23: How Pharmaceuticals Are Made: Materials Combating Diseases (feat. Dr. Sally Kline)

As more people around the world get vaccinated against the COVID-19, we can fully appreciate the people working in biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. Developing such a remedy in this short amount of time, while maintaining high-quality standards, would have been impossible a few decades ago. And with more advances in this field, we can expect even faster, more reliable, and customizable products. 

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Today’s guest is Dr. Sally Kline, Head of Materials Science at Genentech. In this episode, she talks materials in the biotechnology field.

In this conversation, we discuss the following topics:

• The recycling and breakdown of biodegradable materials (6:36)
• The development process of a drug (10:48)
• Materials of the pharmaceutical world (17:38)
• Challenges of high quality mass production (23:56)
• How A.I. is helping biotechnology (31:53)
• The skills necessary to succeed in the pharmaceutical industry (39:07)
• Polymer innovation in biotechnology (42:15)

Reach out to Dr. Sally Kline: 

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-kline-ph-d-b7238311

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