Third-Generation Sequencing Unlocks Insights Into Epigenetics and Biomarkers with Dr. Jonathon Hill Wasatch Bio Labs
Release Date: 11/08/2024
Aligning Incentives and Leveraging Technology to Improve Clinical Trials for Sponsors and Participants with Meri Beckwith Lindus Health TRANSCRIPT
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Meri Beckwith, Co-Founder of Lindus Health, aims to transform clinical trials by changing the CRO model to leverage technology to improve patient recruitment, retention, and the experience of the sponsors and trial participants. While the compensation model for contract research organizations is often not aligned with trial outcomes, Lindus ties compensation to hitting milestones and outcomes. They emphasize the need for more flexible trial design and a decentralized and hybrid approach to reduce participant burden and bring drugs to market sooner. Meri explains, "This comes back to...
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Aligning Incentives and Leveraging Technology to Improve Clinical Trials for Sponsors and Participants with Meri Beckwith Lindus Health
Empowered Patient Podcast
Meri Beckwith, Co-Founder of Lindus Health, aims to transform clinical trials by changing the CRO model to leverage technology to improve patient recruitment, retention, and the experience of the sponsors and trial participants. While the compensation model for contract research organizations is often not aligned with trial outcomes, Lindus ties compensation to hitting milestones and outcomes. They emphasize the need for more flexible trial design and a decentralized and hybrid approach to reduce participant burden and bring drugs to market sooner. Meri explains, "This comes back to...
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AI-Powered Cancer Biomarker Digital Detection Informs and Accelerates Decisions of Pathologists and Oncologists with Greg Hamilton io9 TRANSCRIPT
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Greg explains, "For many of these cancers, determining the right cancer treatment is the difference between life and death. When we look at how we treat cancer today, what hasn’t changed is that there’ll be a biopsy. So, they take a piece of the tumor out and send that tumor to a pathologist. Pathologists will take that tumor and put it in a glass slide. They usually use what’s called H&E, they kind of stain it to read it better. But basically, a pathologist is looking under a microscope at the cells, and that’s how we diagnose cancer. That’s the formal way that we diagnose...
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AI-Powered Cancer Biomarker Digital Detection Informs and Accelerates Decisions of Pathologists and Oncologists with Greg Hamilton io9
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Greg Hamilton, CEO of io9, aims to enable precision oncology treatments for patients globally. The company has developed an AI-powered biomarker analysis platform called OncoGaze that can rapidly analyze digital pathology images to identify cancer biomarkers. This enables pathologists to efficiently and quickly digitize and analyze tumor samples and oncologists to start patients on the appropriate targeted therapy much faster. Greg explains, "For many of these cancers, determining the right cancer treatment is the difference between life and death. When we look at how we treat...
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Leveraging Antibody Phage Display Library to Generate Unique Bispecific Antibodies for Solid Tumors with Dr. Jeng Her AP Biosciences TRANSCRIPT
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Dr. Jeng Her, Founder and CEO of AP Biosciences, is developing T-Cube bispecific antibodies that can target cancer cells and engage T-cells to kill them more effectively and safely than existing treatments. The company is focused on treating hard-to-treat cancers such as HER2-positive breast cancer, lung cancer, head and neck cancer, and pancreatic cancer. The T-Cube bispecific antibodies use CD137 instead of CD3 to activate T-cells, which can lead to better efficacy and safety compared to other T-cell engager antibodies. Jeng explains, "So why not just take two, let's say, monospecific...
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Leveraging Antibody Phage Display Library to Generate Unique Bispecific Antibodies for Solid Tumors with Dr. Jeng Her AP Biosciences
Empowered Patient Podcast
Dr. Jeng Her, Founder and CEO of AP Biosciences, is developing T-Cube bispecific antibodies that can target cancer cells and engage T-cells to kill them more effectively and safely than existing treatments. The company is focused on treating hard-to-treat cancers such as HER2-positive breast cancer, lung cancer, head and neck cancer, and pancreatic cancer. The T-Cube bispecific antibodies use CD137 instead of CD3 to activate T-cells, which can lead to better efficacy and safety compared to other T-cell engager antibodies. Jeng explains, "So why not just take two, let's say, monospecific...
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Increasing Focus of Medical Device Companies on Regulations and Compliance with Sonia Veluchamy Celegence TRANSCRIPT
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Sonia Veluchamy, CEO and Co-founder of Celegence discusses the increasing regulatory requirements and complexities faced by the medical device industry. Celegence works with companies to streamline their regulatory data management processes and adopt advanced technology solutions to manage compliance efficiently. Medical device companies are often slower than pharmaceutical companies to recognize the need to invest in data governance and process optimization to maintain compliance and avoid fines, delays in product approval, and loss of market access. Sonia explains, "The awareness is there,...
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Increasing Focus of Medical Device Companies on Regulations and Compliance with Sonia Veluchamy Celegence
Empowered Patient Podcast
Sonia Veluchamy, CEO and Co-founder of Celegence discusses the increasing regulatory requirements and complexities faced by the medical device industry. Celegence works with companies to streamline their regulatory data management processes and adopt advanced technology solutions to manage compliance efficiently. Medical device companies are often slower than pharmaceutical companies to recognize the need to invest in data governance and process optimization to maintain compliance and avoid fines, delays in product approval, and loss of market access. Sonia explains, "The awareness is there,...
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Dissolvable Stent to Treat Peripheral Artery Disease Below the Knee with Dr. Ethan Korngold Abbott TRANSCRIPT
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Dr. Ethan Korngold is the chief medical officer and divisional vice president of medical affairs at Abbott’s vascular business, which has developed a dissolvable stent technology to treat peripheral artery disease. PAD disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic communities and is often overlooked because early symptoms can be mistaken for other conditions. The Esprit BTK stent can help open up the smaller arteries below the knee and improve blood flow to the legs and feet to treat PAD and prevent severe complications and amputations. Ethan explains, "So peripheral artery disease...
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Dissolvable Stent to Treat Peripheral Artery Disease Below the Knee with Dr. Ethan Korngold Abbott
Empowered Patient Podcast
Dr. Ethan Korngold is the chief medical officer and divisional vice president of medical affairs at Abbott’s vascular business, which has developed a dissolvable stent technology to treat peripheral artery disease. PAD disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic communities and is often overlooked because early symptoms can be mistaken for other conditions. The Esprit BTK stent can help open up the smaller arteries below the knee and improve blood flow to the legs and feet to treat PAD and prevent severe complications and amputations. Ethan explains, "So peripheral artery disease...
info_outlineDr. Jonathon Hill, VP of Science and Technology and Co-Founder of Wasatch Bio Labs has developed the Next-Generation Sequencing 3.0, NESSI-Seq platform, which can analyze blood to detect epigenetic changes and provide insights into current health and predisposition for diseases. This native-read third-generation sequencing tool can provide longer sequence reads and analyze epigenetic modifications to DNA. Epigenetics can change over time in response to diet, environment, and lifestyle. Advanced genetic testing has the potential to provide biomarkers to support personalized medicine for earlier detection and tailored interventions.
Jonathon explains, "The biggest limitation with the Illumina sequencing was that it was only short sequences, so you had to get a lot of them to stitch them together and figure out what the human genome looked like. With this third-generation sequencing, we can get much longer reads, sometimes to the order of a hundred thousand nucleotide bases at a time. So we get these big complex reads."
"The other thing we can do now with this third-generation sequencing is look at certain chemical modifications the body makes to the DNA to help regulate that DNA and help the body function. And looking at those chemical modifications can tell us a lot about someone's health. It can tell us their age, and it can tell us what disease they might have. We can get a lot of information out of that that just wasn't available to us in the previous two generations."
"If you think of classical genetics, it's the DNA sequence and the mutations you might have that might give you a propensity for the disease, etc. Those don't change throughout your life. Every cell in your body has that exact same sequence from birth until death. It never changes. But the epigenetics, these chemical modifications change. They change as you age. They are different in different tissues and organs within your body, changing even in response to pathogens or certain disease states. So they have a lot of information that we would not get otherwise."
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