METAPHASE podcast

Olena Husak

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Metaphase is a monthly podcast series exploring modern European biotech and digital healthcare startup industry. Its host Olena invites healthtech entrepreneurs and scientists who made the transition from academia into business to talk about the hard way of turning science into profitable venture.

31/08/2022

From moving petabytes to getting Oscars with Aleksandr Bakharev

In a good TV show each 8th episode happens something new or unexpected. This time we follow exactly the same golden rule. Here and now I interview Aleksandr Bakharev who is outside of biotech/digital health field. Alex has defended his PhD in Telecommunications with flying colors and several patents (which deserves a great respect) and builds incredible products with Autodesk these days. In this conversation we cover a variety of different topics - from Alex's career path to whom and why gets Oscars for visual effects (see the hint in text above). We also converse on pros and cons of doing PhD and what can be improved in construction and medical care fields.

36 min
09/02/2022

The art of meeting mentors in the right place and at the right time with Marie Onakomaiya

Marie Onakomaiya is Chief Scientific Officer at Datacubed Health - company which improves remote engagement of patients in clinical studies employing the most recent advancements in behavioral science. Marie has an inspiring story of consecutive career steps and choices, which always led her to the place she wanted to be. In this conversation we also talked about the interaction of chronic alcohol consumption and anabolic steroids. We touched upon how one can treat PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) using virtual reality technologies. And what is the best way to build your own professional network. I hope you enjoy this conversation as I did!

37 min
24/10/2021

Exciting journey to the world of healthcare startups with venture capitalist Joseph Mocanu

In this episode my guest is Joseph Mocanu who is an active venture capitalist, investing globally in seed stage healthcare technology startups relevant to emerging markets. In this conversation you will hear about Joseph's career path from PhD degree in life sciences to a founder of Verge Capital Management investment fund and many more other interesting things about investing in healthcare field.

40 min
06/09/2021

Talking to Karlijn Doorn about her path from academia towards making medicines more accessible with myTomorrows

In this episode I talk to Karlijn Doorn PhD, who is a Director Operations at myTomorrows, which is a digital platform that links patients facing unmet medical needs to the treatments in the development. In this conversation we talk about Karlijn's career path that spans her PhD years, teaching at University of Amsterdam and her journey at myTomorrows. We also discuss what is an early access and how myTomorrows excels at the inter-phase of patients, healthcare professionals and pharma simultaneously.

40 min
26/07/2021

Get to know Brazen Bio - LA based incubator for biotech startups

In this episode I talk to co-founders of Brazen Bio - Shawn Carbonell, MD, PhD and Brent Witgen, PhD. Brazen Bio is an incubator for early stage biotech startups in Los Angeles with fully-funded 12-week fellowship for rising bioentrepreneurs. Here we discuss why it is difficult to start a biotech company and how Brazen Bio helps to overcome this hurdle. If you have a great idea and some proof of concept feel free to apply at https://www.brazen.bio/, the application period is open!

41 min
28/06/2021

Why blood glucose levels matter with Dr. Torsten Schröder, co-founder of Perfood

In this episode I talk to Dr. Torsten Schröder - co-founder and Chief Medical Officer at Perfood, company, which creates digital therapeutic solutions for a personalized nutrition. In this conversation we discuss what is digital therapeutics and how one can use the data to improve the health by changing the diet. We will also talk about how knowing the blood glucose levels can help with weight control and the migraines.

39 min
10/04/2021

With Chris Richter from biomechanics to AI digital healthcare startup

In this episode I talk Chris Richter, a senior data scientist at Kaia Health. Chris has a solid background in biomechanics but at some point he decided to take a leap from academia to the business world. In this conversation we are going to discuss what is motion capture and how it can be used to help people with back pain. In addition, will speak about what are the main challenges of being a data scientist in industry, how to start doing jogging properly and why a data scientist should learn to use indexing in the code.

31 min
22/02/2021

Konstanze Olschewski, CEO of Alpha Analytics talks about her career path from PhD project to a consultancy firm

My guest today is Konstanze Olschewski, CEO of AlphaAnalytics, company which helps businesses to make data-driven decision for better outcomes. AlphaAnalytics is helping other companies to translate data analysis into actionable business strategies. In this episode Konstanze will share how to start a start up company from PhD project and what is awaiting for us in the future of data analysis world.

24 min

8 Episodes

Creator

Olena Husak
Years Active

2021 - 2022
Episodes

8
Rating

Clean
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METAPHASE podcast

METAPHASE podcast

Episodes

From moving petabytes to getting Oscars with Aleksandr Bakharev

The art of meeting mentors in the right place and at the right time with Marie Onakomaiya

Exciting journey to the world of healthcare startups with venture capitalist Joseph Mocanu

Talking to Karlijn Doorn about her path from academia towards making medicines more accessible with myTomorrows

Get to know Brazen Bio - LA based incubator for biotech startups

Why blood glucose levels matter with Dr. Torsten Schröder, co-founder of Perfood

With Chris Richter from biomechanics to AI digital healthcare startup

Konstanze Olschewski, CEO of Alpha Analytics talks about her career path from PhD project to a consultancy firm

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