarian teratoma. In some ways, that shifted Nina towards a career in science and a mission to cure cancer. But while she was always interested in science, growing up in the suburbs of New York City enabled her to become world-class oboe and bassoon...
2022-09-131h 01
Axial PodcastGraph Machine Learning and Life Sciences with Hannes StärkHannes is a graduate student at MIT working towards a PhD in computer science. Within the span of a few months, he has been able to publish two ICML papers: one focused on molecular property prediction and the other developing a model, called EquiBind, for drug binding prediction. Hannes, advised by both Regina Barzilay and Tommi Jaakkola, is doing exciting research at the intersection of graph machine learning and biology. In this conversation, we discuss his career so far starting at Munich to an internship at MIT that ultimately led to Hannes starting his PhD at MIT earlier this summer...
2022-09-0645 min
Axial PodcastA Common Language for Therapeutic Synthetic Biology with Justin FarlowWe talk with Justin Farlow, Co-Founder and CTO of Serotiny about his journey from UCSF to founding a company with his brother, Colin. In this conversation, Justin discusses his initial discovery of engineer-able biology from a physics lens to earning his PhD at UCSF under Zev Gartner while being in the epicenter of both synthetic biology and software startups. Then he goes into his journey as a founder, starting Serotiny initially as a SaaS company then pivoting toward building a wet-lab platform after the approval of the first CAR T therapies. Mammalian synthetic biology promised curative therapies in both...
2022-07-291h 02
Axial PodcastExtrachromosomal DNA and Cancer Development with King HungKing is currently a graduate student in the Howard Chang Lab at Stanford. In this conversation, we discuss everything from the beginning of his scientific career to extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) and cancer drug development. King went to college at the University of Washington where he became passionate about developmental biology. The beauty of a FISH experiment hooked King to lab work and set him on a path to become a world-class biologist.
He chose to go to graduate school at Stanford and join the Chang Lab to bring together various genomic tools to study cancer development. King...
2022-07-1149 min
Axial PodcastHigh-Throughput Chemistry and Engineering with Kadi SaarReally excited to put out this conversation with Kadi Saar, an outstanding inventor and world-class computational chemist, where we discuss her career spanning childhood interests to graduate research to her work now around high-throughput structural biology and condensates. Kadi is a rising star in life sciences building out new experimental and computational tools to probe biology and advance human health.
Early on in her life, it was pretty obvious that Kadi was very unique. She won Estonia's Got Talent for mental arithmetics. You can watch her talent here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBNrq28ADQY I...
2022-06-3054 min
Axial PodcastMachine Learning-Assisted Directed Evolution with Bruce WittmannWe discuss Bruce's career from being pre-med and getting into research while at Washington University in St. Louis to working at Intrexon and going to grad school at Caltech afterwards. While at Intrexon, he saw the need for better tools to scale biology and decided to go to Caltech to pursue his ideas. At Caltech, he was advised by Prof. Frances Arnold, who pioneered the protein engineering technique "directed evolution" that eventually led to her winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2018. While a member of the Arnold Lab, Bruce was part of a group bringing machine learning to p...
2022-06-1656 min
Axial PodcastNew Models, Tools, and Targets for the Brain: Breakthroughs in Phosphoproteomics and Neurodegeneration with Nader Morshed from the White and Tsai Labs at MIT
We discuss Nader's career from learning structural biology in the Marqusee and Alber Labs at UC Berkeley to his pioneering graduate work at MIT with Forest White and Li-Huei Tsai and now at Stevens at Harvard Medical School. The conversation is centered around the 2 groundbreaking papers he published while earning his PhD:
1. Phosphoproteomics identifies microglial Siglec-F inflammatory response during neurodegeneration
2. Quantitative phosphoproteomics uncovers dysregulated kinase networks in Alzheimer’s disease
His research uses phosphoproteomics to capture the heterogeneity in Alzheimer's disease progression and uncover new leads to understand neurodegeneration. Genetic studies like GW...
2022-01-111h 02
Axial PodcastPrecision-First Therapeutics: Building the Next Roche with Diego Rey, Co-Founder and CSO of Endpoint HealthWe discuss Diego's career from building GeneWeave (acquired by Roche) to Endpoint Health now. Endpoint is pioneering a new business model merging diagnostics, data, and drug development to start with patient data and back into a therapy. The company is using their platform to develop first-line medicines for indications in infectious diseases with no approved therapies and beyond. Truly, Endpoint is leading a new wave of progress within critical and chronic illnesses. A favorite quote of mine after speaking with Diego: during an acquisition, "as an entrepreneur, you do a deal like this once." so while at GeneWeave they...
2021-12-081h 02
Axial PodcastFrom Paint to Biotech: Turning Biology into a Predictive Science, The Story of Seven Bridges, Totient, and AbSci with James Sietstra and Deniz KuralWe discuss James' and Deniz's careers from how they first met to founding Seven Bridges and Totient and now building AbSci after Totient was recently acquired. With experience leading teams in the 100s spanning genomics and SaaS to drug development and even paint from James' childhood entrepreneurial pursuits, both have an incredible amount of wisdom on scaling technology companies. We touch on AbSci's unique model of accelerating and lowering the barriers for biologics development and talk about the finding the right platform-partner fit. Some favorite quotes of mine after this conversation are: during any negotiations, "competition is highly important...
2021-12-071h 05
Axial PodcastData Driving Experimentation: Merging Biology and Data Science with Jacob Oppenheim, VP of Integrative Data Sciences at EQRxWe discuss Jacob's career going from physics to biology and making the transition from academia to industry. Building and leading data science teams at GNS Healthcare, Indigo, and now EQRx, Jacob is one of the best data scientists in biotech. In our conversation, we talk about ways to generate standardized data for machine learning models, building interdisciplinary teams, and implementing relevant models for drug development. Then we touch on EQRx's fast follower drug development model and the role of data in integrating decision making across the board from target ID to commercialization. A favorite quote of mine from talking t...
2021-12-031h 02
Axial PodcastNext-Generation Biotech Platforms: Engineering Biology with Brian Naughton, Founding Scientist at 23andMe and Co-Founder and Head of Data at Hexagon BioWe discuss Brian's career starting at Trinity in Dublin to Stanford, 23andMe, and Hexagon. In our conversation, we talk about the interplay between computation and biology, business models in biotech, and what it takes to build world-class teams. Brian really has the superpower of building and being part of talent hubs. If he ever wants to, I know he would build the best talent agency in biotech.
2021-11-261h 07
Axial PodcastCloud BIology: Automation and the Future of Biology with with DJ Kleinbaum, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Emerald Cloud LabWe discuss the founding story of Emerald Cloud Lab, their mission to help scientists to get access to any instrument they want, the company's platform and applications, long-term vision and more. A favorite quote of mine from talking to DJ was: "understand the stories of the advice you get."
2021-11-1957 min
Axial PodcastBorgs: Genome and Climate Engineering with Basem Al-Shayeb from the Banfield and Doudna Labs at UC BerkeleyWe discuss Basem's recent preprint, Borgs are giant extrachromosomal elements with the potential to augment methane oxidation. In our conversation, we discuss Basem's scientific career, the story of Borgs, how they were named, and their impact on our environment. A favorite quote of mine from talking to Basem was: "the next great discovery could be right in your backyard."
2021-11-1242 min
TomorrowScale PodcastHuman on a Chip - EmulateOn this episode we'll meet Dr. Daniel Levner, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Emulate, a company commercializing technology to remake human biology from the ground up using small rubbery microfluidic chips.
Forged in a multi-year partnership between DARPA and Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Emulate develops organ chips for the lung, intestine, liver, kidney, and even the brain. Slotting in between cell culture dishes, organoids, and animal models, this burgeoning area is one in which startups must marry high design and fundamentally challenging biomedical engineering to recapitulate a human being on a chip reproducibly...
2021-09-1642 min
Axial PodcastBeyond Undruggable: The Future of Drug Development with Cameron Pye & Joshua Schwochert from Unnatural ProductsCameron Pye and Joshua Schwochert are the founders of Unnatural Products. For the first podcast, we discuss their founding story coming out of academia, the history of macrocycle natural products, and how Unnatural Products is using synthetic macrocycles to usher in the the future of drug development.
2021-07-1941 min
The Inspiration StationEpisode 12: JoshJosh shares his story of how he was brought up and did things you wouldn't have imagined just from looking at him!
Josh IG: joshua_elkington
The Movement Within: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHETcCmrfjz0i7yXSJEUWHQ
2020-06-1553 min
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