Life Sciences Today

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Daniel Blumenthal, VP of Strategy at MDClone. I talk with MDClone’s VP Strategy about how the company evolved from an early synthetic data pioneer (2016) into a broader data-access and data-extraction platform in a now-crowded market (Snowflake, Oracle, Epic, many synthetic data vendors). Our discussion explores MDClone’s core “nexus” capability of extracting privacy-protected, row-level longitudinal patient data from heterogeneous healthcare systems and producing different types of synthetic data for distinct use cases (research, cross-site collaboration, model deve...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is David Bates, Founder and CEO at Linus Health. I talk with David Bates about Linus Health’s mission to transform brain health from late-stage “sick care” to proactive, preventive care. David explains his journey from signal detection research and investing in built-environment technologies to founding Linus Health around the insight that behavior is the primary observable output of the brain. We discuss Linus’s 3-minute digital cognitive assessments that turn rich behavioral signals into thousands of digital bi...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Philip Poulidis, CEO at Toronto-based ODAIA. Poulidis is tackling one of pharma’s biggest bottlenecks: slow, siloed commercial analytics. Spun out of academic research, ODAIA’s real-time AI platform unifies patient and HCP journey data, replacing months-old reports with dynamic insights that help reps, liaisons, and marketers target the right physicians at the right time — improving prescriptions, outcomes, and patient access. regulated by the USDA/FDA.

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Walt Pebley, Chief Scientific Officer at OFD Life Sciences. With over four decades in lyophilization, Walt Pebley has helped OFD become the gold standard in stabilizing probiotics, biologics, and therapeutics. His journey — from personal tragedy to pioneering new delivery platforms — highlights how freeze drying shapes the future of medicine, from shelf-stable powders to novel formats for pain, diabetes, and neurology drugs, food, and dietary supplements regulated by USDA/FDA.

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Tiffany Callahan, Lead Architect of Agentic AI Systems at SandboxAQ. As a physicist, I love her approach to Large Quantitative Models trained on physics, chemistry, biology, and math to model the real world.

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Jeff Gombala, Founder and CEO at Evidexa. Jeff Gombala started Helios Innovation with an idea that seems obvious – use expert knowledge and AI models to validate healthtech and medtech products.

We’re going to talk about Jeff’s journey, the value they are creating, how they’re turning that into a business, and where they want to take customers by 2026.

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is David Lazerson, Co-Founder and CEO at Briya.

Briya started in 2020 with a bold idea — using cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs to make healthcare data shareable, secure, and compliant. Fast forward to today, they’ve just launched Briya AIRE, a clinical-grade AI research platform that promises to let researchers ask questions in plain English and get scientifically robust answers back — without writing code.

We’re going to talk about David’s journey, the value Briya is crea...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Shai Melcer, Head of the National Program for Bioconvergence at The Israel Innovation Authority. We kick this episode off by first learning what bioconvergence is. Then we talk about who The Israel Innovation Authority’s customers are. Next, we examine why this is such a unique opportunity for Israel. But no opportunity is without its competition, so we talk about how Melcer is competing with cyber and defense — which are huge sectors here. Melcer then also shares...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Yann Gaston-Mathé, Co-Founder and CEO at Iktos.

Iktos combines AI drug discovery with a robot chemist – AI designs novel compounds considering synthesis constraints, and robots automatically synthesize compounds (100 reactions in parallel vs 2 manual).

Trained as a mathematical engineer, Yann Gaston-Mathé crossed from numbers into biology, carrying a belief that drug discovery could be faster, smarter, and more humane. With Iktos, he’s bringing that vision to life — combining generative AI and robotics to redesig...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is James Hamrick, MD, MPH, Chairman of the Caris Precision Oncology Alliance at Caris Life Sciences. By combining massive amounts of genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic data with clinical outcomes, Caris has created one of the largest and most comprehensive multimodal databases of combined molecular and clinical outcomes data in the world – more than 600,000 matched patient records and growing.

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Aaron Brauser, General Manager Life Sciences at Carta Healthcare.

AI should work in synergy with clinical expertise. This “Hybrid Intelligence” approach propelled Carta Healthcare to become a leader in clinical data abstraction, serving health systems and pharma companies. Their platform leverages a combination of AI, LLMs, and clinically guided expert models to analyze EHR data in real time, instantly matching patients to clinical trials. Additionally, the solution captures and makes available all the key clinic...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Tim O’Connell, Founder and CEO at emtelligent. Tim O’Connell and Anoop Sarkar started emtelligent in 2016 with a need that Tim had (and still has) as a practicing radiologist. How do you take the massive volume of unstructured text in healthcare and put it into a clean, structured format?

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Wessam Sonbol, Founder and CEO at Delve Health. Sonbol founded Delve Health after watching his mother struggle to access a cancer trial, despite his 25 years in the industry. His company now brings trials into patients’ homes with wearables, AI agents, and multilingual support — aiming for 90%+ compliance, cutting rare-disease dropout rates, and automating many of the manual tasks that bog down site coordinators.

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Rajesh Krishna, Senior Distinguished Scientist at Certara and a recognized leader in drug development. With 25+ years of experience, he’s shaped model-informed strategies for biologics, vaccines, and small molecules, and is consistently ranked among the top 2% of influential scientists.

Drug development is too slow and expensive. Certara helps companies design better trials, predict outcomes, and reduce risk using modeling, simulation, and AI. The goal is straightforward: make it faster and more efficient to bring safe...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Tigran Arzumanov, Founder and CEO at Basel-based BDaaS.

BDaaS helps US life science companies expand into Europe by solving one of their toughest problems: hiring business development talent. Instead of choosing between juniors without connections and seniors without the energy for outreach, BDaaS offers an experienced EU sales team, complete with infrastructure and tech stack, ready to start immediately in a flexible engagement model.

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Pamela Tenaerts, Chief Medical Officer at Medable. Tenaerts talks about how they improve accessibility for patients in the 15-year follow-up period mandated by the FDA for patients in gene therapy trials. Patients often travel from far (even internationally) for treatment, sponsors have to pay for infrastructure costs for maintaining multiple sites, and patients have to deal with parking and logistics issues at hospitals.

Medable’s eCOA software enables patients to use their phones to repo...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Viraj Narayanan, CEO at Cornerstone AI. Cornerstone uses AI to clean and standardize healthcare data. Cleaning healthcare data is a non-sexy job that consumes staggering amounts of resources in the industry. When Narayanan was at McKesson, he had 25 PhD biostatisticians who spent 70% of their time on data cleaning.

Cornerstone AI reduces data cleaning time from 8-12 weeks to days. They maintain human oversight while accelerating processes, improve data quality while reducing processing time, and sc...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Aaron Smith, Co-Founder of Unlearn, to talk about how they use digital twins to save resources in clinical trials and fast-track the most promising therapies.

Unlearn increases the statistical power of clinical trials with fewer patients using disease-specific ML models. Leading biopharma companies are applying Unlearn’s technology in real-world clinical trials today. Abbvie is accelerating Clinical Development in Alzheimer’s Disease using Unlearn to reduce control arm size by 33% and reduce time to complete...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Ronen Veksler, Co-Founder and CEO at Promise Bio. Promise Bio is an early-stage tech-bio company coming out of AION Labs in Israel with strategic investors – AstraZeneca and Pfizer. They’ve built a cloud-based AI platform that uses advanced mass spectrometry-based proteomics and provides value for pharmaceutical companies in 4 ways: identifies new drug targets, predicts treatment response, analyzes the mechanism of action, and supports pathway engagement analysis.

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Miha Štajdohar, Co-Founder and CTO at Genialis. Genialis develops and markets an AI supermodel that can predict Therapeutic Response for cancer patients.

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. I am once again taking over for Danny to sit down with Andrea Douglas, Director Business Development Life Sciences at Surescripts, to talk about their electronic benefit verification! We kick this episode off by discussing some of the challenges behind benefit verification today. Then, we talk about what exactly electronic benefit verification is and how it works. Next, Douglas explains why life sciences companies should work with Surescripts for electronic benefit verification. We then take a look at other services ou...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Ram Yalamanchili, Founder and CEO at Tilda Research. Tilda Research develops and markets a system of AI teammates that work alongside sponsor, site, and CRO research teams. AI Teammates for Clinical Trials is a system of agents – with product flavors for sites, sponsors, and CROs.

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Julio Martinez-Clark, CEO at Bioaccess, a CRO that specializes in executing first-in-human trials outside the US. Bioaccess empowers Medtech and Biopharma innovators to accelerate early feasibility studies and first-in-human trials via Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Australia’s 40% faster approvals, 50% quicker enrollment, and 30% lower costs.

For sponsors, Bioccess is selling time – faster to first-in-human medical device trials and faster to pivotal trials and FDA approval.

For countries like Colombia and El Salvador, Bioacc...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. I took over for Danny this episode to sit down with Carter Dredge, Executive Director of the Intermountain Health Institute, to talk about Civica Rx and some of the other unique models that Dredge and his team are working on at Intermountain Health Institute! We kick this episode off by discussing why Intermountain decided to get into the pharma and life sciences business. Then we talk about what makes Civica Rx different from the traditional life sciences companies. Next, we ta...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Meri Beckwith, Co-Founder of Lindus Health. Lindus Health, founded by Meri Beckwith in 2021, aims to fix broken clinical trial processes. Inspired by Beckwith’s VC and trial participant experiences, it offers fixed-cost, milestone-based contracts. Its tech platform, Citrus, integrates EDC, CTMS, and CDISC-compliant storage. Focused on psychiatry and other areas, Lindus prioritizes speed, data quality, and cultural integrity as it scales across the US and UK.

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Frederico Braga, the Head of Digital and IT at Debiopharm, a Swiss pharmaceutical company. We talked about how they are building data infrastructure to help take the company to real-time analytics for decision making.

Debiopharm is moving from outsourcing to in-house clinical research & development. Their key rationale is: drug development data is critical IP that requires direct control. To that end, Braga is driving initiatives to implement a clinical trial management system for better ov...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Jodie Gillon, CEO of the Trade Organization at BioCT. Connecticut has great universities, big pharma like Pfizer, Boehringer Ingelheim, and a large number of life science startups. Gillon has built an organization with a wide web of activities, from legislation (and recently a tax credit bill that passed) to supporting startups with incubators.

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Troy Astorino, Co-Founder and CTO at PicnicHealth. PicnicAI can collect medical records from everywhere in the US and transform them into meaningful data for patients, providers, and researchers. Their 8 BN parameter LLM outperforms frontier models on clinical data labeling and interpretation.

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Alex Deyle, VP & General Manager, Clinical Research at Flatiron Health. Flatiron started out using humans and tech to turn unstructured data into clean, structured data and then moved on to develop their own community EHR for oncology. Today, they help pharma design clinical protocols that are more likely to succeed scientifically and commercially. They use their own EHR data to activate sites for patient enrollment and also acquire data for the clinical trial, simplifying the process an...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Dipanwita Das, CEO at Sorcero, which provides medical intelligence to the Top 50 pharma and medical device companies. We had a great conversation talking about her journey to leading an enterprise SaaS company that helps commercial teams in pharma and devices gain confidence in the signals they get from their markets. Sorcero supports post-market surveillance and adverse event monitoring and facilitates feedback loops between clinical and medical teams. Sorcero helps track and mitigate the side effects’ impact on p...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Dr. George Magrath, CEO at Opus Genetics, practicing ophthalmologist, and someone who’s quite literally restoring sight to the blind. Under George’s leadership, Opus is developing gene therapies for ultra-rare inherited retinal diseases, including one that recently gave a 39-year-old man the ability to see for the first time in his life. They’re also pioneering the use of AI to predict clinical outcomes and accelerate trial design.

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Ori Warshavsky, COO at PolyPid. With a platform that anchors drug delivery at the point of need, PolyPid has Phase 3 programs nearing FDA submission and a pipeline that could reshape how we think about infection control, post-op healing, and localized therapeutics. Ori joins us to talk about turning science into impact.

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. Cloud-based, visual-first AI development and collaboration platform tailored for life sciences. Designed to make AI workflows accessible to both technical and non-technical users. Salt AI enables teams to build, deploy, and scale AI-powered solutions without extensive coding expertise. My guest today is Nate Beyor – Head of Life Science at Salt AI. 

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Dr. Rotem Kopel, Founder and CEO at ABILITY Neurotech.

Their implantable neural recording system is a breakthrough in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) development, enabling robust communication pathways and enhanced autonomy for people affected by severe paralysis.

I had 2 aha moments with Rotem. The first was when I realized how different their approach is from Neuralink (you’ll have to listen to the show for that) and the second was when I realized that we a...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. I took over for Danny this episode to sit down with Mark Klarzynsk, CSO and Co-Founder at PEAK:AIO, to talk about AI-powered data! We kick this episode off by discussing the healthcare industry’s current status with AI-powered data infrastructures. Then we debate whether or not we are moving to the edge or the cloud, as well as discuss how we think this will evolve over time. Next, we take a look at the AI Data Server PEAK:AIO offe...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Loren Larsen, Founder and CEO at Videra Health: an AI-driven mental health assessment platform. Videra allows the patient to speak in their own words via text, chat, audio, or video. Videra automates screenings, assessments, check-ins, and monitoring for a myriad of behavioral health conditions. It’s available 24×7 for patients and never has a bad day.

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guests today are Dr. Nisim Peretz, Co-Founder and CEO, and Dr. Nir Waiskopf, CTO, at Itay&Beyond.

They are building what sounds like science fiction: a brain on a chip. Itay&Beyond is developing a drug discovery platform for autism spectrum disorders and neurological pathologies.

Nisim’s background spans neurobiology, hardware systems, and deep-tech innovation. His team is taking on one of the most profound challenges in science: replicating brain function outside the body to tran...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. This time I am with Dr. Lior Shaltiel, Founder and CEO at NurExone. We start this episode off with Dr. Shaltiel sharing how his personal and professional path led him to found NurExone and how he was able to get the necessary funding. Then we discuss what Dr. Shaltiel is building and why. We then take a look at his approach to see what makes it not just promising, but potentially game-changing. Next, we discuss Dr. Shaltiel’s plan to turn...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. This time I am sitting down with Dr. Steven Charlap, Founder and CEO at SOAP Health to discuss SOAP Health’s autonomous AI Assistant. We start this episode by diving into Dr. Charlap’s background and what led him to found SOAP Health. Dr. Charlap then shares with us his story of why founding SOAP Health is a deeply personal mission to him. Next, we discuss the specifics of what an autonomous clinical AI assistant is and the problem it is sol...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest is Mati Gill — CEO at AION Labs. Today, we’re diving into the cutting edge of biotech, AI, and venture building.

Mati’s background is as unique as the model he’s leading. He’s worked at the intersection of science, pharma, and innovation for years — and now he’s helping world-class scientist-entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into sustainable businesses that serve patients around the globe.

We’ll talk today about what makes AION’s venture studio model...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today.  We all know people who seem older or younger than their age. In this episode I host Rony Angel from Centarix, a Jerusalem-based biotech company dedicated to longevity.  I learned that aging has many dimensions – like bone density, balance and memory – and much richer than our biological age.

Centarix develops technology  that directly slows down and even reverses the aging process on a molecular level. They are creating aging diagnostics in order to definitively assess which therapies and interventi...

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today.  I had the privilege of hosting Orr Inbar from Quanthealth.  Quanthealth is helping us find a better way to select drugs that go into the clinic and optimize study designs to achieve positive outcomes.

Their ability to construct simulations using a large database of provider-sourced and anonymized American patient health records is impressive.  They’ve done over 120 simulations to date and helped pharma improve their protocols in Phase 2 and Phase 3 clinical trials, reducing costs and times required to run stu...

We’re excited to announce the launch of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today.  We’ve been thinking about getting into the world of Life Sciences for a long time.  The overlap between the topics we cover for hospitals, health systems, ambulatory practices, LTPAC, etc and the world of Life Sciences is becoming more and more.  We often use the same terms like digital health and patient engagement.  Plus, Life Sciences needs and wants the real world data that provider organizations have in their systems.  Provider organizations need the innovations life sciences provides their patients.

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