Episode 11 - Dr. Andrea Adamo and the Out of This World Flow Technologies
Release Date: 12/14/2020
Episode 21. Dr. Harsha Rajasimha and the Challenges and Complexities of Clinical Trials
The Future of Pharma
My guest in this episode is Dr. Harsha Rajasimha, CEO/founder of Jeeva Clinical Trials. We talked about the pharmaceutical industry's blackbox - clinical trials. Personal tragedy inspired him to dedicate his life to make technology more efficient for healthcare solutions including AI and generative AI. We discussed the complexities of clinical trials, its patient recruitment, and data unavailability challenges, and why we must make them more efficient He is also the founder of a non-profit, IndoUSRare, which as the name implies bridges the rare disease treatment and awareness gap between the...
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Episode 20 - Hon. Prof. Tom Chittenden and the Potential and Challenges of AI in the Pharmaceutical Industry
The Future of Pharma
My guest today is Hon. Prof. Dr. Tom Chittenden, but he prefers to go by Tom. He is the Chief Scientific Officer and President of R&D at BioAI Company and leads scientific research operations and ongoing development and implementation of the BioAI Health PREDICT-X Drug Discovery and Development platform. Tom Chittenden is an Honorary Professor of AI in Biomedicine at Queen Mary University of London. His research has been published in top-tier scientific journals, including Nature and Science. Tom is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on causal AI in the biomedical...
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Episode 19 - Alpesh and Jigisha Gandhi and The Global Supply Chain for the Pharma Industry
The Future of Pharma
My guests today are the dynamic husband-wife duo of Alpesh and Jigisha Gandhi who jointly run Ami Polymer Pvt. Ltd. which is a leading manufacturer of silicon tubing something we use a lot in the life science industry. Starting with Alpesh and later with Jigisha, Ami Polymer is a leading silicon tubing manufacturing company in India and played an important role in COVID vaccine manufacturing. Alpesh Gandhi did his engineering in Rubber Technology from L. D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad, India. The same college where I did my Chemical Engineering. Then he did his MBA from Jamnalal Bajaj...
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Episode 18 - Gareth Shaw and Connecting Doctors and Patients in the 21st Century
The Future of Pharma
My guest in this episode is Gareth Shaw. Gareth Shaw is the President, the UK & Europe of Doceree, the first global network of physician-only platforms for programmatic messaging. Prior to joining Doceree, Gareth was the General Manager, Global Programmatic, of PulsePoint where he led the programmatic and operations divisions. Previously, he has held roles at Yahoo! and Experian. Throughout his career, Gareth has gained vast experience in sales and operations across the digital media and advertising technology sectors. He has a well-regarded background in building high-performance teams...
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Episode 17 - Lyndsee Manna on Deriving Actionable Intelligence from Data
The Future of Pharma
My guest in this episode is Lyndsee Manna. Lyndsee is an EVP at Arria NLG, where along with her colleagues, she helps businesses derive actionable intelligence from data to make better decisions. That's the simplistic version and we go into a lot more details. In this wide-ranging episode, we talk about math, words, language, writing, technology, data analytics, success, failure, and personal choices. A standout quote from her is, "There are no failures. There are only lessons." I had a great time talking to Lyndsee, discussing the future possibilities, and learning about AI.
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Episode 16 - Mark Sitcoske on Building a Company and Impact of COVID-19 on the Global Supply Chain
The Future of Pharma
My guest today is Mark Sitcoske. Mark is the Founder & CEO of High Purity New England (HPNE), based in Northern Rhode Island, just forty-five minutes south of Boston. HPNE has grown rapidly over the last few years, expanding significantly from a small team of fewer than ten employees to a firm that anticipates reaching approximately 350 employees in 2022. Mark and his growing team of deeply-experienced professionals at HPNE are committed to supplying the biotech and biopharma industries with a variety of innovative, single-use solutions. Currently, HPNE is one of many companies supporting...
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Episode 15: Dr. Paul Peter Tak on Doing Everything With Patients in Mind
The Future of Pharma
My guest today is Dr. Paul Peter Tak. Dr. Tak received his medical degree cum laude from the Free University in Amsterdam and was trained as an internist, rheumatologist, and immunologist at Leiden University Medical Center, where he also received his PhD. He has been a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Diego. Next, he served as Professor of Medicine and founding Chair of the Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at the Academic Medical Centre/University of Amsterdam (AMC). During this time, he founded Arthrogen b.v., a biotech company...
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Episode 14 - Amr Raafat, Virtual Design Construction and Shakespeare
The Future of Pharma
My guest today is Amr Raafat. Amr has over 17 years of experience combining architectural, construction, and engineering expertise and is an industry-leading technology expert. As Vice President of Virtual Design Construction & Technology at Windover Construction, he leverages the most cutting-edge technologies such as BIM, laser scanning, drone mapping, virtual and mixed reality, digital fabrication, and 3D printing to streamline the construction process for our clients and project teams. Amr has published multiple articles on construction innovation and is a regular presenter at...
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Episode 13 - Francesca McBride, Cell Therapy and Global Regulations
The Future of Pharma
My guest today is Francesca McBride. Francesca completed a Bachelor of Science Degree at the University of Delaware in 1985, majoring in Pre-Veterinary Science. As a pharmaceutical/ biotechnology regulatory compliance specialist Francesca works with international companies to support the design, start-up, licensing and operation of clinical and commercial product manufacturing facilities. She has been with Jacobs (Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology) for 25+ years and currently in her capacity as a Director, Regulatory Compliance is involved in the support of client and design teams to ensure...
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Brian Hagopian, Water Purity and Rapid Bacteria Detection
The Future of Pharma
My guest today is Brian Hagopian who's known as or at least I call him "the Kevin Bacon of the Boston life sciences industry", either you know him or you know someone who knows him. He is currently the President of Clear Water Consulting, Inc.,and received his chemistry degree from Colgate University. He has over 35 years of design, manufacturing, and operational experience and is currently a highly sought after high purity water subject matter expert. Brian is an instructor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and is also a Massachusetts certified instructor offering licensing courses for...
info_outlineMy guest today is Dr. Andrea Adamo who is the Founder and CEO of Zaiput Flow Technologies. He also serves as the Innovation Advisor at Snapdragon Chemistry. Dr. Adamo holds a Master of Science in Engineering from the University of Palermo, Italy and a Ph.D. in Fluid Mechanics from the University Federico II of Naples, Italy in addition to a Master of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was also awarded the Fulbright Scholarship. After completing his graduate studies, Dr Adamo joined the laboratory of Professor Klavs Jensen, Director of the MIT Chemical Engineering Department and arguably one the world leaders in continuous flow chemistry.
In this chat with Dr. Adamo, we talk about his journey as an adolescent boy from Italy through his formative years to developing the technology that was literally tested in the outer space. I hope you enjoy my interview with this brilliant and visionary yet humble thought leader. Here's Dr. Andrea Adamo.