Latest "biotech Podcast Episodes
Episode 19-37 Smart Cities, Smart Doctors, Smart Security, Smart Drug Design
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - September 28, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with it’s all about data – who’s collecting it, and why, and how it can serve us, and maybe not. Lee Omar from Red Ninja talks about smart cities around the world, and the art of listening before you build. Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent...
Episode 19-37 Shrewd Samaritan in a Connected World
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - September 13, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with USF professor and development economist Bruce Wydick about “Shrewd Samaritan - Faith, Economics, and the Road to Loving Our Global Neighbor”. Which poverty intervention programs work, and which don’t? Then the global health challenge of the...
Episode 19-36 Your Mind Needs Motion
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - September 07, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with UC San Francisco professor Dr. Louise Aronson talks about a new stage of life: Elderhood, – Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimaging Life. With modern technology, it lasts longer than anyone imagined. Also, Tech Nation Health Chie...
Episode 19-34 What Motivates the People Driving Biotech
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - August 21, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with the committed people who lead the biotech industry. Physician-entrepreneur Dr. Jeremy Levin chairs BIO, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, and also works on the rare disease Angelman Syndrome at Ovid Therapeutics. Jim Greenwood, the...
Episode 19-33 Talking to Robots – Future and Imagined
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - August 15, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Tech Nation’s former biotech correspondent David Ewing Duncan about his new book - “Talking to Robots: Tales from Our Human Robot Future.” Then Dr. Daniel Kraft tells us how robotics are replacing surgeons, and McAfee’s Gary Davis, expands o...
Episode 19-31 Predicting Weather – Data, Computers, and Your Smartphone
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - August 02, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with the people who predict the weather - Todd Hutchinson, the Director of Numerical Weather Prediction at The Weather Company, and Cameron Clayton, the General Manager of Watson Media & Weather. And another question – what’s in the food we eat? A...
Episode 19-30 PERFORMANCE – improving physically
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - July 25, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Surgeon Dr. Justin Barad, the co-founder and CEO of Osso VR. They help surgeons to learn new medical techniques better. And another MD, Dr. Daniel Chao co-founded Halo Neuroscience to improve any activity requiring repetitive motion – from a...
Episode 19-29 PAIN – When You Feel It, and When You Can’t
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - July 19, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with we’re talking about pain. Podiatric surgeon Dr. David Armstrong, a Professor of Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine at USC, and Davide Vigano, CEO of Sensoria, talk about the long term effect of diabetes on the feet, and how to prevent an...
Episode 19-27 Info We Trust?
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - July 12, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with data storyteller RJ Andrews, the author, “Info We Trust: How to Inspire the World with Data.” Then on Tech Nation Health, Ali Fattay, the CEO of Curis, talks about moving cancer treatments from the most common method - infusions - to pills. A...
Episode 19-26 Is Elon Musk More Important Than Steve Jobs?
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - July 05, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with New Zealand journalist, Hamish McKenzie about his book: “Insane Mode – How Elon Musk’s Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil”. Then, testing for Alzheimer’s Disease long before any outward symptoms appear. Carlo Medici, C...
Episode 19-25 Pencil and Paper – the Tech of Choice
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - June 26, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dan Roam, the founder of The Napkin Academy and author of “Draw To Win”. And on Tech Nation Health, a new model for addressing genetically-driven diseases affecting a small number of patients. Neil Kumar is the CEO of Bridge Bio. And Chief Co...
Episode 19-25 All that personal medical data
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - June 20, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Dr. Eric Schadt, the Founder & CEO of Sema4 talks about the explosion of personal medical information, and how it could work for us in the future. Then on Tech Nation Health, work on a vaccine to treat Alzheimer’s … and potentially prevent it. Dr. Ajay Verma, ...
Episode 19-24 Zombies … again
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - June 15, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Wired science journalist Matt Simon and his book: “Plight of the Living Dead: What Real-Life Zombies Reveal About Our World – and Ourselves”. Who’s a parasite? Who’s a host to a parasite? And who might be controlled by one? Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Co...
Episode 19-23 Technology and Iron – from the Middle Ages to modern France
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - June 06, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Jean-Jacques Augagneur, CEO of Lacanche, and Chef Patrick Boisjot, the Director of Export. It’s a story of technology and iron - from the Middle Ages through the French Revolution and the Industrial Age up until today - a “bespoke” French sto...
Episode 19-22 How To Do Nothing (There’s NO App for That!)
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - May 31, 2019 14:01 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Jenny Odell, the author of “How to Do Nothing – Resisting the Attention Economy.” Then Tech Nation Chief Correspondent Daniel Kraft tells us about the World Health Organization’s new goals for technology. And Tech Nation regulator contributor, Gary Davis, Chie...
Episode 19-21 Why Is There a Climate Debate? (It’s Not Science)
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - May 22, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, how we came to question climate change. To even question the science. What’s it all about? Nathaniel Rich, journalist and author of “Losing Earth: A Recent History”, explains. Then Tech Nation Chief Correspondent Daniel Kraft talks about the age of the medical...
Episode 19-20 Tech and the Future of Suburbs and Cities
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - May 16, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Peter Calthorpe, co-founder of Urban Footprint, who focuses on sustainable urban growth and planning, and the author of “Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change”.
Episode 19-19 The Tech of Spycraft in Occupied France
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - May 10, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, journalist Sonia Purnell talks about the spycraft of Virginia Hall, an American in Occupied France during World War II. Her book is called “A Woman of No Importance.” Then Dr. John Haurum (ha-RUMM) from F-Star in Cambridge, England describes their approach to ...
Episode 19-18 The Snow Leopards Of War Torn Afghanistan
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - May 01, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Dr. Alex Dehgan joins Moira to talk about “The Snow Leopard Project … and other Adventures in Warzone Conservation”. And we’ll from Tech Nation regular contributor, Gary Davis, the Chief Consumer Security Evangelist at McAfee – phishing is more than just an in...
Episode 19-17 The Advantages of “Unsafe Thinking”
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - April 24, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Fast Company columnist Jonah Sachs. His book is “Unsafe Thinking: How to Be Nimble and Bold When You Need It Most”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Dr. Tom Lowery from T2 Biosystems – their part in fighting life-threatening Sepsis. And David Domzalski from Foamix...
Episode 19-15 Using Tech for Social Change
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - April 19, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Ann Mei Chang, the Executive Director of Lean Impact, before a live audience at the Women in Leadership and Philanthropy Symposium at the University of San Francisco. Her book is “Lean Impact … How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good”. And Jerry She...
Episode 19-14 Beyond Moonshots? There’s Loonshots!
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - April 10, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Science/Tech entrepreneur Safi Bahcall. He’s written “Loonshots … How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas that win wars, cure diseases, and transform industries.” And French biotech - Sensorion Pharmaceuticals. Its president and CEO, Nawal Ouzren, tells us about making...
Episode 19-14 The Reading Brain in the Digital World
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - April 03, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, cognitive scientist Maryanne Wolf and her book: “Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World”. Then on Tech Nation Health, neuroscientist Dr. Mark Gurney, CEO of Tetra Discovery Partners, talks treatments for such challenges as Fragile X Syndrome,...
Episode 19-13 Cybersecurity and the New Technologies
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - April 03, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Mikko Hyppönen, the Chief Research Officer at F-Secure. Cybersecurity in the world today, as well as Hypponen’s Law. Then, the new approach taken with first Post-Partum depression drug. Dr. Jeff Jonas, the CEO of Sage Therapeutics, tells us how it just may wo...
Episode 19-12 Part II – Chernobyl – Then and Now...
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - March 20, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, historian and MIT professor Kate Brown talks about “Manual for Survival … A Chernobyl Guide to the Future”. She looks at the long term impact of Chernobyl – on humans, on the environment, on the politics of governments with nuclear capabilities, and even on in...
Episode 19-11 Part I – Chernobyl: Then and Now
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - March 13, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, part I of a two-part series on Chernobyl: Then and Now. Journalist Adam Higginbotham, author of “Midnight in Chernobyl”, recounts what exactly happened at the time of the accident. Later in the show, Vincent Keunen, the Founder and CEO of Andaman7, describes a...
Episode 19-10 Guy Kawasaki – Lessons from a Life
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - March 06, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Guy Kawasaki, the chief evangelist for Canva, and former chief evangelist of Apple, looks back on his life in “Wise Guy … Lessons from a Life”. Then Pat Condo, CEO of NTENT, describes how our world is changing now that we can speak to the tech around us. Helen...
Episode 19-09 What about the Humans in Self-Driving Cars?
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - March 01, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsMichael Shermer about “Heavens on Earth – The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia.” Then on Tech Nation Health, Carl Ware from the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, talks about their research into viruses, cancer and autoimmune diseases.
Episode 19-08 What about the Humans in Self-Driving Cars?
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - February 20, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks Andrew Poliak, Vice President for Strategy and Innovation at Panasonic Automotive Systems America, about the human experience within self-driving cars, as well as cars of the future. Also, Gary Davis, the Chief Consumer Security Evangelist at McAf...
Episode 19-07 Predicting Weather – Data, Computers, and All of Us
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast - February 13, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with the people who predict the weather - Todd Hutchinson, the Director of Numerical Weather Prediction at The Weather Company, and Cameron Clayton, the General Manager of Watson Media & Weather. And another question – what’s in the food we eat? A...
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