GE Grow Everything Biotech Podcast

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Grow Everything Biotech Podcast

Grow Everything explores the world of biology as technology. Hosts Erum Khan and Karl Schmieder interview leaders and influencers biologizing industries with tools like synthetic biology, precision fermentation, bioprospecting, and more. These companies make biomaterials from waste, cosmetics that restore healthy hair and skin, and delicious cultivated foods in a bioreactor and so much more. Join us as we discuss the latest and greatest across biotech, engineered biology, entrepreneurship, and culture and how this transition is solving healthcare and climate change challenges.

Website ↗ Last published 30 October 2026 207 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Grow Everything Biotech Podcast

“Designing new things isn't really the struggle. Coming up with a new idea, a new molecule, a new product, mining that idea space isn't the challenge that needs to be solved. What actually is the barrier is getting things into market. … In chemicals and materials, it's 10 years and it's 100 to 300, 400 million dollars. … The bottleneck to that progress is not the discovery piece, it's the scale-up piece.” — Max Kufner, Grow Everything Biotech Podcast
Max Kufner · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I've had a bunch of heads of R&D from pharma companies come by… I ask, what's your split, spending on your automation work cells versus your lab benches? And it's like 97% lab benches. Millions of square feet, filled to the brim with benchtop equipment, filled to the brim with lab technicians, all regulated space — and all running, get this, at best 40 hours a week. We have 168 hours in a week.” — Jason Kelly, Grow Everything Biotech Podcast
Jason Kelly · 25 Sep 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Grow Everything Biotech Podcast is hosted by Karl Schmieder , Erum Azeez Khan and Erum Khan .

Recent Episodes

  1. 30 Oct 2026

    205. The Sweet Taste of Negative Waste: Max Kufner Ferments Carbon Waste at Again

    With Max Kufner

  2. 23 Oct 2026

    204. Moore's Law Than Meets the Eye: Michael Wright's Blueprint at Biomimetics International

    With Michael Wright

  3. 16 Oct 2026

    203. The Valley of Do: Karl & Erum Orchestrate Bio-Ecosystems at Bioinnovations Conference

  4. 9 Oct 2026

    202. Setting Sail for Biotech Scale: Jenny Rooke Steers Innovators at Genoa Venture

    With Jenny Rooke

  5. 2 Oct 2026

    201. Out of Cell Experience: Michael Heltzen Drives Pure Chemistry at eXoZymes

    With Michael Heltzen

  6. 25 Sep 2026

    200. That's One Cell of a Machine: Jason Kelly of Gingko Automates Labs to Accelerate Discovery

    With Jason Kelly

  7. 18 Sep 2026

    199. Space, the Final Fermenter: Mario Maggio Brews Biology in Orbit with Ambrosia Space

    With Mario Maggio

  8. 11 Sep 2026

    198. A Grain of Truth: Chef Pierre Thiam Scaled Fonio Without Losing Its Roots

    With Pierre Thiam

  9. 4 Sep 2026

    197. What’s in Your Cart? A Grocery Store Walkthrough of Next-Gen Food Innovation

    With Ali Wing , Ricky Cassini , Gerit Tolborg , Nathan Pumplin , Paul Shapiro , Eben Bayer , Mari Granström and Daniel Scharff

  10. 28 Aug 2026

    196. Beyond the Red Tape: Greg Jaffe on Policy as an Accelerator for Bio-Innovation

    With Greg Jaffe

  11. 21 Aug 2026

    195. Because You’re Worth Biology: Olivier Rolland Talks Biotech at L’Oréal

    With Olivier Rolland

  12. 14 Aug 2026

    194. Beauty Is in the AI of the Beholder: Debut’s Joshua Britton Turns Claims into Molecules

    With Joshua Britton

Guests

John Cumbers (4 episodes), Eben Bayer (4 episodes), Ricky Cassini (3 episodes), Paul Shapiro (3 episodes), Veronica Breckenridge (3 episodes), Ali Wing (3 episodes), Suzanne Lee (2 episodes), Kristin Ellis (2 episodes), Samet S. Yildirim (2 episodes), Charles Dimmler (2 episodes), Seth Yakatan (2 episodes), Elliot Roth (2 episodes), and 149 more.