Bio2040 - Bottlenecks & Future of Science, Healthcare & Biotech

Oct 11 2024 15 ep. 41 mins 37
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In this podcast, entrepreneur and angel investor Flavio Rump discusses the biggest bottlenecks and the future of biotech by speaking with some of the sharpest, most innovative minds in biotechnology and related fields.

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From Code to Crops: Roots co-founder Abhi's Cutting-Edge Use of AI in Agriculture

Oct 11 2024 64 mins  
One of the most exciting conversations I have had all year. Abhi, co-founder and CEO of roots is is a software engineer turned farmer who is really pushing LLMs to the edge of their abilities. In this interview, we discover how he has been using Google Gemini’s large context windows to feed it thousands of agriculture science papers and discover insights relevant for his agricult

Sam Lee, The History, Future and Workings of Synthetic Biology

Mar 25 2022 51 mins  
In Bio2040’s latest episode we had the chance to talk to Sam Lee, a long-time veteran of the biotech space. This episode covers some of the history and fundamentals of the synthetic biology and biomanufacturing space.

E13 Challenges and Opportunities in Translating Innovation with Nadine C. Martin

Jan 20 2019 51 mins  
What are the main challenges in translating scientific innovation from the bench-side to the bedside? Physician and long-term Pharma executive Nadine Martin is now in charge of innovation management at sitem-insel AG. A translational unit of the Inselspital in Bern.

E12 How to Use Technology to Improve Research with Aleksandra Sokolowska

Jan 17 2019 44 mins  
SEED2019 is a scrappy conference targeting innovation within the science publishing & funding process. It will bring together a diverse set of stakeholders and be followed by an incubator to implement the best ideas. We discuss problems and ideas on how to best solve the most pressing problems of academia.

11 Open Source Drug Discovery with M4K Pharma's Owen Roberts

Apr 16 2018 44 mins  
How Open Source Drug Discovery can lower the risk and cost of drug discovery. M4K Pharma is pioneering a completely new model, where patents are not filed but data is shared. Yet they are still able to make money.

Opening up the opaque peer review with Sam & Daniela from PREreview

Apr 07 2018 42 mins  
Peer review is opaque and a large frustration for many scientists. Preprints are becoming more prevalent, but we still need to assess them critically. We shed light on some of the problems and solutions to this with preprint peer review clubs. PREreview is a platform to record these journal club conversations so that the rest of the world can benefit from them too.

09 How collaborating with robots will speed up biomedical research with Oskari Vinko

Mar 27 2018 46 mins  
Oskari and Flavio talk about how robots can help humans in biomedical research. UniteLabs is building lab automation systems to automate boring tasks so the highly trained researchers can focus on more high-level activities. We also talk about other bottlenecks in biomedical research and revisit some old friends from previous podcast guests.

08 How the Gates Foundation is reshaping how science gets published with Ashley Farley

Mar 01 2018 37 mins  
What does Open Research mean for the Gates Foundation? Why does it matter? How are they implementing it? We speak with Ashley Farley who is in charge of those initiatives at the Gates Foundation.

07 Translating Science from Academia and the Future of Medicine with Prof. Ernst Hafen

Feb 12 2018 17 mins  
In the 2nd part of the interview with Prof. Ernst Hafen we learn about how the birth of the Bio-Technopark Schlieren shows that if innovative entrepreneurs come together with great scientists, magic can happen. We also learn about a big bottleneck in translating science from academia into startups and how the future of medicine is personal.

06 Speeding up biomedical research by sharing protocols with Lenny Teytelman

Feb 06 2018 38 mins  
Lenny is the founder and CEO of protocols.io, where scientists can freely share scientific protocols with each other. Similarly to github, others can then try them out in their own lab, comment on them, improve them or fork them. This leads to many benefits for both the original author as well as the scientists who get access to new protocols. 11,000 scientists are already signed u