Discovery

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Engineering Off-The-Shelf Cell Therapies For Cancer And Autoimmune Disease With Ernexa Therapeutics' Sanjeev Luther 9/9/2025

    On this episode of Cell & Gene: The Podcast, Host Erin Harris talks to Ernexa Therapeutics' President and CEO, Sanjeev Luther, about how the company is advancing cell therapy innovation for cancer and autoimmune disease through engineered induced pluripotent stem cell-derived mesenchymal stem cells (iMSCs).

  4. 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.

  5. CRI's Response to NIH Cuts with Alicia Zhou, Ph.D. 4/22/2025

    In this episode of the Cell & Gene podcast, Host Erin Harris speaks with Alicia Zhou, Ph.D., CEO of the Cancer Research Institute (CRI), about CRI’s mission to advance cancer immunotherapy and the critical role of federal funding, particularly from the NIH, in supporting basic and translational cancer research.

  6. 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.

  7. Rethinking CGT Biotech Growth & Investment with Audrey Greenberg 4/8/2025

    On the 100th episode of Cell & Gene: The Podcast, Host, Erin Harris, sits down with Audrey Greenberg, Founder and CEO of AG Capital Advisors. Audrey is the award-winning executive, board director, and strategic advisor with a proven track record of launching, scaling, and successfully exiting multi-billion-dollar ventures.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. Tackling 'The Delivery Problem' Of Gene Editing-Based Medicines 7/18/2024

    Lucas Harrington, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Mammoth Biosciences, joins Erin Harris to shed light on the biotech's proprietary ultracompact CRISPR systems to develop potential long-term curative therapies for patients with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. They discuss why in vivo delivery continues to be a bottleneck against the clinical advancement of gene-editing-based medicines and what ultracompact CRISPR systems are designed to do.