Trends from the Trenches
Bio-IT World’s Trends from the Trenches podcast delivers your insider’s look at the science, technology, and executive trends driving the life sciences through conversations with industry leaders. BioTeam co-founder Stan Gloss brings years of industry experience in science, data, and technology to conversations exploring what is driving data and discovery, and what’s coming next.
Episodes
33 episodes
Episode: 32 - Rémy Evard on Organizing Trials, Declining Resources, and AI Development
In this episode of Trends from the Trenches, host Stan Gloss discusses high-performance computing and its progress over the years with Rémy Evard, chief digital officer and head of technology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). The...
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Episode 32
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25:11
Episode: 31 - Tom Plasterer on Going From Pharma to Start-Up, Graph Technology, and More
In this episode of Trends from the Trenches, host Stan Gloss speaks with industry veteran Tom Plasterer, managing director of life sciences innovation at XponentL Data. Plasterer shares his journey of how he became an industry leader, how his t...
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Episode 31
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29:00
Episode: 30 - Howard Jacob On Funding, Rare Diseases, and the Origins of ARCH
In this episode of Trends from the Trenches, host Stan Gloss speaks with Howard Jacob, vice president of genomics research at AbbVie. They discuss Jacob’s beginnings at AbbVie, data siloing and “my data vs. our data” issues, and the role of fun...
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Episode 30
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30:32
Episode 29 - Discussing Compute Research and Support in Academia With Ruth Marinshaw
Tune into this month’s episode of Trends from the Trenches, where host Stan Gloss and Ruth Marinshaw, CTO of Research Computing at Stanford University, talk about the accomplishments and challenges of supporting a diverse population of research...
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Episode 29
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24:54
Episode: 28 - Bio-IT World Expo: Trends from the Trenches with Ari Berman
In this special episode of the Trends from the Trenches podcast, listen in on the Trends from the Trenches session at this year’s Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. Ari Berman, PhD, CEO of BioTeam, delivers a candid talk about the technologies...
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Episode 28
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51:39
Episode: 27 - Law to Biotech: Joseph La Barge on Starting a Company and the Future of Gene Therapy
In this month’s episode of Trends from the Trenches, host Stan Gloss speaks with Joseph La Barge. La Barge trained as an attorney but has spent most of his career building biotech businesses and securing funding. He shepherded Spark Therapeutic...
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Episode 27
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25:55
Episode: 26 - Embracing Change and Overcoming Resistance With Adama Ibrahim
Change can be scary, but it can also bring new opportunities and lead to growth and innovation. In this episode of Trends from the Trenches, host Stan Gloss from BioTeam and Adama Ibrahim, VP of Digital Strategy & Change Management...
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Episode 26
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33:58
Episode: 25 - Effective Data Management Strategies With Dr. Becky Upton
It’s no secret that the industry is drowning in data. That’s why data management strategies are needed now more than ever to speed up discoveries and bring new solutions to the market. In this episode of Trends from the Trenches, host ...
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Episode 25
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22:02
Episode: 24 - Tom Miller Discusses How to Turn Your Research Into Your Own Company
Going from one field to the next can be a tricky thing to navigate. In this episode of Trends from the Trenches, host Stan Gloss speaks with Tom Miller, Co-Founder and CEO of Iambic Therapeutics, about his journey from academia as a professor a...
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Episode 24
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25:56
Episode: 23 - Setting Global Wide Data Sharing Standards With Dr. Heidi Rehm
In this episode of Trends from the Trenches, host Stan Gloss speaks with Heidi Rehm, PhD, Chair Elect of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH), about data sharing policies and standards that can advance both genomics and health. R...
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Episode 23
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30:55
Episode: 22 - Exploring Generative AI And How It Can Improve Healthcare With Roche’s Bryn Roberts
In the latest episode of the Trends from the Trenches podcast, host Stan Gloss and Bryn Roberts, PhD, Global Head of Data & Analytics at Roche Information Solutions explore the Why and the How behind AI. What used to be “happily left a bit ...
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Episode 22
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32:21
Episode: 21 - Generative AI, Digital Twins, and the Future of Pharmaceutical Innovation
After the “magical moment of hope” when the first human genome was sequenced, Jeanne Kehren switched from veterinary medicine to the pharmaceutical industry. Today, she is the SVP of Digital & Commercial Innovation and CIO at Bayer Pharmace...
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Episode 21
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42:09
Episode: 20 - Exploring the Benefits of AI
A few years ago, artificial intelligence was in its developmental stages. Today, it is widely used by various industries and several companies are exploring new ways to utilize its tremendous potential. In this episode of Trends from the Trench...
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Episode 20
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35:51
Episode: 19 - Research Consumers: Understanding How Data Can—And Can Not—Answer Questions about Customer Needs
In this episode of Trends from the Trenches, Stan Gloss speaks with Efosa Ojomo, director of the Global Prosperity Group at the Clayton Christensen Institute (CCI) and coauthor of The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out ...
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Episode 19
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34:57
Episode: 18 - Bryn Roberts on Data Citizenship and Changing Data Culture
Bryn Roberts has spent thirty years in informatics and data, most recently at Roche and before that at AstraZeneca. Now as Global Head of Data and Analytics at Roche Information Solutions, Roberts applies his career-long learnings to the curren...
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Episode 18
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26:35
Episode: 17 - Pfizer’s AI Approach: A Business Strategy for a Digital World
At Pfizer, AI plays a key role in every step of the drug discovery process, Anastasia Christianson, Global Head of AI, ML, Analytics, and Data at Pfizer, tells Stan Gloss on the latest episode of the Trends from the Trenches podcast. Christians...
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Episode 17
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20:13
Episode: 16 - Kjiersten Fagnan on the JGI’s Genome Citation Service That Tracks Genomes Across Research
Kjiersten Fagnan is an applied mathematician enamored of biology’s messy datasets. Now, as chief informatics officer at the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, she finds bioinform...
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Episode 16
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25:17
Episode: 15 - CEO Andrew Hopkins on Exscientia’s AI-Driven Approach to Modern Drug Discovery
The steel industry is not a common birthplace of biotech companies, but Andrew Hopkins traces the ideas that became Exscientia back to his time there. New technologies and new processes replaced nearly 90% of the steel workforce, and Hopkins ke...
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Episode 15
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40:51
Episode 14: How Recursion Hopes to Harness the Big Picture View to Understand Biology’s Landscape
After ten years of working on a specific disease, Chris Gibson’s graduate school lab tested their treatment theory on an animal model. It not only didn’t work, it actually made the animals worse. The experience prompted Gibson to look into how ...
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Episode 14
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26:25
Episode: 13 - Vizgen’s Terry Lo on Creating Maps of Biology’s Backroads
Terry Lo has been in healthcare for almost 25 years, with business and commercial roles across pharma, diagnostics, and life sciences, but his most recent role—CEO at Vizgen—connects him with what he calls, “without a doubt the most exciting sp...
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Episode 13
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31:53
Episode: 12 - Bonus Episode With AWS’ Aaron Friedman on the New Amazon Omics Service Launch
Host Stan Gloss, founder of BioTeam, talks with Aaron Friedman, HealthAI Principal Product Manager at Amazon Web Services, about the launch of Amazon Omics. This new purpose-built service helps healthcare and life science organizations store, q...
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Episode 12
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25:29
Episode 11: Atomic Changes: Reshaping our Data Journey in Small Steps
Host Stan Gloss, founder of BioTeam, invites Mike Tarselli, chief scientific officer at TetraScience, to chat about data and how the life sciences industry thinks about our primary product. They discuss the tech sector’s influence on pharma in ...
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Episode 11
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29:49
Episode 10: Dr. Kiana Aran on a New Wave of Technological Advancements With Graphene
Graphene has quickly become a biotech buzzword as scientists aim to better connect with biology and usher in a new wave of technological advancements. Outperforming silicon at nearly every turn, graphene is one of the most biocompatible tools f...
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Episode 10
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31:24
Episode 9: State of the Industry: Checking in on AI Trends and Progress with Fernanda Foertter
In the latest episode of Bio-IT World’s Trends from the Trenches podcast, host Stan Gloss, founder of BioTeam, talks with Fernanda Foertter, director of developer relations at Voltron Data, about her AI experiences in the past few years, whethe...
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Episode 9
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37:07
Episode: 8 - Victoria Gamerman on a Roadmap to Real-World Data in Drug Discovery
Victoria Gamerman’s love of analytics and math came from her grandmother—the first mathematician she knew. And in her nearly decade at Boehringer Ingelheim, she’s been putting that love to use as the Global Head of Data Governance and Insights....
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Episode 8
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