Ep. 25 - Andrew Protter PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Auransa

Andrew Protter, PhD. joined Auransa in January 2017 as Chief Scientific Officer with 35 years of pharmaceutical industry research and development experience. At Auransa, Dr. Protter has led preclinical R&D which uses AI technology to discover novel drug candidates. Auransa’s lead project for hepatocellular carcinoma has completed all IND-supporting preclinical safety studies.

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Ep. 26 - Paul Billings MD, Chief Medical Officer, Natera

Dr. Paul R. Billings is a board-certified internist and clinical geneticist, who also holds a PhD in Immunology, from Harvard University. He worked there with Dr. Baruj Benacerraf, who subsequently received the Nobel Prize in Medicine. In 2018, Dr. Billings became the Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs at Natera.

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Ep. 24 - JoyL Silva & Nicole Strauss, General Manager and Pipeline Development & Innovation Lead, Pfizer CentreOne

JoyL is the General Manager of Pfizer CentreOne, a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) and a leading supplier of specialty APIs embedded within Pfizer. Nicole is Pfizer CentreOne’s Pipeline Development and Innovation Lead. In this role, Nicole has responsibility for assessing competitive intelligence to identify growth opportunities across the Pfizer CentreOne businesses, lead technical and regulatory assessments of pipeline projects and provide development services to meet customer needs.

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Ep. 18 - Grace Colón PhD, President and CEO, InCarda Therapeutics

Dr. Colón brings over 25 years of experience in biopharma, genomics, healthcare and industrial biotechnology. In addition to her role at InCarda, she is Executive Chairman (formerly CEO) of ProterixBio, and serves on the boards of CareDx (NASDAQ:CDNA) and Cocoon Biotech and on the Advisory Board of the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University.

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Ep. 17 - Sachin Chandran PhD, Head of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Catabasis

Recorded in January 2020, we spoke with Sachin Chandran, who is currently Executive Director and Head of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Catabasis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in Boston. Sachin’s responsibilities include oversight of CMC, Tech-Ops and supply chain along with matrixed interactions with regulatory, quality, biology, clinical and commercial.

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Ep. 16 - Mike Novotny, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Medrio

Mike Novotny is the founder and CEO of Medrio. Mr. Novotny applies 20 years of experience in research and software to his eClinical SaaS vision. Prior to founding Medrio, Mr. Novotny was president of Ninaza, an EDC software company, and had previously held roles as a research associate at the U.N. and a manager of the fraud database at VISA.

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