09.05.25 -- New Podcast Episodes: Functional Antibody Screening, Safer Stem Cell Therapies, FDA Fridays

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In this episode of "Better Biopharma," Abalone Bio's CEO and co-founder, Richard Yu, Ph.D., explains how the company's functional antibody selection technology (FAST) platform differs from traditional affinity screening.

Interius BioTherapeutics’ Sianny Christanti and Babu Medi, Ph.D., explain how the company is re-engineering a lentiviral vector to enable INT2104, its off-the-shelf, in vivo CAR T-cell therapy. They discuss the vector's design and its manufacturability, as well as the analytical and regulatory challenges of bringing this first-in-human therapy to the clinic.

In this episode of "Better Biopharma," host Tyler Menichiello is joined by Adaptin Bio's CEO, co-founder, and president, Michael Roberts, Ph.D., and Duke University's Mustafa Khasraw, MD to discuss Adaptin's Brain Bispecific T-cell Engager (BRiTE) platform.

Oury Chetboun, co-founder and CEO of Seekyo, a French biotech, talks about the range of experiences that prepared him to lead a company focused on developing innovative solid tumor treatments that target functional proteins in the tumor micro-environment.

Bill Holodnak, Cofounder and CEO of Occam Global, a life sciences executive recruitment firm (and occasional investor), shares insights from his decades of experience pairing executives with drug development companies, and talks about the psychology of successful biotech leadership.

Milan Kalawadia, CEO, North America, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, and Arun Swaminathan, Ph.D., CEO, Coya Therapeutics discuss their unique partnership to develop COYA 302, a novel dual-mechanism immunotherapy for the treatment of ALS. 

Ex-handballer Vladimir Cmiljanovic, Ph.D., Founder and CEO at Swiss Rockets, talks about co-discovering bimiralisib with his sister Natasa Cmiljanovic, Ph.D. (and COO at Swiss Rockets), losing his company to a hostile takeover, buying the company back, and building out Swiss Rockets as an incubator with manufacturing capabilities and shared scientific expertise.

 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.

This is Episode 1 of a special series of Cell & Gene: The Podcast, "FDA Fridays." This first episode features Host, Erin Harris' conversation with Kaye Spratt, Strategic and Non-Clinical Regulatory Consultant at Spratt Advanced Cell & Gene Therapy Regulatory Consulting.

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.