Xtalks Life Science Podcast

This episode features an interview with Wa'el Hashad, CEO of Longeveron.

This episode features an interview with Attorney Temitope (Tope) Leyimu, a toxic exposure attorney at Motley Rice  who is leading a lawsuit over hair relaxing products that contain harmful chemicals.

The products, which have historically been targeted primarily at black and brown women of African descent, have drawn major concern due to their links with reproductive-related cancers such as ovarian, cervical and uterine cancer. An October 2022 study by the National Institutes of Health, revealed that women using chemical straighteners face a 150 percent increased risk of uterine cancer.

This episode features an interview with Dr. Lahar Mehta, Head of Global Clinical Development at Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, who spoke to Xtalks about Amylyx’s clinical trial design of ORION, a Phase III Global Study of AMX0035 (Relyvrio) in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP).

In this episode, Ayesha talked about the FDA’s acceptance of AstraZeneca’s supplemental biologics license application (sBLA) for a self-administered option of its nasal influenza vaccine FluMist Quadrivalent. While FluMist has been in the market since 2003, AstraZeneca is now seeking FDA authorization for a self-administered option of the vaccine. By offering a more accessible and flexible self-administered option, the company and experts in the field hope it will help increase uptake of the flu vaccine, especially as flu vaccinations have been on the decline in recent years.

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This episode features an interview with Dr. Genevieve Neal-Perry, MD, PhD, professor and chair at the UNC School of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and lead investigator on a study investigating Astellas Pharma’s fezolinetant (Veozah), which received FDA approval in May this year for the treatment of moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms due to menopause.

In this episode, Ayesha talked about a lawsuit that Johnson & Johnson and IBM are facing over a data breach that occurred at Janssen’s CarePath, Johnson & Johnson’s patient assistance program, the portal for which is run by IBM. The lawsuit was filed with the federal court in the Southern District of New York by a Florida resident who claims the companies failed to adequately protect patients’ personal identity and health information as per the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Hear more about the data breach and the risk and repercussions of cyberattacks in pharma and healthcare.

This episode features an interview with Dr. Paul Rennert, co-founder, CEO and CSO of Aleta Biotherapeutics, an immuno-oncology company focused on multi-antigen targeting solutions designed to enhance the action of CAR T cell therapies in B cell lymphoma, B cell leukemia and multiple myeloma, as well as non-B cell cancers such as acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and solid tumors such as breast cancer, gastric cancer and pediatric brain tumors.

This episode features an interview with Dr. Elmar Joura, Associate Professor of Gynecology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Medical University of Vienna, who spoke to Xtalks about exciting new long-term Gardasil vaccine data from a study he led as principal investigator that showed the long-term impact of HPV vaccination.

In this episode, Vera interviews Dr. Kristin Yarema, President of Cell Therapy at Poseida Therapeutics, about Poseida’s cell therapy approach and technologies.

She shares what Poseida is looking forward to with the Investigational New Drug (IND) clearance for the first dual CAR program targeting CD19 and CD20 for the treatment of B-cell malignancies.