Regulatory

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Barriers, Breakthroughs, and Building Access in Pediatric CGTs with Bambi Grilley, Ph.D. 8/21/2025

   This is Episode 3 of "FDA Fridays," a 4-week special series from Cell & Gene: The Podcast. Host Erin Harris talks to Bambi Grilley, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics and the Director of Clinical Research and Early Product Development for the Center of Cell and Gene Therapy (CAGT) at Baylor College of Medicine and Chief Regulatory Officer for ISCT, a leading expert at the forefront of pediatric cell and gene therapy.

5. Defining Product Roles and Navigating FDA Approval with Monika Swietlicka 8/13/2025

   In Episode 2 of FDA Fridays, the special series from Cell & Gene: The Podcast, Host Erin Harris talks to regulatory expert Monika Swietlicka, Principal, Regulatory Strategy, Halloran Consulting Group to discuss key strategies and challenges in navigating FDA regulation for cell and gene therapies.

6. Bridging Development and Regulation in CGT with Halloran Consulting Group's Monika Swietlicka 6/3/2025

   On this episode of Cell & Gene: The Podcast, Host Erin Harris welcomes Monika Swietlicka, Principal, Regulatory Strategy at Halloran Consulting Group to discuss the key regulatory challenges facing cell and gene therapy companies.

7. 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.

8. Inside a Breakthrough HER2 Immunotherapy for PMO with OS Therapies' Paul Romness 2/10/2026

   In episode 122 of Cell & Gene: The Podcast, Host Erin Harris talks to Paul Romness, CEO of OS Therapies, to learn the company’s mission to address the severe unmet need in pulmonary metastatic osteosarcoma (PMO), a rare pediatric cancer with no established standard of care once it metastasizes.

9. 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.

10. Regulatory Flexibility in CGT: Key Shifts and Implications with Monika Swietlicka 3/24/2026

    On episode 125 of Cell & Gene: The Podcast, Host Erin Harris talks to Halloran Consulting Group's Monika Swietlicka to discuss how the FDA is increasing flexibility in cell and gene therapy development without lowering evidentiary standards, emphasizing a risk-based, holistic approach.