Welcome to the Empowered Patient Podcast with Karen Jagoda. This show is a window into the latest innovations in applying generative AI, novel therapeutics and vaccines, and the changing dynamics in the medical and healthcare environment. One focus is on how providers, pharmaceutical companies, and payers are empowering patients. In addition, conversations are often about how providers, care facilities, pharmaceutical companies, and payers are being empowered by technology to improve patient outcomes and reduce friction across the healthcare landscape.
Popular Topics
- Virtual and digital health
- Use of AI, ML, and LLM in healthcare and drug discovery, development, trials
- Value-based healthcare
- Precision and stratified medicine
- Integration of digital technology into existing workflow and procedures
- Next-generation immuno, cell, and gene therapies
- Vaccines
- Biomarkers, sequencing, and imaging
- Rare diseases
- MedTech and medical devices
- Clinical trials
- Addressing Social Determinants of Health
- Treating chronic conditions like obesity and pain
- Clinician and staff burnout
The audience includes life science leaders, researchers, medical professionals, patient advocates, digital health entrepreneurs, patients, caregivers, healthcare solution providers, students, journalists, and investors.
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Pulse Prime Approach to Modulating the Immune System in Fight Against Tumors with Jeffrey Meckler Indaptus Therapeutics TRANSCRIPT
Download PDFFeb 24, 2025
Jeffrey Meckler, CEO of Indaptus Therapeutics, is focused on using their decoy platform to activate the immune system to fight cancer and infections. This approach activates the innate and adaptive pathways in a controlled manner using a short-term pulsed dosing regimen and helps avoid the toxicity issues seen in...
Feb 24, 2025
Jeffrey Meckler, CEO of Indaptus Therapeutics, is focused on using their decoy platform to activate the immune system to fight cancer and infections. This approach activates the innate and adaptive pathways in a controlled manner using a short-term pulsed dosing regimen and helps avoid the toxicity issues seen in...
Modifying Macrophages to Overcome Evasion by Cancer Cells and Educate Immune System with Robert Towarnicki SIRPant Immunotherapeutics TRANSCRIPT
Download PDFMay 23, 2024
Robert Towarnicki, CEO and Co-founder of SIRPant Immunotherapeutics, discusses cancer-specific immunotherapy for aggressive tumors, the role macrophages play in the immune response to cancer, and how cancer cells can shut down this response. SIRPant Immunotherapeutics aims to modify macrophages by reducing SIRPĪ±...
May 23, 2024
Robert Towarnicki, CEO and Co-founder of SIRPant Immunotherapeutics, discusses cancer-specific immunotherapy for aggressive tumors, the role macrophages play in the immune response to cancer, and how cancer cells can shut down this response. SIRPant Immunotherapeutics aims to modify macrophages by reducing SIRPĪ±...
Next-Generation T-Cell Therapy Recognizes Multiple Antigens Fights Tumor Resistance with Dr. Juan Vera Marker Therapeutics TRANSCRIPT
Download PDFNov 21, 2023
Dr. Juan Vera, CEO of Marker Therapeutics, a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company, is developing next-generation immunotherapy with a multi-tumor-specific T-cell platform to overcome limitations of current T-cell therapies with narrow target recognition. This approach, which recognizes multiple antigens within the...