In a world where healthcare decisions are getting faster, smarter, and more complex, one force is quietly reshaping the entire pharma landscape: intelligence. Not the kind you read in reports, but the kind that emerges when data, science, and experience collide. The Best AI Show on Pharma steps right into that intersection. Hosted by Ayush Mishra, this podcast brings you candid, future-facing conversations with leaders who are redefining how medicines are discovered, developed, and delivered.
Each episode goes beyond buzzwords, beyond hype, and beyond surface-level talk. These are the real stories, the challenges no one admits, the breakthroughs no one sees coming, and the visions shaping the next decade of medicine. Whether you are a pharma professional, a healthcare innovator, or someone who believes that smarter technology can lead to better outcomes, this is where the future becomes understandable, practical, and actionable.
Season 2 Ep#2 | AI's Real Job in Pharma Isn't Speed - It's Access | Ft. Mimi Fenton
Pharma is drowning in AI pitches that all promise the same thing: faster, cheaper, smarter. Mimi Fenton thinks we're selling the wrong story. Her bet? AI's biggest job in pharma isn't speed, it's access. Putting a clinical trial inside the doctor's office of a patient who would otherwise never see one. In this episode of The Best AI Show on Pharma, host Ayush Mishra sits down with Mimi Fenton, epidemiologist, CEO of CEDAR Health Research and Aspen Insights, board advisor at Anervea.ai, ...
2 Jun 2026
Season 2 Ep#1 | Why the Companies Winning in Pharma won’t have the Best AI | Victoria Gamermann
Most AI conversations in pharma start with the technology. This one starts somewhere far more useful. Victoria Gamerman joins Ayush Mishra on The Best AI Show on Pharma to challenge a belief almost everyone holds: that winning comes down to having the best AI. Her answer points to something the leaders racing for the latest model tend to overlook entirely. If you've ever wondered why some AI investments compound and others quietly stall, start here. Victoria Gamerman's LinkedIn: https://www.l...
24 Mar 2026
Ep #7 I The Biggest Lie Pharma Industry Tells Itself About AI | Dr. Neha Gupta
Every pharma company today says they're doing AI. But how much of it is actually real? In this episode of The Best AI Show on Pharma with Ayush Mishra our guest is Dr. Neha Gupta who is a clinician, digital health product leader, and Ironman athlete and the one who has spent years building real digital products that have had to survive regulators, compliance frameworks, audits, and actual patients across multiple markets. She is one of the rare people who has seen healthcare from inside the c...
24 Feb 2026
Ep #6 | From Google to Drug Discovery with AI: Why "Science Advances One Funeral at a Time" | Javier Tordable
Early-stage drug discovery can take years and requires deep expertise in computational chemistry that most biologists don't have. This creates a massive bottleneck in getting new therapies from concept to testing. In this episode, Ayush Mishra sits down with Javier Tordable, Founder & CEO of Pauling.AI, to explore how AI is automating the most time-intensive parts of drug discovery and why adoption remains the industry's biggest challenge. You will hear insights on: Why he left 16 years a...
11 Feb 2026
Ep #5 | Surgeon to Biotech CEO: Regenerating Human Skin, AI in Wound Care & Healthcare's Broken System | Dr. Ned Swanson
Dr. Ned Swanson walked away from surgery residency to commercialize technology that regenerates human tissue. What started with mouse studies is now helping real patients heal wounds that traditional medicine couldn't solve. But here's the twist: the science wasn't the hardest part. In this episode, Dr. Ned Swanson (President & CMO at Polarity Bio) sits down with Ayush Mishra to reveal the brutal truths about building biotech, navigating healthcare's broken reimbursement systems, and sepa...
19 Jan 2026
Ep #4 | Accelerating Clinical Trials with Real-World Data, Know What Actually Works with Ayush Mishra and Chandi Kodthiwada
The pharmaceutical industry doesn’t struggle with scientific innovation, it struggles with execution. Feasibility, enrollment, evidence generation, and regulatory confidence remain the biggest constraints on getting medicines to patients faster. In this episode of The Best AI Show on Pharma, Ayush Mishra speaks with Chandi Kodthiwada, Vice President, Product Management, Komodo Health, whose work sits at the intersection of real-world data, clinical development, and AI strategy across the life...
14 Jan 2026
Ep #3 | Beyond the AI Hype: Real Solutions for Clinical Trial Efficiency with Ayush Mishra and Suzanne Vyvoda
Clinical trials don’t fail because of bad science, they fail because the operations behind them are broken. In this high-signal episode, Ayush Mishra sits down with Suzanne Vyvoda, a 20-year clinical operations veteran who has built teams across 40+ countries, scaled billion-dollar trials, advised CROs, biotech founders, and helped companies cut trial costs by up to 25% without compromising quality. From the chaos inside clinical sites and the “Excel tracker economy” that still runs global tr...
16 Dec 2025
Ep #2 | What’s Broken in American Healthcare and What the Future Holds with Ayush Mishra Ft. Dr. Marschall S. Runge
America spends more on healthcare than any country on Earth, so why are they ranked 60th in healthy life expectancy? In this eye-opening episode, Ayush Mishra sits down with Dr. Marschall Runge, cardiologist, researcher, long-time CEO of Michigan Medicine, and author of The Great Healthcare Disruption, to unpack one of the biggest paradoxes in modern medicine. From the rise of chronic disease and the collapse of preventive care to the shocking inefficiencies buried inside the U.S. healthcar...
11 Nov 2025
Ep #1 | 80% of Trials Fail. Here's How AI Is Saving Billions for Pharma with Ayush Mishra ft. Dr. Scott Treiber
80% of clinical trials fail to recruit patients on time. This leads to massive financial losses and delays in getting life changing treatments to patients. In this episode, Ayush Mishra sits down with Scott Treiber, COO of Cedar Health Research, to explore how modern technology and smarter workflows are transforming clinical research from the ground up. You will hear insights on: Why clinical trials still move slowly and face major operational challengesHow tools like Forge help clinics iden...
10 Nov 2025
The Best AI Show on Pharma - Trailer
What if the next big shift in medicine doesn’t start in a lab but in a conversation? A conversation where data meets discovery, where intelligence challenges tradition, and where the future of pharma begins to take shape. This trailer is your first look into The Best AI Show on Pharma hosted by Ayush Mishra, bringing together the voices redefining how healthcare thinks, decides, and innovates. From drug discovery to patient impact, from clinical trials to commercial strategy, these are the s...
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