AnalysisMode: Biotech and Longevity: Recent Episodes
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Weekly conversations featuring scientists, experts, fans and proponents of longevity and aging research. Recorded in Helsinki, Finland.
Hosted by Tan Lay and Tiago Sampaio.
Conversation with Fernanda Masri - Head of Commercial Operations at the Stevenage Manufacturing Innovation Centre of Cell & Gene Therapy at Catapult UK; hosted by Sadeem ELBasyouni and Belma Alispahic.
Fernanda is originally a chemical engineer by training and specialised in biochemical engineering during her academic career. She has a wide expertise in the CGT since 2010 improving the optimization process of the current bioproduction technologies, particularly in the CAR-T manufacturing at different clinical stages. To that end, Fernanda helps companies progress from early-phase clinical trials to increase the throughput without increasing the manufacturing footprint.
Fernanda's proficiency goes beyond the industry since Fernanda was working as a project manager organising international conferences in "Advancing the Manufacture of Cell & Gene Therapy. One of the hot topics she touched up on is the AI digital solutions harmonising the collection of the data from R&D to process development, to manufacturing, to clinical. She is with us today on AnalysisMode podcast to tell us all about her journey at Catapult and challenges in cell therapy bioprocessing.
Conversation with Jomet John - Co-founder of Zerotoo; hosted by Sadeem ELBasyouni and Belma Alispahic. Jomet John is an entrepreneur, an education reformer, a leader who launched many initiatives and participated as a motivational speaker in the events to raise awareness in his community. As a data science aspirant and mind map trainer, he co-founded Zerotoo startup, which is an artificial intelligence e-learning platform that accelerates the education process through a combination of AI, gamification and interactive interface that help users learn different sets of skills.
Jomet's goal in life is to analyse and empower people/industry to realise their true potential and help them achieve it. Jomet ensures a better tomorrow by putting that in action through Zerotoo, where every learning, achievement and accomplishment are validated using blockchain.. He is with us today on AnalysisMode podcast to tell us all about his journey through life, artificial intelligence and education.
Conversation with Dr. Mohamad Toutounji - Molecular Biologist.
Presented by Sadeem Elbasyouni.
Dr. Mohamad Toutounji is a Molecular biologist focusing on CMC of ATMPs ATMP Scientist at Sanofi pharmaceutical industry in Amsterdam, Netherlands. His work involves planning & executing laboratory work , restoring experimental data sets and documenting analytical results to ensure maximum traceability suggesting next steps in experimental design. Even challenging work tasks of preparing all QA protocols, INDs and NDAs that he enjoys as part of his role.
Dr. Mohamed completed his PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (TiHo) in Germany, where he specialised in cell/gene therapy, protein trafficking, cellular signalling, tissue engineering, and molecular genetics. His technical expertise is strong in Medical Biochemistry, Physiology and Biology.
Dr. Mohamed is a learner who believes it is by recognizing past mistakes that you move ahead with a productive future. That is why Dr. Mohamed enjoys being around great thinkers who are open-minded and able to understand situations from different perspectives in life. He is with us today on AnalysisMode podcast to tell us all about his journey through life and health sciences.
Conversation with Cenk Sumen - previously working as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Stemson's Therapeutic in the USA; hosted by Tan Lay and Belma Alispahic.
Cenk is an inspiring professional who has worked as a Cell Biochemist in the research labs of MIT and Stanford on antibody engineering and cell culture scale-up. One of his greatest achievements is developing a novel system for deconstructing the molecular events in T-cell antigen recognition while working with multiple sclerosis patients. Furthermore, Cenk has held technical, commercial, and strategy roles at industry pioneers such as STEMCELL Technologies, PerkinElmer, Hitachi, and Thermo Fisher.
At the moment, Cenk is currently working as Scientific Chief Officer at MaxCyte, Inc., focusing to build industry-leading cell engineering systems to enable the regulated delivery of any molecule into any cell. During Cenk previous role as the CTO at Stemson Therapeutics, his mission is to develop new technology that leverages the power of iPSC (induced pluripotent stem cells) to generate new hair follicles. Cenk’s role as a CTO makes him study how to regenerate failing tissues and the chromatin changes that occur with ageing, which is a big focus in longevity research: how to keep human organs and tissue systems from failing? Cenk says, ”Hair today, gone tomorrow!”, a very good model system for how organs fail. This brings us to the main speciality of Stemson’s therapeutics to unpack the biology of that now and understand the genomics behind the hair follicles. He is with us today on AnalysisMode podcast to tell us all about his journey at Stemsons Therapeutics and longevity through hair regeneration.
In this episode Tan and Tiago are joined by Belma Alispahic who is a biotech scientist and longevity advocate.
They have a fun chat discussing pros and cons of living forever.
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In this episode Tan and Tiago ponder the idea of sperm production being a resource intensive process for a living body.
Seems like a stretch but does that mean humans can live longer if they don't have to have sex?
In this episode, Tiago and Tan chat with Dima Syrotkin, Co-founder of Longhack which is a hackathon taking place in September 2021 with the aim of boosting research and awareness in the longevity industry.
It seems we're firmly on the path to extending human lifespans, and rejuvenating ageing bodies back to a youthful appearance. But what about the brain?
We discuss the possibility of the cellular repair process in the brain compared that in the rest of the body.
Also, the knock-on effects of living longer means the fundamental way we plan for the future could change drastically.
In this episode, Tan Lay and Tiago Sampiao talk about:
- how our food consumption habits are related to longevity.
- what we've learned from looking at lifespans of worker bees compared to queen bees
- the possibility that humans could be immortal by default
- the idea of stress testing our metabolism
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Starting the podcast series off the right way. No beating around the bush. Let's get straight to it. Let's talk about immortality!
In this first episode, Tan and Tiago discuss what it means for a organism to be biologically immortal and what the chances are for humans to get close to it.