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Podcast recap: Michelle Werner and Michael Severino on moving engineered tRNA and gene writing into the clinic

At the JPM Healthcare Conference 2026, the Genetics Podcast recorded a special episode from the Flagship Pioneering studio, bringing together two leaders advanc...
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Podcast recap: Arabella Bouzigues on building a global research infrastructure for frontotemporal dementia

In a recent episode of The Genetics Podcast, host Patrick Short talked with Dr. Arabella Bouzigues, postdoctoral researcher and coordinator of the Genetic Front...
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Podcast recap: Lisa Gurry on scaling early genetic diagnosis at GeneDx

In the latest episode of The Genetics Podcast, Patrick spoke with Lisa Gurry, Chief Business Officer at GeneDx. The conversation focuses on how GeneDx has built...
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Podcast recap: Jeffrey Chamberlain on four decades of progress in gene therapy for muscular dystrophy

In the latest episode of The Genetics Podcast, Patrick spoke with Dr. Jeffrey Chamberlain, Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Dire...
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Podcast recap: Rachel Salzman on vectorized RNAi for neuromuscular disease

In the last episode of The Genetics Podcast, Patrick spoke with Dr. Rachel Salzman, CEO of Armatus Bio, a biotech company developing vectorized RNA interference...
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Podcast recap: Ellen Reisinger on gene therapy for hereditary deafness

In the last episode of The Genetics Podcast, we spoke with Dr. Ellen Reisinger, Professor at the University of Tübingen. Ellen has spent nearly twenty years stu...
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Podcast recap: Ananth Sridhar and Sun-Gou Ji on building a sustainable model for rare disease innovation

On the latest episode of The Genetics Podcast, we spoke with Ananth Sridhar, Chief Operating Officer for cardiorenal programs at BridgeBio, and Sun-Gou Ji, the ...
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Podcast recap: Justin Porcano on speeding up treatments for Usher syndrome type 1B

In the last episode of The Genetics Podcast, Patrick spoke with Justin Porcano, co-founder and executive director of Save Sight Now, a nonprofit accelerating th...
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Podcast recap: Chris Hopkins on developing a one-time cell therapy for Fabry disease

On this episode of The Genetics Podcast, Patrick spoke with Chris Hopkins, CEO of Glafabra Therapeutics, a company developing a one-time autologous cell therapy...
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Podcast recap: The state of AAV gene therapy and where it’s headed

On the most recent episode of The Genetics Podcast, host Patrick Short took a solo deep dive into gene therapy, with a focus on therapies based on delivery via ...
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