Cell & Gene The Podcast Videocast

  1. Globalization's Impact on Patient Access with ARM's COO, Rita Johnson-Greene 11/20/2024

    Rita Johnson-Greene, COO at Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM) joined Cell & Gene: The Podcast Host, Erin Harris, on-site during the 2024 Meeting on the Mesa to record their discussion. Johnson-Greene shared information about the Joint Clinical Assessment (JCA) in Europe and its potential impact on cell and gene therapies, how globalization impacts patient access, an update on ARM's Grow Internship Program, as well as a few key takeaways from the event that sector professionals can anticipate impacting the CGTs in the next 12 months and beyond.

  2. Improving TCR T-Cell Persistence and Efficacy with Adaptimmune's Dennis Williams 11/6/2024

    On this episode of Cell & Gene: The Podcast, Host Erin Harris talks to Dennis Williams, Senior Vice President of Late Stage Development at Adaptimmune. Williams shares valuable insights into the groundbreaking world of TCR T-cell therapies, with a particular focus on the TECELRA trial.

  3. Live from ARM's Meeting on the Mesa with Kiji Therapeutics' Dr. Miguel Forte 10/23/2024

    This episode of Cell & Gene: The Podcast was recorded on site during ARM's 2024 Meeting on the Mesa in Phoenix. Tune in to hear Host Erin Harris talk to Miguel Forte, M.D., Ph.D., CEO of Kiji Therapeutics, President of ISCT, and Executive Committee Member of ARM about Kiji's clinical plan and why iPSC-MSC therapy for inflammatory diseases shows great promise.

  4. Pioneering Next-Gen TCR Therapies In Solid Tumors With Neogene Therapeutics' Carsten Linnemann, Ph.D. 10/9/2024

    Carsten Linnemann, Ph.D., CEO of Neogene Therapeutics and Head of Oncology Cell Therapy Clinical Development, AstraZeneca joins Cell & Gene: The Podcast’s Erin Harris to discuss T-cell receptor (TCR) therapies for solid cancers.

  5. Optogenetics for Vision Restoration with Ray Therapeutics' Paul Bresge 9/25/2024

    Ray Therapeutics' Co-Founder and CEO, Paul Bresge, joins Host Erin Harris to talk about optogenetics and how the company’s optogenetics approach differs from other gene therapies on the market developed to restore vision in retinal diseases like retinitis pigmentosa.

  6. A New Approach to Genome Engineering with Tessera Therapeutics' Dr. Michael Severino 9/11/2024

    Tessera Therapeutics' CEO, Dr. Michael Severino, joins Host Erin Harris to discuss Gene Writing, the biotech's genome engineering technology that writes therapeutic messages into the genome to treat diseases at their source. Severino discusses why delivery has always been a challenge for gene editing technologies and why Gene Writing is different when it comes to efficient delivery.

  7. Scaling Allo with Allogene Therapeutics' Dr. Zachary Roberts 8/29/2024

    Cell & Gene: The Podcast Host, Erin Harris, welcomes Allogene Therapeutics' EVP of R&D and CMO, Dr. Zachary Roberts, for an in-depth interview about existing issues with current CAR T approaches, "auto versus allo," and why allogeneic is the path forward. They also discuss how and why allogeneic therapies are truly scalable.

  8. CGT Regulatory Update and Outlook with Dark Horse Consulting's Kimberly Benton, Ph.D. 8/14/2024

    Dark Horse Consulting Group (DHC)'s Kimberly Benton, Ph.D. joins Erin Harris to discuss Biologics License Applications (BLAs) of recent approvals as well as those currently under review. Benton shares information about FDA Draft Guidances, including Platform Technology Designation Program for Drug Development: Guidance for Industry.

  9. Identifying Drug Development Opportunities For DMD With CureDuchenne 8/1/2024

    Debra Miller, CEO and Founder and Dr. Michael Kelly, Chief Scientific Officer at CureDuchenne talk to Host Erin Harris about the FDA approval for the expansion to the label indication for ELEVIDYS from Sarepta Therapeutics as well as how CureDuchenne works with various biotechs developing gene therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).

  10. Tackling 'The Delivery Problem' Of Gene Editing-Based Medicines 7/18/2024

    Lucas Harrington, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Mammoth Biosciences, joins Erin Harris to shed light on the biotech's proprietary ultracompact CRISPR systems to develop potential long-term curative therapies for patients with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. They discuss why in vivo delivery continues to be a bottleneck against the clinical advancement of gene-editing-based medicines and what ultracompact CRISPR systems are designed to do.