BioRad.io

About BioRad.io

Each month, join Kashef Qaadri, a biologist turned bioinformatician, as he interviews guests exploring real-world research informatics challenges through use-cases, providing insights and strategies for integrating and analyzing complex data that are driving BioPharma R&D.

Publisher

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.

Category

science · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Oct 2019

Latest episode

16 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

10 of 24 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   16 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 24: Advancing Personalized Medicine with Multimodal Data

   Host Dr. Sarah Chen interviews Alessandro Riccombeni, CEO of Axia Medicine, about how multimodal data advances drug discovery and personalized medicine.

2. 

   10 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 23: From Bench to Machine — Making Research Data AI-Ready

   Host Dr. Sarah Jones interviews Alekhya Akkunuri, Senior Bioinformatics Software Engineer at Metagenomi, about making biopharma research data AI-ready through smart software and database design.

3. 

   10 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 22: Accelerating Innovation — The New Era of AI-Driven Drug Discovery

   Host Dr. Sarah Chen interviews Chris Waller, PhD, Vice President and Chief Scientist at Epam Systems, exploring how AI accelerates drug discovery through target identification and workflow optimization.

Inside a recent episode

Episode 24: Advancing Personalized Medicine with Multimodal Data

Published 16 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] You could argue that the flow of the industry has been almost entirely shaped by the availability of resources. When we started looking at precision medicine in a more operational way, from vision to something you can finally bring into the clinic, What we could actually do in precision medicine was, of course, limited by our ability to create the dedicated data. We focused very heavily on genomics technology. We started diversifying the dozens, hundreds of omics applications. Now we open the door to proteomics. But we are still far from being able to say that the data generation problem is over. […]

Who has been a guest on BioRad.io

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Alessandro Riccombeni
• Alekhya Akkunuri
• Chris Waller

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

39 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

10 ratings