{"podcast":{"title":"Data in Biotech","slug":"data-in-biotech-6628050","podcast_index_feed_id":6628050,"rss_url":"https://feed.pod.co/data-in-biotech","website_url":"https://www.corrdyn.com/","image_url":"https://images.pod.co/0up9NpIiXg38dg9ONujjEbhtOuwAOa32iObZVZ8ridQ/resize:fill:1500:1500/plain/artwork/9bd88ed6-6c74-4788-924c-56be77376f84/data-in-biotech.jpg","author":"CorrDyn","episode_count":77,"summary":"Data in Biotech is a fortnightly podcast exploring how companies leverage data to drive innovation in life sciences. Every two weeks, Ross Katz, Principal and Data Science Lead at CorrDyn, sits down with an expert from the world of biotechnology to understand how they use data science to solve technical challenges, streamline operations, and further innovation in their business. You can learn more about CorrDyn - an enterprise data specialist that enables excellent companies to make smarter strategic decisions - at www.corrdyn.com","last_synced_at":"2026-09-03T06:17:20.333193+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/data-in-biotech-6628050"},"episode":{"title":"How to Turn Single-Cell Data Into a New Class of Cell-Depleting Therapies","slug":"how-to-turn-single-cell-data-into-a-new-class-of-cell-depleting-therapies","published_at":"2026-08-19T17:00:25+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/data-in-biotech-6628050/how-to-turn-single-cell-data-into-a-new-class-of-cell-depleting-therapies","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/data-in-biotech-6628050","url":"https://www.corrdyn.com/","audio_url":"https://downloads.pod.co/5fac40cd-043b-485f-838d-c63fa01ae1b2/ae034d9e-1059-42ee-8541-a9ae3c787273.mp3","summary":"Why treating the cell, not the protein, could turn chronic disease treatment into something closer to a cure. You've built single-cell pipelines that spit out clusters, p-values and target lists, but nothing that survives contact with the clinic. What if the clustering method itself is quietly leading you astray? Adam Freund is Founder and CEO of Arda Therapeutics, a biotech using single-cell sequencing to find the pathogenic cells driving chronic disease. He spent seven years as a Principal Investigator at Calico Life Sciences, building a research lab on the biology of ageing and helping grow the company from 15 to more than 200 people, and holds a PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley. You'll get a working model for how Arda's discovery engine turns single-cell and spatial transcriptomic data into causal cell targets. Adam explains why a common statistical shortcut in single-cell analysis produces disease signals that don't hold up and how cell depletion could replace daily dosing with a handful of treatments that reset the immune system. Ross and Adam cover how Arda finds pathogenic cell populations across hundreds of donors, why chi-squared tests on cell clusters can substitute cell count for donor count without anyone noticing, and how B-cell depletion therapies proved that removing a cell can beat blocking its pathway. This one is for data science leaders and computational biologists building single-cell pipelines, not listeners after a general intro to drug discovery. Key Takeaways - Chi-squared tests on cell clusters draw their statistical power from the number of cells, not the number of donors, so a single oversampled patient can produce the same p-value as a hundred-donor study. - Rituximab clears 100% of B cells from circulation yet does nothin…","meta_description":"Why treating the cell, not the protein, could turn chronic disease treatment into something closer to a cure. You've built single-cell pipelines that spit…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3252,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/data-in-biotech-6628050/episodes/how-to-turn-single-cell-data-into-a-new-class-of-cell-depleting-therapies/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/data-in-biotech-6628050/how-to-turn-single-cell-data-into-a-new-class-of-cell-depleting-therapies.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}