Base to Base Biotech

Base to Base Biotech

The Base to Base Biotech podcast is a weekly look at what's happening in the world of biotech, with interviews with biotech leaders around the world. Whether it's a new drug, cutting-edge technology, product launches, new technology, major finding announcement or clinical trial results, Base to Base Biotech keeps you informed. The podcast is hosted by former biotech editor and broadcaster, the award-winning media veteran Jim Cornall. Base to Base is an Ayr Coastal Media Ltd production.

Episodes

July 3, 2026 60 mins

This week, we have a conversation with Jeff Fischer, president of Longhorn Vaccines & Diagnostics, and with Hannah Amies, founder and CEO of Luvida.

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03:03 Longhorn Vaccines and Diagnostics

25:03 Luvida

Longhorn Vaccines & Diagnostics on breakthroughs in molecular testing

Maryland-based Longhorn Vaccines and Diagnostics is a IND-enabling stage biopharmaceutical company developing vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, and diagno...

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This week, we have a conversation with Houdini Bio CEO and co-founder Jonathan Cohen-Gold.

Houdini Bio has announced its official launch, having raised approximately £1.5m in non-dilutive grant funding and capital from an oversubscribed pre-seed round.

The funding enables Houdini Bio to validate its technology and achieve projected technical milestones in a third of the predicted time. The platform- a machine learning-guided DNA sequ...

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This week on Base to Base, we have a conversation with Bora Pharmaceuticals’ chief commercial officer Jean-Baptiste (JB) Agnus.

Bora Pharmaceuticals

Bora Pharmaceuticals is an international contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) specialising in formulation development, clinical and commercial manufacturing, and packaging of complex oral solid dose, liquid, semi-solid, biologics, and sterile injectable pharma...

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This week, we have a conversation with Mark Sawicki, president and CEO of Cryoport Systems, and we chat with Nick Manusos, CEO of Kenai Therapeutics.

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03:22 Cryoport Systems

22:24 Kenai Therapeutics

Cryoport Systems

Cryoport Systems provides temperature-controlled supply chain solutions for the life sciences industry. The company supports the transportation, storage and management of sensitive biological materials used in biopharm...

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This week, we have a conversation with Revalesio president Greg Archambeau about tackling strokes, and other conditions, with a novel method.

Revalesio

While the pharmaceutical industry often focuses on complex chemical compounds, Revalesio is pioneering a novel drug class rooted in a surprising field: fluid physics.

Revalesio is also focusing on stroke, a condition in need of new therapies.

Revalesio’s breakthrough therapy, RNS6...

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This week, we speak with John Friend, CEO of Kazia Therapeutics; and have a conversation with PureTech Health CEO Robert Lyne and Eric Elenko, president and co-founder of PureTech and acting CEO of Gallop Oncology.

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03:23 Kazia Therapeutics

31:56 PureTech Health

PureTech Health

PureTech Health plc is a hub-and-spoke biotherapeutics company dedicated to giving life to science and transforming innovation into value.

The company recen...

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This week, we have a conversation with the founder, director and chief scientific advisor of Alessa Therapeutics, Pamela Munster.

Alessa Therapeutics

Alessa Therapeutics recently announced positive preliminary phase 1 safety and efficacy data for its prostate cancer treatment Enolen.

This was the first study to demonstrate that the FDA-approved prostate cancer compound enzalutamide can be safely and locally administered to the prostat...

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This week, we have a conversation with DIA chief science and regulatory officer, Maria Vassileva, and Medicus Pharma CEO, Raza Bokhari.

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02:53 Medicus Pharma

29:13 DIA

DIA

DIA (Drug Information Association) is a global organisation that assists life science professionals from across all areas of expertise to engage with patients, peers and thought leaders in a neutral environment on the issues of today and the possibilities for to...

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This week, we have a conversation with congenital myotonic dystrophy patient advocacy consultant Lisa Harvey-Duren, who was the founding Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation executive director in 2008, and Michael Snape, CEO and CSO of AMO Pharma, which is developing a treatment for the disease.

AMO Pharma

AMO Pharma is a clinical-stage specialty biopharmaceutical company working to identify and advance promising therapies for the treatment...

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This week, our conversations are with Uwe Diegel, CEO of Lifeina, about their cooling technologies, and with Dirk Beher, CEO of FundaMental Pharma, about treatment resistant depression.

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02:37 FundaMental Pharma

23:56 Lifeina

FundaMental

FundaMental Pharma is a preclinical biopharmaceutical company focused on developing new treatments for treatment‑resistant depression (TRD).

The company’s platform centres on proprietary dual...

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This week, our conversations are with Bruce Leuchter, co-founder, president, CEO of Neurvati Neurosciences and GRIN Therapeutics; and Daniel Vitt, CEO of Immunic.

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02:54 Immunic

24:04 Neurvati Neurosciences/GRIN Therapeutics

GRIN Therapeutics

GRIN Therapeutics Inc. is dedicated to the research and development of precision therapeutics for neurodevelopmental disorders with the goal of bringing hope to patients and caregivers.

In 202...

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This week, our conversations are with Steve Perrin, president and CSO of Eledon Pharmaceuticals, and Jason Bock, CEO and co-founder of CTMC.

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03:18 CTMC

35:46 Eledon Pharmaceuticals

CTMC

CTMC is a joint venture between Resilience and the MD Anderson Cancer Center. It works like an internal manufacturing group, adapting to change in real time without charge ups and allowing for better control as a company develops their research pr...

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This week, because April 11 is World Parkinson’s Day, we chat with Dieter Willbold, CSO of Priavoid, and Antje Willuweit, director preclinical development of Priavoid, and Karsten Eastman, CEO and co-founder of Sethera Therapeutics, about the company’s work on peptides.

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02:52 Sethera Therapeutics

22:35 Priavoid

Priavoid

Priavoid, a company advancing novel disease-modifying approaches for neurodegenerative disorders, r...

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On this week’s episode, as April 2 is World Autism Day, we have a conversation with Manish Arora, CEO of LinusBio, on its test that can rule out if someone has autism, and we talk to Thomas Kledal, CEO of Synklino, about improving kidney transplantation outcomes through better cytomegalovirus (CMV) prevention.

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03:18 LinusBio

35:43 Synklino

LinusBio

LinusBio has expanded access to its ClearStrand ASD test, the first non-inva...

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On this week’s episode, we chat with Hans Eriksson, chief medical officer (CMO) of HMNC Brain Health, about ketamine and treatment-resistant depression, and with Krishna Polu, CEO, president and co-founder of new kidney health biotech company R1 Therapeutics.

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03:57 HMNC Brain Health

29:47 R1 Therapeutics

HMNC Brain Health

HMNC Brain Health is a Munich-based clinical-stage biopharma company developing personalised treatments...

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On this week’s episode, we chat with Gabriel Levin, gynecologic oncologist at the McGill University Health Centre, and director of oncology at CureLab Oncology Inc., about elanagen, a promising therapeutic advance for women with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer; Eden Ben, CEO of Amorphical, about nano-amorphous mineral therapeutics inspired by blue crayfish; and Hans Schambye, CEO of BOOST Pharma, a company making progress i...

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As this week’s podcast comes hot on the heels of International Women’s Day and World Kidney Day, which was yesterday, we’ve been able to squeeze them both in. The conversations this week are with Hansa Biopharma CEO Renée Aguiar-Lucander, about imlifidase for kidney transplant patients; Kyron.bio CEO Emilia McLaughlin, about glycosylation; and hydrogel-based drug delivery solutions company AmacaThera’s CEO, ...

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This week, we’re chatting with Haseeb Ahmad, CEO of Purespring Therapeutics, about gene therapies in kidney disease, and with Pahini Pandya, Panakeia CEO, about colorectal cancer biomarkers, the potential of AI in clinical decision-making and how AI can transform workflows in diagnostics.

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03:34 Purespring

24:11 Panakeia Technologies

Purespring Therapeutics

Purespring is a precision nephrology company pioneering first-in-cla...

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The conversations on this week’s podcast are with CEO of Merz Therapeutics, Stefan König, about a variety of neurodegenerative conditions and a botulinum neurotoxin, and with CEO of Kainova Therapeutics, Sean MacDonald, about – among other things – G-protein coupled receptors, or GPCRs.

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03:21 Merz Therapeutics

30:34 Kainova Therapeutics

Kainova Therapeutics

Kainova Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceuti...

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The conversations on this week’s podcast focus on a rapid and accurate prostate cancer diagnostic test, with Valley Diagnostics’ CEO Dave Taylor; and on gene therapy for retinal disease, with Lance Baldo, CEO of Beacon Therapeutics.

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03:12 Beacon Therapeutics

27:38 Valley Diagnostics

Valley Diagnostics

Valley Diagnostics is a Welsh company developing next‑generation lateral flow diagnostic tests designed for early dete...

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