Podcast Episodes

Steve Quake and Charlotte Bunne: The Holy Grail of Biology

“Eventually, my dream would be to simulate a virtual cell.”—Demis Hassabis

The aspiration to build the virtual cell is considered to be equivalent to a moonshot for digital biology. Recently, 42 leadi…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Katelyn Jetelina: Public health in the US

Thank you Katelyn Jetelina, Andy Meyers, Tracy Paeschke, MD, FACC, Bruce Lanphear, Tay MacIntyre, and many others for tuning into my live video with Katelyn Jetelina! Join me for my next live video i…

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Anna Greka: Molecular Sleuthing for Rare Diseases

Funding for the NIH and US biomedical research is imperiled at a momentous time of progress. Exemplifying this is the work of Dr. Anna Greka, a leading physician-scientist at the Broad Institute who …

Published on 8 months, 4 weeks ago

Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

Before getting into this new podcast, have you checked out the recent newsletter editions and podcasts of Ground Truths?

—the first diagnostic immunome

—a Covid nasal vaccine update

—medical storytellin…

Published on 9 months, 1 week ago

Emily Silverman: Storytelling, Uncertainty, and Humanity in Medicine

Before getting into this new podcast, have you checked out the recent newsletter editions of Ground Truths?

—how are gut microbiome drives sugar cravings

—the influence of sleep on brain waste clearanc…

Published on 9 months, 4 weeks ago

Lotte Bjerre Knudsen: The Scientist Who Drove GLP-1 Drugs For Obesity and Alzheimer's

The Chief Scientific Advisor at Novo Nordisk, Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, was the key force who pushed hard to develop GLP-1 drugs for treating obesity and subsequently for Alzheimer’s. She was recently re…

Published on 11 months ago

Ardem Patapoutian: The Pervasive PIEZO Channels

Piezo touch and pressure-sensing ion channels are showing up everywhere as the explanation for physiologic phenomena, both at the macro and micro levels. Ardem Patapoutian, my friend and colleague at…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

Mark Cuban: A Master Disrupter for American Healthcare

American healthcare is well known for its extreme cost and worst outcomes among industrialized (such as the 38 OECD member) countries, and beyond that to be remarkably opaque. The high cost of prescr…

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Kevin Hall: What Should We Eat?

A leader for conducting rigorous randomized trials of humans along with animal models for understanding nutrition and metabolism, Dr. Kevin Hall is a Senior Investigator at the National Institutes of…

Published on 1 year ago

The Glaucomfleckens: The Best in Medical Comedy

Below is a brief video snippet from our conversation. Full videos of all Ground Truths podcasts can be seen on YouTube here. The current one is here. If you like the YouTube format, please subscribe!…

Published on 1 year ago