The Data Pulse
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Season 1 Wrap-up
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Thank you for joining for Season 1 of the Data Pulse podcast. I hope you found the conversations over the past 6 months to be both enlightening and en...
Design for inference and massively parallel single cell -omics with Aviv Regev (Broad Institute -> Genentech)
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From single cells to international consortia and from striving despite fear to creating a "vector field" to inspire teams working in sync, Dr. Aviv Re...
Diagnosing the undiagnosed and combining international health records with Isaac Kohane
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rare diseases present a unique challenge in both diagnosis and treatment, given the small number of cases, often leaving them undiagnosed. I talk with...
Digital diagnostics + therapies for autism with Dennis Wall (Stanford)
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Autism Spectrum Disorder remains a pressing yet elusive spectrum of conditions. In my conversation with Dennis Wall of Stanford University, we discuss...
Single cell-based drug discovery with Greg Ryslik (Celsius Therapeutics)
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In my conversation with Greg Ryslik, previously Chief Data Officer and now Special Adviser to Celsius Therapeutics, we talk about single cell sequenci...
Clinical trials and longitudinal studies with Manisha Desai (Stanford University)
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Working with humans poses significant challenges to acquiring robust and complete data, but also remarkable opportunity, as I learn in today's episode...
Biomedical data integration with Zainab Doctor (nference)
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Natural language processing has long yielded exciting predictions from word-based knowledge. Through my conversation with Zainab Doctor, Translational...
Biologics and active learning in ML with Peyton Greenside (BigHat Biosciences)
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can we create new biological therapies with machine-guided design? Today I chat with Peyton Greenside, Co-Founder and CSO of BigHat Biosciences, on us...
Protective mutations with Vyas Ramanan (Third Rock Ventures, Maze Therapeutics)
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today I discuss with Vyas Ramanan, of Third Rock Ventures and Maze Therapeutics, the evolution of the field's understanding of genetic modifiers and t...
Systematizing drug development with Ankit Gupta (Reverie Labs)
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How should one think about building "the new wave" of biopharma teams? Turns out we can rely on principles from existing domains. In this episode, I t...
Prescription digital therapeutics with Corey McCann (Pear Therapeutics)
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Prescription digital therapeutics are emerging as an entirely new therapeutic modality. Corey McCann, President and CEO of Pear Therapeutics, chats wi...
Using social media to infer health with computational epidemiologist Elaine Nsoesie (Boston University)
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does an individual's digital presence reveal about imminent infectious disease outbreaks, obesity prevalence, and the spread of medical misinform...
Molecular diagnostics and classifiers with Ava Soleimany (Harvard/MIT)
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Molecular diagnostics are emerging as a precise way to detect diseases early on in prognosis. In today's episode, I chat with Harvard+MIT PhD Student ...
Linking the environment and public health through data with Francesca Dominici (Harvard)
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change has been noted as perhaps the greatest public health crisis of our times--Professor Francesca Dominici of Harvard University agrees. We...
Partially automated pathology diagnoses with Andy Beck (PathAI)
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Deep learning has shown tremendous advances in making predictions from imaging data. Today I talk with Andy Beck, Co-Founder and CEO of PathAI, about ...
Precision medicine with Gaurav Singal (Foundation Medicine)
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In today's conversation, Gaurav Singal, who is the outgoing Chief Data Officer of Foundation Medicine, discusses the advent of molecularly-driven onco...
Machine-guided gene therapy design with Dyno therapeutics
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gene therapies have emerged as a promising new modality for curing genetically-defined diseases; however, the naturally occuring variation remains lim...
Radiology diagnostics & antibiotic development with Kyle Swanson (Marshall Scholar @ Cambridge University)
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Deep learning can be applied to tasks that involve a breadth of data types. I talk with Kyle Swanson, currently a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge Univer...
Bias in machine learning for healthcare with Marzyeh Ghassemi (University of Toronto)
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Humans tend towards bias, but are our algorithms objective? Today I discuss fairness and bias in machine learning for healthcare with Professor Maryze...
Deep clinical annotation & hybrid startups with Vineeta Agarwala (Andreessen Horowitz + Stanford)
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today I speak with Vineeta Agarwala, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a physician at Stanford. She shares the importance of capturing time-c...
Phenomics + computer vision for drug discovery with Imran Haque (Recursion Pharma)
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Conventional drug discovery ignores the spatial relationships between cells when assessing the effects of drugs. I talk with Imran Haque, VP of Data S...
Representative genomics and healthcare with Carlos Bustamante (Stanford, F-Prime Venture Partner)
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Genomics has been a largely homogeneous field--both with respect to the researchers and the individuals whose data has been collected. Carlos Bustaman...
Deep learning-based imaging diagnostics with Lily Peng (Google Health)
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 2016, a team at Google Health led by Product Manager Lily Peng accurately predicted diabetic retinopathy in patients solely from images of their ey...
Building a bilingual culture for data-first drug discovery with Daphne Koller (insitro)
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does a hybrid team working at the interface of machine learning and biomedicine look like? In this episode, I chat with Daphne Koller, Founder an...
Introducing The Data Pulse, featuring Anthony Philippakis (GV + Broad)
26 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Data Pulse, a podcast that explores the growing role that data science and computation play in the latest biotechnology and biomedical ...