Discovery
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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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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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Gene Therapies For Spinal Cord-Related Disorders With SwanBio's CSO
9/16/2021
Karen Kozarsky, Ph.D., Co-Founder and CSO of SwanBio explains how the company is pioneering a deep and varied pipeline of gene therapies for genetically defined neurological diseases with a focus on the spinal cord.
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Inside Genome Editing With CBER's Dr. Peter Marks
9/12/2023
The FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER)'s Dr. Peter Marks makes his second appearance on Cell & Gene: The Podcast. This time Dr. Marks talks to Host, Erin Harris, about base editing and prime editing and their potential to meet unmet medical need. They discuss what clinical holds say about the FDA’s views on gene editing. They also discuss heritable genome editing.
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Extracellular Vesicle Breakthroughs with Aegle Therapeutics' Dr. Gloria Matthews
6/17/2025
In this episode of Cell & Gene: The Podcast, Host Erin Harris interviews Dr. Gloria Matthews, Chief Medical Officer of Aegle Therapeutics, a clinical-stage regenerative medicine company focused on developing therapies for rare and severe dermatologic and immunologic disorders.
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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 A Dopamine-Restoring Cell Therapy For PD With BlueRock Therapeutics' Dr. Amit Rakhit
12/4/2024
On this episode of Cell & Gene: The Podcast, Host Erin Harris, invites BlueRock Therapeutics' Dr. Amit Rakhit to take a deep dive into therapy options for Parkinson's disease (PD). They discuss how BlueRock's bemdaneprocel's mechanism of action differs from traditional PD treatments, the limitations of current PD medications, and much more.
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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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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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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).