cc: Life Science Podcast
Episodes
Jeremy Elser - Biology and LLMs Meet in the Lab
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the Advanced Lateral Flow Conference, I spoke with Jeremy Elser, Head of Science Operations at Palantir and founder of Ship of Theseus, a biotech c...
ALFC Double Feature - Making Lateral Flow Accessible Everywhere
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a double from my visit to the Advanced Lateral Flow Conference. Usability is Innovation: Atomo DiagnosticsAtomo Diagnostics set out mo...
The Future of Science Marketing: AI, Upskilling, and Human Connection
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Future of Science Marketing: AI, Upskilling, and Human ConnectionI recently had a conversation with Isabel Verniers, partner at the Marketing Tech...
The Art of Protein Engineering
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Carter Mitchell, Chief Scientific Officer at Kemp Proteins, brings scientific rigor and an artist’s imagination to the world of protein design and p...
Storytelling vs. Math: How Narratives Shape Biotech Investment Decisions
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to biotech innovation, data and logic should drive decision-making, but sometimes stories take the wheel. This week, I spoke to Julien W...
The Future of Biotech Marketing is Personality-Driven
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anis Fahandej-Sadi is building two businesses. He is the founder of TLDR Biotech, a daily newsletter that condenses life science news into a quick, sk...
Cooler Neighbors: Reinventing PCR
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
PCR has been a staple of molecular biology for over 30 years. But as Yann Jouvenot, Director of Product at N6 Tec, explains, no technology is ever too...
How Founders Build Trust - A Lesson from Spiderman
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tino Chow’s career spans three worlds—military operations in Singapore, industrial design at Rhode Island School of Design, and entrepreneurship. ...
From "None" to One: Tiffany Payne on Marketing, Courage, and Doing the Right Thing
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tiffany Payne recently attended the American Society of Mass Spectrometry meeting—just two weeks after being laid off—and received a badge with "N...
Disruptive Products Require a Different Sales Process
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When you're selling something truly new, you're not just fighting for market share – you're fighting to create a market that doesn't exist yet. A bi...
From Bicycles to Biotech: Joachim Eeckhout on Creative Content and Building Trust
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Joachim Eeckhout says he started small, he’s not kidding. He and a friend began curating biotech news from a Paris dorm room, eventually launch...
Beat the Clock: Finish Clinical Trials Faster
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jin Kim is the founder and CEO of Miracle, a company helping biotech teams accelerate clinical trials by automating operational insights. Trials are a...
Get Over Your Worry About Sending Cold Emails
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Clare is a co-founder of Succession Bio and co-host of the SalesDNA podcast. I recently spoke to Harrison Wade, the other co-founder here. Nick's...
Abdul Rastagar is Tired of the Marketing B******t
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I had a fantastic conversation with Abdul Rastagar, founder of Serona Marketing, about his mission to cut the b******t out of marketing. Abdul runs bo...
What Are Those RNA Modifications Doing for Gene Regulation?
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When we talk about gene expression, most of the focus is on DNA and RNA sequences, but there’s a lesser-known, more subtle layer of regulation: RNA ...
Branding: Start Early but Think Long-Term
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I had a great time speaking with Meg Schlabs, co-founder and creative director at Wizardly. While it may be difficult for early-stage life science com...
Responding to Disruptions in Scientific Funding
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This webinar is also available for listening:In this live conversation, I sat down with two of my friends, both smart thinkers in life science, Elizab...
Preventing SUDEP with Smart Sleep Technology
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every day, roughly 10 people in the U.S. die from SUDEP (Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy), most found face down in bed. Soterya is changing that w...
Life Science Sales - Old Way vs New Way
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, I’ve enjoyed interviewing people I have never spoken to before. Harrison Waid, the co-founder of Succession, is one of those. Shout out to...
Process Optimization for Alternative Proteins Using Adaptive Learning
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Large language models (LLMs) seem to dominate the discussions, at least in my world lately. In this episode and the next, we’re diving into AI on a ...
The Longer, Short Way to Sales Success
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When I invited Max Gilbert on the podcast, I suspected the conversation might go beyond sales tactics. Max is the founder of Tiferet Consulting, but h...
Can AI Improve Success in Drug Development?
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I had the chance to speak with Petrina Kamiya, Global Head of AI Platforms and VP at Insilico Medicine, as well as President of Insilico Medicine Cana...
Relational Resilience: Navigating Conflict vs. Resolving It
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve never been great at conflict. Like a lot of people, I’ve leaned toward avoiding it—especially in the workplace. But I know that’s not a u...
From Nightlife to Life Science: Building Community and Strategic Narratives
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Life Science Marketing Radio, I spoke with Oliver Pearce, VP and Head of Marketing at Epista Life Sciences. Oliver brings a unique ...
Solving Multiple Problems With a Single Product
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I ran into Jackson Hyde, the CEO of Diaago, whom I had interviewed on Life Science Marketing Radio a few years ago at SLAS. Jackson showed me a new co...
From the Lab to Sales: Heather Javier Made the Leap
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I had the pleasure of speaking with Heather Javier, a genomic sales specialist at Roche, sales coach, and host of the Transition to Sales podcast. Hea...
How Can Organizational Cultures Impact Society at Large?
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve been following me on LinkedIn lately, you know I spent a lot of time thinking about the importance of company culture and how marketing co...
Elevating Scientists and Science in the Public Eye through Communication and Marketing
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation with Elizabeth Chabe, CEO of High Touch Group and author of The Giant's Ladder: The Science Professional’s Blueprint for Market...
How We Solve Seemingly Impossible Problems
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, I went to Stanford and did four years of college in four hours. Jennifer Dionne has been on the podcast before. After showing me some amaz...
Mindset: The Culture You Create Within Yourself
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shifting our approach to feedbackIn my recent conversation with mindset coach, Margaret Jennings (MJ), our conversation started with the emotional rol...
Sparking Creativity: Innovation Begins with Observation
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With the life science tools industry facing a 7% drop in revenues, innovation and fresh approaches are needed to hold on to your slice of the pie. I s...
Simplifying the Review and Approval Process
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The process of content review, approval, and distribution is often perceived as a "necessary evil" in life science marketing. If you're reading this, ...
Holding on to Soul in Life Science
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hooriya Hussain is a life science marketing leader and a fierce advocate on the National Board of Governors at the Human Rights Campaign. Before filmi...
Exploring the Epigenetic Landscape with the Six-Base Genome
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Unlocking the Secrets of the Six-Base GenomeEpigenetics was somewhat vague when I was an undergraduate ( a long time ago). So I was curious to get an ...
A Year in Space: Varda’s Capsule Returns
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A year ago, Mark Herbert, VP of Biopharma Business Development at Varda Space Industries, joined me on one of the most popular episodes of this podcas...
Leadership, Culture, and the Art of Building a Life Sciences Startup
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I spoke with Brian Thomson, HR consultant and leadership coach, about leadership, hiring, retention, and culture in early-stage life science companies...
Hydrosomes: Tiny Bubbles with Huge Potential
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When I first heard about hydrosomes, I honestly thought, “That can’t be real.” Hydrosomes are microscopic bubbles that stay in water without coa...
From Scientist to Consultant by Way of Curiosity
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Issa Kildani is the founder and principal consultant at Ambrosia Ventures. Our conversation centered on his journey from metabolic and cardiovascular ...
How Understanding Motivations Impacts Success in Acquisitions or Investments
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I spoke to Cassandra Rix, the owner and chief leadership coach at The Resonance Coach. Our conversation centered around understanding...
The Importance of Brand Strategy
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In my recent conversation with Larry Koplow, we talked about brand strategy in the life sciences, why, when and how.Defining Brand StrategyWe kicked o...
Terran Biosciences is Developing New Regimens for Schizophrenia Therapies
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At BIO2024, I spoke Sam Clark, CEO and founder of Terran Biosciences, about their development of new long-duration dosage forms for the treatment of s...
iBio's Comprehensive Approach to Antibody-Based Therapeutics
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, recorded at BIO2024 in San Diego, I had the pleasure of speaking with Martin Brenner, the CEO and CSO of iBio. Our focus was the chal...
How Can We Make Sample Collection More Patient-Centric?
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of CC Life Science, I had the pleasure of hosting Neil Spooner, the founder and chair of the Patient-Centric Sampling Interest Group (...
Communicating Science to Patients, Physicians and the Public
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Ormesher, the CEO of CGLife, and I had a conversation about communicating science broadly to the public and within the scientific community. Dav...
A Promising Future for Organoid Research
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I kept hearing about the use of organoids in clinical trials and elsewhere and was curious to know more. Luckily, I connected with Samantha Nicholson,...
Vertical GPTs Will Change the Buyer's Journey
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
By now, I imagine most of you have interacted with ChatGPT in some way. You can use it to summarize a document, brainstorm a campaign or plan a vacati...
Bacteriophage as Antimicrobials Against Group B Strep Infection in Newborns
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Could bacteriophage be an alternative to antibiotics for Group B Strep (GBS) in pregnant women? GBS is a commensal bacteria, found harmlessly in the g...
Ethylene and the Fresh Produce Supply Chain
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When I’m eating blueberries from Chile here in California, I assume that they arrived by air after being picked a couple of days ago. That isn’t n...
Building a Good Life Outside of Academia
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you have a PhD in life science, are working toward one, or just considering it with an eye toward getting an academic job, the math is not in your ...
The 3 Rs and the Role of Small Animals in Research
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reduce. Refine. Replace. These are the three Rs of animal research. The intent is to reduce the number of animals used, refine methods to be efficient...
Vertical Farming Meets Design of Experiments
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
AgBio, sustainability and DoE all come together in this episode. Tim Cuthbertson is the Chief Science Officer at VelociGro where they are using Desig...
Opportunities and Challenges: A Primer for Founders
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Farb-Horch is the CEO of Thrive Bioscience. He has founded 18 companies. Seven of those turned out to be unicorns (sold at a valuation of 1 bil...
Walk and Talk with Susanna Harris
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Susanna Harris is the Director of Community at Breakout Ventures. She is also the Founder of PhD Balance, a collaborative community empowering graduat...
Using ChatGPT to Optimize Your Market Geographically
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kurt Mussina is the CEO of Paradigm Clinical Research. Their model involves dedicated sites chosen for access to their desired patient and physician p...
Breaking Through the Cannabis Cloud
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Up to this point, I have resisted doing any episodes around cannabis because 1. I’m a little old-school 2. I probably don’t know enough and 3. I w...
Commercializing Diagnostics: Engineering and Mindset
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I talked to Dr. Michael Harman, an executive advisor, and consulting partner at Harmon Consulting about commercializing medical diagnostics...
Mining the Microbiome for Possibilities
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to chemical reactions, if you can imagine it, somewhere out there a microbe is already doing it. This was something we used to say in gr...
Helping Cancer Patients Navigate the Journey Based on Experience
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rochelle Prosser is the founder and president of Orchid Healthcare Solutions, the company she created to consolidate cancer treatment information and ...
Expertise is Your Product. Selling it is Your Business.
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jeffrey Kiplinger is the co-founder and partner at Selling Science, a consulting firm dedicated to helping life science, contract research, and tools ...
Accelerating Drug Discovery with Virtual Screening
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Pesnot is the Head of Medicinal Chemistry at Concept Life Sciences. I invited him to talk about AI and virtual screening in the drug discovery pro...
Unlocking the Power of Earned Media - A Freelancer's Perspective
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Note: For this episode, I asked ChatGPT to write a summary based on the transcript of our conversation. I enjoy doing these interviews and consider my...
Crafting Narratives with AI Based on Data
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Note: For this episode, because we are discussing the narrative capabilities of AI, I asked ChatGPT to write a summary based on the transcript of our ...
Revolutionizing Demos for Better Customer Experience
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
All of us in the life sciences are in the business of making the world healthier. The instruments and reagents we sell and the technologies and therap...
Cultivating Climate Solutions with Microbial Cover Crops
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Barry Goldman, founder and CSO of Pluton Biosciences introduces the concept of microbial cover crops as a new and innovative approach to improving soi...
Commercializing Your Diagnostic
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I traveled to Disneyland Orange County for AACC ADLM back in July to connect with a few folks and walk the floors of the exhibit hall. I was on my way...
What is a Liaison Research Organization?
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Antonio Tito is the Founder and CEO of rEthix in Houston, Texas. rEthix is the world’s first Liaison Research Organization (LRO) facilitating cl...
Metrics, Creativity and Imposter Syndrome
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie Gier is the Chief Marketing Officer at Dexcare, responsible for establishing the company as a category leader in modernizing the way consumers d...
Using the Voice of Customer to Design Consumer-Centric Diagnostics
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Garlikov is Chief Commercial officer at Sherlock Biosciences where they are developing over-the-counter diagnostics to put answers in the hands ...
Rethinking Lab Workflows Impacts More Than Productivity
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cheri Walker and her colleagues started Rhinostics in the middle of the pandemic in response to the massive increase in testing volume required to kee...
From Tradition to Transformation: The Evolution of Hiring Practices
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hiring people is difficult, expensive and risky. It’s a skill in itself for which most of us get very little practice. I talked to Ken Schmitt about...
Thinking Differently About Combating Antibiotic Resistance
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A new antimicrobial cured mice infected with bacteria deemed nearly “untreatable” in humans — and resistance to the drug was virtually undetecta...
Valuing Startups: A Real Option Model for Binary Outcomes
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I enjoyed this conversation with Adrian Rubstein, founder of Ax3.bio, as he opened my eyes to different approaches to valuing startups. Make sure you ...
Corporate Communications: Setting a Frame for Conversations
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It will come as no surprise that I have talked to a number of people in marketing and sales recently. (That’s literally half of my job.) Sometimes, ...
Advancing Precision Medicine in a Co-op Model
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I’m not a healthcare expert by any stretch except as an occasional recipient of care that I’m generally happy with.As an observer, however, our sy...
Family Offices as a Source for Funding Life Science Start-ups
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you are a founder of a biotech or life science startup, you don’t want to miss this episode. If you’re not, you may still find it fascinating. ...
Identifying Bacteria in Clinical Samples by Raman Spectroscopy and Machine Learning
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For a patient with sepsis (an infection in the blood), the chance of survival decreases by 7-10% every hour. It’s important to quickly identify what...
Pivoting and Storytelling Along the Founder's Journey
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Harvey and his business partner managed to raise enough money to rent some lab space in Cambridge (UK) to get started on an idea they had for sy...
The Importance of Science Communication in Public Health
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Science is pretty cool. We can send astronauts to the moon, watch tv on a phone that fits in our pocket or rid the world of smallpox. It makes problem...
Pharmacoeconomics: Where do the numbers come from?
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is the cost to an employer of chronic presenteeism, where a person is well enough to go to work but isn’t really productive? What is the dollar...
Inspiring Engagement and Satisfaction at Work
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Before becoming the CEO of Diaago, a distributor of labware for life science, Jackson Hyde spent some time managing a staffing agency, placing day lab...
AI in High Content Analysis
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I went to SLAS this spring to talk to old friends, meet some new ones and learn whatever I could. I met Maggie Vantangoli, the Director of Marketing a...
SAMPS Live! Glasgow June 12-13
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you don’t know SAMPS, you’ve been missing out. It’s the only association for Sales And Marketing Professionals serving the Sciences. I’ve b...
Your Investor Pitch Needs Help
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I’m a big fan of The Prof G Podcast. Scott Galloway is a thoughtful guy and I’ve learned a lot from him. One of his common phrases is “It’s ha...
Wrangling Multiple AI Projects
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
According to their website, IQVIA holds over 60 petabytes (60 million gigabytes) of proprietary data used to provide insights and inform decisions acr...
At the Heart of Culture is Trust
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Enloe is an organizational culture architect. I found him on LinkedIn and had to find out what that was besides damn good personal branding. I’...
Do You Know About Design of Experiments (DoE)?
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Early in our education about science, we learn that to understand what is happening in a system, we can only change one variable at a time. That seems...
Transitioning from Service to Product
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Sell him the hook, line and rod and get a higher valuation.” - Unknown ;-)KromaTiD™ is in the business...
The Difficulties of Diagnostic Development
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Because most of us have likely had a Covid test done in the last few years, you might think that getting diagnostics to market is a straightforward pr...
A Rabbi Walks into a Lab...
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Just as scientists are curious about the “how” of the world, Lee Jay Lowenstein was curious about the “why”. That led to his becoming an ordai...
Manufacturing Drugs in Zero Gravity
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a capsule whizzing by some 200 miles overhead. It’s just big enough to hold a medium size dog (curled up and sleeping) but there is no life ...
De-extinction: The Why and the How
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My first reaction when I heard that George Church wanted to bring back the wooly mammoth was, “Uh, why don’t we stop trashing the environment and ...
Stem Cell Expansion Technologies
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Growing primary cells in 2D on plastic surfaces is not a good representation of the 3D environment of the body, regardless of your purpose. Cells grow...
Clinical Proteomics: What Does the Future Hold?
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When will we get to a place of reliable protein biomarkers as predictors or indicators of disease? Ole Vorm is a founder and director at Evosep, produ...
Why is Cole Yancy Posting on LinkedIn Every Day?
26 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cole Yancey was unsatisfied being a bench scientist. So much so, he asked the freezer repair guy about how to get out of the lab. “Maybe I can do wh...
What Can You Do with 3.5 Million (de-identified) Health Records?
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It turns out, you can do quite a lot.Jud Schneider is the CTO of Nashville Biosciences. I reached out to him to talk about their collaboration with Am...
Generative AI for Inspiration
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Nathan wrote a children’s book in the carpool line at his kids’ school. ChatGPT delivered the text and he used Midjourney to illustrate the...
A Conversation About ChatGPT
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ChatGPT has become the AI that is impossible to ignore. As I wrote in my first post a little more than a year ago, I would be neither a cheerleader no...
How to Produce a Podcast - Workflows
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have you been considering creating a podcast for your company? You may be wondering about gear, recording and editing software, structuring interviews...
What is FAIR Data and Why is it Important?
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Fortner, Founder and CEO of Aspen Biosciences joined to explain the concept of FAIR data. The idea around FAIR data is to ensure that data is ava...
SAMPS Awards - DOUBLE Box Set!
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Buy both of these Limited Availability recordings for a penny! and I’ll send you two more interviews with outstanding life science marketers every m...