I’m Adam Walker a Biometrics consultant, and this is the Pharma Prescribed Podcast—where leaders, innovators, and hidden voices in healthcare open up. No soundbites. No spin. Just raw insight—one prescription at a time.

In an industry driven by data, protocols, and pressure, we rarely pause to ask the human questions: What drives us? What breaks us? And what truths live behind the titles we wear?

Tom Farrand has worked throughout his career at the intersection of AI and the life sciences.

First at IBM helping university hospitals to use supercomputers to model 3D heart scans at higher resolutions.

Then he joined leading startups and led the roll out of AI infrastructure for Janssen, Medtronic and Exscientia.

Now as CEO and Co-founder of Delfa he's building AI agents which automate clinical operations, starting in patient recruitment. His mission is clear: to accelerate access to life‑saving treatments by reimagining how patients connect with trials.

I’m Adam Walker a Biometrics consultant, and this is the Pharma Prescribed Podcast—where leaders, innovators, and hidden voices in healthcare open up. No soundbites. No spin. Just raw insight—one prescription at a time.

In an industry driven by data, protocols, and pressure, we rarely pause to ask the human questions: What drives us? What breaks us? And what truths live behind the titles we wear?

Today, I’m joined by Poorya Amini, founder and CEO of Risklick, a Swiss digital health company that’s redefining how clinical trial protocols are designed.

Poorya’s journey spans veterinary medicine, a PhD in pharmacology, and hands‑on experience managing cardiology trials at the University of Bern. In 2019, he launched Risklick to tackle one of pharma’s biggest bottlenecks: protocol inefficiency.

Risklick’s flagship product, Protocol AI™, draws on a database of over 800,000 clinical trials to cut protocol development time by 50%, reduce amendments by 20%, and shorten implementation by 40%.

I’m Adam Walker a Biometrics consultant, and this is the Pharma Prescribed Podcast—where leaders, innovators, and hidden voices in healthcare open up. No soundbites. No spin. Just raw insight—one prescription at a time.

In an industry driven by data, protocols, and pressure, we rarely pause to ask the human questions: What drives us? What breaks us? And what truths live behind the titles we wear?

Anna Maxwell is a mission-driven founder, pharmacist and entrepreneur dedicated to widening access to medicines and empowering people to take more control of their health.

She is the CEO and Founder of Maxwellia, one of the UK’s most ambitious emerging consumer healthcare companies, on a mission to become a Top 50 global challenger brand in self-care.

With more than 30 years’ experience in retail pharmacy, consumer healthcare marketing and commercialising over-the-counter (OTC) medicines, Anna specialises in transforming prescription medicines into trusted, pharmacy-ready brands through the highly regulated process of reclassification.

By unlocking the untapped value of legacy drugs, Maxwellia is creating the blockbuster OTC medicine brands of the future and reshaping how people manage everyday health.

As a female founder, she has demonstrated what’s possible when purpose and commercial discipline meet relentless ambition