Before the Cure

Every breakthrough begins with a story. Before the Cure is a conversational podcast exploring the human stories behind medical breakthroughs, healthcare innovation, biotech, patient advocacy, and emerging technologies changing medicine. Award-winning documentary filmmaker Timothy Wheeler and biotech leader David Tsai sit down with founders, scientists, physicians, advocates, patients, and families pursuing progress before anyone knows whether they will succeed. Timothy has spent 20 years documenting people driven to pursue things they believed mattered long before the outcome was certain. David has spent his career inside biotech and pharma, helping navigate the complicated path from promising science to real-world impact. Together, they look beyond the headlines and the science to understand the people behind advances in medicine, including the heartache, missteps, learning, failure, and triumph that rarely make the headlines. What drove them to act? What did they learn along the way? What are they seeing that the rest of us aren’t yet? And what might their experiences teach us about our own lives and health? These are conversations about navigating the healthcare system, advocating for ourselves and the people we love, developing new treatments, and using technology to change what is possible. Because a breakthrough isn’t just a scientific story. It’s a human one. And sometimes, hearing that story can change what happens next. This is Before the Cure.