Smart Biotech Scientist | The CMC and Bioprocessing Podcast for Process Development and Manufacturing Leaders

274: Engineering iPSC Neurons for Parkinson's: From 3% Survival to Durable Graft with Bilal Fares - Part 2

July 30, 2026·16 min
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Building a cell therapy company is hard. Building a genetically engineered iPSC therapy for the brain, on a preclinical budget, is one of the hardest translational problems in biotech. Every experiment has to move the program closer to an IND, or it's motion without progress. That's the operating constraint Bilal Fares faces as CEO and co-founder of AzureCell, the University of Geneva spin-off engineering neuroprotective iPSC neurons for Parkinson's disease. In Part 2, he walks through how hi...

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