In this episode of Lift Up Journeys, we were joined by the amazing Snehal Naik, head of regulatory, policy and intelligence at Spark Therapeutics. During her time at Spark Therapeutics, Snehal has established the Regulatory policy function, and is supporting global development of gene therapies. Snehal also co-chairs the regenerative medicine committee at BIO and staffs the regulatory affairs committees of the American Society of gene and cell therapy. Snehal has a passion for exploring the unexplored and has led biology programmes at both Pfizer’s centre for therapeutic innovation and Johnson & Johnson’s incubator. She has also founded and led a cross-functional gene therapy community of practice at J&J. Some of the highlights of the conversation include: "First and foremost, tell your story. Don’t ever feel like there isn’t something interesting in your story, or that there aren’t people out there who want to hear it. I think the more we put our stories out there, the more we just build up a stronger community, the more we create role models at every single level.” "Every part of my career, starting off in that lab-based role, then moving into industry, and still keeping the scientific focus on the basis, but really starting to think about it in the context of therapeutic development, and then a lot of what I do now on the regulatory and policy side, it’s to me, they’re all pieces of the puzzle.” “I think we have it in our head that you have to have achieved a certain level of success or a title, you need to be in a particular role to be the kind of person that could speak about your experience or that could serve as a role model. The reality is, when I look at every part of my journey, professionally or personally, what I really needed to see was someone who had made it just through what I was going through.” Tune in to hear from an incredible woman in life sciences.