Discovery
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Gene Therapy for Inherited Retinal Diseases with Opus Genetics' Dr. George Magrath
7/1/2025
In this episode of Cell & Gene: The Podcast, George Magrath, CEO of Opus Genetics, shares with Host, Erin Harris, how the company is advancing gene therapies for inherited retinal diseases (IRDs), with a focus on LCA5, a rare and severe form of childhood blindness.
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Navigating The Journey To Safer Stem Cell Therapies With Orca Bio's Nate Fernhoff
7/29/2025
Cell & Gene: The Podcast Host, Erin Harris, talks to Orca Bio CEO and Co-Founder Nathaniel Fernhoff as he recounts the company’s origins and evolution, tracing its roots to pioneering stem cell research at Stanford University and Dr. Irv Weissman's lab.
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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.
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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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TILs for the Treatment of Solid Tumors with KSQ Therapeutics' Micah Benson, Ph.D.
7/4/2024
KSQ Therapeutics' CSO, Micah Benson, Ph.D., joins Erin Harris to discuss how Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TILs) as a treatment modality have the potential to treat a variety of solid tumor types.
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Developing an mRNA Therapy for DMD with Elixirgen Therapeutics' Aki Ko
6/5/2024
Elixirgen Therapeutics' Aki Ko joins Erin Harris to detail the company's Bobcat mRNA™ therapeutic and how it differs from traditional exon-skipping drugs and AAV-microdystrophin in treating DMD.
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Turning the Tumor Microenvironment Against Cancer with MGB's Alexander Cryer, Ph.D.
12/12/2025
In Episode 118, Host Erin Harris talks to Alexander Cryer, Ph.D., Instructor in Medicine at Mass General Brigham, about a proof-of-concept strategy that reprograms tumor cells with mRNA lipid nanoparticles to overactivate the cGAS-STING pathway, forcing cancer cells to produce and export large amounts of the innate immune agonist cGAMP to stimulate surrounding immune cells and drive anti-tumor immunity.
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Inside Cellular Rejuvenation Therapies for Age-Related Diseases with Life Biosciences' Sharon Rosenzweig-Lipson, Ph.D.
3/14/2024
On this episode of Cell & Gene: The Podcast, Host Erin Harris talks to Life Biosciences' CSO, Sharon Rosenzweig-Lipson, Ph.D., about the Boston-based biotech's cellular rejuvenation therapies for the treatment of age-related diseases.
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Inside CRISPR-GPT With Yuanhao Qu
8/26/2025
In this episode of Cell & Gene Podcast episode, Host Erin Harris talks to Stanford School of Medicine Ph.D. student, Yuanhao Qu, about his work developing CRISPR-GPT, an AI-driven multi-agent system designed to automate genetic experimental design and data analysis, making CRISPR experiments more efficient and accessible, even for non-experts.
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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.