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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. Boris Gorelik, Founder and CEO at Loud Camel. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Gorelik, who did his PhD in computational biology in the pharmacology department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Although he’s an expert in machine learning in life sciences, his new startup is something else. Check out the main topics of discussion for this episode of the Life Sciences Today podcast: Tell us about your latest startup, Loud Camel. How do you create value? How do yo
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Tara Austraat-Churik, Partner at Blue Matter Consulting. Her background spans IBM Watson Health, where she led $50M+ enterprise deals during the first AI wave in pharma, EY’s Health Science and Wellness practice, an MSc in Translational Medicine from Edinburgh, and time as an FBI intelligence analyst. She calls it “Compound Expertise” — depth earned across domains that produces a kind of judgment no single career path can replicate. In this episode, I sit down with Austraat
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Gabi Tarcic, Chief Development Officer at Evogene. In this episode, I sit down with Tarcic to ask a question the industry has been asking for twenty years: how does a platform company become a real business? Evogene has lived through every wave of “compute will transform biology” — genomics, systems biology, computational biology platforms, and now generative AI — and built a business across human health, medical cannabis, and agriculture on the bet that the answer is yes.
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Dr. Ashok Gupta, Founder and CEO at TheraNow. In this episode, I speak with Dr. Gupta about why the real bottleneck in physical therapy isn’t quality — it’s access. Dr. Gupta explains how TheraNow built a virtual physical therapy model that helps health systems expand capacity without adding buildings or staff, and why 99% of the company’s revenue now comes from hospitals and their outpatient networks. Our conversation covers the shift from pre-COVID resistance to post-COVI
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Dr. Jurate Lusienne, Clinical Trial Optimization at Jura Lasas Consulting. Lusienne helps small biotechs run early clinical trials faster, cheaper, and with more control—without relying on big CROs or fancy AI. Drawing on experience across academia, CROs, and sponsor-side clinical ops in the US, Japan, UK, and Lithuania, she explains how founders can avoid expensive default decisions and design leaner, smarter trial strategies. We discuss how small teams can save 30–60% on
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Raj Indupuri, Co-Founder and CEO at eClinical Solutions. Why is clinical development still run like a sequence of handoffs instead of a continuous learning system? In this episode, I talk with Indupuri about the industry’s biggest anti-pattern: milestone-based, sequential trials. We discuss clinical data chaos, AI in regulated environments, the real moat behind trusted execution, and how sponsors are starting to treat clinical data as core IP. We also dig into switching cos
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Kyle McBride, VP, AI Innovation at Veristat. We talked about InStat, the clinical research industry’s first zero-code, fully automated biostatistics solution, reducing manual effort to speed time to approval with every output backed by validated statistical engines and expert biostatistician review. It delivers submission-ready tables, listings, and figures (TLF) in five days or less*, rather than the four to six weeks that sponsors typically wait after database lock, while
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Rachel Timberlake, Director of Business Development, Bend Bioscience. Contract manufacturing is a ~$275B global industry most people outside pharma have never heard of. Every drug you’ve ever taken and most of the medical devices you’ve ever used were made, at least in part, by a CDMO — a Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization — that your doctor, your pharmacist, and usually the drug company’s own marketing team will never mention. For the last decade, these bu
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Dr. Darren Klugman, Founder at Alumni Ventures. In this episode, Klugman and I confront the most uncomfortable truth in life sciences — that the financial model gates the science, and the patients who need innovation most (children) are the ones the market systematically ignores. Klugman brings the clinician’s view from the CICU, the quality leader’s view from Johns Hopkins, and the founder’s view from a company he’s building to fix what’s broken in pediatric care. Check ou
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Iris Shtein, Co-Founder and CEO at Mentaily. Due to limited resources and social misconceptions, only 44% of US adults are receiving the treatment they need. Patients endure long wait times due to traditional intake processes. Mentaily – a patented AI model – creates diagnostic intelligence with almost perfect accuracy by the DSM gold standard, before the patient’s first engagement with a clinician. Check out the main topics of discussion for this episode of the Life Scienc
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Tony Page, Senior Vice President of Insight Analytics at Within3. Page spent years applying military intelligence doctrine — structured analysis, adversarial thinking, decision superiority — before bringing those frameworks into pharma. As SVP of Insight Analytics at Within3, he’s now helping life science companies move from reactive milestone-chasing to proactive, intelligence-driven launch strategy. In this episode, Page and I unpack why pharma launch teams are flying bli
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Ayelet Geva, Innovation and Business Development at the Jusidman Cancer Center at Sheba Medical Center. Most oncology innovations die, not in the lab, but in the gap between clinical proof and real-world implementation. Geva’s seen what separates the solutions that scale from the ones that stall: it’s not the science. It’s whether you’ve answered the hard questions — who pays, who changes their workflow, and what adoption looks like outside a controlled study — before you’v
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Theo Mastrokostopoulos, Co-Founder and CEO at Pleo Flow. This episode explores one of the biggest anti-patterns in medtech: building a technology first and only later trying to figure out who buys it, how it gets reimbursed, and whether the economics work. Mastrokostopoulos argues that successful medtech companies must design from commercialization backwards — starting with what you sell, how you price it, who buys it, and how those answers should shape product design from
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Anita Modi, Co-Founder and CEO at Peer AI. Peer AI is a medical writing acceleration tool for pharma/biotech regulatory teams, and submission platform for FDA documentation. Their customers are Heads of Medical Writing at mid-to-large biotechs or pharma companies who are drowning in CSR and protocol drafts and are hungry for technology that reduces documentation draft time from 40 days to < 14. Check out the main topics of discussion for this episode of the Life Sciences To
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Bonnie Anderson, Head of Humanitarian Programs, Rare Diseases at Sanofi. For more than 30 years, Sanofi’s Rare Humanitarian Program has provided free enzyme replacement therapy to patients with lysosomal storage disorders — Gaucher, Fabry, Pompe, ASMD, MPS I and II — in countries where no reimbursement pathway exists. What started in 1991 with a single drug for a single disease has grown to cover six diseases across 100+ countries, with more than 3,600 patients treated and
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Jennifer Ernst, Co-Founder and CEO at Valion Bio (formerly Tivic Health). Ernst has built companies at the intersection of breakthrough science and market opportunity — from Xerox PARC’s open innovation lab to printed electronics to bioelectronic medicine. As Co-Founder of Valion Bio, she took a handheld neuromodulation device from idea to FDA clearance in three years for under $3M, took the company public on Nasdaq, and executed a bold pivot into biopharmaceuticals. In thi
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Scott Chetham, Co-Founder and CEO at Faro Health. In this episode, I sit down with Chetham to explore why the clinical trial industry is still designing $100M+ studies in Microsoft Word — and what’s finally being done about it. Chetham shares his journey from the Gold Coast of Australia to the heart of San Diego’s biotech scene, and how two decades of hands-on clinical development experience led him to build an AI platform that can do in 60 minutes what previously took five
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Shai Policker, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Edge Medical Ventures! I sit down with Policker to challenge a provocative thesis: that Israeli medtech is trapped in a cycle of underfunding, walking-dead companies, and missed commercialization opportunities. I bring the data — $5.6B raised by 41 US medtech companies in 15 months, zero Israeli — and argue that the Israel Innovation Authority’s habit of writing small checks keeps entrepreneurs in perpetual poverty rather th
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Pedro Coelho, Founder and CEO at Biorce! In this episode, I sit down with Coelho to explore how his team went from flagging protocol mistakes to building AI that fixes them — and in doing so, became the first company to submit an AI-generated protocol to the FDA. Coehlo breaks down how Biorce can generate a best-in-class clinical trial protocol in under 5 minutes, why risk-based remote monitoring is the industry’s biggest anti-pattern, and what a “one-click clinical trial”
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Eddy Ben-Ami, Founder and CEO at NeuraLight! NeuraLight is tackling one of neurology’s biggest problems: how crudely we measure disease progression in conditions like Parkinson’s, MS, ALS, and Huntington’s. Despite MRI and gene sequencing, the current “gold standard” is pushing patients to test balance, or asking caregivers how hard it is to adjust clothes in bed. Ben-Ami explains how NeuraLight replaces this with a 10‑minute, tablet-based eye-movement test using a standard
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Alison Holland, Chief Customer Officer at Medable! In this episode, I talk with Holland about how her journey from London nurse to Covance veteran to digital trial leader shapes Medable’s strategy. Holland started at the bedside and then spent nearly 20 years at a major CRO – Covance. She learned where trials really break: overloaded sites, fragmented systems, and patients battling logistics instead of disease. Medable’s answer is a reusable SaaS platform plus tightly scope
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Kim Boericke, the new CEO at Veristat! In this episode, I sit down with Kim to explore what it really takes to build and lead a durable CRO in a rapidly shifting life sciences landscape. We discuss Kim’s leadership journey, how value is created and captured in services-heavy businesses, and what Veristat is prioritizing for customers over the next 12 months. The conversation then goes deeper into the idea of moats—what makes a CRO genuinely hard to copy, what compounds over
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Josh Haimson, Co-Founder and CEO at Inductive Bio! Josh Haimson joins me to talk about how their virtual lab can run millions of in silico experiments to predict how molecules will behave in the body and surface the strongest hypotheses to test in the wet lab. Check out the main topics of discussion for this episode of the Life Sciences Today podcast: Tell me about your journey. How do you create value for your customers? How do you measure the value? What are three things
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Olympian-turned-founder Simon Arkell joins Life Sciences Today to explain how Ryght.ai is reinventing clinical trial site selection. He unpacks digital twins for 100,000+ sites, AI agents, and why EMR-centric models are an anti-pattern—showing how sponsors can slash enrollment risk, save hundreds of millions, and scale globally. Check out the main topics of discussion for this episode of the Life Sciences Today podcast: Tell me about your journey. How do you create value fo
We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Asta Ratkeviciene, Co‑Founder and CEO at MedSyntra. In this episode of Life Sciences Today, I talk with Ratkeviciene about building a global, ethically sourced medical imaging data infrastructure across radiology, pathology, oncology, and women’s healthcare. Ratkeviciene explains how MedSyntra aggregates and de-identifies millions of imaging studies, provides a highly curated data marketplace and platform for institutions that require data sovereignty, and partners with cli
