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
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Palestinian-Israeli Cooperation - Spreading Awareness Of Novel Approaches In The War On Cancer
August 27, 2021 11:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBMs. Suma Khazmo is the CEO, Senior Partner, and Co-Founder of Regal Optics and Medical Devices, which is located in Ramallah / Palestine, which focuses on importing and exporting medical devices into the Middle East and North Africa markets, and owns the Regal-Medic Ophthalmology Clinic. Ms. Khazmo is also a senior partner in Al Hajal Optics Group, a company that has a series of optometry centers in Palestine. She is also the Chairman of the Board of Al Bayader Media and Publishing Corporat...
Muhammad Rehman Shirzad - Advancing The Forensic Bio-Sciences In Afghanistan
August 27, 2021 11:00 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBMuhammad Rehman Shirzad is the Director of the Forensic DNA Laboratory, at the Directorate of Legal Medicine, and a Forensic Laboratories Consultant, at the Forensic Medicine Directorate, of the Ministry of Public Health, in Kabul, Afghanistan. His responsibilities include supervision of the Forensic DNA Lab, Forensic Analytical and Post-Mortem Toxicology Lab, Forensic Serology Lab, Forensic Microbiology Lab, and Forensic Histopathology Lab. Muhammad has his Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) i...
Regenerative Sports Medicine - Pro Boxer, Moisés Fuentes Rubio & Dr Joel Osorio, Founder, RegenerAge
August 27, 2021 11:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBOn this episode of Progress, Potential, and Possibilities, we are joined by Moisés Fuentes Rubio, Mexican pro boxer, WBO minimum weight title (2011 to 2013), WBO interim junior flyweight title (2013 to 2014), and who is currently making his professional comeback. We are also joined by Dr. Joel Osorio, the Founder of RegenerAge, a growing regenerative medical practice with locations in Mexico, specializing in a range of translational regenerative medical interventions including biologics, ...
Reversing Senescence Through The Skin - Dr. Carolina Reis, CEO & Co-Founder, OneSkin Technologies
August 27, 2021 11:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBDr. Carolina Reis Oliveria, is the CEO and Co-Founder of OneSkin Technologies, a biotechnology platform dedicated to exploring longevity science. Carolina holds her Ph.D. in Immunology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in collaboration with the Rutgers University, where she conducted research with pluripotent stem cells as a source of retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE) cells, as well as the potential of RPE-stem cells derived as toxicological models for screening of new drugs with ...
Christine Morgan, Chair / President, Lucis Trust - Spiritual Principles For A Stable World Society
August 27, 2021 11:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBThe term "Esoteric" means "intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest". The concept of the "esoteric" originated in the 2nd century with the coining of the Ancient Greek adjective esôterikós ("belonging to an inner circle") and the term "Esotericism" thus came into use in the wake of the Age of Enlightenment and of its critique of institutionalized religion. In the West, Esotericism has pervaded various forms of philosop...
Dr. Hanadie Yousef, Ph.D. Co-Founder & CEO - Juvena Therapeutics - Secretome Derived Therapies
August 27, 2021 11:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBDr. Hanadie Yousef, Ph.D. is a Scientist, Co-Founder and CEO of Juvena Therapeutics, a regenerative medicine company developing protein therapeutics to promote tissue regeneration and increase healthspan, to prevent, reverse, and cure degenerative diseases. For over 17 years, Dr. Yousef elucidated mechanisms of aging and developed methods for tissue regeneration supported by multiple awards, fellowships and grants. Her discoveries were published in top publications that include Nature Medici...
Serge Da Deppo - Founder, NATO Innovation Hub - Human Sciences Project Officer, NATO Transformation Command
August 27, 2021 11:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBSerge Da Deppo is Founder of the NATO Innovation Hub, and Human Sciences Project Officer, at NATO Transformation Command (https://www.act.nato.int/). The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 28 European countries and 2 North American countries. The organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949. NATO constitutes a system of collective security, whereby its indep...
Aaron Schacht - EVP, Innovation, Regulatory + BD, Elanco - Well-Being Of Animals, People And Planet
August 27, 2021 10:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBAaron Schacht is Executive Vice President: Innovation, Regulatory + Business Development at Elanco, an American pharmaceutical company which produces medicines and vaccinations for pets and livestock, and which until 2019, was a subsidiary of Eli Lilly and Company. Prior to this, Mr. Schacht held a role of Global Brand Development Leader – Pain in Lilly Biomedicines. He was the global leader for product development and commercialization activities for Lilly’s novel CGRP neutralizing antibody...
Ashley Llorens - VP, Distinguished Scientist & Managing Director, Microsoft Research Outreach
August 27, 2021 10:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBAshley Llorens is Vice President, Distinguished Scientist & Managing Director, at Microsoft Research Outreach, where he leads a global team to amplify the impact of research at Microsoft and to advance the cause of science and technology research around the world. His team is responsible for driving strategy and execution for Microsoft Research engagement with the rest of Microsoft and with the broader science and technology community, and they invest in high-impact collaborative research p...
Dr. Tia Rains, Ph.D., VP Customer Engagement & Strategic Development, Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition
August 27, 2021 10:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBDr. Tia Rains, Ph.D., is Vice President of Customer Engagement & Strategic Development at Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, Inc., a division of Japanese food and biotechnology Ajinomoto Corporation, which produces seasonings, cooking oils, frozen foods, beverage, sweeteners, amino acids, and pharmaceuticals. Dr. Rains has over 20 years of experience working on health and wellness initiatives within the food and beverage sector, and enjoys working at the intersection of nutrition re...
Bakary Tandia And Sean Tenner - Co-Founders, The Abolition Institute - Stopping Slavery Now!
August 27, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 45.2 MBMr. Bakary Tandia is a well-respected and dynamic human rights advocate with an extensive background in promoting human rights and social justice causes and Co-Founder of The Abolition Institute, a group working to promote awareness of, and dedicated to ending, the practice of slavery in the west African country of Mauritania. Mr. Tandia is a graduate of the Global Masters Program in International Affairs, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and holds bachelor degrees in I...
Dr. Neta Lavon, Ph.D. - CTO and Vice President of R&D - Aleph Farms - Meat For Earth (And Space)
August 27, 2021 10:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBDr. Neta Lavon is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Vice President of R&D at Aleph Farms, a cultivated meat company that is shaping the future of food by growing high-quality, slaughter-free beef steaks directly from cow cells, preserving natural resources, and avoiding the use of antibiotics. Dr. Lavon is an expert in stem cell applications in biotechnology. In her previous position as the COO of Kadimastem (KDST), she developed cell therapy products from stem cells for ALS and Diabete...
Maya Abi Chahine, Program Manager, University for Seniors, American University of Beirut
August 27, 2021 10:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBMs. Maya Abi Chahine, is Program Manager, University for Seniors, American University of Beirut - AUB. The University for Seniors is a new life-long learning initiative at AUB, the first of its kind in Lebanon and the Middle East. It gives older adults (who are 50 and above) the opportunity to share their wisdom and passion, to learn things they have always wanted to learn in a friendly academic environment and to interact socially with other seniors, AUB faculty and students. Ms. Abi Chahin...
Bjørn Haugland - Co-Founder and CEO - SKIFT Business Climate Leaders
August 13, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBBjørn Haugland is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of SKIFT Business Climate Leaders (https://www.skiftnorge.no/english), a Norwegian business-led climate initiative with a mission to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy and support the government in delivering on its national climate commitments by 2030. The coalition hopes to demonstrate, to businesses and the government, the business potential that exists in the low-carbon economy and help drive the transition. Mr. ...
Dr. James Allen - Global Health Systems Thought Leader - Health Systems Thinkers, LLC
August 13, 2021 10:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBDr. James Allen is a primary care internal medicine specialist who developed a fascinating career in international health management and leadership. Dr. Allen served in the U.S. public health service before moving to Indonesian Borneo in 1994. For the next 22 years he worked in community and occupational health across Asia, managing health teams in 14 countries. As Chevron’s Asia Pacific medical director, he led projects for TB control in Myanmar, primary care in the Philippines, Indonesia,...
Stephan Gans, SVP, Chief Consumer Insights & Analytics Officer, PepsiCo, CPG AI & Digital Technology
August 13, 2021 10:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBStephan Gans is Senior Vice President, Chief Consumer Insights and Analytics Officer at PepsiCo, where he leads the company’s focus on better understanding emotional motivations, anticipating consumer behaviors, strengthening customer connections and driving overall business growth. Prior to joining PepsiCo, Stephan was the chief strategy officer for Interbrand North America, overseeing North American and Global practices. Before joining Interbrand, Stephan was co-owner and CEO of the globa...
Dr. Dennis McKenna - Founder, McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy - A 21st Century Mystery School
August 13, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 46.6 MBDr. Dennis McKenna is an American ethnopharmacologist, research pharmacognosist, lecturer, author, and Founder of the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy (www.mckenna.academy). Dr. McKenna is a founding board member and the director of ethnopharmacology at the Heffter Research Institute, a non-profit organization concerned with the investigation of the potential therapeutic uses of psychedelic medicines. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the American Botanical Council; as Founder an...
Dr. Daniel Ives, Ph.D. - Founder and CEO - Shift Bioscience Ltd. - Driver Clocks And Longevity
August 13, 2021 10:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBDr. Daniel Ives, Ph.D. is Founder and CEO of Shift Bioscience Ltd. (https://shiftbioscience.com), a biotech company making drugs for cellular rejuvenation in humans through the application of machine-learning 'driver' clocks to cellular reprogramming, and is the scientific founder who first discovered the gene shifting targets upon which the Shift drug discovery platform is based. Dr. Ives graduated from Imperial College with a degree in biochemistry and gained his PhD in 2013 working at the...
Dr. Ingo Rauth, Ph.D. - Founder, The School of Becoming - Fellow of The Modern Elder Academy (MEA)
August 04, 2021 20:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBDr. Ingo Rauth, is the Founder and Career Purpose Coach, of The School of Becoming, a learning platform focused on purpose-led professional development, supporting individuals and organizations on the path from paycheck to purpose. Dr. Rauth is also an Adjunct Professor in Design and Innovation Management at IE business School in Madrid, Spain. Dr. Rauth's current research is focused on facilitating innovation capabilities in large organizations to improve their innovation efforts. Dr. Raut...
Dr. Bonnie Offit, MD - Pediatrician - Digital And Tele-Health Advocate - Pet Therapy Entrepreneur
August 04, 2021 20:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBDr. Bonnie Offit, MD is the Chief Digital Health Officer at the technology company Self Care Decisions which has an innovative online medical symptom tracker and triage system which helps healthcare organizations provide self care decision content to their patients, plan members and communities. Dr. Offit also recently served as Clinical Advisor in Digital Health, at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Dr Offit has been a general pediatrician in both primary and urgent care settings ...
Christina Hunger - Hunger for Words - Interspecies Communication - How Stella Learned To Talk
August 04, 2021 20:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBChristina Hunger is a speech pathologist and the creator of Hunger for Words, which is working at the fascinating intersection of animal psychology, speech pathology, and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). Christina is known for her groundbreaking work in being the first person to teach her dog Stella to talk using a customized communication device and speech therapy techniques. Christina has a B.A. in Psychology from Case Western Reserve University and a graduate degree in s...
Sergey Young - Founder, Longevity Vision Fund - Longevity Venture Partner, BOLD Capital Partners
August 04, 2021 19:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBSergey Young (https://sergeyyoung.com/) is a longevity investor, visionary, and author, with a mission to help one billion people extend their healthy lifespans by making longevity affordable and accessible for everyone. As part of this mission, he is the Founder of the Longevity Vision Fund (LVF - https://lvf.vc/), a $100 Million venture capital fund that invests in technologies with the potential to disrupt life sciences and healthcare to help people live longer and healthier lives. Sergey...
Dr Spring Behrouz, PhD - Mitophagy, CNS Disorders, And Aging - CEO, Vincere Bio / NeuroInitiative
August 04, 2021 19:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBDr. Bahareh (Spring) Behrouz, PhD, is the CEO of Vincere Biosciences Inc (https://vincerebio.com/), a biotech company focused on developing novel, small molecule therapeutics targeting mitochondrial pathways and the improvement of mitochondrial quality. Dr. Behrouz is also the CEO of NeuroInitiative, LLC (https://www.neuroinitiative.com/), a computational biology company she co-founded in 2014, which develops simulations of disease using their patented software platform. A core focus of her ...
Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, Founder / President, Amazon Biodiversity Center - Snr. Fellow, United Nations Fnd
August 04, 2021 19:00 - 37 minutes - 25.4 MBDr. Thomas Lovejoy, is an innovative conservation biologist, who is Founder and President of the non-profit Amazon Biodiversity Center, the renowned Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, and the person who coined the term “biological diversity”. Dr. Lovejoy currently serves as Professor in the department of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University, and as a senior fellow at the United Nations Foundation based in Washington, DC. Dr. Lovejoy has also served as th...
Dr. Vicki Fishlock - Amboseli Trust for Elephants - Conservation And Welfare Of Africa’s Elephants
August 04, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 43 MBDr. Vicki Fishlock Ph.D. is a Resident Scientist, at The Amboseli Trust for Elephants (https://www.elephanttrust.org/), an organization that aims to ensure the long-term conservation and welfare of Africa’s elephants in the context of human needs and pressures, through scientific research, training, community outreach, public awareness and advocacy, and which is involved in the longest-running study of wild elephants in the world. Dr. Fishlock joined The Amboseli Trust for Elephants (ATE) in...
Dr. Jean M. Hebert, Ph.D. - Replacing Aging - Albert Einstein College of Medicine
August 04, 2021 19:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBDr. Jean M. Hebert, Ph.D. (https://einsteinmed.org/faculty/9069/...) is Professor in the Department of Genetics and in the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He’s also the author of the book Replacing Aging, which describes how regenerative medicine will beat aging. With a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Hebert's current lab’s projects fall into two groups. First, they focus on using the mouse neocor...
Kazuhiro Gomi & Dr. Joe Alexander - Bio-Digital Twins, Quantum Computing, Precision Medicine - NTT Research
August 04, 2021 19:00 - 47 minutes - 32.3 MBMr. Kazuhiro Gomi, is President and CEO of NTT Research (https://ntt-research.com/), a division of The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, commonly known as NTT (https://www.global.ntt/), a Japanese telecommunications company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Mr. Gomi has been at NTT for more than 30 years and was involved in product management/product development activities at the beginning of his tenure. In September of 2009, Mr. Gomi was first named to the Global Telecoms Business Po...
Lisa Gable - Chief Executive Officer - Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE)
August 04, 2021 19:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBLisa Gable is the Chief Executive Officer, of Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE - https://www.foodallergy.org), an organization with a mission to improve the quality of life and the health of 85 million Americans with food allergies and food intolerances, including 32 million of those are at risk for life-threatening anaphylaxis, and to provide them hope through the promise of new treatments. To date FARE has turned over $100 million in donor gifts into ground-breaking research and has...
Stephanie Smith - Director, Humanitarian & Development, Mastercard
August 04, 2021 19:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBStephanie Smith is a Director, in the Humanitarian & Development group, at Mastercard (https://www.mastercard.us), the American multinational financial services corporation. Stephanie is responsible for operations of the Humanitarian & Development group at Mastercard, and ensuring the team’s efficient, consistent, and effective delivery against their vision to provide digital tools and access for education, health, commerce, and other critical services for marginalized individuals and commun...
Barry Dean, CEO, LUCI - Making Power Wheelchairs Smarter
August 04, 2021 19:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBBarry Dean is an award-winning songwriter turned smart wheelchair technology company founder. As CEO of LUCI (https://luci.com/), a company re-imagining mobility for power wheelchairs, Barry sets the strategic vision and leads the company towards its goal of providing security, stability and connectivity for power wheelchairs. He founded the company with his brother, Jered, in 2017 with hopes of building a smarter solution for his daughter Katherine and all power wheelchair riders. Barry has...
Mandy Sellars - Chairperson, GoPI3Ks - Rare Disease Patient Advocate; Fundraiser For Care / Research
July 19, 2021 13:00 - 38 minutes - 26.1 MBMandy Sellars is the Chairperson of GoPI3Ks charity, which is focused on people with PIK3CA related overgrowth spectrum (PROS), an umbrella term for a group of very rare syndromes characterized by malformations and tissue overgrowth, caused by somatic mutations in PIK3CA gene. PIK3CA stands for phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate 3-kinase, catalytic sub-unit alpha, a gene that encodes a lipid kinase involved in multiple signaling pathways, influencing cellular functions such as growth, de...
Dr. Sean Guillory - Booz Allen Hamilton - Cognitive Neuroscience And Robotics For National Security
July 19, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 47.8 MBDr. Sean Guillory, Ph.D. is Senior Robotics Process Automation Developer, at Booz Allen Hamilton, the U.S. management and information technology consulting firm. Dr. Guillory went to Dartmouth College where he received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Cognitive Neuroscience, followed by Postdoctoral Research at MD Anderson Cancer Center where he worked on mapping behavior and cognitive functions in brain tumor patients in order to protect the basic functions of the brain during neurosurg...
Carole Fisher - President, National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation
July 19, 2021 13:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MBCarole Fisher is President for the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI), where utilizing her experience and deep familiarity with not-for-profit community-based hospice and palliative healthcare, she is charged with leading a wide range of activities for the membership organization, including developing strategic partnerships, meaningful collaborations and transformational innovations, amongst the nations’ most notable and distinguished end of life healthcare org...
Siva Balu - VP / Chief Information Officer - YMCA of the U.S.A. - People, Potential, & Purpose
July 19, 2021 13:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBMr. Siva Balu is Vice President and Chief Information Officer of YMCA of the U.S. (Y-USA), where he is working to rethink and reorganize the work of the organization’s information technology strategy to meet the changing needs of Y-USA and Ys throughout the country. The YMCA is a leading nonprofit committed to strengthening community by connecting all people to their potential, purpose and each other, with a focus on empowering young people, improving health and well-being and inspiring act...
Dr Veronica Rodriguez-Bravo PhD - Nuclear Pore Complexes - Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Philadelphia
July 19, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBDr. Veronica Rodriguez-Bravo, PhD, is Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, in Philadelphia, PA, USA. (https://sidneykimmelcancercenter.jeff...) Dr. Rodriguez-Bravo obtained her PhD in Pathology and Cell Biology (Summa Cum Laude) from the University of Barcelona in 2007, where she also received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award for her studies on the distinct DNA replication checkpoint mechanisms of tumor cells. Du...
Dr. Andrei Gudkov, PhD - The Retrobiome, Cancer, And Aging - Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Ctr
July 19, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBDr Andrei Gudkov, PhD, DSci, is a preeminent cancer researcher who serves as Senior Vice President, Research Technology and Innovation, Chair of the Department of Cell Stress Biology, and a member of the senior leadership team for National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Center Support Grant at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (https://www.roswellpark.org/andrei-gu...). Dr. Gudkov is responsible for building on the basic and translational research strengths of the Cell Stress Biology p...
Dr. Helene Gayle - President / CEO, Chicago Community Trust - Health, Equity and Economic Growth
July 19, 2021 12:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBDr. Helene D. Gayle, MD, MPH, is President and CEO of The Chicago Community Trust (CCT), one of the nation’s oldest and largest community foundations, and under her leadership, CCT has adopted a new strategic focus on closing the racial and ethnic wealth gap in the Chicago region. An expert on global development, humanitarian, and health issues, for almost a decade, Dr. Gayle was president and CEO of CARE, a leading international humanitarian organization, and prior to that spent 20 years w...
Dr. Matt Kaeberlein - Founder / Co-Director, Dog Aging Project - Professor, University of Washington
July 19, 2021 12:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBDr. Matt Kaeberlein is Professor of Pathology, Adjunct Professor of Genome Sciences, and Adjunct Professor of Oral Health Sciences, at the University of Washington. Dr. Kaeberlein received his PhD from MIT in Biology, did his post-doc in the Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, and his research interests are focused on basic mechanisms of aging in order to facilitate translational interventions that promote healthspan and improve quality of life. Dr. Kaeberlein has publi...
Dr. Charles Brenner Ph.D. - City of Hope - NAD Coenzymes, Metabolic Stress, And Novel Interventions
July 19, 2021 12:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBDr. Charles Brenner Ph.D. is the Alfred E Mann Family Foundation Chair in Diabetes and Cancer Metabolism, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Diabetes & Cancer Metabolism, at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center (https://www.cityofhope.org/faculty/ch...). With his Ph.D. in Cancer Biology from Stanford University, Dr. Brenner’s laboratory focuses on disturbances in nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), the central catalyst of metabolism, in diseases and conditions of metab...
Dr Sakhrat Khizroev PhD - Nano-Magnetics For Wireless Brain-Computer Interfaces & Precision Medicine
July 19, 2021 12:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBDr. Sakhrat Khizroev is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the College of Engineering of the University of Miami, with a secondary appointment at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Miller School of Medicine. Dr Khizroev's laboratory conducts research on nano-magnetics and spintronics applications ranging from energy-efficient information processing to precision medicine. From 2011 to 2018, he was a Professor (tenured) of Electrical and Computer En...
Howard Leonhardt - Founder, Leonhardt Ventures - Bioelectrics & Biologics For Regeneration & Healing
July 19, 2021 12:00 - 49 minutes - 34 MBHoward Leonhardt is the Founder of Leonhardt Ventures, the world’s first Innovation Accelerator focused on the convergence of bioelectrics & biologics for organ regeneration and tissue healing. Howard is an accomplished inventor and serial entrepreneur, with 21 U.S. patents, over 100 patent claims for products for treating cardiovascular disease, and has over 40 new patent claims pending. His TALENT (Taheri-Leonhardt) stent graft, developed in the early 1990′s, holds a leading world market ...
Dr. Maria Millan, MD - President and CEO - California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)
July 19, 2021 12:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBDr. Maria Millan, MD, is the President and CEO of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM - https://www.cirm.ca.gov/), an organization that was created in 2004 when voters initially approved a state Proposition which allocated US$3 billion to fund this fascinating area of medicine, and which recently received an additional US$5.5 billion in renewed funding. Dr. Millan is a physician-scientist who has devoted her career to treating and developing innovative solutions for chil...
Dr. Christopher Cifelli, Ph.D. - VP of Nutrition Research - National Dairy Council
July 19, 2021 12:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBDr. Christopher Cifelli Ph.D. is Vice President of Nutrition Research at National Dairy Council where he oversees the Dairy and Public Health research platform, the goal of which is to provide scientific evidence that can be used to protect and promote dairy in public policy. Dr. Cifelli is responsible for the strategic planning, development, and management of dairy-centric research on chronic disease risk, childhood nutrition, CDC’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey related ...
Dr Aboubacar Kampo, MD - Director of Health Programs - UNICEF - Innovation Investment For The Future
July 19, 2021 12:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MBDr. Aboubacar Kampo, MD, MPH is the Director of Health Programs at UNICEF (UN Headquarters) where he provides strategic leadership, management support and overall direction to UNICEF’s global health program. UNICEF, also known as the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund, is a United Nations agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide. The agency is among the most widespread and recognizable social welfare organizations in the world, with a p...
Dr Carolini Kaid, PhD - Co-Founder & CSO - Vyro Bio - Oncolytic Viruses For Drug Resistant Cancers
July 19, 2021 12:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBDr. Carolini Kaid, Ph.D. is the Co-Founder & CSO at Vyro Biotherapeutics (https://en.vyrobio.com/), a Brazilian biotechnology company focused on developing cancer-killing, or ‘oncolytic’ viruses (OVs) designed to target pediatric and adult brain cancer. Dr. Kaid is also a Postdoctoral Fellow at Center for Human Genome and Stem Cell Studies, at The University of São Paulo (USP), a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, which is the largest Brazilian public university and the c...
Dr. Anil Achyuta - TDK Ventures - Founding Member - Deep-Tech Healthcare And Energy Investments
May 26, 2021 23:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBDr. Anil Achyuta is an Investment Director and a Founding Member at TDK Ventures, which is a deep-tech corporate venture fund of TDK Corporation, the Japanese multinational electronics company that manufactures electronic materials, electronic components, and recording and data-storage media. Anil is passionate about energy and healthcare sectors as he believes these are the most impactful areas to building a sustainable future – a mission directly in line with TDK Ventures’ goal. At TDK Ve...
Dr Lydia Kostopoulos PhD - Special Ops / National Security Emerging Tech - Fashion, AI And Longevity
May 26, 2021 23:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBDr. Lydia Kostopoulos is a Science and Emerging Technology advisor at the U.S. Joint Special Operations University, and previously served as Innovation Advisor for the USSOCOM J5 Donovan Group, where she analyzed strategic trends relevant to Special Operations in the context of emerging technologies. The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM or SOCOM) is the unified combatant command charged with overseeing the various special operations component commands of the Army, Marine Cor...
Jan Klerken - Founder, Scelta Mushrooms BV - Innovating In Taste, Health, And Sustainability
May 26, 2021 23:00 - 47 minutes - 33 MBScelta Mushrooms BV is an innovative food company, located in Venlo, Netherlands, which processes mushrooms to make a portfolio of mushroom, and mushroom derived products, that are fresh, frozen, or preserved, for distribution to the food industry, food suppliers, and food retailers around the world. Scelta has grown to a group of six production facilities, with products exported to over 80 countries worldwide, and is widely recognized as one of the world’s most innovative mushroom companie...
Dr. Natasha Bajema - Dir., Converging Risks Lab, Council on Strategic Risks - WMD Threat Reduction
May 26, 2021 22:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBDr. Natasha Bajema, is a subject matter expert in nuclear nonproliferation, cooperative threat reduction and WMD terrorism, and currently serves as Director of the Converging Risks Lab, at The Council on Strategic Risks, a nonprofit, non-partisan security policy institute devoted to anticipating, analyzing and addressing core systemic risks to security in the 21st century, with special examination of the ways in which these risks intersect and exacerbate one another. The Converging Risks La...
Dr. Jonathan Chernoff, MD, PhD - Senior VP, Deputy Director, and CSO - Fox Chase Cancer Center
May 26, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBDr. Jonathan Chernoff, MD, PhD, is Senior Vice President, Deputy Director, and Chief Scientific Officer, at Fox Chase Cancer Center (https://www.foxchase.org/) where he coordinates and charts the future course of research for the organization. The Hospital of Fox Chase Cancer Center and its affiliates (collectively “Fox Chase Cancer Center”), a member of the Temple University Health System, is one of the leading cancer research and treatment centers in the United States. Founded in 1904 in P...