Few & Far Between

"I learned very early on that the stupidest cancer cell was cleverer than the cleverest oncologist." - Justin Stebbing, Editor-in-Chief of Oncogene, previously the UK's first NIHR Research Translational Professor of Oncology, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Welcome to the latest episode of Biorasi's Few & Far Between podcast. Join host Chris O

"Technologies have changed enormously in terms of how we can basically procure, preserve, and then interrogate a tumor specimen...like effectively in real time, like a living cancer specimen." - Dr. Keith Flaherty, Director of Clinical Research at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Associate Physician of Hematology and

"Artificial Intelligence is a tool that really levels up and creates almost like an equity for everybody to participate and, when used effectively, to really accelerate medicine's development." - Dr. Ole Isacson, Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School. Welcome to the February episode of Biorasi's Few & Far Between podcast. Join host Chris O'Brien and Dr. Ol

"The history of rare disease drug development indicates that once you start looking harder for cases, you often tend to find them." - Will Greene, Prader-Willi syndrome patient advocate and Healthcare Engagement Lead at Roche Welcome to Biorasi's first Few & Far Between episode of 2024! Join host Chris O'Brien and guest Will Greene, Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) patient advocate and

"Patients have already been exposed to these large language models (LLMs). Yes, they are aware of the risks, but they are also very aware of the benefits. And we need to engage the public in defining what those [AI] policies are." Isaac [Zak] Kohane, Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School Buckle up for the latest Few & Far Between podcast!

"And what I was really surprised about was that everybody was doing data collection in a different way. And I kept thinking that, gosh, there's a lot of recreation of the wheel when advocacy groups have not necessarily ever run a research study. And so I kept thinking about what opportunities do we have across rare disease to really elevate and accelerate all of this work around da

"So we built the seatbelts before the car, so to speak, wherein we did a project to figure out ways to biocontain these organisms. And the strategy that we used actually drew from all of my past experience in computational protein design and combined it with these incredible new organisms." - Dan Mandell, CEO at GRO Biosciences Welcome to Biorasi's Few & Far Between podcast! Join h

"In research or in biotech, time is expensive. Time is the most expensive thing that you have." - Stephanie Wisner, Author, Co-Founder at Centivax Biorasi is excited to welcome Stephanie Wisner to the Few & Far Between podcast. Stephanie is the author of "Building Backwards to Biotech: The Power of Entrepreneurship to Drive Cutting-Edge Science to Market." Join host Chris O'Brien a

"What can I contribute that my doctor can't contribute? And that's a real 'a-ha' moment when we share with them how they're the experts in their condition and they know more about the everyday kind of what they go through than their doctor even would because they're not with them 24/7." - Pam Cusick, SVP, Rare Patient Voice Biorasi's Marc Gas welcomes Pam Cusick, SVP at Rare Patien