Personalized Medicine Podcast Oleksandr Yagensky

Dear listeners,

This is a bittersweet moment for us. With this episode, we conclude the Personalized Medicine Podcast series. 

We would like to thank all of you for staying with us over the last 3 years! This has been an amazing ride and we appreciate your constant support and feedback. We hope you enjoyed listening to this show as much as we enjoyed making it for you.

In this final episode, our team sits down once more to remember how it all started and how the team came together over these years. We share our most memorable podcast moments and words of gratitude to our guests and listeners. 

Thank you so much for being with us on this journey! 

Stay tuned for our next projects.



Sincerely yours,

Oleksandr (aka Sasha), Luisa, Aradhana, Ivana, Ting and Mehar

In this episode of the Personalized Medicine Podcast we sat down with Dr. Victor Bustos, the co-founder and COO of Refoxy Pharma, a pharmaceutical company focused on new therapies for age-related diseases.

Victor is a molecular biologist by training and dedicated his research career to understanding the biology of aging. In this interview, we discuss the role of FOXO transcription factors in regulating lifespan, Victor's transition from academia to the world of biotech start-ups and his progress with Refoxy Pharma.

Welcome to the next episode of the Personalized Medicine Podcast. In this episode, our host Aradhana sat down for a conversation with Dr Ali Aghebat Rafat, Scientist at Tilibit Nanosystems. Aradhana and Ali discussed DNA nanostructures, DNA self-assembly, barcoding, biochips and their potential applications in Personalized Medicine.



Tune in to this episode to learn more about:

  ◦ Tilibit Nanosystems and their mission

  ◦ Application areas of DNA origami in diagnostics

  ◦ What is DNA Paint

  ◦ A day in a life of a start-up scientist

  ◦ Role of nucleic acid nanostructures in Personalized Medicine 

  ◦ The outlook on the future of DNA origami technology

Welcome to the next episode of the Personalized Medicine Podcast. In this episode, our host Aradhana talked to Martin Rabel, the Field Application Scientist at Precision Nanosystems, about nanoparticles, microfluidics, gene delivery in the context of personalized medicine.

Tune in to this episode to learn more about:
◦ Precision Nanosystems and their mission
◦ Role of nanoparticles and microfluidics in Personalized Medicine
◦ Next-Gen microfluidics technologies
◦ Application of nanoparticles in pharmaceutical applications
◦ Challenges in developing RNA-based lipid nanoparticles
◦ Role of regulatory bodies in implementation of personalized medicine approaches
◦ The outlook on the future of personalized medicine

Get in touch with Martin:
◦ LinkedIn: Martin Rabel
◦ Twitter: @rabel_martin

In this episode we dive deep into the world of structural biology. We discuss the role of cryogenic electron microscopy in the development of precision medicines with the founder and CEO of Gandeeva Therapeutics, Dr. Sriram Subramaniam. Cryo-EM opened a new way to study drug-target interactions and is changing the way we develop new therapies.

Tune into our interview with Sriram to learn more about:
◦ The founding story of Gandeeva Therapeutics
◦ The evolution of Cryo-EM technology
◦ Application of Cryo-EM in drug discovery
◦ Advantages of Cryo-EM over crystallography im mapping protein structures
◦ Making sense of experimental data with AI and machine learning
◦ The future of personalized medicine and role of structural biology in it
◦ Sriram's advice for budding life science entrepreneurs

In this next podcast episode we dive into a topic of personalized skincare. Our host Oleksandr is joined by the co-founders of Mitra Bio, Dr. Shakiba Kaveh and Dr. Cristiana Banila.

Pharmaceutical and personal care companies have been trying to unlock personalized skincare for decades. Shakiba and Cristiana bring a special key to the table, and it is epigenetics.

Tune in into our interview to learn more about:
◦ The founding story of Mitra Bio
◦ The role of genetic and epigenetic factors in skin health
◦ Cracking epigenetic code
◦ Role of reliable models in understanding skin diseases
◦ Skin aging and personalized approaches to reverse it
◦ The future of personalized skincare
◦ Advice to young biotech entrepreneurs from Shakiba and Cristiana