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Welcome to BIOTECH NATION !!! With understandable interviews requiring no background in science, BTN attracts a wide global audience. From everyday people looking for hope in treatments in development, to bioentrepreneurs interested in the experience of their fellow travelers, to venture capitalists looking for possibilities in cutting-edge breakthroughs, to scientists simply interested in the work of others, BioTech Nation is the voice of human endeavor, driving science to new realities for ...
BioTech Nation Radio with Dr Moira Gunn
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One Company, Two Different Drugs - It's All About Glucose - Too Much and Too Little! Nevan Charles Elam, Founder & CEO, Rezolute
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Glucose is essential for life. And the insulin we produce is designed to leave just the right of amount in our bodies for healthy functioning. Thus, when we underproduce insulin - or we overproduce it - the results can be devastating. Nevan Charles Elam, Founder and CEO of Rezolute, tells us about their work to treat the “diabetic eye condition”, D…
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Hand Foot Skin Reaction - A Painful Chemotherapy Side Effect - Could There Be a Treatment?? Dr. Mike McCullar, CEO of OnQuality Pharmaceuticals
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A side effect of chemotherapy, where hands and feet may be raw, painful, and immobilized. With no current treatment, a new candidate has just finished Phase II clinical trials. We’ll hear from Dr. Michael McCullar, the CEO of OnQuality Pharmaceuticals.Moira Gunn
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Can the Mapping of Human Biology Lead to Better Drugs? Dr. Chris Gibson, the co-founder and CEO of Recursion Pharmaceuticals
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Dr. Chris Gibson, the co-founder and CEO of Recursion Pharmaceuticals in Salt Lake City. We talk about their efforts to map ALL of human biology, and how this mapping will lead to better drugs.Moira Gunn
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Has Medtech Excluded Persons of Color & Women?? Dr. Patrice Matchaba President, Novartis US Foundation
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Dr. Patrice Matchaba, the President of the Novartis US Foundation, shows us how medical technology can create systemic racism, both in the medical field and in human clinical trials.Moira Gunn
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Safe NON-OPIOID Pain Relief - Is It Possible? Dr. Hernan Bazan, Co-Fdr & CEO, South Rampart Pharma
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The next generation of pain relief – non-opioid pain relief - with the goal of being equally powerful pain relief without addiction. Dr Hernan Bazan is the Co-Founder & CEO of South Rampart Pharma in New Orleans.Moira Gunn
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Dr. Seth Lederman, Co-Founder and CEO of Tonix Pharmaceuticals, tells us that Long Covid may be related to Fibromyalgia. Now recruiting in advanced Human Clinical Trials ... www.tonixpharma.comMoira Gunn
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Even Saturday Night Live couldn’t resist the story of a “genetics engineering company” trying to de-extinct the dodo bird. Blue Water Vaccines, founder and CEO Joe Hernandez tells us about his early quest to develop a universal flu vaccine, bringing him face-to-face – so to speak – with the Oxford Dodo. And of course, he funds decoding its DNA.…
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Bolt Biotherapeutics’ Dr. Randy Schatzman talks about the role of myeloid cells in teaching our immune systems to recognize tumors in our own bodies and then eliminate them. Nearly two dozen forms of HER2-related cancers are being studied. (16 mins)Moira Gunn
Dr. Robert Coleman, the Co-Founder and CEO of Codagenix, shows us how to precisely engineer viruses to be effective vaccines, which can be delivered nasally – you heard that right – no needle.Moira Gunn
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BioTech Nation ... with Dr. Moira Gunn
Sir Rory Collins is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford and the Principal Investigator of the UK Biobank. With data from half a million people, it has served 30,000 scientists around the world, giving special support to young researchers and scientists in emergent countries.…
Surface Oncology's strategy to improve on the first generation of immuno-oncology drugs. Their Phase 2 trials in lung cancer and liver cancer are underway and recruiting.Moira Gunn
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BioTech Nation ... with Dr. Moira Gunn
Major Depressive Disorder. Serious Depression. PTSD. Alto Neuroscience is developing new and innovative drugs - but tied directly to each patient’s underlying biology. For every drug, there is a test...Moira Gunn
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Prothena's 1-2-3 punch for Alzheimer’s + their work in Parkinson’s, ALS, and the role of Amyloids in Down SyndromeMoira Gunn
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In a long-form feature from Tech Nation, it’s Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Edward Humes, with “The Forever Witness … How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder.” We get an object lesson in the Three Ages of DNA from a forensic investigation standpoint, and while it reads like a fast-paced Cold Case on steroids – it provides details no…
A new global company with 64 products, many of which are for women? Kevin Ali is the CEO of Organon.Moira Gunn
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Cancer is a hijacker, hijacking cells for its own purposes. And that’s where eFFECTOR Therapeutics is determined to intervene. Dr. Steve Worland, the Co-Founder & CEO, talks about just two of the candidates in its pipeline: One is for Non-small cell lung cancer and another for ER+ breast cancer, with these and other clinical trials enrolling now.…
Like the idea of replacing some of your DNA with DNA that works better? And what if you want that new DNA to stop? Dr. Alexandria Forbes, the President & CEO of MeiraGTx, tells us about their work in retinitis pigmentosa and Parkinson’s – two of many clinical trials enrolling right now.Moira Gunn
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BioTech Nation ... with Dr. Moira Gunn
Vor Biopharma has a unique approach to a particular kind of cancer – Acute Myeloid Leukemia – perhaps better known to you, as AML. Dr. Robert Ang is Vor's President & CEO.Moira Gunn
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BioTech Nation ... with Dr. Moira Gunn
Too much of a good thing spells trouble - in this case, that would be neutrophils – the white blood cells that act as our immune system’s first line of defense. It's called PPP, or Palmoplantar Pustulosis. Dr. James Mackay is the President & CEO of Aristea Therapeutics.Moira Gunn
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Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS, among others, are often grouped as Neurodegenerative Disorders. While they each present a different profile of symptoms, what do they have in common? Dr. Maria Maccecchini, the Founder, President & CEO of Annovis Bio, says, "Sticky proteins".Moira Gunn
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BioTech Nation ... with Dr. Moira Gunn
Anixa is pioneering a new approach to preventing the truly aggressive triple-negative form of breast cancer. Based on research from Cleveland Clinic, this approach has the potential to treat other breast cancers as well as ovarian cancer. Dr. Amit Kumar is the President & CEO. More information is available at anixa.com.…
Dr. George Yancopoulosis is the President and Chief Scientific Officer of Regeneron. Regeneron is successful on many levels but is perhaps best known for its Covid treatment, directly infusing antibodies. This, of course, requires innovative science … but how do get students to become scientists? Dr. Yancopoulos has an answer.…
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Blood clots of any sort are dangerous. So dangerous in fact, that 1 in 4 people die from blood clots - independent of medical condition, medicines they take, or medical procedures they undergo. Dr. Daniel Bloomfield, the Chief Medical Officer of Anthos Therapeutics, describes their approach to preventing bleeding while avoiding blood clotting.…
Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s dementia, and other neurodegenerative diseases continue to be challenging, but now new science has led to a better understanding of the natural repair mechanisms in the brain. This, in turn, has generated new options for innovative treatments, and one such approach has entered late-stage human clinical trials. Dr. Mark Litt…
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BioTech Nation Radio Podcast
On 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 Daniel Kraft shows us we can crowdsource medical questions, whi…
On 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 bacteria H. Pylori and its role in stomach ulcers and gastric c…
On 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 Chief Correspondent Daniel Kraft talks about the Internet of Medical…
On 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 CEO of BIO, asks “What’s the right thing to do?” about the pric…
On 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 on those massive thefts of online credentials – they are for sal…
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On 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? And where did it come from? Moira speaks with Brigid McDermott,…
On 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 athletes to musicians to people recovering strokes and even surg…
On 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 and help heal problems. Dr. Shai Gozani, the President and CEO of…
On 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. And chief correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft discusses Circadian Me…
On 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, CEO of Alzeca describes their efforts, and our chief correspond…
On 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 Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft reviews new technologies to deter…
On 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, Chief Medical Officer of United Neuroscience tells us how and …
On 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 Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft relates a story about a man and h…
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On 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 stove from a single, tiny village in remote France.…
On 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, Chief Consumer Security Evangelist at McAfee explains those phone …
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On 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 selfie.
On 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”.
On 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 creating cancer drugs, and Tech Nation Health Chief Correspond…
On 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 innocent-looking email in your inbox.…
On 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 Pharmaceuticals talks about a new approach to America’s most c…
On 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 Sheehan, the Deputy Director of the National Library of Medicine a…
On 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 progress in severe vertigo, sudden hearing loss, and hearing …
On 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 work for depression in general. And finally, why do these drugs c…
On 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, Alzheimer’s disease, and traumatic brain injury.…
On 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 international humanitarian organizations.…
On 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 new app to collect and manage your own medical records, and H…
