Progress, Potential, and Possibilities
510 episodes - English - Latest episode: 24 days ago -Interviews and Discussions With Fascinating People Who are Creating A Better Tomorrow For All Of Us Host - Ira S. Pastor
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episodes
Dr. John LaMattina, Ph.D. - Pharmaceutical Industry Thought Leader, Innovator And Mentor
July 27, 2022 14:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBDr. John LaMattina, Ph.D. (https://www.johnlamattina.com), is an independent non-executive director at PureTech, a biotechnology company with a mission to discover, develop and commercialize new therapies for devastating diseases, where limited or no treatment options currently exist for patients, and has served as a member of their board of directors since 2009. Dr. LaMattina was previously President of Pfizer Global Research and Development and held positions of increasing responsibility d...
Tom Lawry - Microsoft - Innovating Intelligent Health Systems For Patients, Consumers & Clinicians
July 27, 2022 14:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBTom Lawry is the National Director for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Health & Life Sciences, at Microsoft (https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/industry-blog/microsoft-in-business/author/tom-lawry/). In this role he serves as a strategic advisor to provider, payer and life science organizations across the Americas, creating enterprise-wide AI initiatives designed to transform healthcare at scale. He focuses on technological, process and cultural redesign leading to the creation of Intelligent He...
Dr. Arye Elfenbein, MD, PhD - Co-Founder, Wildtype - Building A Better Food System
July 27, 2022 14:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBDr. Arye Elfenbein, MD, PhD, is the Co-Founder of Wildtype (https://www.wildtypefoods.com/), a biotechnology company which produces cultured seafood (with a focus on cultivated Pacific salmon) from fish cells, sustainably and cost effectively, with the nutritional benefits, but without common contaminants such as mercury, microplastics, antibiotics, or pesticides, and without relying on commercial fishing or fish farming. Born in Israel and raised in Australia, Dr. Elfenbein combines his dee...
Dr Dana Merriman, PhD - UW-Oshkosh - Hibernation Biology & Applications In Human Health & Resilience
July 18, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 51.3 MBDr. Dana K. Merriman Ph.D. (http://www.uwosh.edu/facstaff/merriman/VaughanHome), is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Biology, and Director of the Squirrel Colony, at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, and Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Medical College of Wisconsin. With her BA in Biological Science and her PhD in Physiology and Cell Biology, both from University of California-Santa Barbara, as well as having spent time as a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Utah He...
Dr. Stephen Moran, PhD - Reimagining Nuclear Medicine - Advanced Accelerator Applications, Novartis
July 18, 2022 14:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBDr. Stephen Moran, Ph.D., is Global Program Head, Neuroendocrine Tumors & Other Radiosensitive Cancers, for Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA - https://www.adacap.com/), a Novartis company and also a member of the Oncology Development Unit Leadership Team at Novartis. Prior to joining AAA, Dr. Moran was Global Head of Novartis Strategy, where he played a key role in defining the company’s strategy, prioritizing critical actions needed to deliver on the mission to discover new ways to ex...
Dr Rosamund Lewis MD - Head, WHO Smallpox Secretariat - Surveillance, Preparedness & Health Security
July 18, 2022 14:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBDr. Rosamund Lewis, MD, is Head, WHO Smallpox Secretariat, Emerging Diseases and Zoonoses Unit, World Health Emergencies Programme, at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, leading on emergency preparedness and advising on health security for the agency in this very critical domain, including as technical lead for Monkeypox. She also holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa. Previous to this role, Dr. Lew...
Dr Rosamund Lewis MD, CM - Head, WHO Smallpox Secretariat - Surveillance, Preparedness & Health Security
July 18, 2022 14:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBDr. Rosamund Lewis, MD, CM is Head, WHO Smallpox Secretariat, Emerging Diseases and Zoonoses Unit, World Health Emergencies Programme, at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, leading on emergency preparedness and advising on health security for the agency in this very critical domain, including as technical lead for Monkeypox. She also holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa. Previous to this role, Dr. ...
Nikita Michelsen, Founder & CEO, Pearlita Foods - Sustainable Cell Cultured Mollusk Seafood Products
July 18, 2022 14:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBNikita Michelsen, is Founder & CEO of Pearlita Foods (https://www.pearlitafoods.com/), the world's first cell-based mollusk company, which is developing sustainably & ethically grown products, like oysters and abalone, that are contaminant free without compromising flavor or nutrition. Most recently Nikita served as both Director of Community and Director of Marketing of SynBioBeta and their Built With Biology premier innovation network for biological engineers, innovators, entrepreneurs, an...
Eric Fournier - Director General Innovation - Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS)
June 29, 2022 16:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBMr. Eric Fournier is the Director General Innovation for the Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) Program (https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/corporate/reports-publications/ideas-2019-2020-annual-report/introduction.html), which over the past year, has been able to invest more than $100M in organizations across Canada (now over 270 and counting) that are using their innovative thinking and solutions in support of the women and men that are part of Canada’s...
Senator Joe Lieberman - Leading Bipartisan Moonshots For Health, National Security And Government
June 28, 2022 00:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBSenator Joe Lieberman, is senior counsel at the law firm of Kasowitz Benson Torres (https://www.kasowitz.com/people/joseph-i-lieberman) where he currently advises clients on a wide range of issues, including homeland and national security, defense, health, energy, environmental policy, intellectual property matters, as well as international expansion initiatives and business plans. Prior to joining Kasowitz, Senator Lieberman, the Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee in 2000, served 24 years...
Dr Chris Zaino - Bodybuilder, Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur; Resurrecting Superheroes (In All Of Us)
June 25, 2022 16:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBDr. Chris Zaino (https://www.drzaino.com/) is a world-renowned speaker, author, entrepreneur, Former Mr America, Mr. Universe and IFBB Pro bodybuilder. After defying a deadly terminal disease in his late 20's, and studying Exercise Physiology & Wellness at University of Central Florida, Dr. Zaino leveraged his experience to get his doctorate and developing one of the largest wellness clinics in the world (Abundant Life Chiropractic - http://www.abundantlifechiro.com/drzaino), seeing thousand...
Dr Tristin Brisbois, PhD - PepsiCo - Advancing Personalized Nutrition For Health, Wellness And Aging
June 23, 2022 19:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBDr. Tristin Brisbois, Ph.D., (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristin-brisbois-6b352b56/) is Director, Advanced Personalization Ideation Center, Life Sciences, Global R&D, at PepsiCo (https://www.gssiweb.org/en/about/pepsico-life-sciences), where she is involved in delivering actionable personalized nutrition solutions to promote the health and wellness of their consumers (https://pepsicohealthandnutritionsciences.com/). She also recently held the role of Director, Platform & Academic Partnershi...
Dr Thomas V Johnson III, MD, PhD - Neuro-Protection & Neuro-Regeneration R&D For Optic Pathologies
June 22, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBDr. Thomas V. Johnson III, M.D., Ph.D. (https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/thomas-johnson) is a glaucoma specialist and the Allan and Shelley Holt Rising Professor in Ophthalmology at Wilmer Eye Institute, at Johns Hopkins University. He is also a member of the Retinal ganglion cell (RGC) Repopulation, Stem cell Transplantation, and Optic nerve Regeneration (RReSTORe) consortium (https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/wilmer/research/storm/rrestore/index.html), an initiative focused o...
Prof Dr Christine Stabell Benn - Researching Non-Specific Vaccine Effects For Human Health Benefit
June 21, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBProf. Dr. Christine Stabell Benn, MD, PhD, DMSc, (https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/cbenn), is a physician, a professor of global health at the University of Southern Denmark, and a vaccine researcher with almost thirty years of experience in the field, where the focus of her research is "non-specific vaccine effects", defined as all those other effects, both positive and negative, that vaccines have on our immune systems and overall health, beyond their very specific ability t...
Dr. Jessica Whited, Ph.D. - Harvard University - Exploring The Biology Of Limb Regeneration
June 16, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBDr. Jessica Whited, Ph.D. (https://hscrb.harvard.edu/labs/whited-lab/) is an Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University where her lab focuses on limb regeneration in axolotl salamanders and where they develop tools to manipulate gene expression during limb regeneration, and explore signaling events following wound healing that initiate the regenerative process. Dr. Whited earned a B.A. in Philosophy and a B.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of...
Andrea De Souza - Eli Lilly - Leveraging Big Data & Artificial Intelligence For Unmet Medical Needs
June 09, 2022 17:00 - 49 minutes - 34 MBAndrea De Souza, is Associate Vice President, Research Data Sciences and Engineering, at Eli Lilly & Company (https://www.lilly.com/) where over the past three years her work has focused around empowering the Lilly Research Laboratories (LRL) organization with greater computational, analytics-intense experimentation to raise the innovation of their scientists. A former neuroscience researcher, Andrea’s portfolio career has included leadership assignments at the intersection of science, techn...
Ambassador Dr. Román Macaya Hayes - Costa Rica - Scientist, Entrepreneur, Diplomat, Public Servant
June 08, 2022 16:00 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MBAmbassador Dr. Román Macaya Hayes, Ph.D. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rom%C3%A1n_Macaya) is a Costa Rican scientist, entrepreneur, diplomat, and public servant, who most recently served as the Chairman of the Board of the Costa Rican Social Security, Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS), the institution that finances and provides universal coverage of public health care services in Costa Rica and manages the largest pension fund of the country. In this role he led the health care del...
Gina Tokar - VP, Business Operations, Panasonic Connect - Solving Global Issues Through Innovation & Technology
June 08, 2022 16:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBGina Tokar is the Vice President of Business Operations at Panasonic Connect North America (https://na.panasonic.com/us/panasonic-connect), where she is focused on growth and change leadership, business transformation and cost control in the supply chain. She leads a multi-year, company-wide transformation project with the goal of shifting Panasonic’s product focus into a strategic, consultative solutions focus. She prides herself in launching new business units from concept to commercializa...
Captain Benjamin Van Buskirk - Director, NavalX - Dual Use Innovation Initiatives For The Warfighter
June 03, 2022 13:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBCaptain Benjamin Van Buskirk is the Director of NavalX (https://www.secnav.navy.mil/agility/Pages/default.aspx), a fascinating organization that serves the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps as an innovation and agility cell, supporting and connecting initiatives across the Department of Defense, connecting different teams with tools, training, and resources, enabling people to think differently and deliver more effective solutions to the warfighter. Captain Van Buskirk joined NavalX after helping e...
Angela Sheffield - AI For Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation - National Nuclear Security Admin (NNSA)
June 03, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 47.6 MBAngela Sheffield is a graduate student and Space Industry fellow at the National Defense University’s Eisenhower School. She is on detail from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), where she serves as the Senior Program Manager for AI for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development. The National Nuclear Security Administration (https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/national-nuclear-security-administration), a United States federal agency, part of the U.S. Dept of Energy an...
Commissioner Kenneth Hodder - National Commander - The Salvation Army USA - Servicing All Human Need
June 03, 2022 13:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBCommissioner Kenneth G. Hodder (https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/who-we-are/#hodder) serves as the National Commander for The Salvation Army in the United States, where he leads what is the largest social services organization in the country, with more than 7,600 centers of operations across the country, serving 23 million people annually to overcome poverty, addiction and economic hardships through a range of their social services, including, but not limited to, providing food for the h...
Dr Aletta Schnitzler - CSO - TurtleTree Labs - Cell-Based Dairy Bio-Products For Health & Nutrition
May 25, 2022 10:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBDr. Aletta Schnitzler, PhD. is the Chief Scientific Officer at TurtleTree Labs (https://turtletree.com/) where she leads the R&D teams and spearheads an innovation roadmap to bring nutritious cell-based dairy and meat alternatives to market. TurtleTree is a biotech company dedicated to producing a new generation of nutrition—one that’s better for the planet, better for the animals, and better for people everywhere. Utilizing its proprietary, cell-based technology, the company is creating "be...
Dr Dumazedier Kabasele, MD - Preventing, Treating And Beating Stroke in Democratic Republic of Congo
May 22, 2022 13:00 - 24 minutes - 17.2 MBDr. Dumazedier Kabasele, MD, is the Founder of the Dumazedier Kabasele Foundation, a non-profit organization with a goal to raise awareness, and prevent, treat and beat stroke in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Dr. Kabasele earned his medical degree from the International Christian University in DRC, completed a special training fellowship in Neurology / Electro-Neurophysiology from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuroscience in India, studied and trained in specialty st...
Colonel Nathan Diller - AFWERX - US Air Force - Dual Use Innovation For The Service & Private Sector
May 22, 2022 13:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBColonel Nathan P. Diller (https://www.afrl.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/2856964/nathan-p-diller/) is the Director of AFWERX (https://www.afwerx.af.mil/), a United States Air Force program with the goal of fostering a culture of innovation within the service, and developing effective solutions to the challenges facing the service through partnerships with private sector business entities, with particular emphasis being placed on collaboration with technology startups. Colonel D...
Dr Nag Vaidyanathan, CTO, Duck Creek Tech - Pioneering Insurance Industry Digital Transformation
May 22, 2022 13:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBDr. Nag Vaidyanathan, Ph.D. is Chief Technology Officer and EVP at Duck Creek Technologies (https://www.duckcreek.com/), a leading provider of core system solutions to the Property and Casualty and general insurance industries, where via the company’s enterprise software-as-a-service solution, pioneering digital transformation, insurance carriers are able to navigate uncertainty and capture market opportunities faster than their competitors. Dr. Vaidyanathan is responsible for the execution ...
Dr. Cesar de la Fuente, Ph.D. - Machine Biology - University of Pennsylvania - Prevent, Detect & Treat Infectious Disease
May 22, 2022 13:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBDr. Cesar de la Fuente, Ph.D. (https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p9151622) is a Presidential Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he leads the Machine Biology Group (https://delafuentelab.seas.upenn.edu/) whose goal is to combine the power of machines and biology to help prevent, detect, and treat infectious diseases. Specifically, he pioneered the development of the first antibiotic designed by a computer with efficacy in animals, designed algorit...
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, PhD - Emerging Diseases and Zoonoses Unit Head - World Health Organization
May 22, 2022 13:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBDr. Maria Van Kerkhove, Ph.D., (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/m.vankerkhove) is an infectious disease epidemiologist who serves as the technical lead for the COVID-19 response at the World Health Organization (https://www.who.int/en/), where she develops guidance, training programs, and information products for the continuously evolving state of the pandemic, as well serving as the Emerging Diseases and Zoonoses Unit Head. Dr. Van Kerkhove began her journey in global health given her int...
Dr Elizabeth Fowler, PhD, JD, Deputy Admin & Director - Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation
May 16, 2022 16:00 - 33 minutes - 23.4 MBDr. Elizabeth Fowler, Ph.D., J.D., (https://www.cms.gov/about-cms/leadership/center-medicare-medicaid-innovation) is the Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Prog...
Kathryn Coulter Mitchell - R&D For US Security & Resilience - Science & Technology Directorate - U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
May 15, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBKathryn Coulter Mitchell (https://www.dhs.gov/person/kathryn-coulter-mitchell), is Acting Under Secretary for Science and Technology (S&T), at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where as the science advisor to the Homeland Security Secretary, she heads the research, development, innovation and testing and evaluation activities in support of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) operational Components and first responders across the nation. The Science and Technology Directorate ...
Dr Jerome H. Kim, MD, Director General, International Vaccine Institute (IVI) - Safe, Effective, Affordable Vaccines For Public Health
May 15, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 51.1 MBDr. Jerome H. Kim, M.D., is the Director General of the International Vaccine Institute (IVI - https://www.ivi.int/), a nonprofit International Organization established in 1997 as an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), dedicated to the discovery, development and delivery of safe, effective and affordable vaccines for global public health. IVI is headquartered in Seoul and hosted by the Republic of Korea with 36 member countries and the WHO on its treaty. Dr. Kim se...
Dr Holly Ganz, PhD - CSO, AnimalBiome - Modulating Pet Gut Microbiomes For Longer And Happier Lives
May 15, 2022 11:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBDr. Holly Ganz, Ph.D. is Chief Science Officer And Co-Founder of AnimalBiome (https://animalbiome.com/home), a company with a goal of helping cats and dogs lead longer, happier lives by using science to unlock the mysteries of the pet gut microbiome, providing access to genetic data on the health of the gut microbiome, better ways to log health and diet records, and offering remedies to treat chronic digestive disorders. Dr. Ganz received her PhD from UC Davis Entomology and Evolutionary Eco...
Raza Khan - Semtech - Reducing Power, Latency & Costs For The World's Hyperscale Wireless Future
May 09, 2022 10:00 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBRaza Khan is an Engineer and Senior Market Manager for Wireless Products in Semtech’s Signal Integrity Products Group (https://www.semtech.com/products/signal-integrity), and has over 15 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. In his current role, he oversees the strategy, product line development and market development for integrated circuit (IC) solutions for optical transport needs within the wireless market. This includes the Tri-Edge™ 50G PAM4 product portfolio and ClearEdge®...
Teresa Bonner - Executive Director - E.A. Michelson Philanthropy - Awakening Creative Expression
May 09, 2022 09:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBTeresa Bonner is the Executive Director of the E.A. Michelson Philanthropy (https://eamichelsonphilanthropy.org/), an organization with a mission of championing programs that break barriers, build community and spark creativity, through funding and advocacy. E.A. Michelson Philanthropy has made grants totaling more than US$47 Million since 2006, actively supporting nonprofit organizations across the United States through direct financial support, advocacy, partnerships, informal alliances, c...
Dr. Pat Verduin, PhD - Chief Technology Officer - Colgate-Palmolive - Reimagining A Healthier Future
May 09, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBDr. Patricia Verduin, PhD, (https://www.colgatepalmolive.com/en-us/snippet/2021/circle-cards/our-leadership/patricia-verduin) is Chief Technology Officer for the Colgate-Palmolive Company where she provides leadership for product innovation, clinical science and long-term research and development across their Global Technology Centers’ Research & Development pipeline. Dr. Verduin joined Colgate Palmolive in 2007 as Vice President, Global R&D. Previously she served as Vice President, Scientif...
Dr. Stephen Johnston, PhD - Calviri - Cancer Eradication Via A Universal Preventative Cancer Vaccine
May 09, 2022 09:00 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MBDr. Stephen Johnston, Ph.D. (https://biodesign.asu.edu/stephen-johnston) is the Director for the Center for Innovations in Medicine, a Professor in the School of Life Sciences, and Director of the Biological Design Graduate Program at The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. Dr Johnston is also Founding CEO and Chairman of the Board Of Directors of Calviri (https://calviri.com/). The Center for Innovations in Medicine and Dr. Johnston's current work focuses on innovative solution...
Olivia Zetter - Head of Government Affairs and AI Strategy - National Resilience, Inc. - Protecting Bio-Pharmaceutical Supply Chains Against Disruption
May 09, 2022 09:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBOlivia Zetter is Head of Government Affairs and AI Strategy at National Resilience, Inc. (https://resilience.com/) a first-of-its-kind manufacturing and technology company dedicated to broadening access to complex medicines and protecting bio-pharmaceutical supply chains against disruption. Founded in 2020, National Resilience, Inc. is building a sustainable network of high-tech, end-to-end manufacturing solutions to ensure the medicines of today, and tomorrow, can be made quickly, safely, a...
Colonel Victor Suarez - Commander - 6th Medical Logistics Management Center - Fort Detrick, U.S. DOD
May 09, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBColonel Victor Suarez, currently serves as Commander (Chief Executive) of the 6th Medical Logistics Management Center (https://6mlmc.amedd.army.mil/), in Fort Detrick, Maryland (the U.S. Defense Department's only Medical Logistics Management Center ready to deploy in support of global and domestic operations) responsible for leading, organizing, equipping, training, maintaining, and sustaining unit subject matter expertise in medical materiel, medical maintenance and satellite communications...
Sonia Arrison - Author, Analyst, Investor, Entrepreneur - Positively Impacting Human Longevity
May 09, 2022 09:00 - 46 minutes - 31.6 MBSonia Arrison (https://soniaarrison.com/) is a best-selling author, analyst, entrepreneur, and investor. Sonia is founder of 100 Plus Capital (https://100pluscap.com/ - Investing in companies positively impacting human longevity), Chair of the Alliance for Longevity Initiatives (https://a4li.org/ - The first and only 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization founded with the goal of creating social and political action around the issues of combating age-related chronic conditions and increasing our n...
Dr. Erin Duffy, Ph.D. & Kevin Outterson, ESQ - Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (CARB-X)
April 18, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBThe Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X - https://carb-x.org/) is a global non-profit partnership accelerating antibacterial products to address drug-resistant bacteria, a leading cause of death around the world. 1.27 million deaths worldwide were attributed to resistant bacterial infections in 2019. The CARB-X portfolio is the world’s most scientifically diverse, early development pipeline of new antibiotics, vaccines, rapid diagnostics and other pr...
Dr. Peter J. Hotez - Baylor College of Medicine - Scientist, Researcher, Author, Science Explainer
April 18, 2022 23:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBDr. Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D. (https://peterhotez.org/), is Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine where he is also Chief of the Section of Pediatric Tropical Medicine and the Texas Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics . Dr. Hotez is also Rice University’s Baker Institute fellow in disease and poverty and Co-Director of Parasites Without Borders (https://parasites...
Dr. Andrew Adams, PhD - Lilly Institute for Genetic Medicine - Targeting Root Causes Of Diseases
April 18, 2022 23:00 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MBDr. Andrew Adams, Ph.D. is Vice President of Neurodegeneration Research at Eli Lilly (https://www.lilly.com/) and Co-Director of their new Lilly Institute for Genetic Medicine, a $700 million initiative to establish an institute for researching and developing genetic medicines, specifically acting at the nucleic acid level, to advance an entirely new drug class that target the root cause of diseases, an approach that is fundamentally different than medicines available today. In this role, Dr...
Dr. David Su, Ph.D. - CEO & Co-Founder, Atmosic - "Re-Architecting" Wireless & Internet-Of-Things
April 18, 2022 23:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBDr. David Su, Ph.D. (https://atmosic.com/company/leadership/) is CEO and Co-Founder of Atmosic, a fascinating company that is “re-architecting” wireless connectivity solutions from the ground up to radically reduce Internet of Things (IoT) device dependence on batteries, aiming to make batteries last forever and the Internet of Things battery free – thus breaking the power barrier to widespread IoT adoption. Dr. Su brings to Atmosic over 30 years of engineering expertise with an extensive wi...
Care For The Aging And Cognitively Impaired, Behind Bars, With Empathy & Dignity - The Gold Coats
March 24, 2022 21:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBLonger term correctional facilities, of which we have around 2,000 in the U.S., are not geared to accommodate the needs of a growing aging population. Within this aging population, we see the natural slowdown of physical mobility and cognitive processes, aging prisoners are prone to predation and humiliation, and major CNS degenerative disorders, such as early onset dementia, including Alzheimer’s Disease, is difficult to detect in this population, which is often accompanied with other menta...
Victoria Laskina-Ustimenko - Promoting Exponential Innovators Globally to Help Create A Better World
March 24, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 46.2 MBMs. Victoria Laskina-Ustimenko (https://www.instagram.com/laskinavika_2/?hl=en) is a multi-industry entrepreneur with specialization in biotechnology, cryptocurrency, fashion and capital markets, where she collaborates with a wide variety of companies across the world, providing public relations & business development services. As a distinguished young thinker from Ukraine, she graduated from Donetsk State University in Marketing, where she studied public relations. In addition to her own PR...
Dr. Kara Spiller, PhD - Immunomodulatory Biomaterials In Regenerative Medicine - Drexel University
March 24, 2022 20:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBDr. Kara Spiller, PhD (https://drexel.edu/biomed/faculty/core/SpillerKara/) is Associate Professor in the Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at Drexel University, in Philadelphia. Dr. Spiller received her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in biomedical engineering from Drexel University where she conducted her doctoral research in the design of semi-degradable hydrogels for the repair of articular cartilage in the Biomaterials and Drug Delivery Laboratory at Drexel, a...
Søren Smed Østergaard - Vice President, Digital Health - Novo Nordisk
March 24, 2022 20:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBSøren Smed Østergaard is Vice President of Digital Health globally for Novo Nordisk (https://www.novonordisk.com/), where he leads the company’s initiatives in Digital Health as well as leading the Digital Health solutions in development. Furthermore, Søren is responsible the commercial development all digital health injection & other devices in development, as well as Novo’s partner strategy, data integration and commercial development strategies with their partners. Søren is a thought lead...
Dr. Samantha Weeks, Ph.D. - Polaris Dawn - Science & Research Director
March 24, 2022 20:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBColonel (ret) Dr. Samantha "Combo" Weeks, Ph.D. is the Science & Research Director, of the Polaris Dawn Program (https://polarisprogram.com/dawn/), a planned private human spaceflight mission, operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman, planned to launch using the Crew Dragon capsule. Polaris Dawn is the first of three planned missions in the Polaris Program (https://polarisprogram.com/), which endeavors to rapidly advance human spaceflight capabilities by demonstrati...
Akshay Talati, RPh - VP, Product Development, R&I, And Regulatory, Beauty And Wellness, Goop
March 24, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBAkshay Talati, RPh, is Vice President Of Product Development, Research & Innovation, Regulatory, at the Beauty and Wellness Division of Goop (https://goop.com/), a wellness and lifestyle brand and company, founded by actress Gwyneth Paltrow, where he leads new product development and innovation for the company’s wellness and lifestyle brands. Initially trained as a Pharmacist, and then achieving a M.S. in Industrial Pharmacy at Long Island University, Akshay is a thought leader with an estab...
Dr. Douglas Willard - Game Changing Development Program, Space Technology Mission Directorate, NASA
March 24, 2022 20:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBDr. Douglas E. Willard, PhD, (https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/game_changing_development/about/program-leadership/doug-willard/) is Program Element Manager, Game Changing Development Program, Space Technology Mission Directorate, at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Game Changing Development (GCD) Program advances space technologies that may lead to entirely new approaches for the Agency’s future space missions and provide solutions to significant ...
Dr. Emilio Emini, Ph.D. - CEO - Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute
March 24, 2022 20:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MBDr. Emilio A. Emini, Ph.D. is the CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute (https://www.gatesmri.org/), a non-profit organization dedicated to the development and effective use of novel biomedical interventions addressing substantial global health concerns, for which investment incentives are limited, and he leads the Institute’s research and development of novel products and interventions for diseases disproportionately impacting the world’s most vulnerable populations. Be...