Clinical Trials
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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.
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Advancing Gene Therapy for FTD with Passage Bio's Dr. Will Chou
8/12/2025
In this episode of Cell & Gene: The Podcast, Host Erin Harris talks to Will Chou, M.D., CEO of Passage Bio about the promise and challenges of developing gene therapies for frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a neurodegenerative disease with strong genetic underpinnings.
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Redefining Heart Failure Treatment with Precision Autologous Cell Therapy with BioCardia's Peter Altman, Ph.D.
5/6/2025
In this episode of Cell & Gene: The Podcast, Host Erin Harris sits down with Peter Altman, Ph.D., CEO of BioCardia, to discuss the company’s evolution from a cardiac biotherapeutic delivery firm to a developer of autologous and allogeneic cell therapies for cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases.
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Targeting Oncogenic Drivers for Solid Tumor Cancers with Affini-T Therapeutics' Dr. Jak Knowles
5/23/2023
Affini-T Therapeutics combines a validated TCR discovery platform with synthetic biology switches to attack tumor biology at its root cause. Co-Founder, CEO, and President Dr. Jak Knowles joins Cell & Gene: The Podcast Host Erin Harris to discuss how the company engineers immune cells to target oncogenic driver mutations, such as KRAS, the most prevalent oncogenic driver mutation in solid tumors, to minimize potential tumor escape mechanisms.
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Developing Itvisma for Broad-Range Treatment of SMA with Novartis' Dr. Norman Putzki
12/22/2025
In episode 119 of Cell & Gene The Podcast, Host Erin Harris talks to Dr. Norman Putzki, Global Head Clinical Development, Novartis, about the FDA approval of Itvisma, now the only gene replacement therapy approved for children, adolescents, and adults with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
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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.
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Rewriting Disease Biology Through LSD1 Inhibition with Oryzon's Carlos Buesa, Ph.D.
4/22/2026
On Episode 127 of Cell & Gene: The Podcast, Carlos Buesa, Ph.D., Founder and Chairman of the Board at Oryzon talks to Host Erin Harris about how targeting LSD1 is unlocking new treatment approaches across oncology, CNS disorders, and sickle cell disease, with promising early clinical data and a strategy grounded in precision epigenetics.
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CGTs for HIV Suppression with Addimmune's Dr. Marcus Conant
5/9/2024
On this episode of Cell & Gene: The Podcast, Addimmune CMO, Dr. Marcus Conant, shares the why behind cell and gene therapy to treat HIV, and he explains the company's lead asset, AGT103-T, which is designed to provide broad protection using silencing RNA to inhibit binding/entry of the virus, halt replication, and prevent escape.
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Inside BlueRock Therapeutics' Parkinson's Disease Trial with Dr. Ahmed Enayetallah
4/25/2024
BlueRock Therapeutics' SVP Head of Development, Dr. Ahmed Enayetallah, joins Cell & Gene: The Podcast Host, Erin Harris, to discuss the company's phase I clinical trial for Parkinson’s disease, which continues to show positive trends at 18 months.
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Treating Inherited Retinal Disorders with Ocugen's Dr. Arun Upadhyay
11/18/2025
In episode 116 of Cell & Gene: The Podcast, Host Erin Harris talks to Dr. Arun Upadhyay, Chief Scientific officer, Head of Research and Development at Ocugen to discuss how the company’s modifier gene therapy platform is redefining treatment possibilities for inherited retinal diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa, Stargardt disease, and geographic atrophy.