The Life Science Effect
Have you ever thought about who the people are behind life-saving breakthroughs? How did they get started in their careers? Why did they choose the Life Sciences? What effect do they hope to cause? These are the questions we explore on The Life Science Effect.
Gain insights straight from thought leaders, entrepreneurial game-changers, and business executives leading the Life Sciences. Host Steve Vinson explores what it really takes to be effective in this industry as a leader and innovator with a special focus on what’s happening here, in the Heartland.
We aim to inspire, equip, and empower the next generation of Life Science experts through purpose-driven conversations. Join us weekly as we talk about what happens behind the science and get to know the people who make it happen
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 49
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
028: Bob Coy | 16 Tech
16 Tech is the future of collaboration in downtown Indianapolis. It will bring together the talent, capital, and technology to make innovation happen.
Robert Coy is President and CEO of 16 Tech Commu…
027: Angela Demaree | 21st Century Compounding Pharmacy for your Pet
Angela is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) passionate about improving patient compliance and clinical outcomes, at least partly because her cat Chester has quietly spat out its medicine behind t…
026: Jason Bork | Alzheimer's - How Close is a Cure?
This is one of the most inspirational and informative episodes yet. Jason Bork is a man on a mission. A mission to serve others. He is working to accelerate the search for an Alzheimer's cure through…
025: Nathan Glass | Nondisruptive Innovation
What if you have an idea for a medical product but you have no experience with the complex regulations or the healthcare industry? There are experts who know how to help you and Nathan Glass is one o…
024: Arun Giridhar | 21st Century Pharmaceuticals
Arun Giridhar is not your typical startup entrepreneur. One of the latest success stories coming out of Purdue Foundry, Arun earned a PhD in Chemical Engineering in the mid-2000s and saw an opportuni…
023: Lynn Tyler | Abbreviated Pathway for 510(k) Medical Devices
Lynn Tyler is a partner and registered patent lawyer in Barnes & Thornburg's Intellectual Property Department. He also chair's the firm's Food, Drug and Device Law Practice Group. He earned a degree …
022: Kurtis Sluss | How Brightlamp is Disrupting Healthcare
We are used to hearing about athletes coming off the field and heading to the locker room to go into "the concussion protocol". What if the medical professionals could whip out their iPhone, open an …
021: Jon Speer | How to Change the Medical Device Industry
WARNING! Focusing on compliance is not the answer. It is the problem. That is the message that Greenlight Guru is preaching these days. And it's why Jon Speer started the company in the first place. …
020: Steve Vinson | Leading Change in Medical Devices
EU MDR and FDA's Case for Quality are just two of the initiatives impacting medical devices in 2019. According to the new EU MDR (European Union Medical Device Regulation), combination products must …
019: John Hanak | Purdue Ventures and Purdue Foundry
How do you create something that is greater than the sum of its parts? For decades, the foundries and steel mills of northwest Indiana, have melted and cast and forged metal into shape, creating some…
018: Larry Mager | Quality Systems Management
What is going on in the medical device industry right now that is driving companies and the FDA to address quality systems differently? What is the Quality Systems Management (QSM) Strategic Plan? Ho…
017: Steve Vinson | 2019 Trends in Biopharma
What is the latest in Biopharma? What is in store for this $300 billion industry in 2019? What if I told you the market is growing at more than 12% annually but that there is a global shortage of man…
016: Rick Ditto & Matt Dressler | Google Meets J&J and the Future of Surgery
Google and J&J have joined forces to create powerful, innovative surgical solutions. Rick Ditto and Matt Dressler have joined forces to create an exciting, inspirational episode this week. Open sourc…
015: Dan Robertson, PhD | Applied Data Sciences Center at IBRI
014: Rainer Fischer, PhD | Innovate like Tech - Indiana Biosciences Research Institute
013: Scott Johnstone | Scottish Lifesciences is Booming
Scott is the CEO of the Scottish Lifesciences Association. With a background in Pharma tech transfer and R&D, Scott has gone on to start and lead many life sciences companies. He is currently a Direc…
011: Matt Wyatt | Start with what the Patient Wants and Needs
How do you start from scratch and build a multimillion dollar company? Stop. How do you do that two or three times? Check out my chat with Matt Wyatt. He is not just a successful startup leader. He i…
000: Just Steve | Why Life Science Effect? What's this all about
After recording a dozen takes of me reading from a script, my audio editor and I decided to just have a conversation about what this show is supposed to be about. He is shy so he edited out all of th…
010: Hugh Devine | Information is Critical - Protect IT!
Hugh Devine, Dir. Bus. Dev., Promedim and co-Founder Caledonian Informatics
As Director of Business Development for Promedim, Hugh oversees the company’s sales and growth strategy. He is trained in U…