Clinical Trials

  1. Inside Gene Therapies for Cardiac Care with Tenaya Therapeutics' Faraz Ali 2/11/2025

    In this episode, Erin Harris sits down with Faraz Ali, CEO of Tenaya Therapeutics, to explore the cutting-edge world of gene therapies for heart diseases. As Tenaya makes significant strides in developing innovative treatments, Ali shares insights on Tenaya's gene therapy platform, their in-house manufacturing capabilities, and the potential impact of their therapies on prevalent heart conditions.

  2. 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.

  3. The Intersection Of RNA, AI, And Synthetic Biology With Shape Therapeutics' Dr. Francois Vigneault 7/18/2023

    Dr. Francois Vigneault, Co-Founder, President, and CEO at Shape Therapeutics joins Cell & Gene: The Podcast's Erin Harris to discuss how RNA technologies are shaping the future of gene therapy. They also discuss AI's role in gene therapy as well as how the CGT sector is benefiting from RNA, AI, and synthetic biology.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. Harnessing the Power of Cord Blood Tregs with Cellenkos' Dr. Simrit Parmar 3/12/2025

    In this episode, Host Erin Harris sits down with Dr. Simrit Parmar, Founder of Cellenkos, to explore how the company is pioneering umbilical cord blood-derived Regulatory T cell (Treg) cell therapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.