Cell & Gene: The Podcast

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In episode 137 of Cell & Gene: The Podcast, Host Erin Harris talks with Sylke Poehling, Ph.D., SVP and Global Head: Therapeutic Modalities, pRED; Roche Gene Therapy Center of Excellence about how the company selects the optimal modality by starting with disease biology. Dr. Poehling explains how an integrated Center of Excellence brings together discovery, safety, manufacturing, and development expertise to reduce technical risk and accelerate progress. She outlines where AI is already creating value versus where caution is warranted. She also explains why genomic medicines will become mainstream when, for common diseases, physicians can offer them as routine options and patients can choose them with confidence. 
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On episode 136 of Cell & Gene: The Podcast, Host Erin Harris welcomes back Dr. Panteli Theocharous, FIBMS, M.S., Ph.D., FRCPath to discuss why autoimmune CAR T is moving rapidly from an emerging concept toward a potentially transformative treatment approach. They talk about the very different benefit-risk calculus in autoimmune disease compared with oncology, the patient and caregiver burden of conditioning, apheresis and long-term monitoring, and the need to rethink clinical trial endpoints around meaningful outcomes. They explore the potential of in vivo CAR T and circular RNA to eliminate some of the biggest barriers in the current treatment pathway, while discussing the scientific and durability questions that remain.
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In Episode 135 of Cell & Gene: The Podcast, Host Erin Harris talks to Sonal Gupta, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer of CoRegen, about the company's novel approach to treating solid tumors by engineering regulatory T cells (Tregs) rather than conventional effector immune cells. Dr. Gupta explains how CoRegen's investigational cell therapy, CRG150, targets the upstream regulator SRC3 to simultaneously influence multiple immune checkpoint pathways. She also discusses the scientific rationale behind the platform, the transition into first-in-human clinical studies, the biomarkers and translational questions the company hopes to answer, and why manufacturing, CDMO selection, and chain-of-identity capabilities are foundational to the future success of autologous cell therapies.
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Episode 134 of Cell & Gene: The Podcast features Host Erin Harris' discussion with Shannon Boye, PhD, Founder and CSO of Atsena Therapeutics. Dr. Boye shares how the company is approaching Stargardt disease with a differentiated gene therapy strategy built around delivery, dual-vector design, and a disciplined go/no-go framework. Their conversation also explores what Atsena’s broader clinical experience is teaching the team as it advances new programs and works toward the clinic.
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Episode 133 of Cell & Gene: The Podcast features Host Erin Harris' discussion with Aprea Therapeutics' CEO, Dr. Oren Gilad. They cover the evolution of precision oncology, the science of synthetic lethality, and how Aprea is developing next-generation therapies that target cancer's unique genetic vulnerabilities while improving safety and efficacy. Dr. Gilad also shares insights into biomarker-driven drug development, where precision medicine is headed as researchers pursue more effective treatments for patients with difficult-to-treat solid tumors, and more.
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