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🗓️ 29 May 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:00.0 | Behind the Night, the surgery podcast, relevant and engaging content designed to help you dominate the day. |
0:13.0 | Okay, welcome to another episode of BTK and part of our series looking at opportunities outside of clinical medicine. |
0:29.0 | I'm very pleased to have Dr. Amy Lightner, who is the Chief Medical Officer for Direct Biologics. Amy, thanks for joining us. |
0:36.0 | Thank you for having me. |
0:38.0 | So obviously you've done a ton in colorectal surgery. |
0:41.0 | You've been very, very high volume surgeon. You've done a lot of different trials. |
0:47.0 | You've done some top of wine research that we're going to get into here a little bit in terms of stem cells. |
0:52.0 | But we're going to focus on that last best that we're now talking about. |
0:57.0 | Opportunities outside of clinical medicine and specifically with working with industry. |
1:02.0 | So why don't you tell us a little bit about your journey and then just about what you're doing right now. |
1:07.0 | Yeah, so I got very interested in cell therapy. |
1:11.0 | Actually, as an undergraduate back early 2000s and then during my residency when back to Stanford did a postdoc in stem cell biology. |
1:19.0 | So it's always been a definite interest of mine. |
1:22.0 | It's man, I've been very passionate about in clinical trials in my clinical practice. |
1:26.0 | You know, certainly a Cleveland clinic and began consulting with this group about a year and a half ago and they were looking at a stem cell derived product. |
1:38.0 | And they moved through the FDA pretty quickly because of COVID, because initially they were studying their products in ARDS, COVID related ARDS. |
1:47.0 | So I started consulting with them. |
1:49.0 | Thought that the science was very interesting. |
1:51.0 | We can't really scale cell therapy, but we can scale this therapy, which is a stem cell derived product, which can actually be utilized in stored at room temperature. |
2:00.0 | And then started treating some of the patients at Cleveland Clinic on the transplant side under these emergency INDs where you do a single patient treatment at a time. |
2:09.0 | And clinically the products worked very, very well and got more, more interested in the science behind the product and then started working with the company more. |
2:19.0 | And then they offered me an opportunity to come in and really lead the science effort in the clinical trial efforts. That's how I got introduced to them. |
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