Every three minutes in the United States, an allergic reaction to foods sends someone to the emergency room. Today, we explore what life is like when you must avoid certain foods. But we also learn that there is hope for an escape from the food prison. Researchers like Clemson University's Sachin Rustgi are using cutting-edge genetic engineering tools to make foods safer for those living with allergies and food sensitivities.   Guests:Sachin Rustgi, Clemson UniversityLisa Gable, FAREEmily Brown, Food Equality Initiative 

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Escaping the Food Allergy Prison

They are not the household names, but the medications they are researching and developing could be the lifeline patients are waiting for. Today we explore how drug price controls—now making their way through Congress—could have unintended consequences for the small biotechs that are the engine of the drug development ecosystem. And even worse, for the patients who need them most.   Guests:Ahmed Mousa, Pieris Pharmaceuticals  Daphne Zohar, PureTech HealthPeter Kolchinsky, RA CapitalMichele Oshman, BIOClare Thorpe, Library Services (AU)

How Drug Price Controls End Up Hurting Patients

For more than a year now, COVID has been society’s focus—and rightly so. But today we turn our attention to another virus—HIV. After 40 years, there is still no cure or a vaccine for the disease. In this episode, we hear from Dr. Anthony Fauci and CEO of innovative company American Gene Technologies, Jeff Galvin, about the past, present, and future of HIV treatments and medications. Is there a cure on the horizon?   Guests:Jeffrey Galvin, American Gene Technologies  Anthony Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

The Elephant in the Room: What About HIV?

We are on summer break as we work to bring you another exciting season this fall. So, for the next few weeks we’re sharing some of our favorite sessions from the June 2021 BIO Digital. Today, check out our session Breaking Barriers in Trade: A Conversation with Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization.Speaker:Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, World Trade Organization

BONUS: Breaking Barriers in Trade: A Conversation with Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

We are on summer break as we work to bring you another exciting season this fall. So, for the next few weeks we’re sharing some of our favorite sessions from the June 2021 BIO Digital. Today, check out our session Breaking Barriers in Science featuring Dr. Jennifer Doudna, Nobel Laureate and CRISPR Pioneer. This session is sponsored by Johnson & Johnson.  Speakers:Seema Kumar, Vice President of Innovation, Global Health and Policy CommunicationDr. Jennifer Doudna, Nobel Laureate and CRISPR Pioneer

Breaking Barriers in Science featuring Dr. Jennifer Doudna, Nobel Laureate and CRISPR Pioneer

We are on summer break as we work to bring you another exciting season this fall. So, for the next few weeks we’re sharing some of our favorite sessions from the June 2021 BIO Digital. Today, check out our session Growing LGBTQ Leadership in Biotech.   Speakers:Paul Hastings, BIO Chair and CEO at Nkarta TherapeuticsMatthew Fust, Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.Todd Sears, Out LeadershipDenice Torres, The Ignited Company

Growing LGBTQ Leadership in Biotech

We are on summer break as we work to bring you another exciting season this fall. So, for the next few weeks we’re sharing some of our favorite sessions from the June 2021 BIO Digital. Today, check out our session Fighting the Climate Crisis Through Supply Chain Sustainability.  Speakers:Dr. Michelle McMurry-HeathLord David Prior, National  Health Service EnglandRohin Mahtre, BiogenVictor Dzau, MD, National Academy of Medicine 

Bonus: Fighting the Climate Crisis Through Supply Chain Sustainability

The banana is an interesting case study. It is the world’s most popular fruit, yet it could very soon go missing from our store shelves due to a disease we’ve seen once before—leaving a large nutritional and economic hole in our society. The banana helps tell the story of how biotech is a key tool in strengthening our food systems to make our favorite foods more resilient, more sustainable, and more accessible. Featuring interviews with:Anna Rath, President & CEO and Director of VestaronDan Koeppel, author of Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the WorldBetsy Booren, SVP of Regulatory and Technical Affairs at the Consumer Brands AssociationTom Vilsack, Secretary of United States Department of Agriculture

Improving Food Systems: The Case of the Banana

Science—particularly biotechnology—helped change the course of COVID with the development of effective vaccines and therapeutics. However, it is also true that COVID has changed biotechnology. This I AM BIO podcast will look at the way biotech addressed the crisis and explores how the crisis, in turn, changed the biotech industry—its reputation, its exposure to a broader audience and its willingness to adopt lessons learned from the pandemic. This episode is sponsored by  FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies. Dr. William Karesh, EcoHealth AllianceDr. Cartier Esham, BIOAaron Sato, TWIST Biosciences Dr. Ron Faucheux, Certus Insights

Biotech Changed COVID. But Did COVID Change Biotech?

This is the I am BIO Uncut Series where we bring you a full interview from Monday’s podcast complete and unfiltered. In this episode, we’re joined by Richard Hatchett, CEO of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations or CEPI, a global vaccine procurement initiative. Check out Monday's episode here: https://iambio.simplecast.com/episodes/we-can-and-must-share-vaccines-with-the-globeLearn more about CEPI

I am BIO Uncut with Dr. Richard Hatchett

As the good news about the decline of COVID infections in the US continues to reverberate, the threat of the pandemic still looms globally. “Nobody is safe until everybody is safe.” Sharing life-saving vaccines around the world as quickly as possible defies a simple solution. This episode explores the recommendations and best solutions to address global distribution challenges and questions a simplistic proposal offered by some countries to the World Health Organization: waiving Intellectual Property rights for the vaccines. Will the waiver of these protections threaten to undermine the very system that produced life-saving science in the first place? 

We Can and Must SHARE Vaccines with the Globe

This is the I Am BIO Uncut Series, where we bring you a full interview from Monday's episode complete and unfiltered. In this Uncut episode, we share the conversation we had with Gerren Wilson, Head of Inclusion & Partnering in the Chief Diversity Office at Genentech, the pharmaceutical biotech company. Check out the full episode here: https://iambio.simplecast.com/episodes/solving-an-unfashionable-problem

I am BIO Uncut with Gerren Wilson

The COVID crisis has laid bare the inequities faced by certain populations in our health care system. It has become increasingly clear that the drug development process for a whole host of diseases often leaves these same populations behind through their absence or underrepresentation in clinical trials. This episode evaluates the problem and looks for ways to improve the process so that medicines and vaccines work for everyone who takes them. Hosted by Dr. Michelle McMurry-Heath with interviews from Gerren Wilson, Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick, and RADM Richardae Araojo, Pharm.D., MS 

Good Trouble for Good Medicine

This is the I Am BIO minisode, where we bring you a full interview from Monday's episode complete and unfiltered. In this minisode, we share the conversation we had with Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech, the company using carbon recycling to turn it into ethanol and other important tools and materials. Check out the full episode here: https://iambio.simplecast.com/episodes/solving-an-unfashionable-problem

Minisode: Solving an Unfashionable Problem

The fashion industry is notoriously wasteful. As the climate crisis becomes more of everyone’s problem, scientists and designers are combining efforts to make fashion more sustainable. From using greenhouse gasses to create new materials to developing totally biodegradable clothing and accessories, big fashion houses are trying to produce sustainable materials and make fashion look good and feel great. This episode features conversations with:Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTechAlejandra Espinosa, head of content at Luxiders MagazineBridgett Artise, sustainable fashion designer and professor at the Fashion Institute of TechnologyDoris de Guzman, biotech journalistEmilie Burfeind, creator of Sneature and teacher at the University of Art and Design at Offenbach at the Institute for Material Design 

Solving an Unfashionable Problem

This is the only podcast at the intersection of biotechnology, politics, patients and the planet. We spotlight next-generation breakthroughs, the people they help, the global problems they solve and politicians with the power to fast-track a better future or mess it all up. Hosted by former Congressman Jim Greenwood.

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