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Carolina Aguilar: Brain-Computer Interfaces that Heal Neural Circuits
Episode 42
Brain-computer interfaces have gained widespread attention largely for assistive applications, but Carolina Aguilar sees their greatest potential in …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Matthew Rabinowitz: Engineering a New Era of Diagnosis
Episode 41
Matthew Rabinowitz, PhD, moved from engineering to medicine after his Human Genome Project work, motivated by both scientific insight and personal lo…
5 months ago
Jurgi Camblong: Data-Driven Doctors Without Borders
Episode 40
Precision medicine promises individualized care through data, but progress remains fragmented. Clinical, genomic, and imaging data are siloed, limiti…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Molly Gibson: Superintelligence and the Future of Drug Development
Episode 39
As an Origination Partner at Flagship Pioneering, Molly Gibson, PhD, co-founded her first company, Generate:Biomedicines, in 2018, where she made her…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Mike Curtis: Pig Organs as a Bridge to Human Transplants
Episode 38
Xenotransplantation has long been a scientifically promising but ethically complex field, overshadowed by its limited practicality despite the growin…
6 months, 1 week ago
Markus Warmuth: Eliminating Pathogenic Proteins with Molecular Glue Degraders
Episode 37
Traditional drugs usually inhibit specific protein sites, but many disease-causing proteins lack accessible or unique motifs, leaving them “undruggab…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Alicia Zhou: The Dark Matter for Cancer Immunotherapy Translation
Episode 36
Cancer Research Institute CEO Alicia Zhou, PhD, traces her path from teenage lab technician to leader in cancer immunotherapy. Trained at MIT and Dan…
7 months, 1 week ago
Brad Ringeisen: CRISPR for Disease Elimination and Humanitarian Solutions
Episode 35
CRISPR has crossed a turning point, evolving from an experimental tool into a platform delivering FDA-approved therapies and on-demand patient treatm…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Zachary Roberts: Building a Viable Off-the-Shelf CAR T
Episode 34
Cancer immunotherapy evolved through decades of research, with watershed moments like checkpoint inhibitor approvals and the first CAR T trial result…
8 months, 1 week ago
Boyang Wang: Organ Swaps and Mass Preventative Gene Therapy to Extend Lifespan
Episode 33
Geroscience sits between hype and skepticism, with headlines swinging from dubious mouse-life supplements to ethically distant fantasies like organ o…
9 months ago