Smart Biotech Scientist | The CMC and Bioprocessing Podcast for Process Development and Manufacturing Leaders
The go-to CMC and biomanufacturing podcast for bioprocess development scientists and CMC leaders scaling biologics into regulatory-ready therapies with less trial and error.
Practical, execution-focused, and strategic guidance on CMC development, tech transfer, scale-up, GMP readiness, CDMO partnerships, and manufacturing economics for biologics, cell and gene therapies, cultivated meat, and biomaterials.
Hosted by Dr. David Brühlmann, CMC strategist, former Bioprocess Innovation Manager at Merck, PhD in glycoengineering, and close to 20 years of biomanufacturing experience. Smart Biotech Scientist delivers actionable insights for the people doing the hard work of turning promising molecules into scalable, regulatory-ready therapies.
This podcast is for you if:
- You are a process development scientist or CMC lead managing a technology transfer, scale-up, or CDMO partnership
- You are a biologics developer working on upstream or downstream process development, cell culture optimization, or GMP manufacturing readiness
- You are a biotech founder preparing for an IND filing or Series A fundraise, and need a CMC strategy that holds up under investor and regulatory scrutiny
- You are building or advising an early-stage biopharma team and need to make smart manufacturing decisions with limited resources
What you will learn:
CMC strategy and regulatory planning, bioprocess scale-up from lab to clinical and commercial manufacturing, cell culture process development and media optimization, technology transfer best practices, CDMO selection and partnership management, hybrid modeling, manufacturing economics, continuous manufacturing, digitization, and Industry 4.0 in biopharma.
Top 10 life sciences podcast with 200+ episodes and guests from Merck, FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific, Cytiva, KBI Biopharma, Eppendorf, and biotech innovators worldwide.
New episodes released weekly. Subscribe and join 400+ biotech leaders already using these insights to accelerate development, reduce manufacturing costs, and de-risk scale-up.
Next Steps:
Visit the Website: https://smartbiotechscientist.com
Email us: hello@bruehlmann-consulting.com
Smart Biotech Scientist | The CMC and Bioprocessing Podcast for Process Development and Manufacturing Leaders
Latest Episodes
256: Is Bioprocess Education Keeping Up With New Tech? The Training Gap Industry Cannot Afford to Ignore with Steffen Kreye - Part 2
The "data lake" that was supposed to unify bioprocessing intelligence has, in most companies, become something else entirely: a data swamp, where information goes in and insight rarely comes back out. For anyone trying to deploy AI in GMP manuf...
255: Is Bioprocess Education Keeping Up With New Tech? The Training Gap Industry Cannot Afford to Ignore with Steffen Kreye - Part 1
When AI can draft a literature review in minutes, the question bioprocess educators can no longer avoid is this: what does a student actually need to learn?Steffen Kreye has a clear answer. As Professor of Industrial Biotechnology at Ber...
254: How to Source, Manufacture, and Scale the Earliest Stem Cells for Allogeneic Cell Therapy Without Ethical Barriers with Yuta Lee - Part 2
Can aging be fundamentally slowed or even reversed—not by science fiction, but by harnessing the unassuming power of super-early stem cells?In Part 1, Yuta Lee, Founder and CEO of Accelerated Bio, walked through the biology, ethical sour...
253: How to Source, Manufacture, and Scale the Earliest Stem Cells for Allogeneic Cell Therapy Without Ethical Barriers with Yuta Lee - Part 1
What if the key to scalable, off-the-shelf cell therapy was hiding in tissue that surgeons discard every day?Yuta Lee, Founder and CEO of Accelerated Bio, has spent two decades building a cell therapy platform on exactly that insight. Hu...
252: How to Use Media Supplements to Tailor Biosimilar Glycan Quality to Your Reference Product in Two Rounds
Are you still using one-factor-at-a-time experiments for biosimilar development, losing months, missing interactions, and risking costly dead-ends?In this episode, David Brühlmann, host of the Smart Biotech Scientist Podcast, reveals how...