Life Science Insights

About Life Science Insights

Dan Mazzucco interviews experts in the biotech and medtech industries.

Publisher

Third Eye Associates

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Jun 2025

Latest episode

2 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

30 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Oct 2026

   CRP#9: Why Every Founder Needs an Iron Gut, and Ego Has No Place in the Game, with Nicole Lipkin, Psy.D.

   Nicole Lipkin built a therapy practice with more than 80 clinicians over 17 years, then walked away to build something that could reach families the clinic never could. Her path from a mail-in subscription box to a stealth learning video game, a text service, and finally a mobile app is a case study in letting customer evidence overrule your own plan. In this episode, Dr. Nicole Lipkin joins Dan Mazzucco to talk about the founder journey behind HeyKiddo, a psychologist-designed parenting companion app. They cover the pivots driven by customer discovery and NSF I-Corps work, choosing a beachhead market, the lessons of building a mental health product in a polarized climate, redesigning around AI in an ethical way, and why HeyKiddo deliberately stays on the non-diagnostic side of the FDA line. They also discuss what the Capital Readiness Program taught her about leading with empathy for herself and her company, and why she believes entrepreneurship takes an iron gut and very little ego. This conversation is for founders and early-stage innovators who want to learn how to pivot on evidence, draw smart regulatory boundaries, and build the emotional resilience to keep going when the plan turns out to be wrong. Dr. Nicole Lipkin is a clinical and organizational psychologist, entrepreneur, author, and speaker who has spent her career helping people understand what drives how they think, feel, and lead. She is the founder and CEO of Equilibria Leadership Consulting, an organizational psychology firm that partners with companies on leadership development, executive coaching, and team effectiveness, and the founder and CEO of HeyKiddo, a psychologist-designed parenting companion for caregivers of children from birth to age 12. Before launching these ventures, she founded and exited Equilibria Psychological, a group practice she scaled over 17 years to more than 80 clinicians. Dr. Lipkin is the author of What Keeps Leaders Up at Night and Why in the Workplace and a Forbes contributor. Her work has been featured by NPR, NBC, CBS, Entrepreneur, and The New York Times Magazine. HeyKiddo is part of the 10th cohort of the Capital Readiness Program run by the University City Science Center in Philadelphia, the focus of this season of Life Science Insights.

2. 

   18 Sept 2026

   CRP#8: Minimum Viable Is Not Minimum Effort: Building a Reimbursable RPM Business, with Adeyemi Oginni, MD, MBA

   Nearly one in two adults in the US has high blood pressure, and three out of four of them don't have it under control. In this episode, Adeyemi (Yemi) Oginni, CEO and Co-founder of PDC Remote Care, joins Dan Mazzucco to talk about closing the data gap in hypertension management. They cover why episodic blood pressure checks fail patients, how PDC's connected devices give clinicians real-time longitudinal data, why nephrologists became the company's core early adopters, and how Medicare's remote patient monitoring reimbursement changes the economics for small practices. This conversation is for life science founders and clinicians who want to build technology that clinicians will actually adopt, not just technology that works in a demo. Adeyemi (Yemi) Oginni is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of PDC Remote Care, a digital health company that helps physicians manage hypertension using connected devices and software. He trained and practiced as a physician in Nigeria before pivoting into management consulting, working across healthcare, energy, and technology, and later spent time at HP before earning his MBA at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He founded PDC Remote Care to close the data gap between what happens in the clinic and what happens in patients' everyday lives, and has since engaged with hundreds of clinical practices across the country to expand access to remote patient monitoring for hypertension.

3. 

   4 Sept 2026

   CRP#7: Building a Diagnostics Company Without Owning a Single Diagnostic, with Nick Malhomme, CEO of Diagnostics Your Way

   Syphilis, once considered nearly eradicated in the US, has risen 700 percent over the last decade. Congenital cases, passed from mother to newborn, are up 800 percent. In this episode, Nick Malhomme, CEO of Diagnostics Your Way, joins Dan Mazzucco to discuss building an end-to-end platform for testing, care, and support around stigmatized infections such as HIV, viral hepatitis, and other STIs. They cover how the remote consultation and at home testing pathway actually works, the mix of a pending patent and first- mover advantage the company is using to hold off competitors, how public health departments and health systems get persuaded to pay for the service, and the practical differences between navigating the US and UK healthcare markets. This conversation is for life science founders and health tech builders who are trying to reach underserved populations without a single novel diagnostic device to patent. Nick Malhomme is the CEO of Diagnostics Your Way, an end-to-end provider of testing, care, and support for stigmatized infections, including HIV, viral hepatitis, and other STIs. He previously served as International Development Director at Preventx, the UK- based sexual health testing company, where he opened Preventx's first US sales headquarters in Greater Philadelphia. Nick holds a BA in Modern Languages and a Master's in International Business, and has spent more than 20 years in healthcare across a number of C-level roles, including CEO of the Behavioral Health Division of Optum International. A UK national who lived in continental Europe for 15 years, he is now based in Philadelphia with his family.

Who has been a guest on Life Science Insights

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• Andrew J DiMeo Sr
• Ryan Bock
• Mohit Prajapati
• Spencer Jones
• Cellia Habita

Podcast Authority Score: 9 / 100

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