In the latest episode of The Genetics Podcast, we spoke with Dr. Heiko Runz, SVP of Neuroscience at insitro. With a background spanning clinical genetics, academic research, and leadership roles at Merck, Biogen, and now insitro, Heiko has helped pioneer the integration of human genetics into drug discovery. Today, he’s at the forefront of applying AI and large-scale biobank data to unravel the complexity of neurological disease and accelerate therapeutic development.
As part of new efforts to improve FDA processes and enhance communication with stakeholders, they hosted a roundtable on cell and gene therapy on June 5th, 2025. Various academics, physicians, patient advocates, and industry experts were present. With major recent advancements in cell and gene therapy, this initiative signaled that the FDA is keen on building the momentum and spearheading the next wave of therapeutics. In this blog, we provide an overview of the main themes and key takeaways from the 3-hour discussion.
In the latest episode of The Genetics Podcast, we spoke with Dr. Molly He, CEO and co-founder of Element Biosciences. With over a hundred patents and leadership roles at Illumina and Pacific Biosciences, Molly has been a force behind some of the most transformative technologies in genomics. At Element, she’s now leading a revolution in sequencing and multi-omics that could reshape how we understand biology, develop therapeutics, and personalize healthcare.
At Sano, data is at the core of everything we do. From mining our patient database to identify patients for trials to analyzing sequencing data, our engineering and clinical teams use data to help us generate impact for patients in precision medicine. In this blog, we follow the journey of genomic data behind the scenes with a Sanosaur.
In the latest episode of The Genetics Podcast, we had a captivating conversation with Dr. David Bumcrot, Chief Scientific Officer at CAMP4 Therapeutics. From helping launch foundational biotech companies like Alnylam and Editas to now pioneering a novel therapeutic approach at CAMP4, David offers rare insights into what it takes to bring revolutionary science to life and to patients.
At Sano Genetics, our mission is to deliver and facilitate clinical trials that accelerate the development of precision medicine treatments for patients. As a company rooted in data, analytics, and software, we are constantly attuned to technological advancements that can make our work faster, more effective, and more impactful. This mindset drives us to continuously explore and adopt tools that improve operational efficiency and empower our team to work more productively.
In a recent episode of The Genetics Podcast, Dr. Melissa Haendel, Director of Translational Informatics and Precision Health and Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Phenotypic Lead at Alamya Health, joined the show to discuss how data integration, patient voice, and national-scale collaboration can transform diagnosis and care for rare diseases. As the co-founder of the Monarch Initiative and a driving force behind the Mondo disease ontology, Melissa is helping shape the future of equitable and precise genomic medicine.
In a recent episode of The Genetics Podcast, Dr. Huma Qamar, Chief Medical Officer at Ocugen, shares her extraordinary journey from a small town in Pakistan to the forefront of next-generation gene therapy in the United States. A physician, scientist, and public health advocate, Dr. Qamar is leading Ocugen’s efforts to develop durable, one-time gene therapies for rare inherited eye diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP), Stargardt disease, and geographic atrophy.
In a recent episode of The Genetics Podcast, we talked to Frank Gentile, Chief Executive Officer of Casma Therapeutics, to explore how autophagy could be a valuable target for treating neurodegenerative and lysosomal diseases. Coming from a venture capital background, Frank offered a fresh and strategic perspective on the science being done at Casma.
Technological advances and biomedical breakthroughs have triggered a paradigm shift in precision medicine. Clinical research is currently at a turning point at which scaling up processes in an efficient manner and adapting clinical trial models to fulfill changing requirements will help transform the ecosystem. The availability of large-scale datasets and maturing of artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can process them at scale can help fill persistent gaps in clinical research and traditional models.