Editorial Podcasts

In recognition of International Women's Month, we're featuring this recent talk between Associate Editor Miranda Schmalfuhs and Marie Teil, Global Head of UCB’s Women of Childbearing Age Program. They speak about the specific challenges women with chronic illnesses face when accessing appropriate treatment and participating in clinical trials, UCB's Women of Childbearing Age Program and it’s most successful strategies, and much more.

In recognition of Women's Health Month, we're featuring this recent talk between Associate Editor Miranda Schmalfuhs and uMotif's Chief Product Officer, Julia Lakeland, discuss new technologies improving patient engagement and reducing the emotional and logistical burdens of participation, ethical considerations that should be addressed when implementing those technologies, while ensuring patient privacy, and much more.

Rose Blackburne, MD, MBA, Vice President, Global Head, General Medicine, PPD Clinical Research, Thermo Fisher and Margarita Nunez, MD, Principal Investigator, Synexus NY / Accelerated Enrollment Solutions New York discuss their panel at the recent Health Equity in Clinical Trials Congress in Boston last month; share insights into how diversity can be improved at the site and CRO; and the hope that clinical trial awareness and diversity can be discussed with all levels of stakeholders in healthcare to improve drug development worldwide.

Ira C. Spector, PhD, MBA, CEO and Co-Founder, SFA Therapeutics discusses how his career journey has epitomized the ability to solve problems, which is essentially the role of drug development. It has also led to the formation and strategic approach to his company’s early-stage clinical trials for using the microbiome to address chronic inflammatory diseases.

Dr. Sean Bohen, CEO of Olema Oncology, discusses his career and significant contributions to the clinical research and development of numerous oncology drugs that received regulatory approval for various indications. Plus a look at Olema, how they operate, and challenges they face.

In this podcast, Dr. Milligan makes the case for studying drugs in pregnant and lactating women on an ongoing basis to understand long-term efficacy and safety, as well as effects of concomitant medications on these women. Sandy believes that the entire ecosystem--regulators, policymakers, governments, physicians, healthcare systems, and industry, need to have a conversation around improving the under-met and unmet needs of women, which includes understanding the unique experiences of women with conditions such as pre-term labor, menopause or endometriosis.