Life Sciences Today

Life Sciences Today

The Life Sciences Today podcast by Healthcare IT Today brings you strategic conversations with life science founders. Hosts Danny Lieberman and John Lynn and their guests reveal the patterns behind sustainable competitive advantages. Subscribe to the Clear Thinking newsletter by Danny Lieberman for deeper pattern analysis.

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August 21, 2026 25 mins

We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Tara Austraat-Churik, Partner at Blue Matter Consulting. Her background spans IBM Watson Health, where she led $50M+ enterprise deals during the first AI wave in pharma, EY’s Health Science and Wellness practice, an MSc in Transla...

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Gabi Tarcic, Chief Development Officer at Evogene. In this episode, I sit down with Tarcic to ask a question the industry has been asking for twenty years: how does a platform company become a real business? Evogene has lived through every wave of “compute will transfo...

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Dr. Ashok Gupta, Founder and CEO at TheraNow. In this episode, I speak with Dr. Gupta about why the real bottleneck in physical therapy isn’t quality — it’s access. Dr. Gupta explains how TheraNow built a virtual physical t...

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Dr. Jurate Lusienne, Clinical Trial Optimization at Jura Lasas Consulting. Lusienne helps small biotechs run early clinical trials faster, cheaper, and with more control—without relying on big CROs or fancy AI. 

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Raj Indupuri, Co-Founder and CEO at eClinical Solutions. Why is clinical development still run like a sequence of handoffs instead of a continuous learning system? In this episode, I talk with Indu...

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Kyle McBride, VP, AI Innovation at Veristat. We talked about InStat, the clinical research industry’s first zero-code, fully automated biostatistics solution, reducing manual effort to speed time ...

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Rachel Timberlake, Director of Business Development, Bend Bioscience. Contract manufacturing is a ~$275B global industry most people outside pharma have never heard of. Every drug you’ve ever taken and most of the medical devices ...

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Dr. Darren Klugman, Founder at Alumni Ventures. In this episode, Klugman and I confront the most uncomfortable truth in life sciences — that the financial model gates the science, and the patients who need innovation most (childre...

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Iris Shtein, Co-Founder and CEO at Mentaily. Due to limited resources and social misconceptions, only 44% of US adults are receiving the treatment they need. Patients endure long wait times due to traditional intake processes.

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Tony Page, Senior Vice President of Insight Analytics at Within3. Page spent years applying military intelligence doctrine — structured analysis, adversarial thinking, decision superiority — before bringing those frameworks into ...

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Ayelet Geva, Innovation and Business Development at the Jusidman Cancer Center at Sheba Medical Center. Most oncology innovations die, not in the lab, but in the gap between clinical proof and real-world implementation. Geva’s seen wha...

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Theo Mastrokostopoulos, Co-Founder and CEO at Pleo Flow. This episode explores one of the biggest anti-patterns in medtech: building a technology first and only later trying to figure out who buys it, how it gets reimbursed, and whether...

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Anita Modi, Co-Founder and CEO at Peer AI. Peer AI is a medical writing acceleration tool for pharma/biotech regulatory teams, and  submission platform for FDA documentation.

Their customers are Heads of Medical Writing at mid-to-large biotechs or pharma companies who are drow...

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Bonnie Anderson, Head of Humanitarian Programs, Rare Diseases at Sanofi. For more than 30 years, Sanofi’s Rare Humanitarian Program has provided free enzyme replacement therapy to patients with ly...

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Jennifer Ernst, Co-Founder and CEO at Valion Bio (formerly Tivic Health). Ernst has built companies at the intersection of breakthrough science and market opportunity — from Xerox PARC’s open innovation lab to printed electr...

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Scott Chetham, Co-Founder and CEO at Faro Health. In this episode, I sit down with Chetham to explore why the clinical trial industry is still designing $100M+ studies in Microsoft Word — and what...

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Shai Policker, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Edge Medical Ventures! I sit down with Policker to challenge a provocative thesis: that Israeli medtech is trapped in a cycle of underfunding, walking-d...

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Pedro Coelho, Founder and CEO at Biorce! In this episode, I sit down with Coelho to explore how his team went from flagging protocol mistakes to building AI that fixes them — and in doing so, became the first company to submit an AI-generated...

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Eddy Ben-Ami, Founder and CEO at NeuraLight! NeuraLight is tackling one of neurology’s biggest problems: how crudely we measure disease progression in conditions like Parkinson’s, MS, ALS, a...

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We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Alison Holland, Chief Customer Officer at Medable! In this episode, I talk with Holland about how her journey from London nurse to Covance veteran to digital trial leader shapes Medable’s strategy.

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