Vital Health Podcast
Episodes
NCATS’ Chris Austin - R&D from NIH, to Industry, through Approval
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After nearly two decades at the NIH and almost 10 years as founding director of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), Chri...
About the NIH, Industry, and the R&D Ecosystem, with Richard Moscicki, PhRMA
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Moscicki is the Executive Vice President for Science and Regulatory Advocacy and the Chief Medical Officer at Pharmaceutical Research and Manu...
Jack Scannell on Big Pharma’s Big Drug Discovery Problem
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Scannell is one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical industry analysts, as well as one of its most visionary. Jack caused a case of global pha...
Is U.S. reference pricing a fatal shot for biotech?
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Drug pricing is becoming a hot political issue in Washington DC, with polls showing widespread bipartisan support for congressional action to control ...
KU Leuven Launches Health Innovation Fellowship
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While not featured in Hollywood blockbuster films like some universities from the UK, Boston, or California, Belgium’s KU Leuven University has topp...
Ivermectin, Dr Pierre Kory’s magic bullet to fight COVID-19
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the course of the summer, there was a vital discovery that severe, late stage COVID-19 which had been considered a near fatal condition could be ...
Ivor Cummins, “The Fat Emperor” Takes on COVID-19 Lockdowns
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve ever found yourself researching COVID-19 on YouTube, it’s likely you’ve stumbled onto a well-spoken Irishman named Ivor Cummins dissec...
PharmaCCX, a tech savvy solution for pricing EU cancer drugs
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The cost of new, highly targeted cancer therapies is becoming a serious political issue in the US, as it has been in Europe for many years. Europeans ...
BIO’s New CEO Michelle McMurry-Heath, Taking Charge Amidst Chaos
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michelle McMurry-Heath assumed the leadership of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) as President and CEO on June 1, 2020. A medical docto...
Heidi Larson – Dispelling Vaccine Myths in the COVID-19 Era
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With the recent announcement of Pfizer’s completion of clinical trials for a COVID-19 vaccine, the next challenge is ensuring that the general publi...
Hack Healthcare’s Leo Exter and Awell Health’s Thomas Vande Casteele
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do you get when you have over 1000 technology developers, healthcare professionals, and medical practitioners working together on a specific prob...
Matt Wiener - EHDEN’s SME Marketplace and Harnessing Informatics
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Wiener co-leads the development of EHDEN’s SME Marketplace, training and certifying the project’s growing international network of SMEs that ...
Kees van Bochove, A Hyve in EHDEN
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kees van Bochove founded The Hyve, based in Utrecht, to facilitate open source software development, enable open science by developing and FAIRifying ...