Clinical Trials
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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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Capstan Therapeutics' CEO Laura Shawver On In Vivo Cell Engineering
11/10/2022
Capstan Therapeutics' CEO, Laura Shawver, Ph.D., talks us through the company's in vivo CAR therapies and what led to the in vivo cell engineering breakthrough that has been decades in the making. Shawver explains the promise of harnessing mRNA and targeted LNP delivery to train a patient’s body to make CAR-T cells in vivo. She also details best practices to garner funding and investment partnership.
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Reimagining In Vivo Gene Editing Through Base Editing and Targeted Delivery with Beam Therapeutics' Gopi Shanker, Ph.D.
6/2/2026
In episode 2 of this four-part in vivo-focused special series of Cell & Gene: The Podcast, Host Erin Harris sits down with Gopi Shanker, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer at Beam Therapeutics, for an in-depth conversation on the rapidly evolving landscape of in vivo gene editing and precision genetic medicines.
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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.
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Can Gene Therapy Be The Solution For CHF With AskBio's Dr. Lothar Roessig
12/18/2024
Lothar Roessig, M.D., SVP, Integrated Product Team Lead, Congestive Heart Failure at Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc. (AskBio) discusses the biggest challenges in developing gene therapies for cardiovascular diseases.
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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.
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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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The Editors' Roundtable: A 2025 Retrospective of the Life Sciences Industry
1/8/2026
We’re sharing this episode on Cell & Gene: The Podcast because Better Biopharma is a sister podcast within the Life Science Connect family. This conversation speaks directly to the challenges and opportunities our Cell & Gene: The Podcast audience is navigating right now.
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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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Reducing the Disease Burden of AML with Vor Bio's Dr. Robert Ang
4/11/2024
In 2021 on Episode 13, Vor Bio’s President and CEO, Dr. Robert Ang shared data about the company’s lead engineered hematopoietic cell (eHSC) product candidate. Dr. Ang is back to talk to Cell & Gene: The Podcast Host, Erin Harris, about how Vor has treated 8 patients demonstrating clinical proof of concept and is also in the clinic with a CAR-T that could be used in combination with shielded stem cell transplants.