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Watch the best Europeans in biotech to grow. Hosted by Philip Hemme. 15k monthly views. Free. Guests include Antoine Papiernik @Sofinnova, Werner Lanthaler @Evotec, Ingmar Hoerr @CureVac, Bernat Olle @Vedanta, Johannes Fruehauf @BioLabs, Rodger Novak @CRISPR Tx, Agnete Fredriksen @Nykode, Mike Ward, Thomas Clozel @Owkin, Marc de Garidel @Abivax, and Sander van Deventer @VectorY & Forbion. Your host Philip animates the conversation to dig out exciting, and sometimes contrarian ideas.
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Pops in a Pod is a weekly podcast hosted by two dads Nadir and Peter from Mumbai, India about all aspects of parenting, marriage, kids and everything in between. Episodes range from conversations with like-minded guests to stories from Nadir & Peter. Join the Pop duo on their journey from partner to parent.
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We’re in Munich 🇩🇪 with the founder of one of the 15 most valuable European biotechs, Harpreet Singh.We talked about the field of PRAME receptors, TCR therapeutics and cell therapy at large. We also talked about the combination with mRNA therapeutics and his upbringing in a Sikh family in Germany. 🔗 LINKS MENTIONEDLabiotech.eu | “Interview Harpreet…
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We’re in Munich 🇩🇪 with a “true” biotech founder, Dominik Schumacher of Tubulis. Not many biotechs in Europe are led by a founder PhD under 40 and have scaled to raising over 100M. I know only two, one is Thomas at Owkin and the other one is Dominik at Tubulis.We talked about building a champion ADC biotech, the super hot ADC sphere, and the differ…
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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others. Press follow in your podcast app or on Youtube to get new Founder Radio episodes in your feed automatically. Karun is part of the founding team and Chief Growth Officer of GetVantage. GetVantag…
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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others. Press follow in your podcast app or on Youtube to get new Founder Radio episodes in your feed automatically. Vidit Agrawal is the founder of GajiGesa (Indonesia), which manages employee finance…
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We’re in Boston 🇺🇸 with one of the top VCs, Otello Stampacchia of Omega Funds.We talked about the highest competitive tension in biopharma now that he has ever seen. We also talked about his career, especially the challenges and opportunities he had from moving to Boston over 15 years ago.📜 TRANSCRIPTRead the full transcript here: https://flot.bio/…
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We’re in San Sebastián 🇪🇸 with one of the top VCs in Europe, Christina Takke from V-Bio Ventures. We talk about her path to get to the top and the benefits of gender diversity for both investing and European biotech as a whole. We also talk about her investment in Argenx when it was only three employees and the venture creation had dropped since 20…
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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others. Press follow in your podcast app or on Youtube to get new Founder Radio episodes in your feed automatically. Fred Jordan of FinalSpark (Switserland) and his team are building a revolutionary ne…
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We’re in San Sebastián 🇪🇸 with Naveed Siddiqi of one of Europe's largest biotech investors, Novo Holdings. We talked about how things really are in European biotech at the moment. We also talked about his upbringing as a second-generation immigrant in the UK and the importance of diversity. I’ve known him since he was a partner at Andera. He is a s…
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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others. Pit Janssen of MedApp has exited his prescription medicine adherence and delivery company to the biggest, stock exchange listed, EUR 2.0bn market cap online pharmacy company in Europe. MedApp l…
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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others. Joel co-founded London-based Trubrics, which helps product teams track what’s happening inside LLM models. He and his co-founder founded the company when they saw companies investing heavily in…
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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others. Meet one of Europe’s most driven impact entrepreneurs: Kees Aarts, founder of Protix. Protix is an insect protein company founded to radically reduce the environmental footprint of our food sys…
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We’re in Hannover 🇩🇪 with the founder and CEO of Cardior, Claudia Ulbrich We talked about Cardior’s recent €1B exit to Novo Nordisk. We also talk about miRNA and Cardiovascular, and why she earned the funny nickname “Frau Biotech”. 💎 ABOUT THE SPEAKER Claudia has been founding biotechs since the ’90s. She founded her first biotech company, LipoNova…
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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others. Kim Durand hails from Paris and moved to Mexico City to start Cheaf, which reduces food waste by offering high quality food that is close to the expiry date at steep discounts. Started less tha…
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We’re super privileged to chat online with Bahija Jallal, the CEO of Immunocore. Immunocore is the largest biotech in the UK and the 5th largest in Europe with a market cap of just over 3 billion dollars. We talk about how Immunocore has helped thousands of cancer patients and has become a commercial biotech. We also talk about why she thinks gende…
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We’re in Brussels with Edwin Moses, the former CEO of one of the most successful platform companies in Europe, Ablynx, now part of Sanofi. We talk about how he feels 5 years after the exit from Ablynx and his lessons. We also talk about the parallels between industrial biotech, AI bio and cell therapy, and how a chairman can help CEOs grow. 💎 ABOUT…
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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others. Sophia Hummelman Co-Founded ReCarbn, which is working on reversing climate change, by direct air capture of CO2. Sophia was born and raised in the Netherlands and has working in finance at JPMo…
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We’re in Copenhagen with Jens Nielsen, the CEO of BioInnovation Institute. We will talk about what works best to translate academic research in bio into innovation for humanity, especially how everything is connected. We also talk about how BII is solving some of the main challenges scientist entrepreneurs face and the drawbacks of Novo financing m…
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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others. Listen to our talk with Harpreet Singh! Harpreet Co-Founded Peckish, and is building a new backend operating system for restaurants to drastically reduce food waste and increase profitability f…
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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others. Tune in to our latest conversation with Yorick Bruins! Yorick is Co-Founder and CEO of Wakuli, a Netherlands based Direct-to-Consumer subscription coffee brand, thats has also started opening c…
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We’re in Amsterdam with Sander van Deventer, the CEO of VectorY. We will talk about VectorY and what’s missing in gene therapy. 💎 ABOUT THE SPEAKERSander has an impressive track record, being a professor, operational biotech founder and a VC. In 1998, he co-founded uniQure, which brought the first gene therapy to the market. He also co-founded the …
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In an online special, we’re interviewing Thomas Clozal, the co-founder and CEO of Owkin. We talk about scaling AI in biotech and how it feels to be the child of billionaire biotech parents.💎 ABOUT THE SPEAKERThomas founded Owkin in 2016 and I first met him in 2017. At that time, Owkin was still a baby and I wasn’t sure where it would go. Now it’s a…
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Today, I’m in Paris (🇫🇷) to chat with Marc de Garidel, the new CEO of Abivax. We talk about the challenges behind the exits and why Abivax could be a third big success.💎 ABOUT THE SPEAKER Marc is a biopharma veteran with an impressive track record. He has made two billion-dollar exits, was CEO of Ipsen, and has recently made the biggest French IPO …
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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others. Mikael Rautanen is Co-Founder and CEO of Inderes, a Finland based equity research and investor relations company. Inderes is changing the investing industry, from a focus on the 1%, to a world …
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Today we're in Munich at BIO-Europe to chat with one of the best commentators in European biotech, Mike Ward. We talk about the best and the worst of the European biotech industry since the 80s.💎 ABOUT THE SPEAKERMike has been in biotech content since the birth of the industry in the 80s. He has worked at BioCentury, Informa/Scrip and now Clarivate…
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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others. Niko is the founder of Rite Studios, a boutique sports chain from Belgium. He's started his career at Unilever and has held Strategy and General Manager roles at Uber in India, the Middle East …
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We’re live from Oslo 🇳🇴 to catch up with Agnete Fredriksen, co-founder and CBO of Nykode (ex-Vaccibody). In this episode, we chat about being one of the leading women in bio in Europe, the Nordics, and immunotherapies. 💎 ABOUT THE SPEAKERAgnete founded the immunotherapy company Nykode in 2006 which is now worth around $500M. For her PhD she designe…
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Biotech great Rodger Novak, Co-Founder and Chairman of CRISPR Tx joins us on the show. In this episode, we chat about bringing the first CRISPR drug to the market and why he thinks everything is wrong in bio in Europe besides science. Rodgers’ is a name everyone should know, having made it big in the global biotech scene. I first interviewed him ba…
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Nadir Pop and Peter Pop's passion for education and learning will always be in focus, so much so that this time around they managed to get Sumeet Mehta the Co-Founder and CEO of LEAD India’s largest School EdTech company. As Co-Founder and CEO of LEAD, Sumeet’s mission is to make excellent education accessible for every child, by transforming schoo…
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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others. This episode we have Mark Hulshof of Triggre. Mark has been building Triggre, a nocode automation platform for SMEs, for over 10 years. He's now experiencing a strong acceleration in his busine…
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At Founder Radio, we interview the globe's most exciting founders about their business and their journey. We celebrate founders, and hope to inspire others. This episode we talk to Jacqueline van den Ende of Carbon Equity. Jacqueline and her co-founders started Carbon Equity 3 years ago in order to combat climate change. Carbon Equity enables consu…
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Nadir Pop and Peter Pop are joined by entrepreneur parent, Amarpreet Singh Anand, Founder & CEO, Superfoods Valley. The Pop duo discussed with him the origins of the brand, the importance of nutrition for kids and also the problem of Hidden Hunger. An IIM Calcutta alumnus Amarpreet Singh Anand has been associated with brands such as Cadbury, Diageo…
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The Pop duo are joined by Rati Girish to discuss Indian children's literature and also of course book recommendations too. Some of the books discussed on the episode Gobi Goes Viral Help! My Aai Wants to Eat Me Get in touch with the Pop duo on popsinapod@gmail.com Follow Pops In A Pod Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/popsinapod/ Facebook - htt…
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Nadir Pop and Peter Pop are joined by author Divya Thomas to discuss the all-pervasive topic of skin colour in India. Divya Thomas shares the experiences that shaped her book, I am so much more, the response from children and parents and even her journey as an author. I am so much more won the FICCI award for Children’s book of the year in English …
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We’re back live and in Paris 🇫🇷 with our next guest, Johannes Fruehauf. We talk about reinventing the co-working labs for biotech startups, the difficulties of doing business in Europe, profitability in biotech, and much more (see timestamps below). 💎 ABOUT THE SPEAKER Johannes is the President, CEO, and founder of BioLabs, the biggest “incubator”,…
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The Pop duo discusses the movie that has taken over popular culture recently, Barbie. Nadir Pop and Peter Pop explain why the movie is not for kids, some of the learning that parents can take from it and much more. Get in touch with the Pop duo on popsinapod@gmail.com Follow Pops In A Pod Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/popsinapod/ Facebook -…
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Peter Pop is joined by Ashdin Doctor, The Habit Coach to discuss developing habits in kids. They also discuss Ashdin’s 2nd book, “The Book of Good Habits for kids”, his observations about parents and kids, and also a few tools that parents can use. Ashdin Doctor is a Mumbai-based popular habit coach who has been transforming the lives of many who f…
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Nadir Pop are Peter Pop are joined by Shals Mahajan, author of Reva and Prisha. The book tells the stories of two children sharing a home with two mothers, Runu and Pritam. Reva and Prisha was a part of Parag Honour List 2023 under Young Reader Fiction. Shals Mahajan is a writer and genderqueer fellow based in Mumbai. They have worked on issues of …
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In this Father’s Day special compilation, Peter Pop and Nadir Pop discuss some of the highlights from past episodes, where they have learned from different dads. Some of these dads are Dr. Rakesh Kapur, Jose Covaco, Varun Duggirala, and Ankit Jindal. Dr. Rakesh Kapur - https://www.podpage.com/pops-in-a-pod/science-of-dads/ Jose Covaco - https://www…
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In a virtual special, we welcome Bernat Olle to the show. We discuss the microbiome space, including Vedanta’s upcoming Phase 3, and how it feels to be a European founder in Boston. Bernat is the CEO and co-founder of Boston-based Vedanta Biosciences, one of the leading microbiome companies. They’ve had a positive Phase 2 trial and recently raised …
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On this Father's day episode, Nadir Pop and Peter Pop are joined by Harpreet Singh Grover, the Curious Parent. They discuss Hapreet shift into parenting research from an entrepreneur, his thoughts on the changes in parenting in India and even the concept of Father's Day. Harpreet is an independent researcher in the field of parenting and children. …
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It’s a treat to welcome Ingmar Hoerr on the show. We chat about building a 20B dollar biotech startup, almost dying on the job, and why people skills are so important in biotech. Ingmar is a pioneer in the EU biotech scene, revolutionizing drug development with mRNA therapeutics. He and his team created the initial technology used in mRNA vaccines …
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On this Mother's day special episode, Nadir Pop and Peter Pop are joined by an educationalist and entrepreneur, Rittika Karvat. They discuss the neglect of postnatal support for new mothers and emphasizes the need for tailored support to tackle not just physical but also hormonal and emotional changes that occur during this period. The episode also…
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A few weeks ago a video went viral where a social media influencer highlighted the amount of sugar in a malt-based health drink. On this episode, Nadir Pop and Peter Pop discuss it and also look at ingredients and nutritional value in packages food - The good, bad and ugly. To shed more light on this they are joined by food scientist, Sudip Putatun…
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It's great to have Werner Lanthaler, the CEO of Evotec, one of the largest biotech research companies in Europe/the world, on the show. We have known each other for almost ten years now. He's not only sharp but also friendly and easy to talk to. In this episode, we chat about leading AI in biotech, the sharing economy in the industry, how to be aut…
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On this episode, Nadir Pop and Peter Pop are joined by Dr. Manjula Srinivas to discuss the impact of AI in the Indian education sector. The short term and long term results of it and how parents should be prepared to guide their children. Dr. Manjula Srinivas (M.A, M.Phil. PhD) is Professor, & Dean Liberal Arts and Design Thinking, and Dean Student…
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In this throwback episode, Nadir Pop and Peter Pop spoke to Freyan Bhujwala & Kanika Vasudeva from The Share Bear thesharebear.in on sustainable living, mindful parenting and promoting a circular economy, in an easy and convenient manner. Their vision is to normalise the buying and selling of pre-loved items Kanika has a post-graduate degree in Soc…
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April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day. Nadir Pop and Peter Pop are joined by Deepa Bhat Nair to understand Autism better. They discussed the common misconceptions around autism and also how to treat it. Deepa Bhat Nair is the Founder Director, Communiverse - The centre for Autism and related conditions, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this …
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On this throwback episode, Nadir Pop and Peter Pop were joined by someone from the LGBTQA+ community to talk about her parenting journey. Chitra is a mother, a trans woman, a lesbian, and is raising her preschool-age child along with her ex and her partner. She writes as @threegirlfamily on Instagram, Twitter and Substack about her experiences of b…
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For our first episode, we catch up with Antoine Papiernik, the chairman of Sofinnova partners, one of the top EU biotech VC funds. We chat about building billion-euro biotechs in Europe, being listed on the Midas list (without letting it go to your head), the importance of being good at selling, being lucky, and how to balance all this with family …
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Who are Chitra and Mahima? And what do they have to contribute to the recent affidavit filed by GOI? To start off Chitra Mathur is a Trans woman and has spoken extensively on her journey of transition on the podcast, you can listen to to HERE. Mahima Vashisht is the author of the weekly newsletter, "Womaning in India", which highlights gender bias …
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