Podcast Episodes

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 9 months 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 9 months, 2 weeks ago

Rachael Bedard: A Geriatric Physician and Champion for Patients Without a Voice

Above is a brief video snippet from our conversation. Full videos of all Ground Truths podcasts can be seen on YouTube here. The audios are also available on Apple and Spotify.

Transcript with links t…

Published on 10 months ago

Katerina Akassoglou: Blood Clots, Brain Inflammation, and Covid

Superimposed on an impressive body of work on the blood-brain-barrier and immune system, Prof Akassoglou and her collaborators just published an elegant study in Nature that centered on the direct bi…

Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Patrick Hsu: A Trailblazer in Digital Biology

When I think of digital biology, I think of Patrick Hsu—he’s the prototype, a rarified talent in both life and computer science, who recently led the team that discovered bridge RNAs, what may be con…

Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago

AI Snake Oil—A New Book by 2 Princeton University Computer Scientists

Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor are well regarded computer scientists at Princeton University and have just published a book with a provocative title, AI Snake Oil. Here I’ve interviewed Sayash an…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

Francis Collins: On Truth, Science, Faith and Trust

Francis Collins is a veritable national treasure. He directed the National Institutes of Health from 2009 to 2021. Prior to that he led the National Human Genetics Research Institute (NHGRI) from 199…

Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Joseph Allen: The Pivotal Importance of Air Quality, Ventilation and Exposures (Such as "Forever Chemicals") For Our Health

Professor Joseph Allen directs the Healthy Buildings Program at Harvard Chan School of Public Health. His expertise extends far beyond what makes buildings healthy. He has been a leading voice and ad…

Published on 1 year ago

Steve Horvath: Our Epigenetic Age Clocks

Steve Horvath made the seminal discovery of the—Horvath Clock— an epigenetic clock based on DNA methylation, which is now being used extensively in medical research and offered commercially for indiv…

Published on 1 year ago

Pradeep Natarajan: Preventing Heart Disease

Pradeep is a brilliant geneticist and Director of Preventive Cardiology, holds the Paul & Phyllis Fireman Endowed Chair in Vascular Medicine at Mass General Hospital and on faculty at Harvard Medical…

Published on 1 year ago