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Welcome to BIOTECH NATION !!! With understandable interviews requiring no background in science, BTN attracts a wide global audience. From everyday people looking for hope in treatments in development, to bioentrepreneurs interested in the experience of their fellow travelers, to venture capitalists looking for possibilities in cutting-edge breakthroughs, to scientists simply interested in the work of others, BioTech Nation is the voice of human endeavor, driving science to new realities for everyone. These interviews are drawn directly from the public radio program, "Tech Nation", which also can be heard in numerous global radio and podcasting venues.
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This week on Biotech Nation, Heather Turner of LB Pharmaceuticals joins to discuss a drug that’s new to the US, but not-so-new to Europe, where it’s already been in use for a couple of years. Intended for managing neuropsychiatric conditions like Schizophrenia, the drug is taken by several million people, but the approval process in the US has had to start back at square one. We look at why that is, and how LB is working on it.
When you think of FUJIFILM, you might be picturing rolls of camera film...but it turns out that's not all they've been working on. FUJIFILM Biotechnologies Chairman Toshi Iida joins to share more about how they're innovating in the world of biotech.
What if chemotherapy could be delivered in a focused way, directly to a tumor, and only where it's needed? Intensity Therapeutics Founder, President, & CEO Lew Bender shares how they're working to change how chemotherapy is delivered to solid tumors, personalized for each patient, with the hopes of reducing the toll it takes on the body.
This week on BioTech Nation, Jeff Liter of Luminary Therapeutics shares how his team is taking a new approach to advanced cell therapy, in the hopes of making it more accessible and affordable. Rather than formulating a custom treatment using a patient's own cells, they use healthy donor cells that are ready to go. This approach could help more people get treated for cancer and autoimmune diseases like lupus, with just a single dose.
On this episode of Biotech Nation...the story of how the United States' pharmaceutical industry came to be, and the people behind it all. Barry Werth joins Moira to discuss his new book, “The Age of Cures: How American Scientists Saved Your Life", about a handful of individuals who revolutionized research and helped build the drug development ecosystem we have today.
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