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This week, we sat down with Savas Komban, an industrial engineer, serial entrepreneur, and CEO at Smartlens, the first electronics-free soft contact lens that measures eye pressure and its fluctuations throughout the day. Join host Ehsan Sadri, MD for a riveting conversation on the future of glaucoma care.

No – not that apprentice. This week we had the pleasure of speaking with Todd Brady, MD/PhD turned VC/EIR turned CEO of Aldeyra back in 2012.
Todd talks about how he transitioned from the lab over to the dark side back in the 90s when “Industry” was still a dirty word.
Todd found his calling as a company builder who has since taken Aldeyra public and into Phase 3 trials with novel treatments for dry eye disease, allergic conjunctivitis, and proliferative vitreoretinopathy.
The company is also developing other product candidates for retinal and systemic inflammatory diseases. Listen in for some words of wisdom from the real Apprentice...

This week, Firas Rahhal sat down (virtually) with none other than Mark Blumenkranz, who shares lessons learned the hard way which led to his proven “Innovation Recipe”. Mark also sheds light on the investing/incubating model for Lagunitas Biosciences and what he claims will be his final CEO role at Kedalion Therapeutics.