In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Ken Bloom, MD, FCAP, about developing technologies to assist cancer analysis and pathology, the spatial component of antibody conjugates and more.

•    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive 1:11
•    About Bloom 1:16
•    The interview 2:10
•    How did you come into your clinical roles, deciding to become a pathologist and get involved with immunotherapy, and then make the transition into industry? 2:42
•    Bloom on how he got involved with breast cancer pathology and precision medicine 7:29
•    Bloom on his work on developing new mechanisms for revolutionizing digital pathology 9:52
•    How do reference laboratories bring more value to a patient? 15:17
•    Jain and Bloom on the evolution of spatial biology in cancer analysis, sequencing and pathology 18:40
•    Jain on the challenges facing how health care advances in can be communicated to more physicians and oncologists 21:40 
•    What are your thoughts on where we’re going now with rising excitement for advancements such as AI? 23:24 
•    Bloom on Nucleai and how it uses AI to assist in cancer cell analysis 27:56 
•    Do you think that over the last three years that technology and our understanding of it has been accelerated because of the ways we have adapted during the pandemic?  30:16 
•    Jain and Bloom on the evolution of science and medicine, specifically in oncology, and how health care systems can change to reflect this evolution 38:59
•    If someone could only listen to the minute of this episode, what would you want them to take away? 41:56
•    How to contact Bloom 43:42
•    Thanks for listening 44:37

Ken Bloom, MD, FCAP, is the head of pathology at Nucleai. He brings more than 35 years of clinical experience in pathology, oncology, telemedicine and bioinformatics. 

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We’d love to hear from you! Send your comments/questions to Dr. Jain at [email protected]. Follow Healio on Twitter and LinkedIn: @HemOncToday and https://www.linkedin.com/company/hemonctoday/. Follow Dr. Jain on Twitter: @ShikhaJainMD. Bloom can be reached via email [email protected]. 

Disclosures:  Jain reports no relevant financial disclosures. Bloom is an employee of Nucleai, a spatial biology company.