In this first episode of season two of the Precision Medicine Podcast, Dr. John Quackenbush discusses his approach to understanding what makes cancer cancer by studying entire gene networks rather than simple mutations. Dr. Quackenbush is Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health and one of the first people to have worked on the Human Genome Project. Read our full summary and tune in to the episode here.

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Selin Kurnaz, CEO and cofounder of Massive Bio, who led a panel at the Precision Medicine Leadership Summit in Philadelphia. The panel discussion, Precision Medicine Clinical Trials and Novel Designs: Levering Data, ‘Omics’, AI and Policy focused on the importance of increasing patient accessibility to clinical trials, an issue that drove Dr. Kurnaz to cofound her company. Read more in our full summary and tune in to the episode here.

In this episode, we talk with Kristine Ashcraft, founder and CEO of YouScript, a platform that synthesizes all evidence impacting drug response, including pharmacogenetic testing, to support doctors and pharmacists in making faster, more proactive decisions at the point of care. For a summary and transcript visit https://bit.ly/2O5Fpuj

Dr. Bruce Johnson, Chief Clinical Research Officer from the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, joins us to discuss how recent advances in treating rare cancers can help drive the understanding and expansion of precision medicine.

To celebrate our upcoming anniversary, we're going back to where the Precision Medicine Podcast made its debut nearly one year ago.

Dr. Edward Abrahams is President of the Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC) and host of the 15th Annual Personalized Medicine Conference coming up on November 13 at Harvard Medical School. In this episode, we discuss the evolution of precision medicine and the value it can bring to all stakeholders, including innovators, scientists, patients, providers, and payers.

If you are a regular listener we've heard over and over about the challenges associated with convincing everyone—and most notably payers—of the value of precision medicine. So, we are excited to share Dr. Abrahams’ and the PMC’s vision for communicating it as a win-win for all stakeholders.

In honor of breast cancer awareness month, Dr. Erica Stringer-Reasor joins us to discuss how breast cancer has led the way in the adoption of precision medicine. Dr. Stringer-Reasor is an expert in the field of breast cancer, a fast-rising star in cancer research and Assistant Professor of Hematology Oncology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

In this podcast, Nigel Russell, Founder and Co-president of the Journal of Precision Medicine and host of the Precision Medicine Leadership Summit, joins us to talk about how his team communicates the importance and challenges of Precision Medicine to a broad and sometimes under-informed readership.

In Part Two of our two-part interview with Dr. Jack West, Associate Clinical Professor at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, we discuss the differences between how community oncologists are applying—or in many cases not applying—precision medicine as opposed to how it is applied by academic oncologists.

Ten-year cancer survivor and patient advocate Randall Broad, shares his personal story with stage III non-small cell lung cancer and how that experience made him acutely aware of the need for improved communication between patients and physicians in an effort to facilitate mutual understanding and better outcomes. Listen here.

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Dr. Michael Kolodziej is CIO at ADVI Health and a pioneer in developing value-based reimbursement models for cancer care. Having seen him present his talk, “The Healthcare Landscape of 2025: 3 Trends That Can Change Cancer Care Forever,” at a Florida Association of Clinical Oncology (FLASCO) event, we were anxious to dive deeper into the trends here on the Precision Medicine Podcast.

In this part two podcast, he talks about payer reform and alternative payer models in cancer care today.