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Success Lessons from a Serial Entrepreneur with Leonard Mazur
Enjoy this podcast with Leonard Mazur , the co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Citius Pharmaceuticals , a late-stage biopharma company...
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May 142 min read
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He’s setting the world of Inflammation and Immunology research on fire!
Today we are honored to have Dr. Josep Bassaganya-Riera, President and CEO of NImmune Biopharma , to talk about how his company is...
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Apr 162 min read
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Patient Advocacy is NOT optional!
In this podcast, we are pleased to have Mike Walsh, CEO of Patient Advocacy Strategies as our guest. Patient advocacy may seem like a...
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Mar 192 min read
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Taming the Behemoth of Adverse Drug Reactions with Zach Brooks
It’s shocking that 106,000 people die every year from adverse drug reactions. Moreover, 350,000 people are hospitalized every year, 1.3...
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Feb 122 min read
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A cup of Kombucha that ignited the war on sugar addiction
In this episode, filed at Science Square in Atlanta, we speak with David Francis  and Mighten Yip  of Palate Therapeutics , whose mission...
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Jan 152 min read
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Shooting for the Stars with Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals
With over 1.5 million people suffering traumatic brain injuries a year, 800,000 stroke victims, and millions of concussions, the impact...
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Dec 18, 20242 min read
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Knee-deep in meniscus redesign: the story of Atlanta’s OrthoPreserve
There are 1.4 million meniscus procedures performed in the US and Europe every single year. Most of those are meniscetomy which is when...
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Nov 20, 20242 min read
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Confronting the task of delivering scalable amounts of protein to a billion cows
Our guest today is Dr. Ivan Liachko, the CEO of Seattle-based Phase Genomics , a company whose core technology is ultra-long genome...
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Oct 16, 20242 min read
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What Pharma really thinks about Startups
Tune in for this insightful podcast with David Weinstock , the Vice President of Discovery Oncology at Merck, to find out what pharma...
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Aug 14, 20241 min read
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Meet the Reluctant Founder who is waging war on Antibiotic Resistant Infections!
Our guest today is another Atlanta luminary, Dr. Marvin Whiteley, the founder and CSO of SynthBiome, Inc. Deaths are expected to increase...
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Jul 10, 20242 min read
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How this founder raised $230MM in capital
Carter Cliff comes across, to nearly all who meet him, as a humble and soft-spoken scientist. You would never guess that he is a...
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Jun 12, 20242 min read
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Targeting the Ribosome: taking on platinum resistance in solid ovarian tumors in a safer way!
Today we’ve got Dr. Jonathan Arambula and Dr. Krystle Karoscik of InnovoTex, an oncology therapeutics company developing a platform of...
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May 15, 20243 min read
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Price controls for medicine – a chilling effect for innovators?
We’re going to talk with Peter Pitts, President of Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, about the IRA, which is impacting every...
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Apr 17, 20242 min read
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How to get funding for your biotech: what investors look for
According to Carta, in the first quarter of 2023, the median seed valuation for biotech and pharma rose 33% from the same quarter in the...
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Mar 20, 20242 min read
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Finding a cure for the neglected diseases of the world’s poor: an interview with drug discovery superstar Dr. Dennis Liotta
Dr. Dennis Liotta is very humble but don’t let that fool you – underneath the poised demeanor he’s a impassioned drug discovery giant who...
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Feb 14, 20242 min read
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Atlanta life sciences companies in OVERDRIVE: don’t sleep on ‘em!
Today we have four very special guests, some friends of mine, who are going to share with us the story behind all the momentum driving...
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Jan 17, 20245 min read
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Making vaccine delivery as simple as the flick of a lighter
Our guest today is Gaurav Byagathvalli, a Geoge Tech alum and the CEO of Piezo Therapeurtics, a company developing an innovative nucleic...
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Dec 13, 20232 min read
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Conquering the Disease State with Nolan Townsend
Our guest today is Nolan Townsend, the CEO of LEXEO Therapeutics, which focused on expanding the application of crisper gene therapies...
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Nov 8, 20232 min read
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The problem with how people take their medications
Today I am really excited to have Charles Gellman, CEO of HiDO Health. HiDO is a company that is focused on using artificial intelligence...
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Oct 11, 20232 min read
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Pills are not the only solution to big pain! With Dr. Amy Baxter
Our guest today is Dr. Amy Baxter, the CEO of Pain Care Labs, a company dedicated to using mechanical platforms such as vibrating devices...
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Sep 13, 20232 min read
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