On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ANDREW ALLEN, President, CEO, and Co-Founder of Gritstone Bio, about Cancer and Covid, and what next-generation treatments mean today. Then, Futurist ALEX PANG describes Continuous Partial Attention, thanks to the constant presence of our personal technologies.
Air Date: November 26, 2024
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. GABRIELLA KELLERMAN joins me to talk about “TomorrowMind – Thriving at Work with Resilience, Creativity and Connection – Now and in an Uncertain Future”. They cover everything from Rapid Rapport to Psychological Safety in our work environment. Then … what is AI doing in biotech? DR. VIMAL MEHTA tells us how his company, BioXcel, used AT in drug discovery. One drug has already been approved, and there are more in the pipeline.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. PETER VANDERKLISH, CEO of Spinogenix, focuses on regenerating brain synapses to combat conditions like depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, and ALS. Then, DR. CAITLIN RIVERS from John Hopkins School of Public Health talks about her book, “Crisis Averted ... .The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks .”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. SHANNON MONAGHANR, a Military Historian, about her book, “A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men … The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II”. Then, DR. ROLLIE CARLSON, CEO of Immunexpress tells us about their FDA, EU, and Australia-cleared, first-ever Sepsis test. And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about an official federal program called Food is Medicine.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. FRANCOIS VIGNEAULT, Co-Founder and CEO of Shape Therapeutics, talks about how they’re engineering mRNA to address Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
Then, DR. PAIL PETER TAK, CEO of Candel Therapeutics is using immuno-oncology treatments to go after solid tumors as well as cancers which have metastasized.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with CHRIS BAILEY about “How to Calm Your Mind … Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times”. Science tells us that humans love dopamine, caffeine is essentially liquid stress, and burnout is more than being exhausted. Then, teaching our immune systems to recognize tumors in our own bodies and then eliminating them. Bolt Biotherapeutics’ CEO, DR. RANDY SCHATZMAN, talks about the role of myeloid cells, and Bolt is studying nearly two dozen forms of HER2-related cancers.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Anthropologist EBEN KIRKSEY, a professor of anthropology at Deakin University in Melbourne. He’s look at the societal and ethical implications of CRISPR – and not just hypothetically. He traveled to China, with an eye to understanding the circumstance of the three CRISPR babies known to exist. His book is “The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT gives us a quick primer on antibodies and how we use them as therapy.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ARVIND NARAYANAN, Princeton University Professor of Computer Science about his book, “AI Snake Oil … What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference”. Then, DR. AVAK KAJVEJIAN, Founding CEO of Cellarity joins me to explain how comparing healthy and diseased cells, along with our understanding of medications, could help treat that disease at its source.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with GARY SHAPIRO, President and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association and author of, “Pivot or Die… How Leaders Thrive When Everything Changes” about what you do when faced with change, and when you better get out and make some change. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT about generative AI and how it may affect your future health.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ANTONY TAUBMAN, Director of the Intellectual Property Division at the World Trade Organization, about how the world navigated international trade rules to develop and distribute 15 billion doses of Covid vaccine to countries of all economic statuses. Then, BRIAN CULLEY, CEO of Lineage Cell Therapeutics tells us about a whole new approach to treating disease that involves replacing your damaged cells with new ones. And, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT tells us about Multimodal Health - ever heard of it?
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with New York Times' Journalists and co-authors, KATE CONGER and RYAN MA, about their book, “Character Limit … How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter". Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, talks about the state of Covid in our lives today, and how it just won't go away!
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. LEROY HOOD and DR. NATHAN PRICE about focusing on wellness with the help of science and their book, “The Age of Scientific Wellness … Why the Future of Medicine is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Colorado Mesa University Professor, TIMOTHY WINEGARD, about his book, “The Horse … A Galloping History of Humanity” and the dramatic impact horses have had in our lives - from the reason we all speak English to your everyday pair of pants.
Then, an innovative approach to treating cancer with only a pill. DR. MICHAEL WEICKERT, CEO of Pacylex Pharmaceuticals tells us about their early indicators of success in a range of cancers.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Clinical Psychologist and Author, DR. RAMANI DURVASULA about how to heal from Narcissists in your life and her book, “It’s Not You … Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People”.
Then, regular contributor and author of, “Rest: Why You Get More Work Done, When You Work Less.”, DR. ALEX PANG, talks about getting employers to buy into a four-day work week - it may be easier than you think.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira discusses the ability to monitor if that last change to our prescription really worked! Moira speaks with DR. KAL PATEL from BrightInsight. He tells us we can travel all around the world, and still be monitored. Then with all this new tech, what is our future? DAVID EWING DUNCAN returns with “Talking to Robots: Tales from Our Human Robot Future.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with CODY CASSIDY, Wired contributor, “How to Survive History … How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History’s Deadliest Catastrophes”.
Then, Wharton Professor, DR. JONAH BERGER, follow his earlier books, “Contagious” and “Invisible Influence”. His latest is “The Catalyst – How to Change Anyone’s Mind”.
Air Date: August 13, 2024
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Duke University Professor NITA FARAHANY about her book, “The Battle for Your Brain … Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology.”
Then recovering from the devastation of war, Conservation X Lab’s DR. ALEX DEHGAN talks about his book, “The Snow Leopard Project … and other Adventures in Warzone Conservation”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Columbia professors CHRIS WIGGINS and MATTHEW JONES about their book, “How Data Happened … A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms.” Then it’s all about glucose at Rezolute – too much and too little. NEVAN CHARLES ELAM tells us about their work to treat the “diabetic eye condition”, DME, and a pediatric condition called Congenital hyperinsulinism.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with BRUCE SCHOENFELD, journalist and author of “Game of Edges …The Analytics Revolution and the Future of Professional Sports.”, about the data revolution in professional sports.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Semafor Editor-in-Chief and former founding editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed News, BEN SMITH, about his book, “Traffic … Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion Dollar Race to Go Viral”.
Then, DR. PETER DIAMANDIS, The Executive Chair of the XPrize Foundation, and host of the Moonshots podcast, about extending your life, with his book, “Longevity… Your Practical Playbook on Sleep, Diet, Exercise, Mindset, Medications, and Not Dying from Something Stupid.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Co-Founder and Co-CEO of NewsGuard, STEVEN BRILL about his book, “The Death of Truth” about the negative impact of the Internet and Social Media and what we can do about it. Then, what science tells us about the treatment potential of Hallucinogens without the hallucinations with, DR. SAM CLARK, CEO of Terran Biosciences. Also covered - Terran’s extensive efforts to build prodrugs.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Neuroscientists and Author, DR. KELLY CLANCY joins me to talk about the role that games have played in human development. Her book is “Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World.” Then, DR. MARIANNE DE BACKER, CEO of Vir Biotechnology, explains how serious it can be when a person carries both Hepatitis B and Hepatitis D, and what Vir is doing about it.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Author, ELAINE LIN HERING. She joins to talk about her book, “Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully”. Then, DR. NEIL KUMAR, Founder and CEO of BridgeBio Pharma, explains why we can expect genetic diseases to be solvable in our lifetime.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford Business School Lecturer, MATT ABRAHAMS, about his book, “THINK FASTER, TALK SMARTER: How To Speak Successfully When You’re Put on the Spot”. Then, DR. STEFFEN-SEBASTIAN BOLZ from Aphaia Pharma talks about their new drug, currently in phase 3 trial, that may provide the benefits of Ozempic and Wegovy - without the injection.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford Professor ROBERT SAPOLSKY about “Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will”. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about how Medical Schools decide what to teach.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalist ALEX KANTROWITZ about his 2020 book, “Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever” which has spawned his work, as Founder and Editor of Big Technology. Then, DR. MARK SUMERAY, Chief Medical Officer of Amolyt Pharma, talks about their innovative approach to treating hormonal conditions.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Science journalist and author, ANNALEE NEWITZ, joins me to talk about her book, “Stories are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind”. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the latest in Wearables, what they are doing now that they weren’t doing before.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. SAM BLACKMAN, Founder and Head of Research and Development from Day One Biopharmaceuticals. He talks about their innovative approach to starting a biopharma company and how it led to a newly FDA approved drug that treats the most common form of brain cancer in children. Then, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent talks about the rise of Robotic and Digitally-Enabled surgeries. And, Futurist and regular Tech Nation contributor, DR. ALEX PANG, gives us a quick word on how to better manage the stress of life these days.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with MUSTAFA SULEYMAN, CEO of Inflection AI, about “The Coming Wave … Technology, Power, and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma”.
Then, Bloomberg columnist ADAM MINTER talks about his 2019 book, “Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale.” You dropped it off at the thrift store … where does it go from there?
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with sports ecology professor and author, DR. MADELEINE ORR, about her book, “Warming Up… How Climate Change is Changing Sport”. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, talks about the Medical Innovation Gap, which is the time from innovation until we actually can use it in everyday practice. And, DR. JOHN SCARLETT, the President and CEO of Geron, tells us about their breakthrough drug candidate, which offers hope for treating bone marrow failure, previously only manageable through regular blood transfusions.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Pulitzer-Prize winning author, ED HUMES, talks about his book, “Total Garbage… How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World.” Then, DR. STEVE QUAKE, Head of Science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative tells us about their ambitious goal to address all human diseases within the next century.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. NEIL KASSELL, the founder and chair of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation, about what focused ultrasound is and the different ways in which it is being used.
Then, DR. NICHOLAS DIRKS, the President and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences talks about such topics as the International Science Reserve, and how we might take on a new perspective regarding Artificial Intelligence.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Environmental journalist, CLAYTON PAGE ALDERN talks about his book, “The Weight of Nature … How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains”. Then, DR. SEAN BOHEN, President & CEO of Olema Oncology talks about what we’ve learned about the 70% of breast cancers, called ER+/HER2- and how it relates to prostate cancer.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with journalist JASON DEL REY about Amazon and Walmart - how they are different and their designs on your attention. His book is “Winner Sells All: Amazon, Walmart, and the Battle for Our Wallets”.
Then in biotech, breakthrough science which changes the name of the game on how to make a medicine. DR. SANJAY SHUKLA, the President and CEO of ATyr Pharma, takes this unprecedented approach and ATyr’s first drug candidate which treats pulmonary sarcoidosis.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with WARREN BERGER, author of “A More Beautiful Question … The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas” now in its tenth anniversary re-release and update. Then, DR. PETER DEMUTH, Chief Scientific Officer at Elicio Therapeutics tells us about how a treatment can turn into a vaccine and potentially provide long-lasting protection against cancer.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. DAN REIDENBERG, Project Director for Safe Online Standards at the Mental Health Coalition talks about what young people are doing online and how to keep them safe.
Then, DR. CHRIS PIRIE, the Co-Founder and COO of HDTBio tells us what it takes to build a cancer vaccine.
On this week’s Tech Nation, DR. SOREN KAPLAN talks about taking a look at your life experience to gain insight and action into your personal and business life. His book is “Experiential Intelligence: Harness the Power of Experience for Personal and Business Breakthroughs.”
Then to a place in Alaska where no human has gone, much less conquered. Climber and rescuer, MICHAEL WEJCHERT talks about “Hidden Mountains … Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. DAVID BEARSS, President and CEO of Halia Therapeutics, about their groundbreaking work, both in inflammation and in another drug to potentially resist Alzheimer’s. Then, MELISSA SEVIGNY, Science Journalist and Author of, “Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon”.
On this week’s Tech Nation: with all of these AI chatbots around, how did computers learn to write? Columbia professor DENNIS YI TENEN talks about his book, “Literary Theory for Robots … How Computers Learned to Write”. Then, regular contributor and futurist, ALEX PANG gives us insights on humans and tech, and why we are still using pen and paper. And, Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, talks about food as medicine, and what today's tech can tell us about our bodies and the food we eat.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalist and NPR contributor KEITH O'BRIEN about his book, “Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe”. From congressional aides to housewives to defiant scientists – we receive the benefits of the challenge of Love Canal. Then, new science leads to understanding natural repair mechanisms in the brain. DR. MARK LITTON is the President and CEO of Athira Pharma. He discusses their efforts in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s dementia.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Clinical Psychologist and Author, DR. RAMANI DURVASULA about how to heal from Narcissists in your life and her book, “It’s Not You … Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People”.
Then, regular contributor and author of, “Rest: Why You Get More Work Done, When You Work Less.”, DR. ALEX PANG, talks about getting employers to buy into a four-day work week - it may be easier than you think.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Founding Executive Editor at Wired magazine KEVIN KELLY about “Excellent Advice for Living … Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier.” Then, DR. LISHAN AKLO, CEO of Lucid Diagnostics, tells us about the path from heartburn to esophageal cancer, and about their two-minute diagnostic test which can detect precancerous cells.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with KATHERINE CORCORAN, the former Associate Press Bureau Chief for Mexico, about “In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Coverup, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press”. She talks about the danger of being a journalist in Mexico, and one woman who paid the ultimate price. And following news of one biotech firm trying to bring back the dodo bird, we hear from JOE HERNANDEZ from Blue Water Vaccines. His quest to develop a universal flu vaccine led him face-to-face – so to speak - with the Oxford dodo.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. DAVID FAJGENBAUM, a Professor at Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and President of Every Cure, talks about his efforts to unlock the hidden potential of existing drugs to save his own life, and others. Then, NPR science correspondent NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE talks about her take on being a science journalist, and about her book, “Transient and Strange… Notes on the Science of Life”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with doctors ANDY NORMAN and LEE MCINTYRE from the Mental Immunity Project about strengthening your mind’s immunity to misinformation. Then, regular Tech Nation contributor, DR. ALEX PANG, talks about the difference between sleep and rest – and how that can make a big difference in our lives.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford Professors, BOB SUTTON and HUGGY RAO about their book, “The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder.”
Then, is your personal technology doing more than you bargained for? Duke University Professor NITA FARAHANY talks about “The Battle for Your Brain … Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalist and CEO of Global Press, CHRISTI HEGRANES. She talks about her vision of what it really means to have a global press and her book, “Byline: How Local Journalists Can Improve the Global News Industry and Change the World.”
Then, ALEX PANG, a regular contributor for Tech Nation and author of, ”Rest: Why You Get More Work Done, When You Work Less” tells us how a Four-Day Work Week can work, and DR. JIM BROWN, CEO of DURECT, talks about their clinical trials for Alcohol-Associated Hepatitis.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Science Journalist, BEN GOLDFARB, about his book, “Crossings: ” Then, DAVE PACITTI, President and Head of the Americas at Siemens Healthineers, sets out to solve problems greater than simply supplying the best technology.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ROBERT ANG, the President & CEO of Vor Biopharma about its approach to Acute Myeloid Leukemia, also known as AML.
Then DR. NIK SOPKO, the Chief Scientific Officer of PolarityTE talks about their design for wound healing. Their first treatment candidate is diabetic foot ulcers.
And DR. ERIC VIVIER from Innate Pharma in Marseilles tells us about the next wave of immunotherapy treatments – harnessing Natural Killer cells.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. STEWART CAMPBELL, CEO of Axial Therapeutics, about their groundbreaking work in Autism–related irritability in teenagers, in Parkinson’s, and in complementing the latest cancer treatments.
Then DR. RAY STEVENS, CEO of ShouTi Pharma, talks about their approach in turning IV drugs into pills. Current projects include Diabetes and obesity, and two Pulmonary and Cardiovascular disorders. And these are just their first candidates…
On this week’s Tech Nation, DR. PATRICE MATCHABA, the President of the Novartis US Foundation. He talks about how the limits of medical technology itself have excluded Black/African Americans and Persons of Color … and sometimes *all* women. Then University of Chicago professor DR. NEIL SHUBIN talks about “Some Assembly required … Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA.” Ancient viruses in our DNA? And what about “jumping genes”?
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with scientist and prolific author, DR. LEONARD MLODINOW about “Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking”. And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT tells us who may medically qualify to go into space – you may be surprised by his answers.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Structural Engineer, ROMA AGRAWAL about her book, “.” Then NICOLAS VACHICOURAS, CEO and Co-Founder of Neurosoft Bioelectronics, takes us on an inside tour of our brain and what flexible implants might do. And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the newest XPrize worth an unprecedented $101 Million.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford Business School Lecturer, MATT ABRAHAMS, about his book, “THINK FASTER, TALK SMARTER: How To Speak Successfully When You’re Put on the Spot”. Then, DR. STEFFEN-SEBASTIAN BOLZ from Aphaia Pharma talks about their new drug, currently in phase 3 trial, that may provide the benefits of Ozempic and Wegovy - without the injection.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Harvard professor experimental cognitive scientist STEVEN PINKER about “Rationality … What it is, Why it seems scarce, and Why it matters”.
Then LEMONY SNICKET – the one and only. You know him from his children’s book series, “A Series of Unfortunate Events”. He’s here with “Poison for Breakfast”. You will start bewildered and leave bewildered, but feeling much better about it.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalist ALEX KANTROWITZ about his 2020 book, “Always Day One: ” which has spawned his work, as Founder and Editor of Big Technology. Then, DR. MARK SUMERAY, Chief Medical Officer of Amolyt Pharma, talks about their innovative approach to treating hormonal conditions.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ANDREW ALLEN, President, CEO, and Co-Founder of Gritstone Bio, about Cancer and Covid, and what next-generation treatments mean today. Then, Futurist ALEX PANG describes Continuous Partial Attention, thanks to the constant presence of our personal technologies.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with MUSTAFA SULEYMAN, CEO of Inflection AI, about ”The Coming Wave … Technology, Power, and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma".
Then, Bloomberg columnist ADAM MINTER talks about his 2019 book, “Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale.” You dropped it off at the thrift store … where does it go from there?
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JEREMY UTLEY, the Director of Executive Education at Stanford University’s school, joins Moira to talk about his book “IdeaFlow.” You have no idea how important ideas are in your life, and just how many you’ll need! Then in biotech, human clinical trials have begun to treat a particular type of Epilepsy called Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. DR. CORY NICHOLAS from Neurona Therapeutics, tells us about their big idea and how they have developed an unprecedented cell therapy.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford Professor ROBERT SAPOLSKY about “Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will”. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about how Medical Schools decide what to teach.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Virginia Tech Professor ASHLEY SHEW about “Against Technoableism … Rethinking Who Needs Improvement”. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about your digital twin, and DR. ANTHONY JAPOUR, President and CEO of iTolerance, tells us about a new approach to treating diabetes.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Google Founders, LARRY PAGE and SERGEY BRIN. In recognition of Google’s 25th anniversary this year, this 2000 Tech Nation interview is the first radio interview they ever did. But first, cognitive scientist MARYANNE WOLF and her book: “Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World”. Then, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, tells us about the explosion of digital health.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with SIR IAN WILMUT, the Scottish embryologist and the leader for the team that cloned Dolly the sheep. This 2007 BioTech Nation interview marked the 10th anniversary of Dolly’s birth. Then, MICHAEL SHERMER talks about his book, “Heavens on Earth – The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia.” We’ll find out who believes – or does not believe – in immortality.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with TOM IRELAND, Science Journalist and Author, “The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage”. Then DR. ROBERT LADNER, CEO & Founder of CV6 Therapeutics, tells us about their work to improve a cornerstone cancer chemotherapy.
On this week’s Tech Nation, developing antidepressants along with a test so when you take them, you know they will work. DR. AMT ETKIN, the founder and CEO Alto Neuroscience, explains how looking at each patient’s underlying biology is essential.
Then SIR RORY COLLINS, 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.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with CEO DR. BEN THOMAS and Chief Commercial Officer DERMOT TIERNEY from Amply Discovery about their novel approach to AI in drug discovery. Then, Dr. DANIEL KRAFT, the founder and chair of NextMed Health tells us about ChatGPT and Healthcare. And Dr. ALEX PANG’s still relevant 2013 interview on smartphones and social media – it’s "The Distraction Addiction."
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. SETHURAMAN "Panch" PANCHANATHAN, the Director of the National Science Foundation talks about how they had to pivot during Covid to act fast.
Then, in Biotech, with today’s cannabis concentrations, acute cannabis intoxication is on the rise. DR. KEN CUNDY, CSO at Anebulo Pharma is working to create an antidote.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira discusses the ability to monitor both our health … and our illnesses. Even the ability to see if our medical condition is changing or that last update in prescription really worked. And what about when you travel? DR. KAL PATEL is the Co-Founder and CEO of BrightInsight. He tells us about the challenges and BrightInsight’s solutions. Then speaking of all this new tech, where are we going with all this? DAVID EWING DUNCAN’s insights from his 2019 book, “Talking to Robots: Tales from Our Human Robot Future”, are more relevant than ever.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with journalist JASON DEL REY about Amazon and Walmart - how they are different and their designs on your attention. His book is “Winner Sells All: Amazon, Walmart, and the Battle for Our Wallets”. Then in biotech, breakthrough science which changes the name of the game on how to make a medicine. DR. SANJAY SHUKLA, the President and CEO of ATyr Pharma, takes this unprecedented approach and ATyr’s first drug candidate which treats pulmonary sarcoidosis.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DAN LEVITT, Award-winning documentary producer and Author, “What’s Gotten Into You … The Story of Your Body’s Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night’s Dinner.” Then, in Biotech, we look at progress in Gliobastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer. DR. FAHAR MERCHANT, the President & CEO of Medicenna Therapeutics, joins me to talk about their unprecedented approach to clinical trials.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with GENE KINNEY, the President and CEO of Prothena Biosciences, about a 1-2-3 punch for Alzheimer’s - fighting amyloids, fighting tau, and their work on a vaccine that just might prevent Alzheimer’s altogether. Then DANIEL PINK talks about Regret. Research shows you can begin to ease the pain by writing 15 minutes a day for 3 days. His book is “The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Bloomberg and BusinessWeek journalist MARK BERGEN about the challenge of keeping up with the 100’s of hours of video uploaded every minute. His book is “Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination”.
Then an excerpt from Wired Science Editor KARA PLATONI's original interview about her 2015 book: “We Have the Technology: How Biohackers, Foodies, and Physicians are Transforming Human Perception.” It’s even more relevant today.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with CODY CASSIDY, Wired contributor, “How to Survive History … How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History’s Deadliest Catastrophes”.
Then, Wharton Professor, DR. JONAH BERGER, follow his earlier books, “Contagious” and “Invisible Influence”. His latest is “The Catalyst – How to Change Anyone’s Mind”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with MELISSA SEVIGNY, Science Journalist and Author, “Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon”.
Then, Emory University Professor DR. CASSANDRA QUAVE is in search of plants for medical botany. Her book is, “The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Bloomberg BusinessWeek investigative journalist KIT CHELLEL talks about “Dead in the Water … A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy.” It makes the movie “Captain Philips” look pretty tame. Then if you thought that all the new vaccines would be mRNA vaccines – you’d be wrong. DR. ROBERT COLEMAN, the Co-Founder and CEO of Codagenix, shows us how to precisely engineer viruses to be effective vaccines. Even better, these can be delivered nasally – there’s no need for a needle.
On this week’s Tech Nation, conjure up images of test tubes, and replace it with tiny wells on index-card-size trays, and robots moving them to and fro. DR. CHRIS GIBSON, the CEO of Recursion Pharmaceuticals, tells us about their effort to analyze all of human biology, and the drugs in their very own pipeline. Then, who knew Sociology and Criminology were linked? University of Denver professor JARED DEL ROSSO talks about his book “Denial … How We Hide, Ignore, and Explain Away Problems””, and answers the question – will the election deniers *always* believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen?
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author, ED HUMES. His latest is “The Forever Witness … How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder.” We get an object lesson in the Three Ages of DNA, and while it reads like a fast-paced Cold Case on steroids – it provides details no fiction writer would dare to make up, like the unexpected involvement of the famous true crimes writer, Ann Rule, and a person whose DNA skills are familiar to fans of the PBS documentary series, “Finding your roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JAMIE SUSSKIND about his book, “The Digital Republic … On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century”. Then, in Biotech, a potential successor to stem cells - fibroblasts? Yes, fibroblasts. DR. HAMID KHOJA, Chief Scientific Officer of FibroBiologics in Houston, describes their fibroblast programs in such diverse conditions as Degenerative Disk Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Diabetic Foot Ulcers.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalists DADE HAYES & DAWN CHMIELEWSKI about “Binge Times: Inside Hollywood’s Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix”. From the stock plunge of Netflix to the rise of Bridgerton, it’s a streaming war for our attention. Then in Biotech, could “sticky proteins” lead to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS and more? DR. MARIA MARCCECCHINI, Founder, President and CEO of Annovis Bio, tells us about their approach.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with BRUCE SCHOENFELD, journalist and author of “Game of Edges …The Analytics Revolution and the Future of Professional Sports”, about the data revolution in professional sports.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. FRANSCOIS VIGNEAULT, Co-Founder and CEO of Shape Therapeutics, talks about how they’re engineering mRNA to address Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
Then, DR. PAIL PETER TAK, CEO of Candel Therapeutics is using immuno-oncology treatments to go after solid tumors as well as cancers which have metastasized.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Founding Executive Editor at Wired magazine KEVIN KELLY is here with “Excellent Advice for Living … Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier.” Then two different efforts from the front lines of fighting cancer. DR. PAUL LAMMERS from Triumvira Immunologics tells us about their approach, both as a complement to such existing treatments as Keytruda, and as a standalone cancer drug in its own. Then DR. PHILIP KANTOFF from Convergent Therapeutics tells about their efforts in the most advanced, intractable prostate cancer.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Pomona College Professor GARY SMITH about his book, “Distrust … Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science”. Then, technology to keep your genes working at their best. Moira speaks with DR. NOAH DAVIDSOHN, the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Rejuvenate Bio.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with KIRK WALLACE JOHNSON talking about fisherman, immigrants, bigotry, justice and environmental pollution. It’s all in “The Fishermen and the Dragon … Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast”. Then on BioTech Nation, DR. HERNAN BAZAN, the Co-Founder & CEO of South Rampart Pharma in New Orleans. They’re working on the next generation of pain relief – non-opioid pain relief. The goal is to be equally powerful without the addiction.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. LEROY HOOD and DR. NATHAN PRICE about focusing on wellness with the help of science and their book, “The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JOHN MARKOFF, the former New York Times journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, to talk about someone we would call today an influencer only he has been influencing now for decades. Markoff's book is "Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand". Then in biotech, DR. JAMES MACKEY James Mackey, the President & CEO, Aristea Therapeutics, tells about a painful disease which affects the palms of hand and soles of feet in post-menopausal women - Palmoplantar pustulosis or PPP - and how it may relate to other diseases.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ROBERT FOSTER, CEO of Hepion Pharmaceuticals, about some surprising information about your liver – like the one you have right now, is pretty much not the one you had just a few years ago. Then combining science and the humanities, MIT Professor DR. ALAN LIGHTMAN, talks about his book, “The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Duke University Professor NITA FARAHANY about her book, “The Battle for Your Brain … Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology.”
Then recovering from the devastation of war, Conservation X Lab’s DR. ALEX DEHGAN talks about his book, “The Snow Leopard Project … and other Adventures in Warzone Conservation”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Columbia professors CHRIS WIGGINS and MATTHEW JONES about their book, “How Data Happened … A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms.” Then it’s all about glucose at Rezolute – too much and too little. NEVAN CHARLES ELAM tells us about their work to treat the “diabetic eye condition”, DME, and a pediatric condition called Congenital hyperinsulinism.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. SIDARTA RIBEIRO, Deputy Director of the Brain Institute at the Unversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil. His book is “The Oracle of Night … The History and Science of Dreams”. Then, a potential new treatment for a side effect of chemotherapy: Hand-Foot Skin Reaction and Hand-Foot Syndrome. DR. MICHAEL MCCULLAR, the CEO of OnQuality Pharmaceuticals talks about their new drug candidate which has just finished Phase II clinical trials.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with MARGRETHE VESTAGER, the Executive Vice President of the European Commission for “A Europe Fit for the Digital Age”. Commissioner Vestager describes why the EU imposed fines on such digital giants as Google and Amazon, and the impact on the EU’s digital space since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Then, University of the South Professor DAVID GEORGE HASKELL talks about sound – from the beginning of time on planet earth to the sounds in our teeming cities. His book is “Sounds Wild and Broken … Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. SOREN KAPLAN talks about taking a look at your life experience to gain insight and action into your personal and business life. His book is “Experiential Intelligence: Harness the Power of Experience for Personal and Business Breakthroughs.”
Then to a place in Alaska where no human has gone, much less conquered. Climber and rescuer, MICHAEL WEJCHERT talks about “Hidden Mountains … Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DAN EGAN takes us a world tour of phosphates – or would that be phosphorus. It’s best to pay attention. His book is “The Devil’s Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance.” Then, DR. DARREN KELLY, the Founder and CEO of Certa Therapeutics in Melbourne, Australia tells us about his many-decade scientific research which has led to a treatment for Schleroderma, now in advanced clinical trials. The results are worth noting.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ANDREW STEELE in a FOLLOW-ON science-focused interview on the latest science behind aging. His book is “Ageless … The New Science of Getting Older without Getting Old.”
And then, an excerpt from DR. THOMAS RANDO's 2020 interview. A co-founder of Fountain Therapeutics, he tells us about their science and their efforts to potentially reverse the aging process.
On this week’s Tech Nation, DR. GABRIELLA KELLERMAN joins Moira to talk about “TomorrowMind – Thriving at Work with Resilience, Creativity and Connection – Now and in an Uncertain Future”. The book covers everything from Rapid Rapport to Psychological Safety in our work environment.
Then … what is AI doing in biotech? DR. VIMAL MEHTA tells us how his company, BioXcel, used AT in drug discovery. One drug has already been approved, and there are more in the pipeline.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with KATHERINE CORCORAN, the former Associate Press Bureau Chief for Mexico, talks about “In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Coverup, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press”. She talks about the danger of being a journalist in Mexico, and one woman who paid the ultimate price. And following news of one biotech firm trying to bring back the dodo bird, we hear from JOE HERNANDEZ from Blue Water Vaccines. His quest to develop a universal flu vaccine led him face-to-face – so to speak - with the Oxford dodo.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ANDREW STEELE about “Ageless … The New Science of Getting Older without Getting Old.” Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT brings us uptodate on treating kidney disease and with heart transplants from genetically modified pigs in the news, kidneys are also being examined.
Finally, with the West Coast of the United States under tsunami warning, former USGS scientist, DR. LUCY JONES talks about “The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us”, and how we need to approach the aftermath.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with CHRIS BAILEY about “How to Calm Your Mind … Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times”. Science tells us that humans love dopamine, caffeine is essentially liquid stress, and burnout is more than being exhausted. Then, teaching our immune systems to recognize tumors in our own bodies and then eliminating them. Bolt Biotherapeutics’ CEO, DR. RANDY SCHATZMAN, talks about the role of myeloid cells, and Bolt is studying nearly two dozen forms of HER2-related cancers.
On this week’s Tech Nation, developing antidepressants along with a test so when you take them, you know they will work. DR. AMIT ETKIN, the founder and CEO Alto Neuroscience, explains how looking at each patient’s underlying biology is essential.
Then SIR RORY COLLINS, 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.
On this week’s Tech Nation, JAMES VINCENT about his book, “Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants”, and our age-old propensity as humans … to measure things. Then DR. ROB ROSS from Surface Oncology tells us why the first generation of immuno-oncology drugs only worked on 15% of cancer patients, and how Surface Oncology is tackling the other 85%. Their Phase 2 trials in lung cancer and liver cancer are recruiting now.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Ohio State University professor ANGUS FLETCHER connects neuroscience and literature, and why stories can be so compelling – from Greek tragedy to modern times. His book is “Wonderworks … the 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature”. Then a ten-minute primer with DAVID PETERSON, best known for creating alien languages for HBO’s Game of Thrones, Netflix's The Witcher, and Marvel's Doctor Strange.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Columbia University professor ERIC JOHNSON about “The Elements of Choice: Why the Way We Decide Matters”. Then a glimpse into rare genetic diseases. Not as rare, as they affect 1 out of 10 people worldwide, and DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the challenges of Telehealth.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. CATHY O'NEIL about “The Shame Machine … Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation”. They talk about how encouraging shame figures into the algorithms of social media. Then DR. DANIEL BLOOMFIELD, the Chief Medical Officer of Anthos Therapeutics, describes the current challenge of preventing bleeding while avoiding the specter of clotting. Anthos may have a solution.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Yale Professor JING TSU about “Kingdom of Characters … the language revolution that made China modern.” Communicating Chinese using digital technology is not so easy, from the telegraph, the typewriter, computers and smartphones. All were built with alphabetic letters in mind. Then, diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases – like early Alzheimers, Parkinsons and more – with a simple-to-use but scientifically advanced retinal scan. ELIAV SHAKED, the Co-Founder and CEO of the Toronto-based firm, Retispec, explains how their software does it.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with GENE KINNEY, the President and CEO of Prothena Biosciences, about a 1-2-3 punch for Alzheimer’s - fighting amyloids, fighting tau, and their work on a vaccine that just might prevent Alzheimer’s altogether. Then DANIEL PINK talks about Regret. Research shows you can begin to ease the pain by writing 15 minutes a day for 3 days. His book is “The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author, EDWARD HUMES. His latest is “The Forever Witness … How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder.” We get an object lesson in the Three Ages of DNA, and while it reads like a fast-paced Cold Case on steroids – it provides details no fiction writer would dare to make up, like the unexpected involvement of the famous true crimes writer, Ann Rule, and a person whose DNA skills are familiar to fans of the PBS documentary series, “Finding your roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. SETH LEDERMAN, the Co-Founder and CEO of Tonix Pharmaceuticals, about Long Covid – and it potential relation to another medical condition, Fibromyalgia. Tonix is now recruiting subjects for advanced Human Clinical Trials in both. Then neuroscientist and psychologist LISA FELDMAN BARRETT gives us a lesson or two from her book, “7½ Lessons about the Brain”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JEREMY UTLEY, the Director of Executive Education at Stanford University’s d.school, joins Moira to talk about his book “IdeaFlow.” You have no idea how important ideas are in your life, and just how many you’ll need! Then in biotech, human clinical trials have begun to treat a particular type of Epilepsy called Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. DR. CORY NICHOLAS from Neurona Therapeutics, tells us about their big idea and how they have developed an unprecedented cell therapy.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Bloomberg BusinessWeek investigative journalist KIT CHELLEL talks about “Dead in the Water … A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy.” It makes the movie “Captain Philips” look pretty tame. Then if you thought that all the new vaccines would be mRNA vaccines – you’d be wrong. DR. ROBERT COLEMAN, the Co-Founder and CEO of Codagenix, shows us how to precisely engineer viruses to be effective vaccines. Even better, these can be delivered nasally – there’s no need for a needle.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ALEXANDRIA FORBES (whom you may known as Zandy Forbes), President and CEO of MeiraGTx, tells us about their efforts in treating retinitis pigmentosa and Parkinson’s, among other medical conditions. MeiraGTx is also working on a new technology to replace defective DNA with new working DNA, and the ability to stop the new DNA should you choose. Then MATTHEW BALL, the former global head of strategy for Amazon Studios, talks his book: “The Metaverse … and How It Will Revolutionize Everything.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, STEVEN JOHNSON with “Enemy of All Mankind … A True Story of Piracy, Power and History’s First Global Manhunt.” It’s a 17th century story that’s rife with insights for today. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about food as medicine – it might be steamed vegetables … or could that be chocolate and wine?
On this week’s Tech Nation, conjure up images of test tubes, and replace it with tiny wells on index-card-size trays, and robots moving them to and fro. DR. CHRIS GIBSON, the CEO of Recursion Pharmaceuticals, tells us about their effort to analyze all of human biology, and the drugs in their very own pipeline. Then, who knew Sociology and Criminology were linked? University of Denver professor JARED DEL ROSSON talks about his book “Denial … How We Hide, Ignore, and Explain Away Problems”, and answers the question – will the election deniers *always* believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen?
On this week’s Tech Nation, an archival interview of the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Professor SVANTE PÄÄBO talks about his book: “Neanderthal Man … in search of lost genomes.” Then biotech takes on Osteoarthritis – mostly in the knee, but it can affect any joint. DR. DIEM NGUYEN, the CEO of Xalud Therapeutics, talks about Xalud’s work to reduce the inflammation that drives pain. It’s now in human clinical trials.
On this week’s Tech Nation, DR. PATRICE MATCHABA, the President of the Novartis US Foundation. He talks about how the limits of medical technology itself have excluded Black/African Americans and Persons of Color … and sometimes *all* women. Then University of Chicago professor DR. NEIL SHUBIN talks about “Some Assembly required … Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA.” Ancient viruses in our DNA? And what about “jumping genes”?
On this week’s Tech Nation, it’s about developing medicines which enable the body to heal itself. First up, treating depression in a whole new way … and rapidly. DR. JEFF JONAS, the Chief Innovation Officer and Director of Sage Therapeutics, talks about their drug Zuranolone, nearing the end of its drug approval journey.
Then, CRAIG PARKER, the CEO of Surrozen, talks about their work with the W-N-T pathway, or Wnt pathway. Their initial candidate for treatment? Repairing the liver.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JAMIE SUSSKIND about his book, “The Digital Republic … On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century”. Then, in Biotech, a potential successor to stem cells - fibroblasts? Yes, fibroblasts. DR. HAMID KHOJA, Chief Scientific Officer of FibroBiologics in Houston, describes their fibroblast programs in such diverse conditions as Degenerative Disk Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Diabetic Foot Ulcers.?
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Bloomberg and BusinessWeek journalist MARK BERGEN about the challenge of keeping up with the 100’s of hours of video uploaded every minute. His book is “Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination”.
Then an excerpt from Wired Science Editor KARA PLATONI’s original interview about her 2015 book: “We Have the Technology: How Biohackers, Foodies, and Physicians are Transforming Human Perception.” It’s even more relevant today.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. JEFFERY CLELAND, the President & CEO of Ashvattha Therapeutics, about their drug development efforts to treat Long Covid. Then DR. GREG FROST, the Chair and CEO of Exuma Biotech, tells us about their work to speed up CAR-T – from 4-6 weeks to just a few hours, and a second delivery method – programming a virus to produce the treatment protein needed. Just a simple injection under the skin. Finally, Wall Street Journal reporter KATHERINE BLUNT with “California Burning … The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric – and What It Means for America’s Power Grid”. What’s causing many of those California wildfires? Aging Technology.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with KIRK WALLACE JOHNSON talking about fisherman, immigrants, bigotry, justice and environmental pollution. It’s all in “The Fishermen and the Dragon … Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast”. Then on BioTech Nation, DR. HERNAN BAZAN, the Co-Founder & CEO of South Rampart Pharma in New Orleans. They’re working on the next generation of pain relief – non-opioid pain relief. The goal is to be equally powerful without the addiction.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Harvard economics professors EDWARD GLAESER and DAVID CUTLER about “Survival of the City … Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation.”
Then DR. ALEX PANG’s advice about our work life from his 2016 book, “Rest … Why You Get More Done When You Work Less” is even more relevant now. And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr Daniel Kraft talks to us about something unprecedented … our teeth!
On this week’s Tech Nation, how exactly did Edward Snowden deliver those classified government documents into the hands of the media? Former Washington Post investigative journalist BART GELLMAN, currently writing for The Atlantic, talks about his book: “Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about the potential for genetic susceptibility to the COVID-19 virus, and other aspects of genetic predisposition to the success or failure of available medical treatments.
On this week’s Tech Nation, what Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Richard Branson all have in common: They all started spaceflight companies. Moira speaks with New Yorker writer NICHOLAS SCHMIDLE, the author of “Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut”.
Then 40% of Americans report that they have gained weight since the COVID pandemic began. Excerpts from a past interview with DR SANDRA AAMODT, the former editor-in-chief of Nature Neuroscience. Her TED Talk “Why Dieting Doesn’t Usually Work” has received over 4 Million views. She’s the author of the 2014 book, “Why Diets Make Us Fat … The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession with Weight Loss.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Emory University Primatologist DR. FRANS DE WALL about his book: “Different … Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist. Then DR. STEVE WORLAND from eFFECTOR Therapeutics tells us about their approach to cancer. Among their efforts - Non-small cell lung cancer and ER positive breast cancer. And KEVIN ALI the CEO of Organon explains how this women-focused company went global with its 64 products in one year. That’s a story in itself.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ALEXANDRIA FORBES (whom you may known as Zandy Forbes), President and CEO of MeiraGTx, tells us about their efforts in treating retinitis pigmentosa and Parkinson’s, among other medical conditions. MeiraGTx is also working on a new technology to replace defective DNA with new working DNA, and the ability to stop the new DNA should you choose. Then MATTHEW BALL, the former global head of strategy for Amazon Studios, talks his book: “The Metaverse … and How It Will Revolutionize Everything.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with the biotech companies at the BIO International Convention in San Diego. They meet in person for the first time in 3 years, where Dr. Gunn was able to speak with PAUL HASTINGS, the Chair of BIO and the President & CEO of Nkarta, about the state of BIO and Nkarta’s work on delivering Natural Killer cells for cancer. JOE PANETTA, President & CEO of Biocom California, brings insights into California as a whole and its relation globally, as well as the price of drugs. DR. RICHARD AUSTIN, founder and CEO of Reglagene talks about choosing their first-in-human drug for the brain cancer, Glioblastoma, and DR. CHRIS NAVE from Brandon Capital describes Polyactiva’s work in the treatment of glaucoma.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JOHN MARKOFF, the former New York Times journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, to talk about someone we would call today an “influencer” – only he has been influencing now for decades. Markoff’s book is “Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand”. Then in biotech, DR. JAMES MACKAY, the President & CEO, Aristea Therapeutics, tells about a painful disease which affects the palms of hand and soles of feet in post-menopausal women - Palmoplantar pustulosis or PPP - and how it may relate to other diseases.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Professor ANTIONIO DAMASIO, the Director of the University of Southern California’s Brain and Creativity Institute. He talks about his book is “Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious”. Then a developing treatment for ALS – often referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease. ROB ETHERINGTON and ROBERT GLANZMAN from Clene Nanomedicine talk about using trillions of gold nanocrystals now being tested in advanced clinical trials.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with SANDY FERSHEE, the Lab Director for D-Ford Detroit at Ford Motor Company. They talk about the latest features for the best-selling vehicle on the road - the F-150 pick-up truck from Ford. They talk about the latest design updates, and how Ford went about it.
Then BRIAN CULLEY, the CEO of Lineage Cell Therapeutics in San Diego, explains cell therapy in plain words. They’re working on dry age-related macular degeneration and spinal cord injury, and they also have a new idea to create life-time immunity against COVID-19.
On this week’s Tech Nation, from the bumpy history of the chariot to how smartphones are essential equipment for transportation in the future. Economist deputy editor TON STANDAGE talks about “A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next”. Then DR. JIM BROWN, the CEO of DURECT, describes their first Phase 2 clinical trials for Alcoholic Hepatitis, known as AH. And a look at what comes next for their approach to regenerative medicine.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JER THORP. The former Data Artist in Residence at the New York Times, he talks about his book: “Living in Data – A Citizen’s Guide to a Better Information Future”. Then JOE HERNANDEZ, the Founder and CEO of Blue Water Vaccines tells us about their quest for a universal flu vaccine. Even more unusual? Along the way, they also found a Dodo bird.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ROBERT ANG, the President & CEO of Vor Biopharma about its approach to Acute Myeloid Leukemia, also known as AML.
Then DR. NIK SOPKO, the Chief Scientific Officer of PolarityTE talks about their design for wound healing. Their first treatment candidate is diabetic foot ulcers.
And DR. ERIC VIVIER from Innate Pharma in Marseilles tells us about the next wave of immunotherapy treatments – harnessing Natural Killer cells.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. GEORGE YANCOPOULOS, the President and Chief Scientific Officer of Regeneron. Its innovative COVID treatment directly infuses antibodies. But how do get students to become innovative scientists? The Regeneron Science Talent Search.
Then the challenge of diagnosing liver disease. DR. CAROLINE LOEW, the President and CEO of Glympse Bio, talks about their approach to diagnosing and tracking the progression of the liver condition, NASH, and its potential in other diseases, as well.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ANDREW STELLE in a FOLLOW-ON science-focused interview on the latest science behind aging. His book is “Ageless … The New Science of Getting Older without Getting Old.” And then, an excerpt from DR. THOMAS RANDO’s 2020 interview. A co-founder of Fountain Therapeutics, he tells us about their science and their efforts to potentially reverse the aging process.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalists DADE HAYES & DAWN CHMIELEWSKI about “Binge Times: Inside Hollywood’s Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix”. From the stock plunge of Netflix to the rise of Bridgerton, it’s a streaming war for our attention. Then in Biotech, could “sticky proteins” lead to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS and more? DR. MARIA MACCECCHINI, Founder, President and CEO of Annovis Bio, tells us about their approach.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Neuroscientist DANIEL LEVITIN about his book “Successful Aging … A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives”. And DR. CAMERON TURTLE from Eidos Therapeutics tells us that of the 6 Million Americans living with the medical condition known as Heart Failure, several hundred thousand have a special type, which was thought to be rare, but is being underdiagnosed. It’s known by its initials: ATTR. Eidos is working on a treatment.
On this week’s Tech Nation, it’s all about changing behaviors now that that we interact online. ERICA DHAWAN talks about “Digital Body Language - How to Build Trust & Connection No Matter the Distance”. Then how to take an insight in science and enable it to become an actual product. DR. MARK ALLEN, the co-founder and CEO of Elevian, tells us their experience and about selecting their first target: stroke.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalist and NPR contributor KEITH O'BRIEN about his book, “Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe”. From congressional aides to housewives to defiant scientists – we receive the benefits of the challenge of Love Canal. Then, new science leads to understanding natural repair mechanisms in the brain. DR. MARK LITTON is the President and CEO of Athira Pharma. He discusses their efforts in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s dementia.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. AMIT KUMAR, the President and CEO of Anixa Biosciences, about a new approach to actually preventing the truly aggressive triple negative breast cancer, and its potential for other breast cancers and ovarian cancer. We hear about the scientific breakthroughs and their partnership with the Cleveland Clinic. Then, SARAH FRIER, a tech journalist with Bloomberg News. Her award-winning book: “No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram” has lessons for today’s potential buyout of Twitter.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with MARGRETHE VESTAGER, the Executive Vice President of the European Commission for “A Europe Fit for the Digital Age”. Commissioner Vestager describes why the EU imposed fines on such digital giants as Google and Amazon, and the impact on the EU’s digital space since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Then, University of the South Professor DAVID GEORGE HASKELL talks about sound – from the beginning of time on planet earth to the sounds in our teeming cities. His book is “Sounds Wild and Broken … Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Wall Street Journal investigative journalists, KIRSTEN GRIND and KATHERINE SAYRE. Their book is “Happy at Any Cost … The Revolutionary Vision and Fatal Quest of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh”.
Then neuroscience tells us - it’s all about the messenger and not the message. STEPHEN MARTIN and JOSEPH MARKS talk about their 2019 book, “Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don’t, and Why”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. CATHY O'NEIL about “The Shame Machine … Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation”. They talk about how encouraging shame figures into the algorithms of social media. Then DR. DANIEL BLOOMFIELD, the Chief Medical Officer of Anthos Therapeutics, describes the current challenge of preventing bleeding while avoiding the specter of clotting. Anthos may have a solution.
Dr. Stewart Campbell, CEO of Axial Therapeutics, about their groundbreaking work in Autism–related irritability in teenagers, in Parkinson’s, and in complementing the latest cancer treatments.
Then Dr. Ray Stevens, CEO of ShouTi Pharma, talks about their approach in turning IV drugs into pills. Current projects include Diabetes and obesity, and two Pulmonary and Cardiovascular disorders. And these are just their first candidates …
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Daily Beast journalist Kelly Weill are extremism, disinformation and the Internet. They talk about “Off the Edge … Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything”. Then Moira speaks with Dr. Dale Christiansen from TFF Pharmaceuticals, and Dr. Deborah Levine, Medical Director of Lung Transplantation and Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Center at UT Health San Antonio. It may be possible to inhale most of our present-day drugs, which has many benefits.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Yale Professor JING TSU about “Kingdom of Characters … the language revolution that made China modern.” Communicating Chinese using digital technology is not so easy, from the telegraph, the typewriter, computers and smartphones. All were built with alphabetic letters in mind. Then, diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases – like early Alzheimers, Parkinsons and more – with a simple-to-use but scientifically advanced retinal scan. ELIAV SHAKED, the Co-Founder and CEO of the Toronto-based firm, Retispec, explains how their software does it.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford emerita psychology professor BARBARA TVERSKY. She talks about “Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought”, how the mind can override perception, how feeling comes before logic, and how we organize things in our world the way we organize our minds.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Jimmy Soni about the impact of the people who started PayPal – surprisingly this includes Elon Musk. His book is “The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs who Shaped Silicon Valley.” Then, with the rising call to move away from animal testing, we hear about one promising alternative. Dr. Eric Merle, Chief Business Innovation Officer of GenoSkin, describes their approach.
Moira speaks with DR. SARA MANNING PESKIN, a Neurologist and Professor at the University of Pennsylvania author about her book “A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain”.
Then, Dartmouth professor RICHARD D'AVENI tells us that new tech will solve our current global supply chain issues. His book is “The Pan-Industrial Revolution – How New Manufacturing Titans Will Transform the World”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DANIEL PINK about “The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward”. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about burn-out in hospital professionals due to COVID, and planning for future pandemics.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford History professor TOM MULLANEY about his 2017 book, “The Chinese Typewriter”. He also tells us about a 2008 Beijing Olympics conspiracy that was no conspiracy at all. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft tells us about the Metaverse – yes, why did Facebook rename itself Meta??
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. LEONARD MLODINOW about “Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking”. And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft tells us who may medically qualify to go into space – it just might be you.
DR. ANDREW STEELE about “Ageless … The New Science of Getting Older without Getting Old.” Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft brings us up to date on treating kidney disease and with heart transplants from genetically modified pigs in the news; kidneys are also being examined.
Finally, with the West Coast of the United States under tsunami warning, former USGS scientist, DR. LUCY JONES talks about “The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us”, and how we need to approach the aftermath.
DR. GEORGE YANCOPOULOS, the President and Chief Scientific Officer of Regeneron. Its innovative COVID treatment directly infuses antibodies. But how do get students to become innovative scientists? The Regeneron Science Talent Search.
Then the challenge of diagnosing liver disease. DR. CAROLINE LOEW, the President and CEO of Glympse Bio, talks about their approach to diagnosing and tracking the progression of the liver condition, NASH, and its potential in other diseases, as well.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with WALTER ISAACSON about “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.” Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft takes us through the slate of winners of the $6 Million Rapid COVID Screening Xprize.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Ohio State University professor ANGUS FLETCHER connects neuroscience and literature, and why stories can be so compelling – from Greek tragedy to modern times. His book is “Wonderworks … the 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature”. Then a ten-minute primer with DAVID PETERSON, best known for creating alien languages for HBO’s Game of Thrones, Netflix's The Witcher, and Marvel's Doctor Strange.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with former UC Irvine professor, DR HANS KEIRSTEAD, the chairman and CEO of Aivita Biomedical. They’re talking about adult stem cells, in your body right now, and work in treating spinal cord injury, and in ovarian cancer, melanoma, the skin cancer, glioblastoma … and even in a vaccine for COVID-19, this one designed to be affordable for everyone, everywhere.
On this week’s Tech Nation, DR. JONATHAN JAVITT from NeuroRX Pharma talks about a scientific discovery which lingered for nearly two decades in some 70 boxes in deep storage – it’s now being tested as a treatment for COVID-19. Then RICK CARREON, the CEO of ImpediMed, tells us about a technology developed in the 1990’s for research purposes. Today it’s approved for the early detection of lymphedema following breast cancer – and early intervention can stop its progression.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. GREG FROST, the CEO of Exuma Biotech. He explains how gene therapy for cancer is currently a 6 to 8 week proposition, and requires the patient to undergo chemotherapy. Exuma’s aim is to reduce the time to 4 hours and eliminate the chemotherapy. Then DR. CHRIS SMITH with Brandon Capital Partners and a board member of Ena Respiratory talks about updates us on Ena-51 – a spray to reduce the presence of COVID in the nasal passageway.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Professor ANTONIO DAMASIO, the Director of the University of Southern California’s Brain and Creativity Institute. He talks about his book is “Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious”. Then a developing treatment for ALS – often referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Rob Etherington and Robert Glanzman from Clene Nanomedicine talk about using trillions of gold nanocrystals now being tested in advanced clinical trials.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with the last Tech Nation interview of GLEN DE VRIES, who flew into space with William Shatner aboard Blue Origin. A short month after this flight, Glen passed away in a plane crash. We talk about how his earthbound work help us all, and his book: “The Patient Equation”. Then why the new FDA-approved treatment for yeast infections in women is … different. And DR. MARCO TAGLIETTI, the President and CEO of Scynexis, describes their unprecedented FDA-approved treatment for Yeast Infections in Women.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Harvard economics professors EDWARD GLAESER and DAVID CUTLER about “Survival of the City … Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation.” Then DR. ALEX PANG’s advice about our work life from his 2016 book, “Rest … Why You Get More Done When You Work Less” is even more relevant now. And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr Daniel Kraft talks to us about something unprecedented … our teeth!
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. SIDARTA RIBEIRO, Deputy Director of the Brain Institute at the Unversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil. His book is “The Oracle of Night … The History and Science of Dreams”. Then, a potential new treatment for a side effect of chemotherapy: Hand-Foot Skin Reaction and Hand-Foot Syndrome. DR. MICHAEL MCCULLAR, the CEO of OnQuality Pharmaceuticals talks about their new drug candidate which has just finished Phase II clinical trials.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Emory Professor DR. CASSANDRA QUAVE talks about “The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines”. And DAVID MCNALLY, President and CEO of Titan Medical. Advances in Robot-assisted surgery – from a long scar to several tiny incisions, and now, perhaps, just one.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. BESSEL VAN DER KOLK about his perpetually best-selling book: “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma.” We’ll also hear Dr. Gunn’s 2005 interview with ELIZABETH HOLMES, the founder and CEO of the now-defunct Theranos, who is currently standing trial for fraud.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Columbia University professor ERIC JOHNSON about “The Elements of Choice: Why the Way We Decide Matters”. Then insight into rare genetic diseases with DR. DIETRICH STEPHAN, CEO of NeuBase Therapeutics. He talks us through rare genetic diseases, as well as NeuBase’s approach. And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about the challenges of Telehealth.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Columbia University professor ADAM TOOZE. It turns out that during COVID, 90% of the world’s workforce worked from home. Then drug trials, where some participants report a positive response, even when they receive nothing. And DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about how to create what he calls a “check engine light” for your body.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Harvard professor experimental cognitive scientist STEVEN PINKER about “Rationality … What it is, Why it seems scarce, and Why it matters”. Then LEMONY SNICKET – the one and only. You know him from his children’s book series, “A Series of Unfortunate Events”. He’s here with “Poison for Breakfast”. You will start bewildered and leave bewildered, but feeling much better about it.
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with University of Chicago professor DR. NEIL SHUBIN about “Some Assembly Required … Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA.” Ancient viruses in our DNA? And what about “jumping genes”? Also, climatologist MARIANA PSAROS talks about “The Atlas of Disappearing Places … Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis”.
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with wired journalist MAIA SZALAVITZ about why our recent approach to opioid addiction has resulted in a rise of undesired outcomes, and an interesting perspective on what we as individuals can do. Her book is “Undoing Drugs … The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction.” Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT wants us to look at Digital Health differently. Our digitally-enhanced Quantified Self can lead to a new Quantified Health.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with neuroscientist and psychologist LISA FELDMAN BARRETT. She gives us “7½ Lessons about the Brain” and has some surprises – there is no “reptilian” part of your brain … it’s just a myth. Then in biotech – treatments to fight diseases caused by inflammation – DR. JIM WOODY, the CEO of 180 Life Sciences talks about their pipeline of drugs, as well as their lead work in clinical trials now – it’s for Dupuytrin’s Contracture, affecting one out of 25 people in Europe and North America.
On this week’s Tech Nation, from the bumpy history of the chariot to how smartphones are essential equipment for transportation in the future. Economist deputy editor TOM STANDAGE talks about “A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next”. Then DR. JIM BROWN, the CEO of DURECT, describes their first Phase 2 clinical trials for Alcoholic Hepatitis, known as AH. And a look at what comes next for their approach to regenerative medicine.
On this week’s Tech Nation, it’s about developing medicines which enable the body to heal itself. First up, treating depression in a whole new way … and rapidly. DR. JEFF JONAS, the Chief Innovation Officer and Director of Sage Therapeutics, talks about their drug Zuranolone, nearing the end of its drug approval journey. Then, CRAIG PARKER, the CEO of Surrozen, talks about their work with the W-N-T pathway, or Wnt pathway. Their initial candidate for treatment? Repairing the liver.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with ROBERT SIEGEL, Venture Investor and Stanford University Lecturer, and the Author of “The Brains and Brawn Company … How Leading Organizations blend the best of Digital and Physical.” Then, intervening with “cytokine storms”. JIM JOYCE, the CEO of San Diego’s Sigyn Therapeutics talks about their progress to intervening quickly.
Moira speaks with journalist JASON FAGONE talks about Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a pioneer in codebreaking, from World War I to rumrunners to drug smuggling to the famous Enigma machine. His book is “The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies.” Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. MARCO TAGLIETTI, President and CEO of Scynexis, talks about their work in serious invasive fungal infections.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. HARVEY KAUFMAN, the Senior Medical Director of Quest Diagnostics, about how the use or delay of medical tests reveals about the health status of the US. Then MIKE CLAYMAN, the CEO of Flexion Therapeutics, talks about the treatments they have in clinical trials for osteoarthritis, knee replacement surgery, and more.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. LEVI GARRAWAY, the Chief Medical Officer of Genentech about FDA approvals for treatments in two very rare diseases - SMA - Spinal Muscular Atrophy, and NMOSD - Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder. Then DR. THOMAS RANDO, Co-Founder of Fountain Therapeutics, a Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, and Director of Glen Laboratories on the Biology of Aging talks about a rampant medical condition – aging.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with anthropologist EBEN KIRKSEY, a professor of anthropology at Deakin University in Melbourne. He’s look at the societal and ethical implications of CRISPR – and not just hypothetically. He traveled to China, with an eye to understanding the circumstance of the three CRISPR babies known to exist. His book is “The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft gives us a quick primer on antibodies and how we use them as therapy.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with psychologist DR. RON FRIEDMAN about “Decoding Greatness … How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success”. Then DR. TOM HALLAM from Palisade Bio in San Diego talks about their efforts to solve a major problem post-surgery – how to get your GI track back on track. And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft reviews tests to detect Alzheimer’s early.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with journalist OLIVER BROUDY about his book “The Sensitives - The Rise of Environmental Illness and Search for America’s Last Pure Place.” Then in biotech, a San Diego company who pivoted from treating parainfluenza and influenza to target COVID … and they started in Wuhan, China. Moira speaks with DR. STANLEY LEWIS, the Chief Medical Officer of Ansun Biopharma.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with TANUJ MOHAN, the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Enlighted, a Siemens Company based in Silicon Valley. Smart technology may bring us back to safe workplaces - from social distancing, to automatic contact tracing, overly crowded points of contact, and more. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about our “Sociome” – where and how we live is more important than our DNA.
On this week’s Tech Nation, what we lose if we go to driverless cars. Moira speaks with MATTHEW CRAWFORD about his book: “Why We Drive … Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road”. Then YOCHI SLONIM, CEO of Anima Biotech, talks about the path from your DNA to producing proteins, and the potential for new drugs.
On this week’s Tech Nation, STEVEN JOHNSON with “Enemy of All Mankind … A True Story of Piracy, Power and History’s First Global Manhunt.” It’s a 17th century story that’s rife with insights for today. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about food as medicine – it might be steamed vegetables … or could that be chocolate and wine?
On this week’s Tech Nation, WIRED journalist ADAM ROGERS talks about his book: “Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern.” Then making headway in treating nerve damage. Axogen’s KAREN ZADEREJ tells that transplanting the nerves of others is now possible.
On this week’s Tech Nation, what Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Richard Branson all have in common: They all started spaceflight companies. Moira speaks with New Yorker writer NICHOLAS SCHMIDLE, the author of “Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut”. Then 40% of Americans report that they have gained weight since the COVID pandemic began. Excerpts from a past interview with DR SANDRA AAMODT, the former editor-in-chief of Nature Neuroscience. Her TED Talk “Why Dieting Doesn’t Usually Work” has received over 4 Million views. She’s the author of the 2014 book, “Why Diets Make Us Fat … The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession with Weight Loss.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, University of Wisconsin math professor JORDAN ELLENBERG, whom you might know from his earlier book, “How Not To Be Wrong”. He talks about “Shape … The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else.” Then MARCIO SOUZA, the President and CEO of Praxis Precision Medicines, describes their research drug modulating GABA, a key neurotransmitter in the brain, and its potential to treat depression, essential tremor, and other conditions.
On this week’s Tech Nation, it’s all about changing behaviors now that that we interact online. ERICA DHAWAN talks about “Digital Body Language – How to Build Trust & Connection No Matter the Distance”. Then how to take an insight in science and enable it to become an actual product. DR. MARK ALLEN, the co-founder and CEO of Elevian, tells us their experience and about selecting their first target: stroke.
On this week’s Tech Nation, how exactly did Edward Snowden deliver those classified government documents into the hands of the media? Former Washington Post investigative journalist BART GELLMAN, currently writing for The Atlantic, talks about his book: “Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the potential for genetic susceptibility to the COVID-19 virus, and other aspects of genetic predisposition to the success or failure of available medical treatments.
On this week’s Tech Nation, MATT RIDLEY, columnist from The Times of London on science, the environment, and economics, and author of “How Innovation Works – And Why It Flourishes in Freedom”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT leads the COVID-19 Response Task Force for the XPrize Pandemic Alliance.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JER THORP. The former Data Artist in Residence at the New York Times, he talks about his book: “Living in Data – A Citizen’s Guide to a Better Information Future”. Then JOE HERNANDEZ, the Founder and CEO of Blue Water Vaccines tells us about their quest for a universal flu vaccine. Even more unusual? Along the way, they also found a Dodo bird.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with WIRED journalist LAUREN GOODE. They talk about her article appearing in the May, 2021 issue: “I called Off My Wedding. The Internet will never forget.” But in a follow-up to a recent interview with DR. JONATHAN JAVITT, the CEO of NeuroRX Pharma. That twist of fate which resurrected a scientific discovery literally shelved for most of two decades? That NeuroRX transformed it into a treatment for COVID-19? The clinical trial results are in.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with MIT psychology professor DR. SHERRY TURKLE. She’s written her memoir, and talks about the concept of “Deep” empathy. Then advanced clinical trial results for treating mild Alzheimer’s Disease. DR. JIM GALVIN, a professor and Director of the Comprehensive Center for Brain Health at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, talks about what it means, prior to its June, 2021 final decision by the FDA.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with former UC Irvine professor, DR. HANS KEIRSTEAD, the chairman and CEO of Aivita Biomedical. They’re talking about adult stem cells, in your body right now, and work in treating spinal cord injury, and in ovarian cancer, melanoma, the skin cancer, glioblastoma … and even in a vaccine for COVID-19, this one designed to be affordable for everyone, everywhere.
On this week’s Tech Nation, we’re talking about “Good Medicine … Health, Ethics and Innovation”. It’s a Collaboration Between Bioethics International and Scientific American. We’ll hear from JENNIFER MILLER, a professor at the Yale University School of Medicine, and JEREMY ABBATE, the publisher of Scientific American. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about existing drugs being repurposed in the fight against COVID. And what gets us to stick with all that personal health technology we need? RICK ANDERSON is the President and General Manager for North America at Dario Health.
On this week’s Tech Nation, spurred by the re-opening of expeditions to the summit of Mount Everest, after a one-year closure due to COVID-19, a 1993 interview with SIR EDMUND HILLARY\, who with his climbing partner, Sherpa TENZING NORGAY, was the first to reach the summit. Then DR. GENE KINNEY, the President & CEO of Prothena Biosciences, a new drug in clinical trials for Parkinson’s. How Parkinson’s unfolds in the brain, the idea behind how this drug, and the hope of slowing, if not stopping, disease progress.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with WALTER ISAACSON about “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.” Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT takes us through the slate of winners of the $6 Million Rapid COVID Screening Xprize.
On this week’s Tech Nation, learning to draw on the radio! DAN ROAM, the founder of The Napkin Academy, invites us to make simple drawings showing what the COVID-19 pandemic looks like to each of us. They’ll also talk about his writer’s workshop and how he’s writing his upcoming book– “The Pop-Up Pitch” – he’s inviting all nonfiction writers to write their books along with him.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Ohio State University professor ANGUS FLETCHER neuroscience and literature, and why stories can be so compelling – from Greek tragedy to modern times. His book is “Wonderworks … the 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature”. Then a ten-minute primer with DAVID PETERSON, best known for creating alien languages for HBO’s Game of Thrones, Netflix's The Witcher, and Marvel's Doctor Strange.
On this week’s Tech Nation, DR. JONATHAN JAVITT from NeuroRX Pharma talks about a scientific discovery which lingered for nearly two decades in some 70 boxes in deep storage – it’s now being tested as a treatment for COVID-19. Then RICK CARREON, the CEO of ImpediMed, tells us about a technology developed in the 1990’s for research purposes. Today it’s approved for the early detection of lymphedema following breast cancer – and early intervention can stop its progression.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Wharton Marketing Professor, JONAH BERGER, follow his earlier books, “Contagious” and “Invisible Influence”. His latest is “The Catalyst – How To Change Anyone’s Mind”. Then on BioTech Nation, using viruses to our benefit. That’s the idea from Aspa Therapeutics. DR. ERIC DAVID described Aspa’s approach to deliver essential treatment for the rare genetic condition of Canavan’s Disease.
On this week’s Tech Nation, DR. GREG FROST, the CEO of Exuma Biotech. He explains how gene therapy for cancer is currently a 6 to 8 week proposition, and requires the patient to undergo chemotherapy. Exuma’s aim is to reduce the time to 4 hours and eliminate the chemotherapy … Then DR. CHRIS SMITH with Brandon Capital Partners and a board member of Ena Respiratory talks about updates us on Ena-51 – a spray to reduce the presence of COVID in the nasal passageway.
On this week’s Tech Nation, neuroscientist DANIEL LEVITIN about his book “Successful Aging … A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives”. And DR. CAMERON TURTLE from Eidos Therapeutics tells us that of the 6 Million Americans living with the medical condition known as Heart Failure, several hundred thousand have a special type, which was thought to be rare, but is being underdiagnosed. It’s known by its initials: ATTR. Eidos is working on a treatment.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with SARAH FRIER, technology journalist with Bloomberg News, and author of the Financial Times’ Book of the Year, “No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram”. And VICTOR HWANG, a former Silicon Valley venture capitalist and founder of Right to Start. He’s also the author of “The Rainforest – The Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, DAVID QUAMMEN is the author of “Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic”, his 2012 book which sounds oh-so familiar today. There are gorillas, chimpanzees and monkeys, birds and rats and, yes, bats. Then a San Diego company working on a simple blood test for early stage Lung Cancer. With 2/3’s of patients initially diagnosed at stage 4, CHRIS HIBBERD, the CEO of Nucleix, tells us how they did it, their focus on for bladder cancer and 12 other cancers, and how its science fueled a Law and Order episode.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Sandy Fershee, the Lab Director for D-Ford Detroit at Ford Motor Company. They talk about the latest features for the best-selling vehicle on the road - the F-150 pick-up truck from Ford, the latest design updates, and how Ford went about it. Then BRIAN CULLEY from Lineage Cell Therapeutics tells us what Cell therapy is in plain words, and how they’re working on dry age-related macular degeneration and spinal cord injury, and they also have a new idea to achieve life-time immunity against COVID-19.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Neuroscientist and psychologist LISA FELDMAN BARRETT. She gives us “7½ Lessons about the Brain” and has some surprises – there is no “reptilian” part of your brain … it’s just a myth. Then in biotech – treatments to fight diseases caused by inflammation – DR. JIM WOODY, the CEO of 180 Life Sciences talks about their pipeline of drugs, as well as their lead work in clinical trials now – it’s for Dupuytrin’s Contracture, affecting one out of 25 people in Europe and North America.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Computer Scientist DR. LORIEN PRATT about “Link … How Decision Intelligence Connects Data, Actions, and Outcomes for a Better World.” Then Dr. Seth Lederman, the CEO of Tonix Pharmaceuticals, tells us about how PTSD affects the brain, its relation to sleep, and how it may treated some 9 years after the initial trauma. If you have experienced trauma, and PTSD, you may qualify for one of their clinical studies.
On this week’s Tech Nation, are you working from home? Or really committing yourself to that novel you always wanted to write or your memoirs? In a follow-up to his earlier books – “The Distraction Addiction” and “Rest” - ALEX PANG joins Moira to talk about “Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less – Here’s How”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist MATT RICHTEL turns tech noir thriller fiction writer with the pseudonym A B Jewell, in “The Man Who Wouldn’t Die” - from Silicon Valley values to venture capital lingo to the habits of the newly tech rich in San Francisco. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the health benefits of Ambient Technology – the technology all around that you think is doing one thing, but could do another. Like keep you in good health …
On this week’s Tech Nation, how the tech giants are different from the global corporations of yesterday. BuzzFeed journalist ALEX KANTROWITZ talks about “Always Day One … How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever.” And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about his current work with the World Health Organization, heading up a team to develop a global app in these times of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Wired magazine’s Editor-at-Large, STEVEN LEVY. You may know him from Hackers or Crypto. He’s here today with "Facebook - The Inside Story". Then on BioTech Nation, SANDY MCCRAE, the CEO of Sangamo Therapeutics talks about Zinc Fingers. Sangamo is working on numerous projects to introduce DNA into patient’s bodies where the DNA may be missing or simply doesn’t work as needed. The challenge? It would permanently change to your DNA. Are you ready for it?
On this week’s Tech Nation, DR. PAUL AUERBACH, Professor Emeritus at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, a co-founder of the Wilderness Medical Society, and author of “Enviromedics: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, talks about longevity, zip code by zip code.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with GLEN de VRIES, the co-founder and co-CEO of Medidata, a company which has provided data management services for clinical trials for some twenty years. He’s talks about “The Patient Equation … the precision medicine revolution in the age of COVID-19 and Beyond”. Then can we diagnose Autism earlier? The average age of diagnosis is 4 years old, but a blood test may reveal autism spectrum disorder as early as 18 months. Moira speaks with BETH DONLEY, the CEO of Stemina Biomarker Discovery.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with noted speculative fiction writer, WILLIAM GIBSON. His first book, Neuromancer, the 1984 novel, which won numerous awards, coined the term cyberspace, and cemented the genre of cyberpunk. His latest book is “Agency”, the second book in The Peripheral Trilogy.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with anthropologist EBEN KIRKSEY, a professor of anthropology at Deakin University in Melbourne. He’s look at the societal and ethical implications of CRISPR – and not just hypothetically. He traveled to China, with an eye to understanding the circumstance of the three CRISPR babies known to exist. His book is “The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT gives us a quick primer on antibodies and how we use them as therapy.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. PETER DIAMANDIS, the executive chair of the Xprize Foundation and co-founder of COVAXX. Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT joins Moira to interview Peter about the COVID-related Xprizes and COVAXX’s COVID vaccine. Then DR. PETER BEETHAM, the CEO of Cibus, tells us that natural mutations in plants happen one tiny nucleotide at a time. Cibus’s technology can create these tiny mutations, and even enhance seeds.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. JULIET SCHOR, an economist and professor of sociology at Boston College. They talk about all those workers hired by the new services, from Uber and Lyft to Doordash, Instacart, and more. Her book is “After the Gig … How the Shared Economy Got Hijacked, and How to Win It Back”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about CGM’s - Continuous glucose monitors – they create a picture of your “foodprint”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. JUSTIN REICH, Director of the Teaching Systems Lab at MIT and host of the podcast, TeachLab. His book is “Failure to Disrupt … Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR DANIEL KRAFT tells us that we are having an “Infodemic”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. LEVI GARRAWAY, the Chief Medical Officer of Genentech about FDA approvals for treatments in two very rare diseases - SMA - Spinal Muscular Atrophy, and NMOSD - Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder. Then DR. THOMAS RANDO, Co-Founder of Fountain Therapeutics, a Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, and Director of Glen Laboratories on the Biology of Aging talks about a rampant medical condition – aging.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Jim McKelvey, Co-Founder and CEO of Square – that little gadget that plugs into a smartphone and any vendor can take your credit card. He’s written “The Innovation Stack … Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time”. Then on BioTech Nation, Chris Nave, the Managing Director of Brandon Capital in Melbourne, Australia. He’s tell us what’s up with Australia with respect to global biotech.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with a company that paused its work on Hepatitis B to focus on treatments for COVID. DR. LAWRENCE BLATT, the CEO of Aligos Therapeutics joins Moira to talk about their idea for treating COVID. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT tells us that all COVID vaccines are not the same, and a potential different approach for *all* cancer treatments, including a tough one – Ovarian Cancer. Moira speaks with BILL NEWELL, the CEO of Sutro Biopharma, about their approach and their results thus far.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with the late DAVID GRAEBER, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and an early architect of the Occupy Wall Street movement. With his recent, unexpected passing, this archive Tech Nation interview was recorded shortly before Occupy Wall Street coalesced. Moira speaks with him about his book “Debt, the first 5,000 years”. She’ll also speak with WES GILSON, the head of Artificial Intelligence at Siemens Healthineers, about the intersection between artificial intelligence and healthcare.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. PATRICK YANG, Chair and Co-Founder, Acepodia. They’ve just treated their first human. Their treatment? For HER-2 positive cancer - it can be anywhere in the body. Then writer, poet, writing critic, and writing coach - JOAN GELFAND. Her 2018 book, “You Can Be a Winning Writer”, can help you write that book you’ve been meaning to, or relax with her latest novel, “Extreme”.
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 sale and they are out there … on the Dark Web – yes, he explains that, too.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with STEPHEN MARTIN and JOSEPH MARKS, the authors of “Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don’t, and Why”. From the neuroscience of it, to the human behavioral characteristics – being human can be challenging. And did you know you had a personal data lake? Tech Nation regular contributor GARY DAVIS, the Chief Consumer Security Evangelist at McAfee, tells us how to take care of it.
On this week’s Tech Nation, ANDREW MARANTZ talks about what social media is doing to the information we consume … and perhaps more importantly, the information we believe. His book is Antisocial – Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation. Then, in biotech, DR. PAUL-PETER TAK, the CEO of Kintai Therapeutics gives us a bigger picture of our gut - it’s not just your microbiome that plays a significant role in the recovery from illness.
On this week’s Tech Nation, ADRIAN SHAHBAZ, Research Director for Technology and Democracy at Freedom House, and ALLIE FUNK, a Research Analyst focusing on the global impact of network information. They discuss the Freedom House report “Freedom on the Net 2019 – The Crisis of Social Media”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, tells us about psychedelics – they are not becoming part of mainstream medicine.
On this week’s Tech Nation, the global supply chain of … recycled goods. ADAM MINTER talks about “Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale.” Then in biotech, former University of Southern California professor BOB LADNER CEO of CV6 Therapeutics, moved his cancer research group from the beaches of Santa Monica to Belfast, Northern Ireland. CV6 is looking to make a chemotherapy used by millions of cancer patients each year better.
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 Things, while DR. CRYSTAL ICENHOUR, the CEO of Aperiomics, talks about identifying hard-to-diagnose medical conditions by looking at the DNA of microorganisms in your body.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with journalist OLIVER BROUDY about his book “The Sensitives - The Rise of Environmental Illness and Search for America’s Last Pure Place.” Then in biotech, a San Diego company who pivoted from treating parainfluenza and influenza to target COVID … and they started in Wuhan, China. Moira speaks with DR. STANLEY LEWIS, the Chief Medical Officer of Ansun Biopharma.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with TANUJ MOHAN, the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Enlighted, a Siemens Company based in Silicon Valley. Smart technology may bring us back to safe workplaces - from social distancing, to automatic contact tracing, overly crowded points of contact, and more. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about our “Sociome” – where and how we live is more important than our DNA.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. KAROLY NIKOLICH, the Co-Founder and CEO of Alkahest. He describes how they are targeting certain proteins to address the degenerative conditions we develop as we age. Then, DR. TONY FIORINO from electroCore tells us about their device which may alleviate the pain of cluster headaches, and Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about where does design meet medicine and a new kind of passport.
What if we could just get the antibodies from all the various strains of COVID-19, put them together and get them in an IV drug? Well, that’s exactly what Gigagen has done. Today, when Moira speaks with geneticist DAVID JOHNSON, its co-founder, President and CEO of Gigagen. Then, your skin microbiome - Problems with it can lead to severe skin rashes for cancer patients, as well as eczema and psoriasis. DR. TRAVIS WHIFILL tells us what Azitra Biosciences is testing.
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 cancer. GILEAD RADAY, COO of RedHill Biopharma talks about a treatment in their pipeline and a plan on how to avoid creating antibiotic resistance.
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 from F-Star in Cambridge, England describes their approach to creating cancer drugs, and Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about sleep – and upsides and downsides of all this technology.
On this week’s Tech Nation, what we lose if we go to driverless cars. Moira speaks with MATTHEW CRAWFORD about his book: “Why We Drive … Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road”. Then YOCHI SLONIM, CEO of Anima Biotech, talks about the path from your DNA to producing proteins, and the potential for new drugs.
On this week’s Tech Nation, STEVEN JOHNSON with “Enemy of All Mankind … A True Story of Piracy, Power and History’s First Global Manhunt.” It’s a 17th century story that’s rife with insights for today. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about food as medicine – it might be steamed vegetables … or could that be chocolate and wine?
On this week’s Tech Nation, how exactly did Edward Snowden deliver those classified government documents into the hands of the media? Former Washington Post investigative journalist BART GELLMAN, currently writing for The Atlantic, talks about his book: “Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the potential for genetic susceptibility to the COVID-19 virus, and other aspects of genetic predisposition to the success or failure of available medical treatments.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times journalist MATT RICHTEL turns the tables on all of us. Matt interviews Dr. Gunn! They talk about topics of interest to both of them in technology, business and science.
On this week’s Tech Nation, MATT RIDLEY, columnist from The Times of London on science, the environment, and economics, and author of “How Innovation Works – And Why It Flourishes in Freedom”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT leads the COVID-19 Response Task Force for the XPrize Pandemic Alliance.
On this week’s Tech Nation, learning to draw on the radio! DAN ROAM, the founder of The Napkin Academy, invites us to make simple drawings showing what the COVID-19 pandemic looks like to each of us. They’ll also talk about his writer’s workshop and how he’s writing his upcoming book– “The Pop-Up Pitch” – he’s inviting all nonfiction writers to write their books along with him.
On this week’s Tech Nation, the first Google radio interview with Google co-founders LARRY PAGE and SERGEY BRIN from the year 2000. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT gives us insights into where Google is today in the area of healthcare and groundbreaking research – from Google Health, to Calico, Verily Life Sciences, Google Flu Trends, and more ....
On this week’s Tech Nation, Wharton Marketing Professor, JONAH BERGER, follow his earlier books, “Contagious” and “Invisible Influence”. His latest is “The Catalyst – How To Change Anyone’s Mind”. Then on BioTech Nation, using viruses to our benefit. That’s the idea from Aspa Therapeutics. DR. ERIC DAVID described Aspa’s approach to deliver essential treatment for the rare genetic condition of Canavan’s Disease.
On this week’s Tech Nation, DAVID LUDVIGSON, President & CEO of Nanomix, talks about making their 15-minute, handheld testing device COVID-19 ready. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT sees the rise of the Maker Movement, especially now with so many people sheltering in place. And HELEN TORLEY, President & CEO of Halozyme Therapeutics, talks about their efforts to move the time it takes IV drugs from hours down to minutes – current testing is in breast cancer in women and multiple myeloma.
On this week’s Tech Nation, how the tech giants are different from the global corporations of yesterday. BuzzFeed journalist ALEX KANTROWITZ talks about “Always Day One … How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever.” And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about his current work with the World Health Organization, heading up a team to develop a global app in these times of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On this week’s Tech Nation, are you working from home? Or really committing yourself to that novel you always wanted to write or your memoirs? In a follow-up to his earlier books – “The Distraction Addiction” and “Rest” - ALEX PANG joins Moira to talk about “Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less – Here’s How”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, in these times of global crisis, how do changes in international cargo and trade work? Moira speaks with KEITH ROCKWELL, the Director of the Information and External Relations Division at the World Trade Organization in Geneva. And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT updates us on the loosening of HIPAA rules in these days of COVID-19.
On this week’s Tech Nation, it’s about one team’s dedicated effort to find an impactful and time-sensitive cure to fighting the coronavirus. Gates Foundation award winner JACOB GLANVILLE, the Chief Scientific Officer of Distributed Bio, joins me talks about their work to engineer unique and targeted antibodies and other work to create a universal flu vaccine – could it all be converted to fight coronaviruses and Covid-19? There’s a lot more to the story that Distributed Bio’s pigs in Guatemala, which you may have seen in the NetFlix documentary “Pandemic”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, DR. NADINE BURKE HARRIS, the CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness in San Francisco, with her new book “The Deepest Well … Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about … the microbiome, and how the right surgical intervention can change everything.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Wired magazine’s Editor-at-Large, STEVEN LEVV. You may know him from Hackers or Crypto. He’s here today with "Facebook - The Inside Story". Then on BioTech Nation, SANDY MCCRAE, the CEO of Sangamo Therapeutics talks about Zinc Fingers. Sangamo is working on numerous projects to introduce DNA into patient’s bodies where the DNA may be missing or simply doesn’t work as needed. The challenge? It would permanently change to your DNA. Are you ready for it?
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JIM MCKELVEY, Co-Founder and CEO of Square – that little gadget that plugs into a smartphone and any vendor can take your credit card. He’s written “The Innovation Stack … Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time”. Then on BioTech Nation, CHRIS NAVE, the Managing Director of Brandon Capital in Melbourne, Australia. He’s tell us what’s up with Australia with respect to global biotech.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with TERRY JONES, a co-creator of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and DOUGLAS ADAMS, the author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. With the recent passing of Terry Jones, we are re-airing our 1997 interview. Then on BioTech Nation, focus on conditions of the kidney. VINNY JINDAL, the Head of Strategy at Reata Pharmaceuticals, talks about Bardoxolone for chronic kidney disease caused by Alport Sydrome. They just got a “thumbs up” from the FDA. Then Dr. DARREN KELLY, the Founder and CEO of Certa Therapeutics, talks about the seriousness of organ fibrosis, the cause of mortality in some 50% of human lives. Certa is working first on stopping fibrosis in the kidney.
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, the 1998 Tech Nation interview with the late JIM LEHRER, longtime news anchor of the PBS Newshour, about “The tensest, most anxiety ridden experience” he “ever had interviewing anybody about anything”. Then on BioTech Nation, the need for early detection of cancer. Cancer UK’s DR. WENDY ALDERTON_ and DR. MIKE FISHER from Oncimmune talks about the current state of cancer diagnostics, and DR. ARTHRU SANDS, CEO of Nurix Therapeutics, discusses their new approach to treating cancer.
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, Moira speaks with noted speculative fiction writer, WILLIAM GIBSON. His first book, Neuromancer, the 1984 novel, which won numerous awards, coined the term cyberspace, and cemented the genre of cyberpunk. His latest book is “Agency”, the second book in The Peripheral Trilogy?
On this week’s Tech Nation, University of Pennsylvania professors MICHAEL KEARNS and AARON ROTH with their book, “The Ethical Algorithm … the science of socially aware algorithm design.” Then regular contributor GARY DAVIS reports in on the state of Corporate Security breaches, and Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about IPS Cells – having our own cells treat our bodies.
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, 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 loss in children following treatment for cancer. Also, DANIEL DE BOER, the CEO of ProQR Therapeutics, talks about their approach to treat genetic diseases, including as childhood blindness. We’ll learn how it works, and why it’s safe.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. MARIANA MAZZUCATO, a professor of the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London. Her book is “The Value of Everything … Making and Taking in the Global Economy”. Then on Tech Nation Health, TIM SHANNON from Canaan Partners discusses some terms with potential in the future of medicine: “protein degradation” and “synthetic lethality”. And Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT reviews the latest FDA approvals using AI.
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 HELEN TORLEY of Halozyme returns to talk about a technology which reduces the time for infusion therapy.
On this week’s Tech Nation, DR. PAUL AUERBACH, Professor Emeritus at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, a co-founder of the Wilderness Medical Society, and author of “Enviromedics: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, talks about longevity, zip code by zip code.
On this week’s Tech Nation, the global supply chain of recycled goods. ADAM MINTER talks about “Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale.” Then in biotech, former University of Southern California professor BOB LADNER CEO of CV6 Therapeutics, moved his cancer research group from the beaches of Santa Monica to Belfast, Northern Ireland. CV6 is looking to make a chemotherapy used by millions of cancer patients each year better.
On this week’s Tech Nation, former CNN journalist and Managing Editor of Foreign Policy, RAVI AGRAWAL with “India Connected … How the Smartphone is Transforming the World’s Largest Democracy.” Then, we’ll hear from JAMIE METZL on “Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, ADRIAN SHAHBAZ, Research Director for Technology and Democracy at Freedom House, and ALLIE FUNK, a Research Analyst focusing on the global impact of network information. They discuss the Freedom House report “Freedom on the Net 2019 – The Crisis of Social Media”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, tells us about psychedelics – they are not becoming part of mainstream medicine.
On this week’s Tech Nation, ANDREW MARANTZ talks about what social media is doing to the information we consume … and perhaps more importantly, the information we believe. His book is "Antisocial – Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation". Then, in biotech, DR. PAUL-PETER TAK, the CEO of Kintai Therapeutics gives us a bigger picture of our gut - it’s not just your microbiome that plays a significant role in the recovery from illness.
On this week’s Tech Nation, how Global Trade will change with manufacturing turning to commercial-grade 3D printers. Dartmouth professor RICHARD D’AVENI is the author of “The Pan-Industrial Revolution – How New Manufacturing Titans Will Transform the World”. Then on Tech Nation Health, producing your own cells to deliver on the promise of Precision Medicine. STEVE BAGSHAW, the CEO of FujiFilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, explains what they do. And Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT gives us more insight on the announcement out of China of gene-edited babies.
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 cost so much? MIKE ABRAMS from Numerof and Associates explains.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with STEPHEN MARTIN and JOSEPH MARKS, the authors of “Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don’t, and Why”. From the neuroscience of it, to the human behavioral characteristics – being human can be challenging. And did you know you had a personal data lake? Tech Nation regular contributor GARY DAVIS, the Chief Consumer Security Evangelist at McAfee, tells us how to take care of it.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Computer Scientist DR. LORIEN PRATT about “Link … How Decision Intelligence Connects Data, Actions, and Outcomes for a Better World.” Then DR. SETH LEDERMAN, the CEO of Tonix Pharmaceuticals, tells us about how PTSD affects the brain, its relation to sleep, and how it may treated some 9 years after the initial trauma. If you have experienced trauma, and PTSD, you may qualify for one of their clinical studies.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with journalist MARIA GOODAVAGE. Following her books “Soldier Dogs” and “Secret Service Dogs”, her latest is “Doctor Dogs, How Our Best Friends Are Becoming Our Best Medicine.” And ever wonder why those popular genetic tests don’t say you definitely will get a medical condition, but rather they cite a likelihood? A probability? DR. TARA NICKERSON from Maze Therapeutics explains it, as well as how their work is looking to create new therapies in the future.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with the author known best to you as LEMONY SNICKET, or rather his adult self: DANIEL HANDLER. They talk about his latest adult novel: “Bottle Grove”, and a different take on the San Francisco of today. Then Moira speaks with two different female engineers. BRIANNA WRONKO, the founder and CEO of Group K Diagnostics, is looking to create immediate response diagnostics. And DR. ERICA SMITH, the Vice President of Business Development for Tools4Patient, tlaks about removing the placebo effect - the impact of a positive response to a drug, even when the patient received nothing.
On this week’s Tech Nation, 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 DR. DANIEL KRAFT shows us we can crowdsource medical questions, while Tech Nation Regular Contributor GARY DAVIS reminds us that we love free stuff, and we pay for it with our data. Then KRISHNAN NANDABALAN, the CEO of InveniAI sees continued value in the data used for drug approval after the drug is approved.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist MATT RICHTEL turns tech noir thriller fiction writer with the pseudonym A B Jewell, in “The Man Who Wouldn’t Die” - from Silicon Valley values to venture capital lingo to the habits of the newly tech rich in San Francisco. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the health benefits of Ambient Technology – the technology all around that you think is doing one thing, but could do another. Like keep you in good health …
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 cancer. GILEAD RADAY, COO of RedHill Biopharma talks about a treatment in their pipeline and a plan on how to avoid creating antibiotic resistance.
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 Things, while DR. CRYSTAL ICENHOUR, the CEO of Aperiomics, talks about identifying hard-to-diagnose medical conditions by looking at the DNA of microorganisms in your body.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford emerita psychology professor BARBARA TVERSKY. She talks about “Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought”, how the mind can override perception, how feeling comes before logic, and how we organize things in our world the way we organize our minds.
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 price of drugs and everyday people. While BIO Vice Chair, PAUL HASTINGS, is also the CEO of Nkarta Therapeutics. With Senior Vice President, NADIR MAHMOOD, they’re working with Natural Killer cells to fight cancer.
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 sale and they are out there … on the Dark Web – yes, he explains that, too.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. SUE DESMOND-HELLMAN, the CEO of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and DR. PENNY HEATON, CEO of The Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute, also called Gates MRI. Then scientist-entrepreneur DR. JAKE GLANVILLE, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Distributed Bio, talks about developing a universal flu vaccine.
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, Vice President of IBM Food Trust. From one field to one processor to one supermarket, technology can keep tiny problems tiny.
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 surgeons.
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 NeuroMetrix, talks about their solution for treating chronic pain, and a study of pain sufferers in the face of the opioid crisis.
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 Medicine – paying attention to your Circadian rhythm turns out to be important, even in the modern Healthcare.
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 on this week’s Tech Nation Health, testing for Alzheimer’s Disease long before any outward symptoms appear. CARLO MEDICI, CEO of Alzeca describes their efforts, and our chief correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, talks about the ability to control technology with voice and how it will significantly impact medicine.
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 determine the health status of our hearts.
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 why it might work. Then Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about The Age Wave.
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 his smartwatch – it saved his life.
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 calls we get pretending to be the IRS.
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 from F-Star in Cambridge, England describes their approach to creating cancer drugs, and Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about sleep – and upsides and downsides of all this technology.
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 common skin disorder: Acne.
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 at NIH - the world’s largest medical library, founded in 1836 as a bookshelf in the office of the Army Surgeon General.
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 loss in children following treatment for cancer. Also, DANIEL DE BOER, the CEO of ProQR Therapeutics, talks about their approach to treat genetic diseases, including as childhood blindness. We’ll learn how it works, and why it’s safe.
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, 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 cost so much? MIKE ABRAMS from Numerof and Associates explains.
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 9and 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 HELEN TORLEY of Halozyme returns to talk about a technology which reduces the time for infusion therapy.
On this week’s Tech Nation, GUY KAWASKAI, 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 TORLEY, President and CEO of Halozyme, explores how we might fight different aspects of a cancer, making existing cancer treatments more effective. Its first target – pancreatic cancer, with other cancers soon to follow.
On this week’s Tech Nation, MICHAEL SHERMER talks about “Heavens on Earth – The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia.” We’ll find out who believes – or does not believe – in an afterlife. Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. CARL WARE, from Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in La Jolla, talks about viruses, cancer and autoimmune diseases.
On 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 McAfee talks about the human experience of security in our homes, while JENNIFER ERNST, the CEO of Tivic Health, reveals their electrical medical device - just approved by the FDA - to relieve sinus pain.
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, Vice President of IBM Food Trust. From one field to one processor to one supermarket, technology can keep tiny problems tiny.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with three takes on what would work well in a Smart Home, the projected US trends in consumer technology – what you will likely buy this year, and a tiny chip that can monitor the air that we breathe.
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 surgeons.
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 NeuroMetrix, talks about their solution for treating chronic pain, and a study of pain sufferers in the face of the opioid crisis.
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 Medicine – paying attention to your Circadian rhythm turns out to be important, even in the modern Healthcare.
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 on this week’s Tech Nation Health, testing for Alzheimer’s Disease long before any outward symptoms appear. CARLO MEDICI, CEO of Alzeca describes their efforts, and our chief correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, talks about the ability to control technology with voice and how it will significantly impact medicine.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Harvard professor STEVEN PINKER makes the case that we’re better off today than ever before. His book is “Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.” Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT takes us beyond the hype on “artificial intelligence” in healthcare.
On this week’s Tech Nation, we discover what science might do for Food, Energy, Water and the Environment in the Arequipa Valley of Peru. Purdue University geosciences professor TIM FILLEY describes their work. Then on Tech Nation Health, what the World Health Organization calls out as a burning need – healthcare management. STEVE SAMMUT joins us with a solution in Africa. And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about electroceuticals - electricity as medicine.
On this week’s Tech Nation, psychologist DR. SUSAN DAVID speaks on “Emotional Agility” as well as her TED Talk, “The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage”. Then on Tech Nation Health: The opioid crisis. Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT to brings us up-to-date with the surprising findings of a new study.
On this week’s Tech Nation, former CNN journalist and Managing Editor of Foreign Policy, RAVI AGRAWAL with “India Connected … How the Smartphone is Transforming the World’s Largest Democracy.” Then, we’ll hear from JAMIE METZL on “Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, how Global Trade will change with manufacturing turning to commercial-grade 3D printers. Dartmouth professor RICHARD D’AVENI is the author of “The Pan-Industrial Revolution – How New Manufacturing Titans Will Transform the World”. Then on Tech Nation Health, producing your own cells to deliver on the promise of Precision Medicine. STEVE BAGSHAW, the CEO of FujiFilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, explains what they do. And Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT gives us more insight on the announcement out of China of gene-edited babies.
On this week’s Tech Nation, DR. NADINE BURKE HARRIS, the CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness in San Francisco, with her new book “The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the microbiome, and how the right surgical intervention can change everything.
On this week’s Tech Nation, NYU professor MELISSA SCHILLING talks about everyone from Albert Einstein to Steve Jobs and Elon Musk in “Quirky – The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World.” Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. CHRIS SMITH from the start-up, Q-Sera in Brisbane, Australia, tells us how the venomous Australian Brown snake lashed out at the wrong scientist.
Moira speaks with Duke University Senior Fellow, DAN HEATH, about “The Power of Moments”. It turns out, we actually remember our life in slices of time. Then on Tech Nation Health, it’s the power of viruses – against cancer. Moira speaks with DR. HARRY GRUBER, the President for Science and Innovation at Tocagen about their genetically engineered viruses. Their first, glioblastoma, has received breakthrough therapy designation from the FDA. Tocagen is also working on colorectal, breast, lung, pancreatic and renal cancers, as well as melanoma. Dr. Gruber explains how the virus works.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Pomona College professor GARY SMITH about how we humans are the intelligent ones .. and not computers. He de-hypes our expectations of Artificial Intelligence in “The AI Delusion”. Then on Tech Nation Health, a look at the global biotech industry, its accomplishments and its challenges. JIM GREENWOOD, the President & CEO of BIO, joins us to cover everything from scientific breakthroughs to plentiful jobs for the non-scientists among us.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JAMIE SUSSKIND about his book: “Future Politics … Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech.” Then on Tech Nation Health, breakthrough science in the treatment of epilepsy. TONY COLASIN, the Co-Founder and CEO of Bloom Science, talks about the science Bloom is utilizing to develop new treatments.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with CARY MCCLELLAND about the significant impact of technology on San Francisco – which may be coming to your city, if it hasn’t already. Cary’s book is “Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley”. Then on Tech Nation Health, a potential new treatment for Proteus Syndrome, best known to you from the movie, The Elephant Man. It may also deliver benefits for endometrial cancer. DR. BRIAN SCHWARTZ is the Chief Medical Officer of Arqule.
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 determine the health status of our hearts.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. MARIANA MAZZUCATO a professor of the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London. Her book is “The Value of Everything … Making and Taking in the Global Economy”. Then on Tech Nation Health, TIM SHANNON from Canaan Partners discusses some terms with potential in the future of medicine: “protein degradation” and “synthetic lethality”. And Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT reviews the latest FDA approvals using AI.
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 why it might work. Then Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about The Age Wave.
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 his smartwatch – it saved his life.
On this week’s Tech Nation, how natural disasters shaped civilizations. Former USGS scientist, DR. LUCY JONES joins Moira to talk about her book: “The Big Ones”. Then on Tech Nation Health, treating medical conditions with a person’s own cells. NINA KJELLSON, Managing Partner, from Canaan Partners explains the challenges of car-T therapy in treating cancer patients, and Vericel’s GERARD MICHEL describes their work repairing cartilage in the knee and severe burns. Also, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT covers the Blue Button conference.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JOHN HENNESSEY, chairman of the board of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. From computer science professor to President of Stanford University, he talks about his book: “Leading Matters: Lessons from My Journey”. Then, if you think the Internet is global with just the click of a mouse, think again. Moira speak with KEITH ROCKWELL, the Director of the Information and External Relations Division at the World Trade Organization. They’ll talk about what technology in the Cloud may mean to different nations.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. SUE DESMOND-HELLMANN, the CEO of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and DR. PENNY HEATON, CEO of The Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute, also called Gates MRI. Then scientist-entrepreneur DR. JAKE GLANVILLE, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Distributed Bio, talks about developing a universal flu vaccine.
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, 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, 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 common skin disorder: Acne.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Forbes.com columnist CARMINE GALLO returns with “Five Stars … The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great”. Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. DAN GOLD, CEO of MEI Pharma, joins Moira to talk about the eight out of nine drugs which fail FDA clinical trials. MEI Pharma sees this as opportunity.
On this week’s Tech Nation, SIMON WINCHESTER joins us to talk about “The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World”. Then on Tech Nation Health, how do we test new medications on our immune systems? We’ll hear from DAVE JOHNSON from Gigagen about building synthetic immune systems outside our bodies to do just that. Also Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, talks about transformative technologies.
On this week’s Tech Nation, RICH BERNER, the CEO of MDLIVE, talks about access to physicians from your smartphone - 24/7. And on Tech Nation Health, Dr. JOHN BEADLE, the CEO of Psioxus, describes about how they build new viruses to target cancer cells, and JIM JOYCE, the CEO of Aethlon Medical, talks about filtering high-threat infectious viruses with their product: Hemopurifier.
On this week’s Tech Nation, DR. MARIO LIVIO and his book: "Why? What Makes Us Curious". And on Tech Nation Health, a look at rapid genome analysis for newborns in trouble. DR. STEPHEN KINGSMORE, the President and CEO of the Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine tells us about their experience.
On this week’s Tech Nation, members of the CES 2018 panel “Who Owns Athlete’s Data?” DR. LESLIE SAXON, from the Keck School of Medicine at USC, and ERIC WINSTON, the President of the NFL Players Association. DAVE AUFHAUSER, Managing Director, Sports and Entertainment at Intel on the fan experience with live 360 Virtual Reality. And GUY KAWASAKI with a vision of our futures with autonomous vehicles.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. MITCH PRINSTEIN, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. There’s a science to being popular – and a proven path to likability. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT brings 3D printing into healthcare – there’s a lot of value there – far more than printing cute little widgets just for fun. And DR. SERGE SAXONOV, CEO of 10x Genomics, explains how our current technology for decoding our genomes has its limits, and how to can be improved upon.
Moira speaks with Yale psychology professor JOHN BARGH about “Before You Know It – The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do”. And on Tech Nation Health, a radical new treatment to replace human skin following a serious burn. DR. DENVER LOUGH, the President & CEO of PolarityTE, tells us how it works, and how a group of doctors left a hospital burn center to bring this new technology worldwide.
Moira speaks with 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, DR. MUHAMMAD YUNUS, the founder of Grameen Bank and microloans to the poor. He sees “A World of Three Zeros” – Zero Poverty, Unemployment, and Net Carbon Emissions. Then on Tech Nation Health, brain cancer in children. DR. ROB WECHSLER-REYA heads the Tumor Initiation and Maintenance Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute.
On this week’s Tech Nation, ANDREAS WEIGAND, former chief scientist at Amazon, and author of “Data for the People.” Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. MARSHALL SUMMAR, Director of the Rare Disease Institute and Chief of Genetics and Metabolism at Children’s National Health System in Washington, DC. They talk about treating rare diseases in the very young, and the efforts to support families, local pediatricians and the patients themselves, nationwide and around the world.
RAY DALIO, the founder and co-chair of Bridgewater Associates, talks about his company, which he founded 40 years ago in his 2 bedroom apartment. Today it is recognized as the world’s largest hedge fund. His mental processes, his values and how he sees the world are all part of his book “Principles: Life and Work”. Then on Tech Nation Health, the biotechnology of CRISPR. We hear from KATRINE BOSLEY, the President & CEO of Editas Medicine. This is a new kind of therapeutic.
Stanford History professor TOM MULLANEY discusses “The Chinese Typewriter”. And on Tech Nation Health, we celebrate the Summer of Love. Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT follows the recreational drugs through today with new therapeutics. And AMIT MUNSHI, the President & CEO of Arena Pharmaceuticals tells us about their many drug candidates, including one sourced from cannabinoids.
Moira speaks with journalist JASON FAGONE talks about Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a pioneer in codebreaking, from World War I to rumrunners to drug smuggling to the famous Enigma machine. His book is “The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies.” Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. MARCO TAGLIETTI, President and CEO of Scynexis, talks about their work in serious invasive fungal infections.
On this week’s Tech Nation, MICHAEL SHERMER talks about “Heavens on Earth – The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia.” We’ll find out who believes – or does not believe – in an afterlife. Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. CARL WARE, from Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in La Jolla, talks about viruses, cancer and autoimmune diseases.
On this week’s Tech Nation, how technology has enabled the economies of scale to trickle down to everyone. HEMANT TANEJA, a managing director at the venture capital firm General Catalyst talks about “Unscaled – How AI and the Next Generation of Upstarts are Creating the Economy of the Future.” And on Tech Nation Health, understanding more about our immune systems – and how they change as we age. We’ll hear from DR. THOMAS OLIN, the CEO of Kancera from Stockholm, Sweden. And the Maker Movement in Healthcare. Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, talks about the niche of MakerNurse and his own experience developing a new surgical tool.
On this week’s Tech Nation, SHIDAN GOURAN, the President of Global Blockchain Technologies, about the difference between Blockchain and Bitcoin, and what cryptocurrencies mean to traditional banking. Then on Tech Nation Health, a new technology aims to make a range of existing medications more effective. GEORGE YEH, President of TLC Bio, describes their first targets - Osteo arthritis and liver cancer. And Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, explores how global tech firms are addressing healthcare.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times journalist MATT RICHTEL about his latest novel, “Dead on Arrival”. And on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT examines the reality and the potential of using drones in healthcare.
On this week’s Tech Nation, we discover what science might do for Food, Energy, Water and the Environment in the Arequipa Valley of Peru. Purdue University geosciences professor TIM FILLEY describes their work. Then on Tech Nation Health, what the World Health Organization calls out as a burning need – healthcare management. STEVE SAMMUT joins us with a solution in Africa. And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about electroceuticals - electricity as medicine.
Psychologist DR. SUSAN DAVID speaks on “Emotional Agility” as well as her TED Talk, “The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage”. Then on Tech Nation Health: The opioid crisis. Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT to brings us uptodate with the surprising findings of a new study.
Harvard professor STEVEN PINKER makes the case that we’re better off today than ever before. His book is “Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.” Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT takes us beyond the hype on “artificial intelligence” in healthcare.
On this week’s Tech Nation, a full complement of inventor/entrepreneurs from CES in Las Vegas. That would be CHRIS YOUNG, the CEO of McAfee, SJOERD PITSTRA, the Founder & CEO of Roader, CAROL STANINGER, the CEO of Ancer, and TAJ MANKU, the Co-Founder and CEO of Cognitive Systems. They are all motivated, come from Silicon Valley to Waterloo, Canada, from Florida and even Holland. CES is about innovating technology.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Psychologist DR. GUY WINCH. He tells us the science behind “How To Fix A Broken Heart”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT tells us about his work as a pediatric oncologist.
DR. NADINE BURKE HARRIS, the CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness in San Francisco, with her new book “The Deepest Well … Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the microbiome, and how the right surgical intervention can change everything.
A full hour of Tech Nation Health, reimagining the future of health and healthcare with the emergence of new technologies. DR. DANIEL KRAFT, Chief Correspondent for Tech Nation Health talks about the future of Surgery and Other Interventions. Purdue Professor, DR. PHIL LOW, the Director of Purdue Center for Drug Discovery and Chief Scientific Officer of Endocyte, talks about why it’s hard to surgically remove all the cancerous tissue, and a technology that can change that. And DR. RICHARD KUHN, the Director of the Purdue Institute for Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Disease. He was the first to discover the structure of the Zika virus, and he compares it to other viruses, like Polio and HIV.
NYU professor MELISSA SCHILLING talks about everyone from Albert Einstein to Steve Jobs and Elon Musk in “Quirky – The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World.” Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. CHRIS SMITH from the start-up, Q-Sera in Brisbane, Australia, tells us how the venomous Australian Brown snake lashed out at the wrong scientist.
On this week’s Tech Nation, SIR MARK WALPORT, former Chief Science Advisor for the UK Government and soon, the first Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation – you may be surprised at the UK’s impact on our everyday technology. Then NPR’s lead digital education correspondent ANYA KAMENETZ, and her book, “The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media & Real Life”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent, DR DANIEL KRAFT talks about the rise of the individual inventor in health and wellness.
ANDREW KEEN talks about “How to fix the Future”. And on Tech Nation Health, Dr. STEVE MENTO from Conatus Pharmaceuticals talks about our livers and their scientific work in treating NASH and Cirrhosis of the liver. Also, Chief Correspondent DANIEL KRAFT describes the social determinants of health. Yes, it makes a difference.
A full hour of Tech Nation Health, reimagining the future of health and healthcare with the emergence of new technologies. DR. DANIEL KRAFT, Chief Correspondent for Tech Nation Health talks about the future of Surgery and Other Interventions. Purdue Professor, DR. PHIL LOW, the Director of Purdue Center for Drug Discovery and Chief Scientific Officer of Endocyte, talks about why it’s hard to surgically remove all the cancerous tissue, and a technology that can change that. And DR. RICHARD KUHN, the Director of the Purdue Institute for Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Disease. He was the first to discover the structure of the Zika virus, and he compares it to other viruses, like Polio and HIV.
An overview of CES 2018 with RICK KOWALSKI, the Manager of Industry and Business Intelligence at the Consumer Technology Association. Going beyond gadgets, Arizona State professor CODY FRIESEN tells us how his company, Zero Mass Water, is building hydropanels, producing water from sunlight and air. In healthcare, DR. NEAL KASSELL talks about the global potential and the challenges of focused ultrasound.
Members of the CES 2018 panel “Who Owns Athlete’s Data?” DR. LESLIE SAXON, from the Keck School of Medicine at USC, and ERIC WINSTON, the President of the NFL Players Association. DAVE AUFHAUSER, Managing Director, Sports and Entertainment at Intel on the fan experience with live 360 Virtual Reality. And GUY KAWASAKI with a vision of our futures with autonomous vehicles.
AARON HOROWITZ and HANNAH CHUNG, Co-Founders of Sproutel and Designers of My Special AFLAC Duck, for children with cancer. Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. TODD BRADY, CEO of Aldeyra describes their work on a disease which affects one-third of people. It led to a new drug helping patients with a very rare disease - Sjögren -Larsson Syndrome.
JARON LANIER talks about “Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality”. Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. HARTMUT EHRLICH, the CEO opf Abivax, describes their efforts to keep HIV undetectable for longer and longer periods, and Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT explores the future of going to the doctor.
How video on your smartphone is the next generation of focus group. We'll hear from PATRICIA ROLLER, the CEO of Vidlet. Then on Tech Nation Health the link between Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s Disease. DR. JEROLD CHUN is a Professor and Director of Neuroscience Drug Discovery at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute.
“The NPR Math Guy”, KEITH DEVLIN, tells us about Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World”. Then on Tech Nation Health, chief correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT tells us about the winners of the Qualcomm Tricoder Xprize - StarTrek medicine isn’t fiction any more.
Former Google CEO and Alphabet Executive Chair, ERIC SCHMIDT and former Senior Vice President for Products, JONATHAN ROSENBERG talk about “How Google Works”. Then on Tech Nation Health, faster diagnostics for the 25 species of bacteria which cause Sepsis. JOHN MCDONOUGH, the CEO of T2 Biosystems, talks about their efforts in Sepsis and other new diagnostics for candida and Lyme disease.
STEVEN JOHNSON discusses his book: “Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World.” Then on Tech Nation Health, chief correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the future of cancer – its prevention, early detection and emergent treatments. And DR. NICLAS STIERNHOLM, the President & CEO of Trillium Therapeutics, tells us about identifying cancer cells so that the immune system can remove them.
Moira speaks with UC Berkeley professor EDWARD ASHFORD LEE talks about “Plato and the Nerd: The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology.” Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the current state of Big Data in the healthcare field and DR. AJAY GUPTA from Rockwell Medical tells us about his work getting iron to very ill patients – from cancer to kidney failure to long term infections. The breakthrough came from scientific work almost two centuries old.
Moira speaks with WALTER ISAACSON about his latest book “Leonardo Da Vinci”. After all these centuries, more information emerges. And on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT recaps the Exponential Medicine Conference 2017. And DR. KEN HORNE from Symic Bio talks about a common challenge: vein grafts in legs and arms.
Moira speaks with Duke University Senior Fellow, DAN HEATH, about “The Power of Moments”. It turns out, we actually remember our life in slices of time. Then on Tech Nation Health, it’s the power of viruses – against cancer. Moira speaks with DR. HARRY GRUBER, the President for Science and Innovation at Tocagen about their genetically engineered viruses. Their first, glioblastoma, has received breakthrough therapy designation from the FDA. Tocagen is also working on colorectal, breast, lung, pancreatic and renal cancers, as well as melanoma. Dr. Gruber explains how the virus works.
Moira speaks with journalist JASON FAGONE talks about Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a pioneer in codebreaking, from World War I to rumrunners to drug smuggling to the famous Enigma machine. His book is “The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies.” Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. MARCO TAGLIETTI, President and CEO of Scynexis, talks about their work in serious invasive fungal infections
Moira speaks with GARY SHAPIRO, the President of the Consumer Technology Association about technology and tech jobs in the US and globally. And where does all this innovation come from? Rice University music professor ANTHONY BRANDT and Stanford neuroscientist, DAVID EAGLEMAN look at “The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World”.
Moira speaks with Yale psychology professor JOHN BARGH about “Before You Know It – The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do”. And on Tech Nation Health, a radical new treatment to replace human skin following a serious burn. DR. DENVER LOUGH, the President & CEO of PolarityTE, tells us how it works, and how a group of doctors left a hospital burn center to bring this new technology worldwide.
Moira speaks with 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, DR. MUHAMMAD YUNUS, the founder of Grameen Bank and microloans to the poor. He sees “A World of Three Zeros” – Zero Poverty, Unemployment, and Net Carbon Emissions. Then on Tech Nation Health, brain cancer in children. DR. ROB WECHSLER-REYA heads the Tumor Initiation and Maintenance Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute.
DEREK THOMPSON, a Senior Editor at The Atlantic describes his book “Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in the Age of Distraction”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent Dr. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the future of aging, longevity and technology in the near and more distant future, and on BioTech Nation, Dr. NATHANIEL DAVID, Founder & CEO of Unity Biotechnology talks about the role of “senescent” cells in aging.
RAY DALIO is the founder and co-chair of Bridgewater Associates, which he began 40 years ago in his 2-bedroom apartment. Today it is recognized as the world’s largest hedge fund. His mental processes, his values and how he sees the world are all part of his book “Principles: Life and Work”. Then on Tech Nation Health, the biotechnology of CRISPR. We hear from KATRINE BOSLEY, the President & CEO of Editas Medicine. This is a new kind of therapeutic.
Stanford history professor TOM MULLANEY discusses his book “The Chinese Typewriter”. And on Tech Nation Health, we celebrate the Summer of Love. Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT follows the recreational drugs through today with new therapeutics. Also, AMIT MUNSHI, the President & CEO of Arena Pharmaceuticals tells us about their many drug candidates, including one sourced from cannabinoids.
DR. SETH LEDERMAN from Tonix Pharmaceuticals talks about military-related PTSD. Their drug has been fast-tracked by the FDA. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DANIEL KRAFT with JORDAN AMADIO describes the emergent technology in the field of neurosurgery, and DR. ELLIOT GOLDSTEIN from ProMIS Neurosciences discusses the particular kind of plaque that brings about Alzheimer’s.
DR. TAJ MANKU is the Co-Founder of Cognitive Systems in Waterloo, Canada. Their product, AuraHome, enables in-home security with no gadgets to put on your windows and no need to arm it when you leave. Then a new segment on Tech Nation - Tech Nation Health! Where we reimagine the future of health and healthcare with the emergence of new technologies. DR. PATRICIA FLATLEY BRENNAN is the Director of the National Library of Medicine. She disscusses information available worldwide. Then chief correspondent for Tech Nation Health, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, talks about 3-D printing in medicine.
DR. MARIO LIVIO discusses his book: "Why? What Makes Us Curious". On Tech Nation Health, a look at rapid genome analysis for newborns in trouble. DR. STEPHEN KINGSMORE, the President and CEO of the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine tells us about their experience.
Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times journalist MATT RICHTEL describes his latest novel, "Dead on Arrival". On Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT examines the reality and the potential of using drones in healthcare.
DR. NORA VOLKOW, the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, talks about the grip of addiction and the opioid crisis - prescription opiates, heroin and fentanyl, synthetically-produced heroin. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR DANIEL KRAFT examines "misaligned incentives" in healthcare, and DR. CIARA KENNEDY, CEO of Amplyx Pharmacecuticals, tells us about treating life-threatening fungal infections.
MARK WOLYNN is the Director of the Family Constellation Institute, and author of "It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle." Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT speaks to the new science of diet, and DR. EVAN SNYDER from the Sanford Burnham Prebus Medical Discovery Institute. They figured why Lithium works for Bipolar Disorder, and why that's important for all of us.
DR. HERB NEEDLEMAN, from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, measured the impact of very low levels of lead on children. He discusses the results of his study - removing lead from household paint and putting unleaded gasoline in our cars. Then, another scientist who wanted research to reach the people who needed it - DR. PERRY NISEN, CEO of Sanford Burnham Prebus Medical Discovery Institute. And DR. OLIVER FETZER, CEO of Synthetic Genomics, enabling scientists to create unique DNA overnight in their own labs.
CARMINE GALLO relates "The Story Teller's Secret." Turns out - there's a science to telling your story. Then on Tech Nation Health, there's more in your gut than bacteria. Case-Western University Professor MAHMOUD GHANNOUM and his son, AFIF GHANNOUM, the CEO of Pathobiome, about fungus. Decades of NIH-funded research tell us what they do, how they interact with the bacteria, and why that's important.
If it looks like a newborn baby and moves like one and sounds like one, well, it just might be Super Tory, the newborn simulator from Gaumard Scientific. JIM ARCHETTO joins Moira to talk about Super Tory in detail. Then, speaking of what it takes to address complex engineering feats, DR. DANIEL MOTE, the President of the National Academy of Engineering. He joins Moira to talk about how everyone, one way or another, can be an engineer.
DR. MITCH PRINSTEIN, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. There's a science to being popular and a proven path to likability. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT brings 3D printing into healthcare. There's a lot of value there - far more than printing cute little widgets just for fun. And DR. SERGE SAXONOV, CEO of 10x Genomics, explains how our current technology for decoding our genomes has its limits, and how we can improve it.
DR SANDRA AAMODT discusses her book: “Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession with Weight Loss.” Then on BioTech Nation, DR. EDUARDO ESQUENAZI, the Founder and CEO of Sirenas Marine Discovery, talks about bioprospecting for new drugs in the ocean.
Professor Emeritus from Arizona State University, ROBERT CIALDINI is the author of “Pre-suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade”. Then on BioTech Nation, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, the Chair of Medicine at Singularity University. He’s the Founder of Exponential Medicine, the annual fall conference each year in San Diego, which brings together people interested in the frontiers of medicine, and the technology that can drive it.
DR. RITA COLWELL, the first woman to head the National Science Foundation. Today, she has founded and chairs CosmosID, a bioinformatics company on a mission to change how we diagnose disease. Then on BioTech Nation, DR. KEVIN JUDICE, President and CEO of DICE Molecules tells us why every medication can be delivered in pill form. And also DR. THOMAS HALLAM from Leading Biosciences.They discuss the work they are doing to intervene when a person goes into shock.
EDWARD TUFTE, Yale University Professor Emeritus who is most widely known for this work in Data Visualization – and his books, including "Beautiful Evidence". Then on BioTech Nation, efforts to treat the rare genetic cardiovascular disorder – HCM. You will recognize it as the leading cause of sudden death in young athletes. TASSOS GIANOKAKOS, the CEO of MyoKardia, describes the condition, the impact on families and Myokardia’s approach.
Neuroscientist DR. ALEX PANG about “Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less.” Then on BioTech Nation, the focus is Alzheimer’s Disease. Dr. Gunn speaks with KEVIN COX, CEO of Imanova about the ability to actually examine the state of the brain on a more routine basis, improving diagnosis and predicting the success or failure of drugs. Then, it’s DR. CHARLES STACEY, the President and CEO of Accera. The basis for their Alzheimer’s treatment centers on glucose uptake in the brain.
ANDREAS WEIGAND, former chief scientist at Amazon, is the author of “Data for the People.” Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. MARSHALL SUMMAR, Director of the Rare Disease Institute and Chief of Genetics and Metabolism at Children’s National Health System in Washington, DC. They talk about treating rare diseases in the very young, and the efforts to support families, local pediatricians and the patients themselves, nationwide and around the world.
A full hour of Tech Nation Health: reimagining the future of health and healthcare with the emergence of new technologies. DR. DANIEL KRAFT, Chief Correspondent for Tech Nation Health talks about the future of Surgery and Other Interventions. Purdue Professor, DR. PHIL LOW, the Director of Purdue Center for Drug Discovery and Chief Scientific Officer of Endocyte, talks about why it’s hard to surgically remove all the cancerous tissue, and a technology that can change that. And DR. RICHARD KUHN, the Director of the Purdue Institute for Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Disease. He was the first to discover the structure of the Zika virus, and he compares it to other viruses, like Polio and HIV.
MIT professor Sherry Turkle about the psychological effect of the 2016 presidential campaign. Her latest book is “Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age”. Then on BioTech Nation, in the pediatric area, diagnosing some behavioral problems and mental disorders by testing the immune system. Dr. Craig Shimasaki, the CEO of Moleculera Labs, explains their test and the science behind it.
LARRY BRILLIANT, physician, technologist and best friend to Wavy Gravy, talks about helping to eradicate smallpox globally. He’s the author of “Sometimes Brilliant … The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History.” Then on BioTech Nation, correcting the underrepresentation of Latinos in testing pharmaceuticals and directly addressing the Zika virus in humans. Dr. KOSMAS KRESTOS, the Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Consortium for Clinical Investigation (PRCCI) describes the efforts underway in Puerto Rico.
Data Scientist Dr. CATHY O’NEIL discusses her book, “Weapons of ‘Math’ Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.” Then on BioTech Nation, Dr. DAVID JOHNSON is the Founder, President & CEO of GigaGen. He describes a new approach to achieving health with a compromised immune system. Also on BioTech Nation, critically-ill newborns get the genetic information they need … and fast. GAVIN STONE is the Vice President for Marketing at EdicoGenome in San Diego.
Neuroscientist DANIEL LEVITIN talks about how we can tell the difference between a simple lie and a weaponized lie. His book is “Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era.” Then on Tech Nation Health, chief correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT tells us about The Internet of Medical Things and what it can do for us.
NOAH KONIG from Cambridge Cognition and BEN FEHNERT from The CTRL Group, talk about their new venture upping the game for wearables, Cognition Kit, measuring cognition along with the impact of medications, and opening up these measurements for others to develop applications.
KEITH DEVLIN, “The NPR Math Guy”, tells us about "Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World”. Then on Tech Nation Health, chief correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT tells us about the winners of the Qualcomm Tricoder Xprize - StarTrek medicine isn’t fiction any more.
BRAD STONE from Bloomberg News talks about “The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World.” On Tech Nation Health, integrating the data from all our smartphones apps and exercise bands, and much more is DREW SCHILLER, the CEO of Validic. Every nation approves drugs, medical devices and even cosmetics differently - GREER DEAL, the Director of Global Regulatory Services, breaks it down.
NYU marketing professor, ADAM ALTER describes the rise of addictive personal technology. Then on Tech Nation Health, chief correspondent, DANIEL KRAFT, talks about the cutting edge of stem cell therapies today and in the future, and Second Genome’s DR. KARIM DABBAGH links bacteria in the gut to the inflammation experienced in IBD, Irritable Bowel Disease.
Former Google CEO and Alphabet Executive Chair, ERIC SCHMIDT along with former Senior Vice President for Products, JONATHAN ROSENBERG talk about “How Google Works”. Then on Tech Nation Health, faster diagnostics for the 25 species of bacteria which cause Sepsis. JOHN MCDONOUGH, the CEO of T2 Biosystems, talks about their efforts in Sepsis and other new diagnostics for candida and Lyme disease.
This Special Edition of Tech Nation Health figures in both the NFL and Major League Baseball. First up is JIM JOYCE, CEO of Aethlon Medical and Executive Chairman of Exosome Sciences. Its blood test appears to identify CTE – Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy – in retired NFL players. Then Right Eye returns with improvements to its eye tracking diagnostics for medical conditions, and a new project with professional sports. BARBARA BARCLAY is the President of Right Eye, and DR. MELISSA HUNFALVAY is its Chief Scientific Officer. Then, Tech Nation Health’s chief correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, talks about disruption in medical care, all brought about by emerging technology.
OLIVIA FOX CABANE and JUDAH POLLACK disscuss their book: “The Net and the Butterfly – The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking”. Their exercises all source from breakthroughs in neuroscience. Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the future of Neuroscience and Neuromedicine. On BioTech Nation, DR. ASHA DAS from Tocagen talks about their approach to treating brain tumors – it starts with a virus.
In the second part of a two-part series on Digital Health, DR. RAJAIE BATNIJI describes how he became the Co-Founder and Chief Health Officer of Collective Health. It all started with a nightmare in filing health claims. Then on BioTech Nation is RIF PAMUKCHU, the CEO of RxMP Therapeutics. It’s about the technology of stopping blood loss.
STEVEN JOHNSON, the author of “Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World” discusses his book. Then on Tech Nation Health, chief correspondent Dr. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the future of cancer – its prevention, early detection and emergent treatments. And Dr. NICLAS STIERNHOLM, the President & CEO of Trillium Therapeutics, tells us about identifying cancer cells so that the immune system can remove them.
DEREK THOMPSON, a Senior Editor at The Atlantic, talks about his book “Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in the Age of Distraction”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent Dr. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the future of aging, longevity and technology in the near and more distant future, and on BioTech Nation, Dr. NATHANIEL DAVID, Founder & CEO of Unity Biotechnology talks about the role of “senescent” cells in aging.
ALAN BURDICK, former senior editor at The New Yorker and National Book Award finalist, discusses his latest book: “Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Ken Horne, the CEO of SymicBio describes their efforts to better the long term results of angioplasty and a clinical trial for osteoarthritis in the knee. We’ll also hear from our chief correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT on the future of medical education. It’s not just doctors and nurses, but it’s also changing for everyday people.
DANIEL LEVITIN, Dean of Social Sciences at the Minerva Schools at KGI, discusses his book “A Field Guide to Lies – Critical Thinking in the Information Age”. Then on BioTech Nation, the second installment in our two-part series on Women in biotech venture capital. It’s WENDE HUTTON, NINA KJELLSON and JULIE PAPANEK, all from Canaan Partners.
Stanford Professor HANK GREELEY explains his book: “The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction”. Then on BioTech Nation, the winner of BIO’s Future Maker 2016 Award - Dr. HOWARD JACOBS from the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama.
Dr. Taj Manku, the Co-Founder of Cognitive Systems in Waterloo, Canada, discusses AuraHome, a system which enables in-home security with no gadgets to put on your windows – no need to arm it when you leave. Then a new segment on Tech Nation - Tech Nation Health! Where we reimagine the future of health and healthcare with the emergence of new technologies. Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan is the Director of the National Library of Medicine. She talks about information available worldwide. Then chief correspondent for Tech Nation Health, Dr. Daniel Kraft, talks about 3-D printing in medicine.
Jim Barry from the Consumer Technology Association discusses the latest tech from CES 2017 in Las Vegas. Also, Andrew Thomas, the co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer for SkyBell, explains their product - a video doorbell which you monitor from anywhere. He also describes his transition from a person dissatisfied with his work life to becoming an entrepreneur.
Dava Sobel, author of “Longitude” talks about her new book: “The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars.” Then on BioTech Nation, Tom Kottler, the CEO of Healthprize Technologies, talks about strategies to get patients to take their prescribed medications. And Dr. Arnold Lippa, the Chief Scientific Officer of RespireRX reveals their multiple approaches to the respiratory problems relating to the overuse of opioids.
DR. RITA COLWELL, Former Director of the National Science Foundation and Founder and Chair of CosmosID, explain the company's mission to change how we diagnose disease. Then on BioTech Nation, DR. KEVIN JUDICE, President & CEO of DiCE Molecules talks about its attempts to make biopharmaceutical drugs, normally infused into the bloodstream, into easy-to-take pills. Then DR. THOMAS HALLAM, Head of Clinical Development and Regulatory Affairs at Leading BioSciences, talks about their efforts to intervene when a person goes into shock.
EDWARD TUFTE, Yale University Professor Emeritus, tells us about his work in Data Visualization – and his books, including "Beautiful Evidence". Then on BioTech Nation, efforts to treat the rare genetic cardiovascular disorder – HCM. You will recognize it as the leading cause of sudden death in young athletes. TASSOS GIANOKAKOS, the CEO of MyoKardia, tells us about the condition, the impact on families and Myokardia’s approach.
Journalist BRIAN CHRISTIAN and UC Berkeley Professor TOM GRIFFITHS, the Director of the Computational Cognitive Science Lab discuss their book, “Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions”. Then on Biotech Nation, it’s all about Youth Rally, an annual camp for kids and teens with conditions of the bowel and bladder. We’ll hear from its chair, PAUL HASTINGS, who is also the President and CEO of OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, as well as Youth Rally’s APRIL GIMLEN and EMILY MALLAR.
SC MOATTI speaks about her background with Facebook, Trulia and Nokia, and her book, “Mobilized …. An insider’s guide to the business and future of connected technology”. Then on BioTech Nation, how much do we know about the clinical trials behind drugs approved by the FDA? JENNIFER MILLER, the Founder and President of Bioethics, International and a professor at NYU Medical School, talks about the Good Pharma Scorecard.
The founding executive editor at Wired magazine, KEVIN KELLY, discusses “The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 technological forces that will shape our future.” Then on Biotech Nation, looking for cancer cells in the blood. DR. PAUL DEMPSEY, Chief Scientific Officer of Cynvenio Biosystems talks about their technology and an ongoing clinical study of women with breast cancer.
Neuroscientist DR. ALEX PANG is the author of “Rest … Why You Get More Done When You Work Less.” Then on BioTech Nation, the focus is Alzheimer’s Disease. Dr. Gunn speaks with Kevin Cox, CEO of Imanova about the ability to actually examine the state of the brain on a more routine basis, improving diagnosis and predicting the success or failure of drugs. Then, it’s Dr. CHARLES STACEY, the President and CEO of Accera. The basis for their Alzheimer’s treatment centers on glucose uptake in the brain.
DR. ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ, the Director of the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard is the author of “Being a Dog: Following the Dog into a World of Smell.” Then on BioTech Nation, Dr. IGNACIO PINO, is the CEO of the next generation proteomics company, CDI, located in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
DR. SUSAN DAVID, a psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School tells us about “Emotional Agility” - what is it, how we can use, and what science can tell us about how it actually works. Then on BioTech Nation, DANIEL ZARR, CEO of Quark Pharmaceuticals. Their approach uses a part of the immune system called siRNA, and they are working on treatments for kidney damage following open heart surgery, damage to kidneys during the transplantation process, and sudden vision loss.
BRIAN SAGER, the Co-Founder, President and CEO of Omnity, a search engine – not based on keywords, but search in the context of entire documents. Google isn’t going away – but your need to find information is growing. Then on BioTech Nation, the promise and challenges of cancer immunotherapy. Dr. Gunn speaks with DR. SEAN MCCARTHY, the CEO of CytomX Therapeutics.
MIT professor SHERRY TURKLE about the psychological effect of the 2016 presidential campaign. Her latest book is “Reclaiming Conversation … The Power of Talk in a Digital Age”. Then on BioTech Nation, in the pediatric area, diagnosing some behavioral problems and mental disorders by testing the immune system. DR. CRAIG SHIMASAKI, the CEO of Moleculera Labs, explains their test and the science behind it.
LARRY BRILLIANT, physician, technologist and best friend to Wavy Gravy, about helping to eradicate smallpox globally. He’s the author of “Sometimes Brilliant … The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History.” Then on BioTech Nation, correcting the underrepresentation of Latinos in testing pharmaceuticals and directly addressing the Zika virus in humans. DR. KOSMAS KRESTOS, the Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Consortium for Clinical Investigation (PRCCI) describes the efforts underway in Puerto Rico.
GARY SHAPIRO, head of the Consumer Technology Association. He’ll tell us what’s coming up at CES 2017 in Las Vegas. Then on BioTech Nation, DR. STEVE MENTO, the CEO of Conatus Pharmaceuticals, talks about their efforts to treat NASH – Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, and BILL NEWELL, the CEO of Sutro Biopharma, fills us in on their strategic approach to treating cancer. Their first target? B-cell lymphomas.
PBS Nova columnist ANIL ANANTHASWAMY about “The Man Who Wasn’t There … Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self”. And on BioTech Nation, STEVE HURST, the President & CEO of Savant HWP. We hear about an emergent treatment for cocaine addiction, work in the tropical disease Leishmaniasis, and the unexpected link between addiction to dopamine in Parkinson’s patients.
Data Scientist Dr. CATHY O’NEIL about her book, “Weapons of ‘Math’ Destruction … How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.” Then on BioTech Nation, a new approach to achieving health with a compromised immune system. Dr. DAVID JOHNSON is the Founder, President & CEO of GigaGen. And critically-ill newborns get the genetic information they need … and fast. GAVIN STONE is the Vice President for Marketing at EdicoGenome in San Diego.
DAN MOTE, the President of the National Academy of Engineering. They talk about the difference between technology and engineering. Then on BioTech Nation, SIR JOHN CHISHOLM, head of Genomics England and the 100,000 Genomes Project.
ROSS KING, the author of Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lillies. Then on BioTech Nation, upping the game for wearables – NOAH KONIG from Cambridge Cognition and BEN FEHNERT from The CTRL Group, talk about their new venture, Cognition Kit. Measuring cognition along with the impact of medications, and opening up these measurements for others to develop applications.
AL RAMADAN, DAVE PETERSON, and CHRIS LOCHHEAD, the authors of “Play Bigger - How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets”. Then on BioTech Nation, GEORGE YEH, the President of Taiwan-based TLC Biotherapeutics, tells us about their efforts to make treatments for Aged-related Macular Degeneration last longer, and Dr. CHUCK SHERWOOD, President & CEO of Anika Therapeutics, on how Anika is bringing three Osteoarthritis treatments, approved in Europe, to the US market.
ROBERT CIALDINI, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University, and author, “Pre-suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade”. Then on BioTech Nation, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, the Chair of Medicine at Singularity University. He’s the Founder of Exponential Medicine, the annual fall conference each year in San Diego, which brings together people interested in the frontiers of medicine, and the technology that can drive it.
DANIEL LEVITIN, Dean of Social Sciences at the Minerva Schools at KGI, and author of “A Field Guide to Lies – Critical Thinking in the Information Age”. Then on BioTech Nation, the second installment in our two-part series on Women in biotech venture capital. It’s WENDE HUTTON, NINA KJELLSON and JULIE PAPANEK, all from Canaan Partners.
SHARON VOSMEK, the CEO of Astia, providing capital, connections, and guidance highly-innovative, women-led ventures around the globe. Then on BioTech Nation, the first of a two-part series on Women in biotech venture capital: DR. MARIANNE DE BACKER, the Vice President for Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Janssen Business Development.
Stanford Professor HANK GREELY about “The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction”. Then on BioTech Nation, the winner of BIO’s Future Maker 2016 Award - DR. HOWARD JACOBS from the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama.
DR. SANDRA AAMODT, the author of “Why Diets Make Us Fat … The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession with Weight Loss.” Then on BioTech Nation, looking for new drugs … in the ocean. DR. EDUARDO ESQUENAZI, the Founder and CEO of Sirenas Marine Discovery, talks about bioprospecting.
DR. SHAI GOZANI, President & CEO of Neurometrix. It’s about treating chronic pain with a small device strapped to your calf. Apparently … it’s all in your brain. Then on BioTech Nation, DR. THEODORA ROSS, the Director of Cancer Genetics Program at Southwestern Medical Center talks about cancer susceptibility genes. Her book is “A Cancer in the Family … Take Control of Your Genetic Inheritance”
Tech Nation broadcasts from the International Biotechnology Conference, BIO 2016 in San Francisco. This week’s guests are JIM GREENWOOD, President and CEO of BIO, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, MIKE MAY, Editorial Director, Scientific American WorldView 2016, and YALI FRIEDMAN, its head of Data Analytics, ROGER CRYSTAL, the CEO of Opiant Pharmaceuticals, and GARETH WILLIAMS with Marks & Clerk International Intellectual Property Firm.
SC MOATTI about her background with Facebook, Trulia and Nokia, and her book, “Mobilized …. An insider’s guide to the business and future of connected technology”. Then on BioTech Nation, how much do we know about the clinical trials behind drugs approved by the FDA? JENNIFER MILLER, the Founder and President of Bioethics, International and a professor at NYU Medical School, talks about the Good Pharma Scorecard.
Journalist BRIAN CHRISTIAN & UC Berkeley Professor TOM GRIFFITHS, the Director of the Computational Cognitive Science Lab about their book, “Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions”. Then on Biotech Nation, it’s all about Youth Rally, an annual camp for kids and teens with conditions of the bowel and bladder. We’ll hear from its chair, PAUL HASTINGS, who is also the President and CEO of OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, as well as Youth Rally’s, APRIL GIMLEN, and EMILY MALLAR.
The founding executive editor at Wired magazine, KEVIN KELLY, talks about “The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 technological forces that will shape our future.” Then on Biotech Nation, looking for cancer cells in the blood. DR. PAUL DEMPSEY, Chief Scientific Officer of Cynvenio Biosystems talks about their technology and an ongoing clinical study of women with breast cancer.
Johns Hopkins professor DR. DAVID LINDEN about “Touch … The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind.” Then on BioTech Nation, ANTHONY RAESIDE, the Head of Research at The Evaluate Group in London. He’ll preview the global pharmaceutical industry and give us a look ahead to 2020, and on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, it’s President Obama’s announcement about a precision medicine initiative.
MIT professor DAVID MINDELL about “Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy.” He’s out to dispel the “persistent misconceptions about robots.” Then on BioTech Nation, PAUL PERRAULT, the CEO of CSL Behring, on their long history from the Spanish flu a century ago to Hemophilia today, and SHANE KOVACS from PTC Therapeutics, on nonsense mutations and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
DR. CHARLOTTE JACOBS, the author of “Jonas Salk: A Life”. They re-visit 1950’s America under the threat of Polio – what did science know and what had it gotten wrong? Then on BioTech Nation, JAY LICHTER, co-founder of Otonomy, tells us about his diagnosis of Menieres disease, and how, as a venture capitalist, he decided to start a company to find better treatment options on the spot.
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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ANDREW ALLEN, President, CEO, and Co-Founder of Gritstone Bio, about Cancer and Covid, and what next-generation treatments mean today. Then, Futurist ALEX PANG describes Continuous Partial Attention, thanks to the constant presence of our personal technologies.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. GABRIELLA KELLERMAN joins me to talk about “TomorrowMind – Thriving at Work with Resilience, Creativity and Connection – Now and in an Uncertain Future”. They cover everything from Rapid Rapport to Psychological Safety in our work environment. Then … what is AI doing in biotech? DR. VIMAL MEHTA tells us how his company, BioXcel, used AT in drug discovery. One drug has already been approved, and there are more in the pipeline.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. PETER VANDERKLISH, CEO of Spinogenix, focuses on regenerating brain synapses to combat conditions like depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, and ALS. Then, DR. CAITLIN RIVERS from John Hopkins School of Public Health talks about her book, “Crisis Averted ... .The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks .”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. SHANNON MONAGHANR, a Military Historian, about her book, “A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men … The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II”. Then, DR. ROLLIE CARLSON, CEO of Immunexpress tells us about their FDA, EU, and Australia-cleared, first-ever Sepsis test. And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about an official federal program called Food is Medicine.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. FRANCOIS VIGNEAULT, Co-Founder and CEO of Shape Therapeutics, talks about how they’re engineering mRNA to address Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
Then, DR. PAIL PETER TAK, CEO of Candel Therapeutics is using immuno-oncology treatments to go after solid tumors as well as cancers which have metastasized.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with CHRIS BAILEY about “How to Calm Your Mind … Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times”. Science tells us that humans love dopamine, caffeine is essentially liquid stress, and burnout is more than being exhausted. Then, teaching our immune systems to recognize tumors in our own bodies and then eliminating them. Bolt Biotherapeutics’ CEO, DR. RANDY SCHATZMAN, talks about the role of myeloid cells, and Bolt is studying nearly two dozen forms of HER2-related cancers.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Anthropologist EBEN KIRKSEY, a professor of anthropology at Deakin University in Melbourne. He’s look at the societal and ethical implications of CRISPR – and not just hypothetically. He traveled to China, with an eye to understanding the circumstance of the three CRISPR babies known to exist. His book is “The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT gives us a quick primer on antibodies and how we use them as therapy.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ARVIND NARAYANAN, Princeton University Professor of Computer Science about his book, “AI Snake Oil … What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference”. Then, DR. AVAK KAJVEJIAN, Founding CEO of Cellarity joins me to explain how comparing healthy and diseased cells, along with our understanding of medications, could help treat that disease at its source.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with GARY SHAPIRO, President and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association and author of, “Pivot or Die… How Leaders Thrive When Everything Changes” about what you do when faced with change, and when you better get out and make some change. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT about generative AI and how it may affect your future health.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ANTONY TAUBMAN, Director of the Intellectual Property Division at the World Trade Organization, about how the world navigated international trade rules to develop and distribute 15 billion doses of Covid vaccine to countries of all economic statuses. Then, BRIAN CULLEY, CEO of Lineage Cell Therapeutics tells us about a whole new approach to treating disease that involves replacing your damaged cells with new ones. And, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT tells us about Multimodal Health - ever heard of it?
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with New York Times' Journalists and co-authors, KATE CONGER and RYAN MA, about their book, “Character Limit … How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter". Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, talks about the state of Covid in our lives today, and how it just won't go away!
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. LEROY HOOD and DR. NATHAN PRICE about focusing on wellness with the help of science and their book, “The Age of Scientific Wellness … Why the Future of Medicine is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Colorado Mesa University Professor, TIMOTHY WINEGARD, about his book, “The Horse … A Galloping History of Humanity” and the dramatic impact horses have had in our lives - from the reason we all speak English to your everyday pair of pants.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Clinical Psychologist and Author, DR. RAMANI DURVASULA about how to heal from Narcissists in your life and her book, “It’s Not You … Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People”.
Then, regular contributor and author of, “Rest: Why You Get More Work Done, When You Work Less.”, DR. ALEX PANG, talks about getting employers to buy into a four-day work week - it may be easier than you think.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira discusses the ability to monitor if that last change to our prescription really worked! Moira speaks with DR. KAL PATEL from BrightInsight. He tells us we can travel all around the world, and still be monitored. Then with all this new tech, what is our future? DAVID EWING DUNCAN returns with “Talking to Robots: Tales from Our Human Robot Future.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with CODY CASSIDY, Wired contributor, “How to Survive History … How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History’s Deadliest Catastrophes”.
Then, Wharton Professor, DR. JONAH BERGER, follow his earlier books, “Contagious” and “Invisible Influence”. His latest is “The Catalyst – How to Change Anyone’s Mind”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Duke University Professor NITA FARAHANY about her book, “The Battle for Your Brain … Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology.”
Then recovering from the devastation of war, Conservation X Lab’s DR. ALEX DEHGAN talks about his book, “The Snow Leopard Project … and other Adventures in Warzone Conservation”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Columbia professors CHRIS WIGGINS and MATTHEW JONES about their book, “How Data Happened … A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms.” Then it’s all about glucose at Rezolute – too much and too little. NEVAN CHARLES ELAM tells us about their work to treat the “diabetic eye condition”, DME, and a pediatric condition called Congenital hyperinsulinism.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with BRUCE SCHOENFELD, journalist and author of “Game of Edges …The Analytics Revolution and the Future of Professional Sports.”, about the data revolution in professional sports.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Semafor Editor-in-Chief and former founding editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed News, BEN SMITH, about his book, “Traffic … Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion Dollar Race to Go Viral”.
Then, DR. PETER DIAMANDIS, The Executive Chair of the XPrize Foundation, and host of the Moonshots podcast, about extending your life, with his book, “Longevity… Your Practical Playbook on Sleep, Diet, Exercise, Mindset, Medications, and Not Dying from Something Stupid.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Co-Founder and Co-CEO of NewsGuard, STEVEN BRILL about his book, “The Death of Truth” about the negative impact of the Internet and Social Media and what we can do about it. Then, what science tells us about the treatment potential of Hallucinogens without the hallucinations with, DR. SAM CLARK, CEO of Terran Biosciences. Also covered - Terran’s extensive efforts to build prodrugs.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Neuroscientists and Author, DR. KELLY CLANCY joins me to talk about the role that games have played in human development. Her book is “Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World.” Then, DR. MARIANNE DE BACKER, CEO of Vir Biotechnology, explains how serious it can be when a person carries both Hepatitis B and Hepatitis D, and what Vir is doing about it.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Author, ELAINE LIN HERING. She joins to talk about her book, “Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully”. Then, DR. NEIL KUMAR, Founder and CEO of BridgeBio Pharma, explains why we can expect genetic diseases to be solvable in our lifetime.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford Business School Lecturer, MATT ABRAHAMS, about his book, “THINK FASTER, TALK SMARTER: How To Speak Successfully When You’re Put on the Spot”. Then, DR. STEFFEN-SEBASTIAN BOLZ from Aphaia Pharma talks about their new drug, currently in phase 3 trial, that may provide the benefits of Ozempic and Wegovy - without the injection.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford Professor ROBERT SAPOLSKY about “Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will”. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about how Medical Schools decide what to teach.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalist ALEX KANTROWITZ about his 2020 book, “Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever” which has spawned his work, as Founder and Editor of Big Technology. Then, DR. MARK SUMERAY, Chief Medical Officer of Amolyt Pharma, talks about their innovative approach to treating hormonal conditions.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Science journalist and author, ANNALEE NEWITZ, joins me to talk about her book, “Stories are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind”. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the latest in Wearables, what they are doing now that they weren’t doing before.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. SAM BLACKMAN, Founder and Head of Research and Development from Day One Biopharmaceuticals. He talks about their innovative approach to starting a biopharma company and how it led to a newly FDA approved drug that treats the most common form of brain cancer in children. Then, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent talks about the rise of Robotic and Digitally-Enabled surgeries. And, Futurist and regular Tech Nation contributor, DR. ALEX PANG, gives us a quick word on how to better manage the stress of life these days.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with MUSTAFA SULEYMAN, CEO of Inflection AI, about “The Coming Wave … Technology, Power, and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma”.
Then, Bloomberg columnist ADAM MINTER talks about his 2019 book, “Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale.” You dropped it off at the thrift store … where does it go from there?
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with sports ecology professor and author, DR. MADELEINE ORR, about her book, “Warming Up… How Climate Change is Changing Sport”. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, talks about the Medical Innovation Gap, which is the time from innovation until we actually can use it in everyday practice. And, DR. JOHN SCARLETT, the President and CEO of Geron, tells us about their breakthrough drug candidate, which offers hope for treating bone marrow failure, previously only manageable through regular blood transfusions.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Pulitzer-Prize winning author, ED HUMES, talks about his book, “Total Garbage… How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World.” Then, DR. STEVE QUAKE, Head of Science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative tells us about their ambitious goal to address all human diseases within the next century.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. NEIL KASSELL, the founder and chair of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation, about what focused ultrasound is and the different ways in which it is being used.
Then, DR. NICHOLAS DIRKS, the President and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences talks about such topics as the International Science Reserve, and how we might take on a new perspective regarding Artificial Intelligence.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Environmental journalist, CLAYTON PAGE ALDERN talks about his book, “The Weight of Nature … How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains”. Then, DR. SEAN BOHEN, President & CEO of Olema Oncology talks about what we’ve learned about the 70% of breast cancers, called ER+/HER2- and how it relates to prostate cancer.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with journalist JASON DEL REY about Amazon and Walmart - how they are different and their designs on your attention. His book is “Winner Sells All: Amazon, Walmart, and the Battle for Our Wallets”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with WARREN BERGER, author of “A More Beautiful Question … The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas” now in its tenth anniversary re-release and update. Then, DR. PETER DEMUTH, Chief Scientific Officer at Elicio Therapeutics tells us about how a treatment can turn into a vaccine and potentially provide long-lasting protection against cancer.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. DAN REIDENBERG, Project Director for Safe Online Standards at the Mental Health Coalition talks about what young people are doing online and how to keep them safe.
Then, DR. CHRIS PIRIE, the Co-Founder and COO of HDTBio tells us what it takes to build a cancer vaccine.
On this week’s Tech Nation, DR. SOREN KAPLAN talks about taking a look at your life experience to gain insight and action into your personal and business life. His book is “Experiential Intelligence: Harness the Power of Experience for Personal and Business Breakthroughs.”
Then to a place in Alaska where no human has gone, much less conquered. Climber and rescuer, MICHAEL WEJCHERT talks about “Hidden Mountains … Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. DAVID BEARSS, President and CEO of Halia Therapeutics, about their groundbreaking work, both in inflammation and in another drug to potentially resist Alzheimer’s. Then, MELISSA SEVIGNY, Science Journalist and Author of, “Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon”.
On this week’s Tech Nation: with all of these AI chatbots around, how did computers learn to write? Columbia professor DENNIS YI TENEN talks about his book, “Literary Theory for Robots … How Computers Learned to Write”. Then, regular contributor and futurist, ALEX PANG gives us insights on humans and tech, and why we are still using pen and paper. And, Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, talks about food as medicine, and what today's tech can tell us about our bodies and the food we eat.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalist and NPR contributor KEITH O'BRIEN about his book, “Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe”. From congressional aides to housewives to defiant scientists – we receive the benefits of the challenge of Love Canal. Then, new science leads to understanding natural repair mechanisms in the brain. DR. MARK LITTON is the President and CEO of Athira Pharma. He discusses their efforts in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s dementia.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Clinical Psychologist and Author, DR. RAMANI DURVASULA about how to heal from Narcissists in your life and her book, “It’s Not You … Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Founding Executive Editor at Wired magazine KEVIN KELLY about “Excellent Advice for Living … Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier.” Then, DR. LISHAN AKLO, CEO of Lucid Diagnostics, tells us about the path from heartburn to esophageal cancer, and about their two-minute diagnostic test which can detect precancerous cells.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with KATHERINE CORCORAN, the former Associate Press Bureau Chief for Mexico, about “In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Coverup, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press”. She talks about the danger of being a journalist in Mexico, and one woman who paid the ultimate price. And following news of one biotech firm trying to bring back the dodo bird, we hear from JOE HERNANDEZ from Blue Water Vaccines. His quest to develop a universal flu vaccine led him face-to-face – so to speak - with the Oxford dodo.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. DAVID FAJGENBAUM, a Professor at Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and President of Every Cure, talks about his efforts to unlock the hidden potential of existing drugs to save his own life, and others. Then, NPR science correspondent NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE talks about her take on being a science journalist, and about her book, “Transient and Strange… Notes on the Science of Life”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with doctors ANDY NORMAN and LEE MCINTYRE from the Mental Immunity Project about strengthening your mind’s immunity to misinformation. Then, regular Tech Nation contributor, DR. ALEX PANG, talks about the difference between sleep and rest – and how that can make a big difference in our lives.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford Professors, BOB SUTTON and HUGGY RAO about their book, “The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalist and CEO of Global Press, CHRISTI HEGRANES. She talks about her vision of what it really means to have a global press and her book, “Byline: How Local Journalists Can Improve the Global News Industry and Change the World.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Science Journalist, BEN GOLDFARB, about his book, “Crossings: ” Then, DAVE PACITTI, President and Head of the Americas at Siemens Healthineers, sets out to solve problems greater than simply supplying the best technology.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ROBERT ANG, the President & CEO of Vor Biopharma about its approach to Acute Myeloid Leukemia, also known as AML.
Then DR. NIK SOPKO, the Chief Scientific Officer of PolarityTE talks about their design for wound healing. Their first treatment candidate is diabetic foot ulcers.
And DR. ERIC VIVIER from Innate Pharma in Marseilles tells us about the next wave of immunotherapy treatments – harnessing Natural Killer cells.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. STEWART CAMPBELL, CEO of Axial Therapeutics, about their groundbreaking work in Autism–related irritability in teenagers, in Parkinson’s, and in complementing the latest cancer treatments.
Then DR. RAY STEVENS, CEO of ShouTi Pharma, talks about their approach in turning IV drugs into pills. Current projects include Diabetes and obesity, and two Pulmonary and Cardiovascular disorders. And these are just their first candidates…
On this week’s Tech Nation, DR. PATRICE MATCHABA, the President of the Novartis US Foundation. He talks about how the limits of medical technology itself have excluded Black/African Americans and Persons of Color … and sometimes *all* women. Then University of Chicago professor DR. NEIL SHUBIN talks about “Some Assembly required … Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA.” Ancient viruses in our DNA? And what about “jumping genes”?
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with scientist and prolific author, DR. LEONARD MLODINOW about “Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking”. And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT tells us who may medically qualify to go into space – you may be surprised by his answers.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Structural Engineer, ROMA AGRAWAL about her book, “.” Then NICOLAS VACHICOURAS, CEO and Co-Founder of Neurosoft Bioelectronics, takes us on an inside tour of our brain and what flexible implants might do. And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the newest XPrize worth an unprecedented $101 Million.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Harvard professor experimental cognitive scientist STEVEN PINKER about “Rationality … What it is, Why it seems scarce, and Why it matters”.
Then LEMONY SNICKET – the one and only. You know him from his children’s book series, “A Series of Unfortunate Events”. He’s here with “Poison for Breakfast”. You will start bewildered and leave bewildered, but feeling much better about it.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalist ALEX KANTROWITZ about his 2020 book, “Always Day One: ” which has spawned his work, as Founder and Editor of Big Technology. Then, DR. MARK SUMERAY, Chief Medical Officer of Amolyt Pharma, talks about their innovative approach to treating hormonal conditions.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ANDREW ALLEN, President, CEO, and Co-Founder of Gritstone Bio, about Cancer and Covid, and what next-generation treatments mean today. Then, Futurist ALEX PANG describes Continuous Partial Attention, thanks to the constant presence of our personal technologies.
Then, Bloomberg columnist ADAM MINTER talks about his 2019 book, “Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale.” You dropped it off at the thrift store … where does it go from there?
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JEREMY UTLEY, the Director of Executive Education at Stanford University’s school, joins Moira to talk about his book “IdeaFlow.” You have no idea how important ideas are in your life, and just how many you’ll need! Then in biotech, human clinical trials have begun to treat a particular type of Epilepsy called Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. DR. CORY NICHOLAS from Neurona Therapeutics, tells us about their big idea and how they have developed an unprecedented cell therapy.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Virginia Tech Professor ASHLEY SHEW about “Against Technoableism … Rethinking Who Needs Improvement”. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about your digital twin, and DR. ANTHONY JAPOUR, President and CEO of iTolerance, tells us about a new approach to treating diabetes.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Google Founders, LARRY PAGE and SERGEY BRIN. In recognition of Google’s 25th anniversary this year, this 2000 Tech Nation interview is the first radio interview they ever did. But first, cognitive scientist MARYANNE WOLF and her book: “Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World”. Then, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, tells us about the explosion of digital health.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with SIR IAN WILMUT, the Scottish embryologist and the leader for the team that cloned Dolly the sheep. This 2007 BioTech Nation interview marked the 10th anniversary of Dolly’s birth. Then, MICHAEL SHERMER talks about his book, “Heavens on Earth – The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia.” We’ll find out who believes – or does not believe – in immortality.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with TOM IRELAND, Science Journalist and Author, “The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage”. Then DR. ROBERT LADNER, CEO & Founder of CV6 Therapeutics, tells us about their work to improve a cornerstone cancer chemotherapy.
On this week’s Tech Nation, developing antidepressants along with a test so when you take them, you know they will work. DR. AMT ETKIN, the founder and CEO Alto Neuroscience, explains how looking at each patient’s underlying biology is essential.
Then SIR RORY COLLINS, 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.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with CEO DR. BEN THOMAS and Chief Commercial Officer DERMOT TIERNEY from Amply Discovery about their novel approach to AI in drug discovery. Then, Dr. DANIEL KRAFT, the founder and chair of NextMed Health tells us about ChatGPT and Healthcare. And Dr. ALEX PANG’s still relevant 2013 interview on smartphones and social media – it’s "The Distraction Addiction."
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. SETHURAMAN "Panch" PANCHANATHAN, the Director of the National Science Foundation talks about how they had to pivot during Covid to act fast.
Then, in Biotech, with today’s cannabis concentrations, acute cannabis intoxication is on the rise. DR. KEN CUNDY, CSO at Anebulo Pharma is working to create an antidote.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DAN LEVITT, Award-winning documentary producer and Author, “What’s Gotten Into You … The Story of Your Body’s Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night’s Dinner.” Then, in Biotech, we look at progress in Gliobastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer. DR. FAHAR MERCHANT, the President & CEO of Medicenna Therapeutics, joins me to talk about their unprecedented approach to clinical trials.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with GENE KINNEY, the President and CEO of Prothena Biosciences, about a 1-2-3 punch for Alzheimer’s - fighting amyloids, fighting tau, and their work on a vaccine that just might prevent Alzheimer’s altogether. Then DANIEL PINK talks about Regret. Research shows you can begin to ease the pain by writing 15 minutes a day for 3 days. His book is “The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Bloomberg and BusinessWeek journalist MARK BERGEN about the challenge of keeping up with the 100’s of hours of video uploaded every minute. His book is “Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination”.
Then an excerpt from Wired Science Editor KARA PLATONI's original interview about her 2015 book: “We Have the Technology: How Biohackers, Foodies, and Physicians are Transforming Human Perception.” It’s even more relevant today.
Then, Emory University Professor DR. CASSANDRA QUAVE is in search of plants for medical botany. Her book is, “The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Bloomberg BusinessWeek investigative journalist KIT CHELLEL talks about “Dead in the Water … A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy.” It makes the movie “Captain Philips” look pretty tame. Then if you thought that all the new vaccines would be mRNA vaccines – you’d be wrong. DR. ROBERT COLEMAN, the Co-Founder and CEO of Codagenix, shows us how to precisely engineer viruses to be effective vaccines. Even better, these can be delivered nasally – there’s no need for a needle.
On this week’s Tech Nation, conjure up images of test tubes, and replace it with tiny wells on index-card-size trays, and robots moving them to and fro. DR. CHRIS GIBSON, the CEO of Recursion Pharmaceuticals, tells us about their effort to analyze all of human biology, and the drugs in their very own pipeline. Then, who knew Sociology and Criminology were linked? University of Denver professor JARED DEL ROSSO talks about his book “Denial … How We Hide, Ignore, and Explain Away Problems””, and answers the question – will the election deniers *always* believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen?
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author, ED HUMES. His latest is “The Forever Witness … How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder.” We get an object lesson in the Three Ages of DNA, and while it reads like a fast-paced Cold Case on steroids – it provides details no fiction writer would dare to make up, like the unexpected involvement of the famous true crimes writer, Ann Rule, and a person whose DNA skills are familiar to fans of the PBS documentary series, “Finding your roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JAMIE SUSSKIND about his book, “The Digital Republic … On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century”. Then, in Biotech, a potential successor to stem cells - fibroblasts? Yes, fibroblasts. DR. HAMID KHOJA, Chief Scientific Officer of FibroBiologics in Houston, describes their fibroblast programs in such diverse conditions as Degenerative Disk Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Diabetic Foot Ulcers.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalists DADE HAYES & DAWN CHMIELEWSKI about “Binge Times: Inside Hollywood’s Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix”. From the stock plunge of Netflix to the rise of Bridgerton, it’s a streaming war for our attention. Then in Biotech, could “sticky proteins” lead to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS and more? DR. MARIA MARCCECCHINI, Founder, President and CEO of Annovis Bio, tells us about their approach.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with BRUCE SCHOENFELD, journalist and author of “Game of Edges …The Analytics Revolution and the Future of Professional Sports”, about the data revolution in professional sports.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. FRANSCOIS VIGNEAULT, Co-Founder and CEO of Shape Therapeutics, talks about how they’re engineering mRNA to address Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
Then, DR. PAIL PETER TAK, CEO of Candel Therapeutics is using immuno-oncology treatments to go after solid tumors as well as cancers which have metastasized.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Pomona College Professor GARY SMITH about his book, “Distrust … Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science”. Then, technology to keep your genes working at their best. Moira speaks with DR. NOAH DAVIDSOHN, the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Rejuvenate Bio.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with KIRK WALLACE JOHNSON talking about fisherman, immigrants, bigotry, justice and environmental pollution. It’s all in “The Fishermen and the Dragon … Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast”. Then on BioTech Nation, DR. HERNAN BAZAN, the Co-Founder & CEO of South Rampart Pharma in New Orleans. They’re working on the next generation of pain relief – non-opioid pain relief. The goal is to be equally powerful without the addiction.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. LEROY HOOD and DR. NATHAN PRICE about focusing on wellness with the help of science and their book, “The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JOHN MARKOFF, the former New York Times journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, to talk about someone we would call today an influencer only he has been influencing now for decades. Markoff's book is "Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand". Then in biotech, DR. JAMES MACKEY James Mackey, the President & CEO, Aristea Therapeutics, tells about a painful disease which affects the palms of hand and soles of feet in post-menopausal women - Palmoplantar pustulosis or PPP - and how it may relate to other diseases.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ROBERT FOSTER, CEO of Hepion Pharmaceuticals, about some surprising information about your liver – like the one you have right now, is pretty much not the one you had just a few years ago. Then combining science and the humanities, MIT Professor DR. ALAN LIGHTMAN, talks about his book, “The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Duke University Professor NITA FARAHANY about her book, “The Battle for Your Brain … Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. SIDARTA RIBEIRO, Deputy Director of the Brain Institute at the Unversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil. His book is “The Oracle of Night … The History and Science of Dreams”. Then, a potential new treatment for a side effect of chemotherapy: Hand-Foot Skin Reaction and Hand-Foot Syndrome. DR. MICHAEL MCCULLAR, the CEO of OnQuality Pharmaceuticals talks about their new drug candidate which has just finished Phase II clinical trials.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with MARGRETHE VESTAGER, the Executive Vice President of the European Commission for “A Europe Fit for the Digital Age”. Commissioner Vestager describes why the EU imposed fines on such digital giants as Google and Amazon, and the impact on the EU’s digital space since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Then, University of the South Professor DAVID GEORGE HASKELL talks about sound – from the beginning of time on planet earth to the sounds in our teeming cities. His book is “Sounds Wild and Broken … Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. SOREN KAPLAN talks about taking a look at your life experience to gain insight and action into your personal and business life. His book is “Experiential Intelligence: Harness the Power of Experience for Personal and Business Breakthroughs.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DAN EGAN takes us a world tour of phosphates – or would that be phosphorus. It’s best to pay attention. His book is “The Devil’s Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance.” Then, DR. DARREN KELLY, the Founder and CEO of Certa Therapeutics in Melbourne, Australia tells us about his many-decade scientific research which has led to a treatment for Schleroderma, now in advanced clinical trials. The results are worth noting.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ANDREW STEELE in a FOLLOW-ON science-focused interview on the latest science behind aging. His book is “Ageless … The New Science of Getting Older without Getting Old.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with KATHERINE CORCORAN, the former Associate Press Bureau Chief for Mexico, talks about “In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Coverup, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press”. She talks about the danger of being a journalist in Mexico, and one woman who paid the ultimate price. And following news of one biotech firm trying to bring back the dodo bird, we hear from JOE HERNANDEZ from Blue Water Vaccines. His quest to develop a universal flu vaccine led him face-to-face – so to speak - with the Oxford dodo.
Finally, with the West Coast of the United States under tsunami warning, former USGS scientist, DR. LUCY JONES talks about “The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us”, and how we need to approach the aftermath.
On this week’s Tech Nation, developing antidepressants along with a test so when you take them, you know they will work. DR. AMIT ETKIN, the founder and CEO Alto Neuroscience, explains how looking at each patient’s underlying biology is essential.
Then SIR RORY COLLINS, 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.
On this week’s Tech Nation, JAMES VINCENT about his book, “Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants”, and our age-old propensity as humans … to measure things. Then DR. ROB ROSS from Surface Oncology tells us why the first generation of immuno-oncology drugs only worked on 15% of cancer patients, and how Surface Oncology is tackling the other 85%. Their Phase 2 trials in lung cancer and liver cancer are recruiting now.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Ohio State University professor ANGUS FLETCHER connects neuroscience and literature, and why stories can be so compelling – from Greek tragedy to modern times. His book is “Wonderworks … the 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature”. Then a ten-minute primer with DAVID PETERSON, best known for creating alien languages for HBO’s Game of Thrones, Netflix's The Witcher, and Marvel's Doctor Strange.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Columbia University professor ERIC JOHNSON about “The Elements of Choice: Why the Way We Decide Matters”. Then a glimpse into rare genetic diseases. Not as rare, as they affect 1 out of 10 people worldwide, and DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the challenges of Telehealth.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. CATHY O'NEIL about “The Shame Machine … Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation”. They talk about how encouraging shame figures into the algorithms of social media. Then DR. DANIEL BLOOMFIELD, the Chief Medical Officer of Anthos Therapeutics, describes the current challenge of preventing bleeding while avoiding the specter of clotting. Anthos may have a solution.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Yale Professor JING TSU about “Kingdom of Characters … the language revolution that made China modern.” Communicating Chinese using digital technology is not so easy, from the telegraph, the typewriter, computers and smartphones. All were built with alphabetic letters in mind. Then, diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases – like early Alzheimers, Parkinsons and more – with a simple-to-use but scientifically advanced retinal scan.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. SETH LEDERMAN, the Co-Founder and CEO of Tonix Pharmaceuticals, about Long Covid – and it potential relation to another medical condition, Fibromyalgia. Tonix is now recruiting subjects for advanced Human Clinical Trials in both. Then neuroscientist and psychologist LISA FELDMAN BARRETT gives us a lesson or two from her book, “7½ Lessons about the Brain”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ALEXANDRIA FORBES (whom you may known as Zandy Forbes), President and CEO of MeiraGTx, tells us about their efforts in treating retinitis pigmentosa and Parkinson’s, among other medical conditions. MeiraGTx is also working on a new technology to replace defective DNA with new working DNA, and the ability to stop the new DNA should you choose. Then MATTHEW BALL, the former global head of strategy for Amazon Studios, talks his book: “The Metaverse … and How It Will Revolutionize Everything.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, STEVEN JOHNSON with “Enemy of All Mankind … A True Story of Piracy, Power and History’s First Global Manhunt.” It’s a 17th century story that’s rife with insights for today. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about food as medicine – it might be steamed vegetables … or could that be chocolate and wine?
On this week’s Tech Nation, an archival interview of the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Professor SVANTE PÄÄBO talks about his book: “Neanderthal Man … in search of lost genomes.” Then biotech takes on Osteoarthritis – mostly in the knee, but it can affect any joint. DR. DIEM NGUYEN, the CEO of Xalud Therapeutics, talks about Xalud’s work to reduce the inflammation that drives pain. It’s now in human clinical trials.
On this week’s Tech Nation, it’s about developing medicines which enable the body to heal itself. First up, treating depression in a whole new way … and rapidly. DR. JEFF JONAS, the Chief Innovation Officer and Director of Sage Therapeutics, talks about their drug Zuranolone, nearing the end of its drug approval journey.
Then, CRAIG PARKER, the CEO of Surrozen, talks about their work with the W-N-T pathway, or Wnt pathway. Their initial candidate for treatment? Repairing the liver.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JAMIE SUSSKIND about his book, “The Digital Republic … On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century”. Then, in Biotech, a potential successor to stem cells - fibroblasts? Yes, fibroblasts. DR. HAMID KHOJA, Chief Scientific Officer of FibroBiologics in Houston, describes their fibroblast programs in such diverse conditions as Degenerative Disk Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Diabetic Foot Ulcers.?
Then an excerpt from Wired Science Editor KARA PLATONI’s original interview about her 2015 book: “We Have the Technology: How Biohackers, Foodies, and Physicians are Transforming Human Perception.” It’s even more relevant today.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. JEFFERY CLELAND, the President & CEO of Ashvattha Therapeutics, about their drug development efforts to treat Long Covid. Then DR. GREG FROST, the Chair and CEO of Exuma Biotech, tells us about their work to speed up CAR-T – from 4-6 weeks to just a few hours, and a second delivery method – programming a virus to produce the treatment protein needed. Just a simple injection under the skin. Finally, Wall Street Journal reporter KATHERINE BLUNT with “California Burning … The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric – and What It Means for America’s Power Grid”. What’s causing many of those California wildfires? Aging Technology.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Harvard economics professors EDWARD GLAESER and DAVID CUTLER about “Survival of the City … Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, how exactly did Edward Snowden deliver those classified government documents into the hands of the media? Former Washington Post investigative journalist BART GELLMAN, currently writing for The Atlantic, talks about his book: “Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about the potential for genetic susceptibility to the COVID-19 virus, and other aspects of genetic predisposition to the success or failure of available medical treatments.
On this week’s Tech Nation, what Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Richard Branson all have in common: They all started spaceflight companies. Moira speaks with New Yorker writer NICHOLAS SCHMIDLE, the author of “Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut”.
Then 40% of Americans report that they have gained weight since the COVID pandemic began. Excerpts from a past interview with DR SANDRA AAMODT, the former editor-in-chief of Nature Neuroscience. Her TED Talk “Why Dieting Doesn’t Usually Work” has received over 4 Million views. She’s the author of the 2014 book, “Why Diets Make Us Fat … The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession with Weight Loss.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Emory University Primatologist DR. FRANS DE WALL about his book: “Different … Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist. Then DR. STEVE WORLAND from eFFECTOR Therapeutics tells us about their approach to cancer. Among their efforts - Non-small cell lung cancer and ER positive breast cancer. And KEVIN ALI the CEO of Organon explains how this women-focused company went global with its 64 products in one year. That’s a story in itself.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ALEXANDRIA FORBES (whom you may known as Zandy Forbes), President and CEO of MeiraGTx, tells us about their efforts in treating retinitis pigmentosa and Parkinson’s, among other medical conditions. MeiraGTx is also working on a new technology to replace defective DNA with new working DNA, and the ability to stop the new DNA should you choose. Then MATTHEW BALL, the former global head of strategy for Amazon Studios, talks his book: “The Metaverse … and How It Will Revolutionize Everything.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with the biotech companies at the BIO International Convention in San Diego. They meet in person for the first time in 3 years, where Dr. Gunn was able to speak with PAUL HASTINGS, the Chair of BIO and the President & CEO of Nkarta, about the state of BIO and Nkarta’s work on delivering Natural Killer cells for cancer. JOE PANETTA, President & CEO of Biocom California, brings insights into California as a whole and its relation globally, as well as the price of drugs. DR. RICHARD AUSTIN, founder and CEO of Reglagene talks about choosing their first-in-human drug for the brain cancer, Glioblastoma, and DR. CHRIS NAVE from Brandon Capital describes Polyactiva’s work in the treatment of glaucoma.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JOHN MARKOFF, the former New York Times journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, to talk about someone we would call today an “influencer” – only he has been influencing now for decades. Markoff’s book is “Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand”. Then in biotech, DR. JAMES MACKAY, the President & CEO, Aristea Therapeutics, tells about a painful disease which affects the palms of hand and soles of feet in post-menopausal women - Palmoplantar pustulosis or PPP - and how it may relate to other diseases.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Professor ANTIONIO DAMASIO, the Director of the University of Southern California’s Brain and Creativity Institute. He talks about his book is “Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious”. Then a developing treatment for ALS – often referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease. ROB ETHERINGTON and ROBERT GLANZMAN from Clene Nanomedicine talk about using trillions of gold nanocrystals now being tested in advanced clinical trials.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with SANDY FERSHEE, the Lab Director for D-Ford Detroit at Ford Motor Company. They talk about the latest features for the best-selling vehicle on the road - the F-150 pick-up truck from Ford. They talk about the latest design updates, and how Ford went about it.
Then BRIAN CULLEY, the CEO of Lineage Cell Therapeutics in San Diego, explains cell therapy in plain words. They’re working on dry age-related macular degeneration and spinal cord injury, and they also have a new idea to create life-time immunity against COVID-19.
On this week’s Tech Nation, from the bumpy history of the chariot to how smartphones are essential equipment for transportation in the future. Economist deputy editor TON STANDAGE talks about “A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next”. Then DR. JIM BROWN, the CEO of DURECT, describes their first Phase 2 clinical trials for Alcoholic Hepatitis, known as AH. And a look at what comes next for their approach to regenerative medicine.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JER THORP. The former Data Artist in Residence at the New York Times, he talks about his book: “Living in Data – A Citizen’s Guide to a Better Information Future”. Then JOE HERNANDEZ, the Founder and CEO of Blue Water Vaccines tells us about their quest for a universal flu vaccine. Even more unusual? Along the way, they also found a Dodo bird.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ROBERT ANG, the President & CEO of Vor Biopharma about its approach to Acute Myeloid Leukemia, also known as AML.
Then DR. NIK SOPKO, the Chief Scientific Officer of PolarityTE talks about their design for wound healing. Their first treatment candidate is diabetic foot ulcers.
And DR. ERIC VIVIER from Innate Pharma in Marseilles tells us about the next wave of immunotherapy treatments – harnessing Natural Killer cells.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. GEORGE YANCOPOULOS, the President and Chief Scientific Officer of Regeneron. Its innovative COVID treatment directly infuses antibodies. But how do get students to become innovative scientists? The Regeneron Science Talent Search.
Then the challenge of diagnosing liver disease. DR. CAROLINE LOEW, the President and CEO of Glympse Bio, talks about their approach to diagnosing and tracking the progression of the liver condition, NASH, and its potential in other diseases, as well.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. ANDREW STELLE in a FOLLOW-ON science-focused interview on the latest science behind aging. His book is “Ageless … The New Science of Getting Older without Getting Old.” And then, an excerpt from DR. THOMAS RANDO’s 2020 interview. A co-founder of Fountain Therapeutics, he tells us about their science and their efforts to potentially reverse the aging process.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalists DADE HAYES & DAWN CHMIELEWSKI about “Binge Times: Inside Hollywood’s Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix”. From the stock plunge of Netflix to the rise of Bridgerton, it’s a streaming war for our attention. Then in Biotech, could “sticky proteins” lead to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS and more? DR. MARIA MACCECCHINI, Founder, President and CEO of Annovis Bio, tells us about their approach.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Neuroscientist DANIEL LEVITIN about his book “Successful Aging … A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives”. And DR. CAMERON TURTLE from Eidos Therapeutics tells us that of the 6 Million Americans living with the medical condition known as Heart Failure, several hundred thousand have a special type, which was thought to be rare, but is being underdiagnosed. It’s known by its initials: ATTR. Eidos is working on a treatment.
On this week’s Tech Nation, it’s all about changing behaviors now that that we interact online. ERICA DHAWAN talks about “Digital Body Language - How to Build Trust & Connection No Matter the Distance”. Then how to take an insight in science and enable it to become an actual product. DR. MARK ALLEN, the co-founder and CEO of Elevian, tells us their experience and about selecting their first target: stroke.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalist and NPR contributor KEITH O'BRIEN about his book, “Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe”. From congressional aides to housewives to defiant scientists – we receive the benefits of the challenge of Love Canal. Then, new science leads to understanding natural repair mechanisms in the brain. DR. MARK LITTON is the President and CEO of Athira Pharma. He discusses their efforts in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s dementia.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. AMIT KUMAR, the President and CEO of Anixa Biosciences, about a new approach to actually preventing the truly aggressive triple negative breast cancer, and its potential for other breast cancers and ovarian cancer. We hear about the scientific breakthroughs and their partnership with the Cleveland Clinic. Then, SARAH FRIER, a tech journalist with Bloomberg News. Her award-winning book: “No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram” has lessons for today’s potential buyout of Twitter.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Wall Street Journal investigative journalists, KIRSTEN GRIND and KATHERINE SAYRE. Their book is “Happy at Any Cost … The Revolutionary Vision and Fatal Quest of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh”.
Then neuroscience tells us - it’s all about the messenger and not the message. STEPHEN MARTIN and JOSEPH MARKS talk about their 2019 book, “Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don’t, and Why”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. CATHY O'NEIL about “The Shame Machine … Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation”. They talk about how encouraging shame figures into the algorithms of social media. Then DR. DANIEL BLOOMFIELD, the Chief Medical Officer of Anthos Therapeutics, describes the current challenge of preventing bleeding while avoiding the specter of clotting. Anthos may have a solution.
Dr. Stewart Campbell, CEO of Axial Therapeutics, about their groundbreaking work in Autism–related irritability in teenagers, in Parkinson’s, and in complementing the latest cancer treatments.
Then Dr. Ray Stevens, CEO of ShouTi Pharma, talks about their approach in
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Daily Beast journalist Kelly Weill are extremism, disinformation and the Internet. They talk about “Off the Edge … Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything”. Then Moira speaks with Dr. Dale Christiansen from TFF Pharmaceuticals, and Dr. Deborah Levine, Medical Director of Lung Transplantation and Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Center at UT Health San Antonio. It may be possible to inhale most of our present-day drugs, which has many benefits.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford emerita psychology professor BARBARA TVERSKY. She talks about “Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought”, how the mind can override perception, how feeling comes before logic, and how we organize things in our world the way we organize our minds.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Jimmy Soni about the impact of the people who started PayPal – surprisingly this includes Elon Musk. His book is “The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs who Shaped Silicon Valley.” Then, with the rising call to move away from animal testing, we hear about one promising alternative. Dr. Eric Merle, Chief Business Innovation Officer of GenoSkin, describes their approach.
Moira speaks with DR. SARA MANNING PESKIN, a Neurologist and Professor at the University of Pennsylvania author about her book “A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain”.
Then, Dartmouth professor RICHARD D'AVENI tells us that new tech will solve our current global supply chain issues. His book is “The Pan-Industrial Revolution – How New Manufacturing Titans Will Transform the World”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford History professor TOM MULLANEY about his 2017 book, “The Chinese Typewriter”. He also tells us about a 2008 Beijing Olympics conspiracy that was no conspiracy at all. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft tells us about the Metaverse – yes, why did Facebook rename itself Meta??
DR. ANDREW STEELE about “Ageless … The New Science of Getting Older without Getting Old.” Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft brings us up to date on treating kidney disease and with heart transplants from genetically modified pigs in the news; kidneys are also being examined.
DR. GEORGE YANCOPOULOS, the President and Chief Scientific Officer of Regeneron. Its innovative COVID treatment directly infuses antibodies. But how do get students to become innovative scientists? The Regeneron Science Talent Search.
Then the challenge of diagnosing liver disease. DR. CAROLINE LOEW, the President and CEO of Glympse Bio, talks about their approach to diagnosing and tracking the progression of the liver condition, NASH, and its potential in other diseases, as well.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with WALTER ISAACSON about “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.” Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft takes us through the slate of winners of the $6 Million Rapid COVID Screening Xprize.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with former UC Irvine professor, DR HANS KEIRSTEAD, the chairman and CEO of Aivita Biomedical. They’re talking about adult stem cells, in your body right now, and work in treating spinal cord injury, and in ovarian cancer, melanoma, the skin cancer, glioblastoma … and even in a vaccine for COVID-19, this one designed to be affordable for everyone, everywhere.
On this week’s Tech Nation, DR. JONATHAN JAVITT from NeuroRX Pharma talks about a scientific discovery which lingered for nearly two decades in some 70 boxes in deep storage – it’s now being tested as a treatment for COVID-19. Then RICK CARREON, the CEO of ImpediMed, tells us about a technology developed in the 1990’s for research purposes. Today it’s approved for the early detection of lymphedema following breast cancer – and early intervention can stop its progression.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. GREG FROST, the CEO of Exuma Biotech. He explains how gene therapy for cancer is currently a 6 to 8 week proposition, and requires the patient to undergo chemotherapy. Exuma’s aim is to reduce the time to 4 hours and eliminate the chemotherapy. Then DR. CHRIS SMITH with Brandon Capital Partners and a board member of Ena Respiratory talks about updates us on Ena-51 – a spray to reduce the presence of COVID in the nasal passageway.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Professor ANTONIO DAMASIO, the Director of the University of Southern California’s Brain and Creativity Institute. He talks about his book is “Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious”. Then a developing treatment for ALS – often referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Rob Etherington and Robert Glanzman from Clene Nanomedicine talk about using trillions of gold nanocrystals now being tested in advanced clinical trials.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with the last Tech Nation interview of GLEN DE VRIES, who flew into space with William Shatner aboard Blue Origin. A short month after this flight, Glen passed away in a plane crash. We talk about how his earthbound work help us all, and his book: “The Patient Equation”. Then why the new FDA-approved treatment for yeast infections in women is … different. And DR. MARCO TAGLIETTI, the President and CEO of Scynexis, describes their unprecedented FDA-approved treatment for Yeast Infections in Women.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. BESSEL VAN DER KOLK about his perpetually best-selling book: “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma.” We’ll also hear Dr. Gunn’s 2005 interview with ELIZABETH HOLMES, the founder and CEO of the now-defunct Theranos, who is currently standing trial for fraud.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Columbia University professor ADAM TOOZE. It turns out that during COVID, 90% of the world’s workforce worked from home. Then drug trials, where some participants report a positive response, even when they receive nothing. And DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about how to create what he calls a “check engine light” for your body.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Harvard professor experimental cognitive scientist STEVEN PINKER about “Rationality … What it is, Why it seems scarce, and Why it matters”. Then LEMONY SNICKET – the one and only. You know him from his children’s book series, “A Series of Unfortunate Events”. He’s here with “Poison for Breakfast”. You will start bewildered and leave bewildered, but feeling much better about it.
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with University of Chicago professor DR. NEIL SHUBIN about “Some Assembly Required … Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA.” Ancient viruses in our DNA? And what about “jumping genes”? Also, climatologist MARIANA PSAROS talks about “The Atlas of Disappearing Places … Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis”.
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with wired journalist MAIA SZALAVITZ about why our recent approach to opioid addiction has resulted in a rise of undesired outcomes, and an interesting perspective on what we as individuals can do. Her book is “Undoing Drugs … The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction.” Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT wants us to look at Digital Health differently. Our digitally-enhanced Quantified Self can lead to a new Quantified Health.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with neuroscientist and psychologist LISA FELDMAN BARRETT. She gives us “7½ Lessons about the Brain” and has some surprises – there is no “reptilian” part of your brain … it’s just a myth. Then in biotech – treatments to fight diseases caused by inflammation – DR. JIM WOODY, the CEO of 180 Life Sciences talks about their pipeline of drugs, as well as their lead work in clinical trials now – it’s for Dupuytrin’s Contracture, affecting one out of 25 people in Europe and North America.
On this week’s Tech Nation, from the bumpy history of the chariot to how smartphones are essential equipment for transportation in the future. Economist deputy editor TOM STANDAGE talks about “A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next”. Then DR. JIM BROWN, the CEO of DURECT, describes their first Phase 2 clinical trials for Alcoholic Hepatitis, known as AH. And a look at what comes next for their approach to regenerative medicine.
On this week’s Tech Nation, it’s about developing medicines which enable the body to heal itself. First up, treating depression in a whole new way … and rapidly. DR. JEFF JONAS, the Chief Innovation Officer and Director of Sage Therapeutics, talks about their drug Zuranolone, nearing the end of its drug approval journey. Then, CRAIG PARKER, the CEO of Surrozen, talks about their work with the W-N-T pathway, or Wnt pathway. Their initial candidate for treatment? Repairing the liver.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with ROBERT SIEGEL, Venture Investor and Stanford University Lecturer, and the Author of “The Brains and Brawn Company … How Leading Organizations blend the best of Digital and Physical.” Then, intervening with “cytokine storms”. JIM JOYCE, the CEO of San Diego’s Sigyn Therapeutics talks about their progress to intervening quickly.
Moira speaks with journalist JASON FAGONE talks about Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a pioneer in codebreaking, from World War I to rumrunners to drug smuggling to the famous Enigma machine. His book is “The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies.” Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. MARCO TAGLIETTI, President and CEO of Scynexis, talks about their work in serious invasive fungal infections.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. HARVEY KAUFMAN, the Senior Medical Director of Quest Diagnostics, about how the use or delay of medical tests reveals about the health status of the US. Then MIKE CLAYMAN, the CEO of Flexion Therapeutics, talks about the treatments they have in clinical trials for osteoarthritis, knee replacement surgery, and more.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. LEVI GARRAWAY, the Chief Medical Officer of Genentech about FDA approvals for treatments in two very rare diseases - SMA - Spinal Muscular Atrophy, and NMOSD - Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder. Then DR. THOMAS RANDO, Co-Founder of Fountain Therapeutics, a Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, and Director of Glen Laboratories on the Biology of Aging talks about a rampant medical condition – aging.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with anthropologist EBEN KIRKSEY, a professor of anthropology at Deakin University in Melbourne. He’s look at the societal and ethical implications of CRISPR – and not just hypothetically. He traveled to China, with an eye to understanding the circumstance of the three CRISPR babies known to exist. His book is “The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft gives us a quick primer on antibodies and how we use them as therapy.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with psychologist DR. RON FRIEDMAN about “Decoding Greatness … How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success”. Then DR. TOM HALLAM from Palisade Bio in San Diego talks about their efforts to solve a major problem post-surgery – how to get your GI track back on track. And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft reviews tests to detect Alzheimer’s early.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with journalist OLIVER BROUDY about his book “The Sensitives - The Rise of Environmental Illness and Search for America’s Last Pure Place.” Then in biotech, a San Diego company who pivoted from treating parainfluenza and influenza to target COVID … and they started in Wuhan, China. Moira speaks with DR. STANLEY LEWIS, the Chief Medical Officer of Ansun Biopharma.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with TANUJ MOHAN, the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Enlighted, a Siemens Company based in Silicon Valley. Smart technology may bring us back to safe workplaces - from social distancing, to automatic contact tracing, overly crowded points of contact, and more. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about our “Sociome” – where and how we live is more important than our DNA.
On this week’s Tech Nation, what we lose if we go to driverless cars. Moira speaks with MATTHEW CRAWFORD about his book: “Why We Drive … Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road”. Then YOCHI SLONIM, CEO of Anima Biotech, talks about the path from your DNA to producing proteins, and the potential for new drugs.
On this week’s Tech Nation, WIRED journalist ADAM ROGERS talks about his book: “Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern.” Then making headway in treating nerve damage. Axogen’s KAREN ZADEREJ tells that transplanting the nerves of others is now possible.
On this week’s Tech Nation, what Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Richard Branson all have in common: They all started spaceflight companies. Moira speaks with New Yorker writer NICHOLAS SCHMIDLE, the author of “Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut”. Then 40% of Americans report that they have gained weight since the COVID pandemic began. Excerpts from a past interview with DR SANDRA AAMODT, the former editor-in-chief of Nature Neuroscience. Her TED Talk “Why Dieting Doesn’t Usually Work” has received over 4 Million views. She’s the author of the 2014 book, “Why Diets Make Us Fat … The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession with Weight Loss.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, University of Wisconsin math professor JORDAN ELLENBERG, whom you might know from his earlier book, “How Not To Be Wrong”. He talks about “Shape … The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else.” Then MARCIO SOUZA, the President and CEO of Praxis Precision Medicines, describes their research drug modulating GABA, a key neurotransmitter in the brain, and its potential to treat depression, essential tremor, and other conditions.
On this week’s Tech Nation, it’s all about changing behaviors now that that we interact online. ERICA DHAWAN talks about “Digital Body Language – How to Build Trust & Connection No Matter the Distance”. Then how to take an insight in science and enable it to become an actual product. DR. MARK ALLEN, the co-founder and CEO of Elevian, tells us their experience and about selecting their first target: stroke.
On this week’s Tech Nation, how exactly did Edward Snowden deliver those classified government documents into the hands of the media? Former Washington Post investigative journalist BART GELLMAN, currently writing for The Atlantic, talks about his book: “Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the potential for genetic susceptibility to the COVID-19 virus, and other aspects of genetic predisposition to the success or failure of available medical treatments.
On this week’s Tech Nation, MATT RIDLEY, columnist from The Times of London on science, the environment, and economics, and author of “How Innovation Works – And Why It Flourishes in Freedom”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT leads the COVID-19 Response Task Force for the XPrize Pandemic Alliance.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with WIRED journalist LAUREN GOODE. They talk about her article appearing in the May, 2021 issue: “I called Off My Wedding. The Internet will never forget.” But in a follow-up to a recent interview with DR. JONATHAN JAVITT, the CEO of NeuroRX Pharma. That twist of fate which resurrected a scientific discovery literally shelved for most of two decades? That NeuroRX transformed it into a treatment for COVID-19? The clinical trial results are in.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with MIT psychology professor DR. SHERRY TURKLE. She’s written her memoir, and talks about the concept of “Deep” empathy. Then advanced clinical trial results for treating mild Alzheimer’s Disease. DR. JIM GALVIN, a professor and Director of the Comprehensive Center for Brain Health at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, talks about what it means, prior to its June, 2021 final decision by the FDA.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with former UC Irvine professor, DR. HANS KEIRSTEAD, the chairman and CEO of Aivita Biomedical. They’re talking about adult stem cells, in your body right now, and work in treating spinal cord injury, and in ovarian cancer, melanoma, the skin cancer, glioblastoma … and even in a vaccine for COVID-19, this one designed to be affordable for everyone, everywhere.
On this week’s Tech Nation, we’re talking about “Good Medicine … Health, Ethics and Innovation”. It’s a Collaboration Between Bioethics International and Scientific American. We’ll hear from JENNIFER MILLER, a professor at the Yale University School of Medicine, and JEREMY ABBATE, the publisher of Scientific American. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about existing drugs being repurposed in the fight against COVID. And what gets us to stick with all that personal health technology we need? RICK ANDERSON is the President and General Manager for North America at Dario Health.
On this week’s Tech Nation, spurred by the re-opening of expeditions to the summit of Mount Everest, after a one-year closure due to COVID-19, a 1993 interview with SIR EDMUND HILLARY\, who with his climbing partner, Sherpa TENZING NORGAY, was the first to reach the summit. Then DR. GENE KINNEY, the President & CEO of Prothena Biosciences, a new drug in clinical trials for Parkinson’s. How Parkinson’s unfolds in the brain, the idea behind how this drug, and the hope of slowing, if not stopping, disease progress.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with WALTER ISAACSON about “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.” Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT takes us through the slate of winners of the $6 Million Rapid COVID Screening Xprize.
On this week’s Tech Nation, learning to draw on the radio! DAN ROAM, the founder of The Napkin Academy, invites us to make simple drawings showing what the COVID-19 pandemic looks like to each of us. They’ll also talk about his writer’s workshop and how he’s writing his upcoming book– “The Pop-Up Pitch” – he’s inviting all nonfiction writers to write their books along with him.
On this week’s Tech Nation, DR. JONATHAN JAVITT from NeuroRX Pharma talks about a scientific discovery which lingered for nearly two decades in some 70 boxes in deep storage – it’s now being tested as a treatment for COVID-19. Then RICK CARREON, the CEO of ImpediMed, tells us about a technology developed in the 1990’s for research purposes. Today it’s approved for the early detection of lymphedema following breast cancer – and early intervention can stop its progression.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Wharton Marketing Professor, JONAH BERGER, follow his earlier books, “Contagious” and “Invisible Influence”. His latest is “The Catalyst – How To Change Anyone’s Mind”. Then on BioTech Nation, using viruses to our benefit. That’s the idea from Aspa Therapeutics. DR. ERIC DAVID described Aspa’s approach to deliver essential treatment for the rare genetic condition of Canavan’s Disease.
On this week’s Tech Nation, DR. GREG FROST, the CEO of Exuma Biotech. He explains how gene therapy for cancer is currently a 6 to 8 week proposition, and requires the patient to undergo chemotherapy. Exuma’s aim is to reduce the time to 4 hours and eliminate the chemotherapy …
On this week’s Tech Nation, DAVID QUAMMEN is the author of “Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic”, his 2012 book which sounds oh-so familiar today. There are gorillas, chimpanzees and monkeys, birds and rats and, yes, bats. Then a San Diego company working on a simple blood test for early stage Lung Cancer. With 2/3’s of patients initially diagnosed at stage 4, CHRIS HIBBERD, the CEO of Nucleix, tells us how they did it, their focus on for bladder cancer and 12 other cancers, and how its science fueled a Law and Order episode.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Sandy Fershee, the Lab Director for D-Ford Detroit at Ford Motor Company. They talk about the latest features for the best-selling vehicle on the road - the F-150 pick-up truck from Ford, the latest design updates, and how Ford went about it. Then BRIAN CULLEY from Lineage Cell Therapeutics tells us what Cell therapy is in plain words, and how they’re working on dry age-related macular degeneration and spinal cord injury, and they also have a new idea to achieve life-time immunity against COVID-19.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Neuroscientist and psychologist LISA FELDMAN BARRETT. She gives us “7½ Lessons about the Brain” and has some surprises – there is no “reptilian” part of your brain … it’s just a myth. Then in biotech – treatments to fight diseases caused by inflammation – DR. JIM WOODY, the CEO of 180 Life Sciences talks about their pipeline of drugs, as well as their lead work in clinical trials now – it’s for Dupuytrin’s Contracture, affecting one out of 25 people in Europe and North America.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Computer Scientist DR. LORIEN PRATT about “Link … How Decision Intelligence Connects Data, Actions, and Outcomes for a Better World.” Then Dr. Seth Lederman, the CEO of Tonix Pharmaceuticals, tells us about how PTSD affects the brain, its relation to sleep, and how it may treated some 9 years after the initial trauma. If you have experienced trauma, and PTSD, you may qualify for one of their clinical studies.
On this week’s Tech Nation, are you working from home? Or really committing yourself to that novel you always wanted to write or your memoirs? In a follow-up to his earlier books – “The Distraction Addiction” and “Rest” - ALEX PANG joins Moira to talk about “Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less – Here’s How”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist MATT RICHTEL turns tech noir thriller fiction writer with the pseudonym A B Jewell, in “The Man Who Wouldn’t Die” - from Silicon Valley values to venture capital lingo to the habits of the newly tech rich in San Francisco. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the health benefits of Ambient Technology – the technology all around that you think is doing one thing, but could do another. Like keep you in good health …
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Wired magazine’s Editor-at-Large, STEVEN LEVY. You may know him from Hackers or Crypto. He’s here today with "Facebook - The Inside Story". Then on BioTech Nation, SANDY MCCRAE, the CEO of Sangamo Therapeutics talks about Zinc Fingers. Sangamo is working on numerous projects to introduce DNA into patient’s bodies where the DNA may be missing or simply doesn’t work as needed. The challenge? It would permanently change to your DNA. Are you ready for it?
On this week’s Tech Nation, DR. PAUL AUERBACH, Professor Emeritus at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, a co-founder of the Wilderness Medical Society, and author of “Enviromedics: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, talks about longevity, zip code by zip code.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with GLEN de VRIES, the co-founder and co-CEO of Medidata, a company which has provided data management services for clinical trials for some twenty years. He’s talks about “The Patient Equation … the precision medicine revolution in the age of COVID-19 and Beyond”. Then can we diagnose Autism earlier? The average age of diagnosis is 4 years old, but a blood test may reveal autism spectrum disorder as early as 18 months. Moira speaks with BETH DONLEY, the CEO of Stemina Biomarker Discovery.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with noted speculative fiction writer, WILLIAM GIBSON. His first book, Neuromancer, the 1984 novel, which won numerous awards, coined the term cyberspace, and cemented the genre of cyberpunk. His latest book is “Agency”, the second book in The Peripheral Trilogy.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with anthropologist EBEN KIRKSEY, a professor of anthropology at Deakin University in Melbourne. He’s look at the societal and ethical implications of CRISPR – and not just hypothetically. He traveled to China, with an eye to understanding the circumstance of the three CRISPR babies known to exist. His book is “The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT gives us a quick primer on antibodies and how we use them as therapy.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. PETER DIAMANDIS, the executive chair of the Xprize Foundation and co-founder of COVAXX. Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT joins Moira to interview Peter about the COVID-related Xprizes and COVAXX’s COVID vaccine. Then DR. PETER BEETHAM, the CEO of Cibus, tells us that natural mutations in plants happen one tiny nucleotide at a time. Cibus’s technology can create these tiny mutations, and even enhance seeds.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. JULIET SCHOR, an economist and professor of sociology at Boston College. They talk about all those workers hired by the new services, from Uber and Lyft to Doordash, Instacart, and more. Her book is “After the Gig … How the Shared Economy Got Hijacked, and How to Win It Back”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about CGM’s - Continuous glucose monitors – they create a picture of your “foodprint”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. JUSTIN REICH, Director of the Teaching Systems Lab at MIT and host of the podcast, TeachLab. His book is “Failure to Disrupt … Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR DANIEL KRAFT tells us that we are having an “Infodemic”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Jim McKelvey, Co-Founder and CEO of Square – that little gadget that plugs into a smartphone and any vendor can take your credit card. He’s written “The Innovation Stack … Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time”. Then on BioTech Nation, Chris Nave, the Managing Director of Brandon Capital in Melbourne, Australia. He’s tell us what’s up with Australia with respect to global biotech.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with a company that paused its work on Hepatitis B to focus on treatments for COVID. DR. LAWRENCE BLATT, the CEO of Aligos Therapeutics joins Moira to talk about their idea for treating COVID. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT tells us that all COVID vaccines are not the same, and a potential different approach for *all* cancer treatments, including a tough one – Ovarian Cancer. Moira speaks with BILL NEWELL, the CEO of Sutro Biopharma, about their approach and their results thus far.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with the late DAVID GRAEBER, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and an early architect of the Occupy Wall Street movement. With his recent, unexpected passing, this archive Tech Nation interview was recorded shortly before Occupy Wall Street coalesced. Moira speaks with him about his book “Debt, the first 5,000 years”. She’ll also speak with WES GILSON, the head of Artificial Intelligence at Siemens Healthineers, about the intersection between artificial intelligence and healthcare.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. PATRICK YANG, Chair and Co-Founder, Acepodia. They’ve just treated their first human. Their treatment? For HER-2 positive cancer - it can be anywhere in the body. Then writer, poet, writing critic, and writing coach - JOAN GELFAND. Her 2018 book, “You Can Be a Winning Writer”, can help you write that book you’ve been meaning to, or relax with her latest novel, “Extreme”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with STEPHEN MARTIN and JOSEPH MARKS, the authors of “Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don’t, and Why”. From the neuroscience of it, to the human behavioral characteristics – being human can be challenging. And did you know you had a personal data lake? Tech Nation regular contributor GARY DAVIS, the Chief Consumer Security Evangelist at McAfee, tells us how to take care of it.
On this week’s Tech Nation, ANDREW MARANTZ talks about what social media is doing to the information we consume … and perhaps more importantly, the information we believe. His book is Antisocial – Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation. Then, in biotech, DR. PAUL-PETER TAK, the CEO of Kintai Therapeutics gives us a bigger picture of our gut - it’s not just your microbiome that plays a significant role in the recovery from illness.
On this week’s Tech Nation, ADRIAN SHAHBAZ, Research Director for Technology and Democracy at Freedom House, and ALLIE FUNK, a Research Analyst focusing on the global impact of network information. They discuss the Freedom House report “Freedom on the Net 2019 – The Crisis of Social Media”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, tells us about psychedelics – they are not becoming part of mainstream medicine.
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 Things, while DR. CRYSTAL ICENHOUR, the CEO of Aperiomics, talks about identifying hard-to-diagnose medical conditions by looking at the DNA of microorganisms in your body.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with TANUJ MOHAN, the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Enlighted, a Siemens Company based in Silicon Valley. Smart technology may bring us back to safe workplaces - from social distancing, to automatic contact tracing, overly crowded points of contact, and more. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about our “Sociome” – where and how we live is more important than our DNA.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. KAROLY NIKOLICH, the Co-Founder and CEO of Alkahest. He describes how they are targeting certain proteins to address the degenerative conditions we develop as we age. Then, DR. TONY FIORINO from electroCore tells us about their device which may alleviate the pain of cluster headaches, and Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about where does design meet medicine and a new kind of passport.
What if we could just get the antibodies from all the various strains of COVID-19, put them together and get them in an IV drug? Well, that’s exactly what Gigagen has done. Today, when Moira speaks with geneticist DAVID JOHNSON, its co-founder, President and CEO of Gigagen. Then, your skin microbiome - Problems with it can lead to severe skin rashes for cancer patients, as well as eczema and psoriasis. DR. TRAVIS WHIFILL tells us what Azitra Biosciences is testing.
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 cancer. GILEAD RADAY, COO of RedHill Biopharma talks about a treatment in their pipeline and a plan on how to avoid creating antibiotic resistance.
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 from F-Star in Cambridge, England describes their approach to creating cancer drugs, and Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about sleep – and upsides and downsides of all this technology.
On this week’s Tech Nation, STEVEN JOHNSON with “Enemy of All Mankind … A True Story of Piracy, Power and History’s First Global Manhunt.” It’s a 17th century story that’s rife with insights for today. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about food as medicine – it might be steamed vegetables … or could that be chocolate and wine?
On this week’s Tech Nation, how exactly did Edward Snowden deliver those classified government documents into the hands of the media? Former Washington Post investigative journalist BART GELLMAN, currently writing for The Atlantic, talks about his book: “Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the potential for genetic susceptibility to the COVID-19 virus, and other aspects of genetic predisposition to the success or failure of available medical treatments.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times journalist MATT RICHTEL turns the tables on all of us. Matt interviews Dr. Gunn! They talk about topics of interest to both of them in technology, business and science.
On this week’s Tech Nation, learning to draw on the radio! DAN ROAM, the founder of The Napkin Academy, invites us to make simple drawings showing what the COVID-19 pandemic looks like to each of us. They’ll also talk about his writer’s workshop and how he’s writing his upcoming book– “The Pop-Up Pitch” – he’s inviting all nonfiction writers to write their books along with him.
On this week’s Tech Nation, the first Google radio interview with Google co-founders LARRY PAGE and SERGEY BRIN from the year 2000. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT gives us insights into where Google is today in the area of healthcare and groundbreaking research – from Google Health, to Calico, Verily Life Sciences, Google Flu Trends, and more ....
On this week’s Tech Nation, Wharton Marketing Professor, JONAH BERGER, follow his earlier books, “Contagious” and “Invisible Influence”. His latest is “The Catalyst – How To Change Anyone’s Mind”. Then on BioTech Nation, using viruses to our benefit. That’s the idea from Aspa Therapeutics. DR. ERIC DAVID described Aspa’s approach to deliver essential treatment for the rare genetic condition of Canavan’s Disease.
On this week’s Tech Nation, DAVID LUDVIGSON, President & CEO of Nanomix, talks about making their 15-minute, handheld testing device COVID-19 ready. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT sees the rise of the Maker Movement, especially now with so many people sheltering in place. And HELEN TORLEY, President & CEO of Halozyme Therapeutics, talks about their efforts to move the time it takes IV drugs from hours down to minutes – current testing is in breast cancer in women and multiple myeloma.
On this week’s Tech Nation, how the tech giants are different from the global corporations of yesterday. BuzzFeed journalist ALEX KANTROWITZ talks about “Always Day One … How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever.” And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about his current work with the World Health Organization, heading up a team to develop a global app in these times of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On this week’s Tech Nation, are you working from home? Or really committing yourself to that novel you always wanted to write or your memoirs? In a follow-up to his earlier books – “The Distraction Addiction” and “Rest” - ALEX PANG joins Moira to talk about “Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less – Here’s How”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, in these times of global crisis, how do changes in international cargo and trade work? Moira speaks with KEITH ROCKWELL, the Director of the Information and External Relations Division at the World Trade Organization in Geneva. And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT updates us on the loosening of HIPAA rules in these days of COVID-19.
On this week’s Tech Nation, it’s about one team’s dedicated effort to find an impactful and time-sensitive cure to fighting the coronavirus. Gates Foundation award winner JACOB GLANVILLE, the Chief Scientific Officer of Distributed Bio, joins me talks about their work to engineer unique and targeted antibodies and other work to create a universal flu vaccine – could it all be converted to fight coronaviruses and Covid-19? There’s a lot more to the story that Distributed Bio’s pigs in Guatemala, which you may have seen in the NetFlix documentary “Pandemic”.
On this week’s Tech Nation, DR. NADINE BURKE HARRIS, the CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness in San Francisco, with her new book “The Deepest Well … Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about … the microbiome, and how the right surgical intervention can change everything.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Wired magazine’s Editor-at-Large, STEVEN LEVV. You may know him from Hackers or Crypto. He’s here today with "Facebook - The Inside Story". Then on BioTech Nation, SANDY MCCRAE, the CEO of Sangamo Therapeutics talks about Zinc Fingers. Sangamo is working on numerous projects to introduce DNA into patient’s bodies where the DNA may be missing or simply doesn’t work as needed. The challenge? It would permanently change to your DNA. Are you ready for it?
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with TERRY JONES, a co-creator of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and DOUGLAS ADAMS, the author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. With the recent passing of Terry Jones, we are re-airing our 1997 interview. Then on BioTech Nation, focus on conditions of the kidney. VINNY JINDAL, the Head of Strategy at Reata Pharmaceuticals, talks about Bardoxolone for chronic kidney disease caused by Alport Sydrome. They just got a “thumbs up” from the FDA. Then Dr. DARREN KELLY, the Founder and CEO of Certa Therapeutics, talks about the seriousness of organ fibrosis, the cause of mortality in some 50% of human lives. Certa is working first on stopping fibrosis in the kidney.
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, the 1998 Tech Nation interview with the late JIM LEHRER, longtime news anchor of the PBS Newshour, about “The tensest, most anxiety ridden experience” he “ever had interviewing anybody about anything”. Then on BioTech Nation, the need for early detection of cancer. Cancer UK’s DR. WENDY ALDERTON_ and DR. MIKE FISHER from Oncimmune talks about the current state of cancer diagnostics, and DR. ARTHRU SANDS, CEO of Nurix Therapeutics, discusses their new approach to treating cancer.
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, University of Pennsylvania professors MICHAEL KEARNS and AARON ROTH with their book, “The Ethical Algorithm … the science of socially aware algorithm design.” Then regular contributor GARY DAVIS reports in on the state of Corporate Security breaches, and Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about IPS Cells – having our own cells treat our bodies.
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, 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 loss in children following treatment for cancer. Also, DANIEL DE BOER, the CEO of ProQR Therapeutics, talks about their approach to treat genetic diseases, including as childhood blindness. We’ll learn how it works, and why it’s safe.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. MARIANA MAZZUCATO, a professor of the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London. Her book is “The Value of Everything … Making and Taking in the Global Economy”. Then on Tech Nation Health, TIM SHANNON from Canaan Partners discusses some terms with potential in the future of medicine: “protein degradation” and “synthetic lethality”. And Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT reviews the latest FDA approvals using AI.
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, the global supply chain of recycled goods. ADAM MINTER talks about “Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale.” Then in biotech, former University of Southern California professor BOB LADNER CEO of CV6 Therapeutics, moved his cancer research group from the beaches of Santa Monica to Belfast, Northern Ireland. CV6 is looking to make a chemotherapy used by millions of cancer patients each year better.
On this week’s Tech Nation, former CNN journalist and Managing Editor of Foreign Policy, RAVI AGRAWAL with “India Connected … How the Smartphone is Transforming the World’s Largest Democracy.” Then, we’ll hear from JAMIE METZL on “Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity.”
On this week’s Tech Nation, ADRIAN SHAHBAZ, Research Director for Technology and Democracy at Freedom House, and ALLIE FUNK, a Research Analyst focusing on the global impact of network information. They discuss the Freedom House report “Freedom on the Net 2019 – The Crisis of Social Media”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, tells us about psychedelics – they are not becoming part of mainstream medicine.
On this week’s Tech Nation, ANDREW MARANTZ talks about what social media is doing to the information we consume … and perhaps more importantly, the information we believe. His book is "Antisocial – Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation". Then, in biotech, DR. PAUL-PETER TAK, the CEO of Kintai Therapeutics gives us a bigger picture of our gut - it’s not just your microbiome that plays a significant role in the recovery from illness.
On this week’s Tech Nation, how Global Trade will change with manufacturing turning to commercial-grade 3D printers. Dartmouth professor RICHARD D’AVENI is the author of “The Pan-Industrial Revolution – How New Manufacturing Titans Will Transform the World”. Then on Tech Nation Health, producing your own cells to deliver on the promise of Precision Medicine. STEVE BAGSHAW, the CEO of FujiFilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, explains what they do. And Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT gives us more insight on the announcement out of China of gene-edited babies.
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 cost so much? MIKE ABRAMS from Numerof and Associates explains.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with journalist MARIA GOODAVAGE. Following her books “Soldier Dogs” and “Secret Service Dogs”, her latest is “Doctor Dogs, How Our Best Friends Are Becoming Our Best Medicine.” And ever wonder why those popular genetic tests don’t say you definitely will get a medical condition, but rather they cite a likelihood? A probability? DR. TARA NICKERSON from Maze Therapeutics explains it, as well as how their work is looking to create new therapies in the future.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with the author known best to you as LEMONY SNICKET, or rather his adult self: DANIEL HANDLER. They talk about his latest adult novel: “Bottle Grove”, and a different take on the San Francisco of today. Then Moira speaks with two different female engineers. BRIANNA WRONKO, the founder and CEO of Group K Diagnostics, is looking to create immediate response diagnostics. And DR. ERICA SMITH, the Vice President of Business Development for Tools4Patient, tlaks about removing the placebo effect - the impact of a positive response to a drug, even when the patient received nothing.
On this week’s Tech Nation, 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 DR. DANIEL KRAFT shows us we can crowdsource medical questions, while Tech Nation Regular Contributor GARY DAVIS reminds us that we love free stuff, and we pay for it with our data. Then KRISHNAN NANDABALAN, the CEO of InveniAI sees continued value in the data used for drug approval after the drug is approved.
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 Things, while DR. CRYSTAL ICENHOUR, the CEO of Aperiomics, talks about identifying hard-to-diagnose medical conditions by looking at the DNA of microorganisms in your body.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford emerita psychology professor BARBARA TVERSKY. She talks about “Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought”, how the mind can override perception, how feeling comes before logic, and how we organize things in our world the way we organize our minds.
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 price of drugs and everyday people. While BIO Vice Chair, PAUL HASTINGS, is also the CEO of Nkarta Therapeutics. With Senior Vice President, NADIR MAHMOOD, they’re working with Natural Killer cells to fight cancer.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. SUE DESMOND-HELLMAN, the CEO of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and DR. PENNY HEATON, CEO of The Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute, also called Gates MRI. Then scientist-entrepreneur DR. JAKE GLANVILLE, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Distributed Bio, talks about developing a universal flu vaccine.
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, Vice President of IBM Food Trust. From one field to one processor to one supermarket, technology can keep tiny problems tiny.
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 surgeons.
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 NeuroMetrix, talks about their solution for treating chronic pain, and a study of pain sufferers in the face of the opioid crisis.
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 Medicine – paying attention to your Circadian rhythm turns out to be important, even in the modern Healthcare.
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 on this week’s Tech Nation Health, testing for Alzheimer’s Disease long before any outward symptoms appear. CARLO MEDICI, CEO of Alzeca describes their efforts, and our chief correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, talks about the ability to control technology with voice and how it will significantly impact medicine.
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 determine the health status of our hearts.
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 why it might work. Then Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about The Age Wave.
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 his smartwatch – it saved his life.
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 calls we get pretending to be the IRS.
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 from F-Star in Cambridge, England describes their approach to creating cancer drugs, and Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about sleep – and upsides and downsides of all this technology.
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 common skin disorder: Acne.
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 at NIH - the world’s largest medical library, founded in 1836 as a bookshelf in the office of the Army Surgeon General.
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 loss in children following treatment for cancer. Also, DANIEL DE BOER, the CEO of ProQR Therapeutics, talks about their approach to treat genetic diseases, including as childhood blindness. We’ll learn how it works, and why it’s safe.
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, 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 cost so much? MIKE ABRAMS from Numerof and Associates explains.
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 9and 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 HELEN TORLEY of Halozyme returns to talk about a technology which reduces the time for infusion therapy.
On this week’s Tech Nation, GUY KAWASKAI, 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 TORLEY, President and CEO of Halozyme, explores how we might fight different aspects of a cancer, making existing cancer treatments more effective. Its first target – pancreatic cancer, with other cancers soon to follow.
On this week’s Tech Nation, MICHAEL SHERMER talks about “Heavens on Earth – The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia.” We’ll find out who believes – or does not believe – in an afterlife. Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. CARL WARE, from Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in La Jolla, talks about viruses, cancer and autoimmune diseases.
On 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 McAfee talks about the human experience of security in our homes, while JENNIFER ERNST, the CEO of Tivic Health, reveals their electrical medical device - just approved by the FDA - to relieve sinus pain.
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, Vice President of IBM Food Trust. From one field to one processor to one supermarket, technology can keep tiny problems tiny.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with three takes on what would work well in a Smart Home, the projected US trends in consumer technology – what you will likely buy this year, and a tiny chip that can monitor the air that we breathe.
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 surgeons.
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 NeuroMetrix, talks about their solution for treating chronic pain, and a study of pain sufferers in the face of the opioid crisis.
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 Medicine – paying attention to your Circadian rhythm turns out to be important, even in the modern Healthcare.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Harvard professor STEVEN PINKER makes the case that we’re better off today than ever before. His book is “Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.” Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT takes us beyond the hype on “artificial intelligence” in healthcare.
On this week’s Tech Nation, we discover what science might do for Food, Energy, Water and the Environment in the Arequipa Valley of Peru. Purdue University geosciences professor TIM FILLEY describes their work. Then on Tech Nation Health, what the World Health Organization calls out as a burning need – healthcare management. STEVE SAMMUT joins us with a solution in Africa. And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about electroceuticals - electricity as medicine.
On this week’s Tech Nation, psychologist DR. SUSAN DAVID speaks on “Emotional Agility” as well as her TED Talk, “The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage”. Then on Tech Nation Health: The opioid crisis. Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT to brings us up-to-date with the surprising findings of a new study.
On this week’s Tech Nation, how Global Trade will change with manufacturing turning to commercial-grade 3D printers. Dartmouth professor RICHARD D’AVENI is the author of “The Pan-Industrial Revolution – How New Manufacturing Titans Will Transform the World”. Then on Tech Nation Health, producing your own cells to deliver on the promise of Precision Medicine. STEVE BAGSHAW, the CEO of FujiFilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, explains what they do. And Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT gives us more insight on the announcement out of China of gene-edited babies.
On this week’s Tech Nation, DR. NADINE BURKE HARRIS, the CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness in San Francisco, with her new book “The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the microbiome, and how the right surgical intervention can change everything.
On this week’s Tech Nation, NYU professor MELISSA SCHILLING talks about everyone from Albert Einstein to Steve Jobs and Elon Musk in “Quirky – The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World.” Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. CHRIS SMITH from the start-up, Q-Sera in Brisbane, Australia, tells us how the venomous Australian Brown snake lashed out at the wrong scientist.
Moira speaks with Duke University Senior Fellow, DAN HEATH, about “The Power of Moments”. It turns out, we actually remember our life in slices of time. Then on Tech Nation Health, it’s the power of viruses – against cancer. Moira speaks with DR. HARRY GRUBER, the President for Science and Innovation at Tocagen about their genetically engineered viruses. Their first, glioblastoma, has received breakthrough therapy designation from the FDA. Tocagen is also working on colorectal, breast, lung, pancreatic and renal cancers, as well as melanoma. Dr. Gruber explains how the virus works.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Pomona College professor GARY SMITH about how we humans are the intelligent ones .. and not computers. He de-hypes our expectations of Artificial Intelligence in “The AI Delusion”. Then on Tech Nation Health, a look at the global biotech industry, its accomplishments and its challenges. JIM GREENWOOD, the President & CEO of BIO, joins us to cover everything from scientific breakthroughs to plentiful jobs for the non-scientists among us.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JAMIE SUSSKIND about his book: “Future Politics … Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech.” Then on Tech Nation Health, breakthrough science in the treatment of epilepsy. TONY COLASIN, the Co-Founder and CEO of Bloom Science, talks about the science Bloom is utilizing to develop new treatments.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with CARY MCCLELLAND about the significant impact of technology on San Francisco – which may be coming to your city, if it hasn’t already. Cary’s book is “Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley”. Then on Tech Nation Health, a potential new treatment for Proteus Syndrome, best known to you from the movie, The Elephant Man. It may also deliver benefits for endometrial cancer. DR. BRIAN SCHWARTZ is the Chief Medical Officer of Arqule.
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 determine the health status of our hearts.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. MARIANA MAZZUCATO a professor of the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London. Her book is “The Value of Everything … Making and Taking in the Global Economy”. Then on Tech Nation Health, TIM SHANNON from Canaan Partners discusses some terms with potential in the future of medicine: “protein degradation” and “synthetic lethality”. And Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT reviews the latest FDA approvals using AI.
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 why it might work. Then Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about The Age Wave.
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 his smartwatch – it saved his life.
On this week’s Tech Nation, how natural disasters shaped civilizations. Former USGS scientist, DR. LUCY JONES joins Moira to talk about her book: “The Big Ones”. Then on Tech Nation Health, treating medical conditions with a person’s own cells. NINA KJELLSON, Managing Partner, from Canaan Partners explains the challenges of car-T therapy in treating cancer patients, and Vericel’s GERARD MICHEL describes their work repairing cartilage in the knee and severe burns. Also, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT covers the Blue Button conference.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JOHN HENNESSEY, chairman of the board of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. From computer science professor to President of Stanford University, he talks about his book: “Leading Matters: Lessons from My Journey”. Then, if you think the Internet is global with just the click of a mouse, think again. Moira speak with KEITH ROCKWELL, the Director of the Information and External Relations Division at the World Trade Organization. They’ll talk about what technology in the Cloud may mean to different nations.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. SUE DESMOND-HELLMANN, the CEO of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and DR. PENNY HEATON, CEO of The Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute, also called Gates MRI. Then scientist-entrepreneur DR. JAKE GLANVILLE, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Distributed Bio, talks about developing a universal flu vaccine.
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, 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 common skin disorder: Acne.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Forbes.com columnist CARMINE GALLO returns with “Five Stars … The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great”. Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. DAN GOLD, CEO of MEI Pharma, joins Moira to talk about the eight out of nine drugs which fail FDA clinical trials. MEI Pharma sees this as opportunity.
On this week’s Tech Nation, SIMON WINCHESTER joins us to talk about “The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World”. Then on Tech Nation Health, how do we test new medications on our immune systems? We’ll hear from DAVE JOHNSON from Gigagen about building synthetic immune systems outside our bodies to do just that. Also Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, talks about transformative technologies. 
On this week’s Tech Nation, RICH BERNER, the CEO of MDLIVE, talks about access to physicians from your smartphone - 24/7. And on Tech Nation Health, Dr. JOHN BEADLE, the CEO of Psioxus, describes about how they build new viruses to target cancer cells, and JIM JOYCE, the CEO of Aethlon Medical, talks about filtering high-threat infectious viruses with their product: Hemopurifier.
On this week’s Tech Nation, DR. MARIO LIVIO and his book: "Why? What Makes Us Curious". And on Tech Nation Health, a look at rapid genome analysis for newborns in trouble. DR. STEPHEN KINGSMORE, the President and CEO of the Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine tells us about their experience.
On this week’s Tech Nation, members of the CES 2018 panel “Who Owns Athlete’s Data?” DR. LESLIE SAXON, from the Keck School of Medicine at USC, and ERIC WINSTON, the President of the NFL Players Association. DAVE AUFHAUSER, Managing Director, Sports and Entertainment at Intel on the fan experience with live 360 Virtual Reality. And GUY KAWASAKI with a vision of our futures with autonomous vehicles.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. MITCH PRINSTEIN, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. There’s a science to being popular – and a proven path to likability. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT brings 3D printing into healthcare – there’s a lot of value there – far more than printing cute little widgets just for fun. And DR. SERGE SAXONOV, CEO of 10x Genomics, explains how our current technology for decoding our genomes has its limits, and how to can be improved upon.
Moira speaks with Yale psychology professor JOHN BARGH about “Before You Know It – The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do”. And on Tech Nation Health, a radical new treatment to replace human skin following a serious burn. DR. DENVER LOUGH, the President & CEO of PolarityTE, tells us how it works, and how a group of doctors left a hospital burn center to bring this new technology worldwide.
Moira speaks with 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, DR. MUHAMMAD YUNUS, the founder of Grameen Bank and microloans to the poor. He sees “A World of Three Zeros” – Zero Poverty, Unemployment, and Net Carbon Emissions. Then on Tech Nation Health, brain cancer in children. DR. ROB WECHSLER-REYA heads the Tumor Initiation and Maintenance Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute.
On this week’s Tech Nation, ANDREAS WEIGAND, former chief scientist at Amazon, and author of “Data for the People.” Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. MARSHALL SUMMAR, Director of the Rare Disease Institute and Chief of Genetics and Metabolism at Children’s National Health System in Washington, DC. They talk about treating rare diseases in the very young, and the efforts to support families, local pediatricians and the patients themselves, nationwide and around the world.
RAY DALIO, the founder and co-chair of Bridgewater Associates, talks about his company, which he founded 40 years ago in his 2 bedroom apartment. Today it is recognized as the world’s largest hedge fund. His mental processes, his values and how he sees the world are all part of his book “Principles: Life and Work”. Then on Tech Nation Health, the biotechnology of CRISPR. We hear from KATRINE BOSLEY, the President & CEO of Editas Medicine. This is a new kind of therapeutic.
Stanford History professor TOM MULLANEY discusses “The Chinese Typewriter”. And on Tech Nation Health, we celebrate the Summer of Love. Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT follows the recreational drugs through today with new therapeutics. And AMIT MUNSHI, the President & CEO of Arena Pharmaceuticals tells us about their many drug candidates, including one sourced from cannabinoids.
Moira speaks with journalist JASON FAGONE talks about Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a pioneer in codebreaking, from World War I to rumrunners to drug smuggling to the famous Enigma machine. His book is “The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies.” Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. MARCO TAGLIETTI, President and CEO of Scynexis, talks about their work in serious invasive fungal infections.
On this week’s Tech Nation, MICHAEL SHERMER talks about “Heavens on Earth – The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia.” We’ll find out who believes – or does not believe – in an afterlife. Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. CARL WARE, from Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in La Jolla, talks about viruses, cancer and autoimmune diseases.
On this week’s Tech Nation, how technology has enabled the economies of scale to trickle down to everyone. HEMANT TANEJA, a managing director at the venture capital firm General Catalyst talks about “Unscaled – How AI and the Next Generation of Upstarts are Creating the Economy of the Future.” And on Tech Nation Health, understanding more about our immune systems – and how they change as we age. We’ll hear from DR. THOMAS OLIN, the CEO of Kancera from Stockholm, Sweden. And the Maker Movement in Healthcare. Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, talks about the niche of MakerNurse and his own experience developing a new surgical tool.
On this week’s Tech Nation, SHIDAN GOURAN, the President of Global Blockchain Technologies, about the difference between Blockchain and Bitcoin, and what cryptocurrencies mean to traditional banking. Then on Tech Nation Health, a new technology aims to make a range of existing medications more effective. GEORGE YEH, President of TLC Bio, describes their first targets - Osteo arthritis and liver cancer. And Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, explores how global tech firms are addressing healthcare.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times journalist MATT RICHTEL about his latest novel, “Dead on Arrival”. And on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT examines the reality and the potential of using drones in healthcare.
On this week’s Tech Nation, we discover what science might do for Food, Energy, Water and the Environment in the Arequipa Valley of Peru. Purdue University geosciences professor TIM FILLEY describes their work. Then on Tech Nation Health, what the World Health Organization calls out as a burning need – healthcare management. STEVE SAMMUT joins us with a solution in Africa. And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about electroceuticals - electricity as medicine.
Psychologist DR. SUSAN DAVID speaks on “Emotional Agility” as well as her TED Talk, “The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage”. Then on Tech Nation Health: The opioid crisis. Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT to brings us uptodate with the surprising findings of a new study.
Harvard professor STEVEN PINKER makes the case that we’re better off today than ever before. His book is “Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.” Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT takes us beyond the hype on “artificial intelligence” in healthcare.
On this week’s Tech Nation, a full complement of inventor/entrepreneurs from CES in Las Vegas. That would be CHRIS YOUNG, the CEO of McAfee, SJOERD PITSTRA, the Founder & CEO of Roader, CAROL STANINGER, the CEO of Ancer, and TAJ MANKU, the Co-Founder and CEO of Cognitive Systems. They are all motivated, come from Silicon Valley to Waterloo, Canada, from Florida and even Holland. CES is about innovating technology.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Psychologist DR. GUY WINCH. He tells us the science behind “How To Fix A Broken Heart”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT tells us about his work as a pediatric oncologist.
DR. NADINE BURKE HARRIS, the CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness in San Francisco, with her new book “The Deepest Well … Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the microbiome, and how the right surgical intervention can change everything.
A full hour of Tech Nation Health, reimagining the future of health and healthcare with the emergence of new technologies. DR. DANIEL KRAFT, Chief Correspondent for Tech Nation Health talks about the future of Surgery and Other Interventions. Purdue Professor, DR. PHIL LOW, the Director of Purdue Center for Drug Discovery and Chief Scientific Officer of Endocyte, talks about why it’s hard to surgically remove all the cancerous tissue, and a technology that can change that. And DR. RICHARD KUHN, the Director of the Purdue Institute for Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Disease. He was the first to discover the structure of the Zika virus, and he compares it to other viruses, like Polio and HIV.
NYU professor MELISSA SCHILLING talks about everyone from Albert Einstein to Steve Jobs and Elon Musk in “Quirky – The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World.” Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. CHRIS SMITH from the start-up, Q-Sera in Brisbane, Australia, tells us how the venomous Australian Brown snake lashed out at the wrong scientist.
On this week’s Tech Nation, SIR MARK WALPORT, former Chief Science Advisor for the UK Government and soon, the first Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation – you may be surprised at the UK’s impact on our everyday technology. Then NPR’s lead digital education correspondent ANYA KAMENETZ, and her book, “The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media & Real Life”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent, DR DANIEL KRAFT talks about the rise of the individual inventor in health and wellness.
ANDREW KEEN talks about “How to fix the Future”. And on Tech Nation Health, Dr. STEVE MENTO from Conatus Pharmaceuticals talks about our livers and their scientific work in treating NASH and Cirrhosis of the liver. Also, Chief Correspondent DANIEL KRAFT describes the social determinants of health. Yes, it makes a difference.
A full hour of Tech Nation Health, reimagining the future of health and healthcare with the emergence of new technologies. DR. DANIEL KRAFT, Chief Correspondent for Tech Nation Health talks about the future of Surgery and Other Interventions. Purdue Professor, DR. PHIL LOW, the Director of Purdue Center for Drug Discovery and Chief Scientific Officer of Endocyte, talks about why it’s hard to surgically remove all the cancerous tissue, and a technology that can change that. And DR. RICHARD KUHN, the Director of the Purdue Institute for Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Disease. He was the first to discover the structure of the Zika virus, and he compares it to other viruses, like Polio and HIV.
An overview of CES 2018 with RICK KOWALSKI, the Manager of Industry and Business Intelligence at the Consumer Technology Association. Going beyond gadgets, Arizona State professor CODY FRIESEN tells us how his company, Zero Mass Water, is building hydropanels, producing water from sunlight and air. In healthcare, DR. NEAL KASSELL talks about the global potential and the challenges of focused ultrasound.
Members of the CES 2018 panel “Who Owns Athlete’s Data?” DR. LESLIE SAXON, from the Keck School of Medicine at USC, and ERIC WINSTON, the President of the NFL Players Association. DAVE AUFHAUSER, Managing Director, Sports and Entertainment at Intel on the fan experience with live 360 Virtual Reality. And GUY KAWASAKI with a vision of our futures with autonomous vehicles.
AARON HOROWITZ and HANNAH CHUNG, Co-Founders of Sproutel and Designers of My Special AFLAC Duck, for children with cancer. Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. TODD BRADY, CEO of Aldeyra describes their work on a disease which affects one-third of people. It led to a new drug helping patients with a very rare disease - Sjögren -Larsson Syndrome.
JARON LANIER talks about “Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality”. Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. HARTMUT EHRLICH, the CEO opf Abivax, describes their efforts to keep HIV undetectable for longer and longer periods, and Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT explores the future of going to the doctor.
How video on your smartphone is the next generation of focus group. We'll hear from PATRICIA ROLLER, the CEO of Vidlet. Then on Tech Nation Health the link between Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s Disease. DR. JEROLD CHUN is a Professor and Director of Neuroscience Drug Discovery at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute.
“The NPR Math Guy”, KEITH DEVLIN, tells us about Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World”. Then on Tech Nation Health, chief correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT tells us about the winners of the Qualcomm Tricoder Xprize - StarTrek medicine isn’t fiction any more.
Former Google CEO and Alphabet Executive Chair, ERIC SCHMIDT and former Senior Vice President for Products, JONATHAN ROSENBERG talk about “How Google Works”. Then on Tech Nation Health, faster diagnostics for the 25 species of bacteria which cause Sepsis. JOHN MCDONOUGH, the CEO of T2 Biosystems, talks about their efforts in Sepsis and other new diagnostics for candida and Lyme disease.
STEVEN JOHNSON discusses his book: “Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World.” Then on Tech Nation Health, chief correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the future of cancer – its prevention, early detection and emergent treatments. And DR. NICLAS STIERNHOLM, the President & CEO of Trillium Therapeutics, tells us about identifying cancer cells so that the immune system can remove them.
Moira speaks with UC Berkeley professor EDWARD ASHFORD LEE talks about “Plato and the Nerd: The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology.” Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the current state of Big Data in the healthcare field and DR. AJAY GUPTA from Rockwell Medical tells us about his work getting iron to very ill patients – from cancer to kidney failure to long term infections. The breakthrough came from scientific work almost two centuries old.
Moira speaks with WALTER ISAACSON about his latest book “Leonardo Da Vinci”. After all these centuries, more information emerges. And on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT recaps the Exponential Medicine Conference 2017. And DR. KEN HORNE from Symic Bio talks about a common challenge: vein grafts in legs and arms.
Moira speaks with Duke University Senior Fellow, DAN HEATH, about “The Power of Moments”. It turns out, we actually remember our life in slices of time. Then on Tech Nation Health, it’s the power of viruses – against cancer. Moira speaks with DR. HARRY GRUBER, the President for Science and Innovation at Tocagen about their genetically engineered viruses. Their first, glioblastoma, has received breakthrough therapy designation from the FDA. Tocagen is also working on colorectal, breast, lung, pancreatic and renal cancers, as well as melanoma. Dr. Gruber explains how the virus works.
Moira speaks with journalist JASON FAGONE talks about Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a pioneer in codebreaking, from World War I to rumrunners to drug smuggling to the famous Enigma machine. His book is “The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies.” Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. MARCO TAGLIETTI, President and CEO of Scynexis, talks about their work in serious invasive fungal infections
Moira speaks with GARY SHAPIRO, the President of the Consumer Technology Association about technology and tech jobs in the US and globally. And where does all this innovation come from? Rice University music professor ANTHONY BRANDT and Stanford neuroscientist, DAVID EAGLEMAN look at “The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World”.
Moira speaks with Yale psychology professor JOHN BARGH about “Before You Know It – The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do”. And on Tech Nation Health, a radical new treatment to replace human skin following a serious burn. DR. DENVER LOUGH, the President & CEO of PolarityTE, tells us how it works, and how a group of doctors left a hospital burn center to bring this new technology worldwide.
Moira speaks with 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, DR. MUHAMMAD YUNUS, the founder of Grameen Bank and microloans to the poor. He sees “A World of Three Zeros” – Zero Poverty, Unemployment, and Net Carbon Emissions. Then on Tech Nation Health, brain cancer in children. DR. ROB WECHSLER-REYA heads the Tumor Initiation and Maintenance Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute.
DEREK THOMPSON, a Senior Editor at The Atlantic describes his book “Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in the Age of Distraction”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent Dr. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the future of aging, longevity and technology in the near and more distant future, and on BioTech Nation, Dr. NATHANIEL DAVID, Founder & CEO of Unity Biotechnology talks about the role of “senescent” cells in aging.
RAY DALIO is the founder and co-chair of Bridgewater Associates, which he began 40 years ago in his 2-bedroom apartment. Today it is recognized as the world’s largest hedge fund. His mental processes, his values and how he sees the world are all part of his book “Principles: Life and Work”. Then on Tech Nation Health, the biotechnology of CRISPR. We hear from KATRINE BOSLEY, the President & CEO of Editas Medicine. This is a new kind of therapeutic.
Stanford history professor TOM MULLANEY discusses his book “The Chinese Typewriter”. And on Tech Nation Health, we celebrate the Summer of Love. Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT follows the recreational drugs through today with new therapeutics. Also, AMIT MUNSHI, the President & CEO of Arena Pharmaceuticals tells us about their many drug candidates, including one sourced from cannabinoids.
DR. SETH LEDERMAN from Tonix Pharmaceuticals talks about military-related PTSD. Their drug has been fast-tracked by the FDA. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DANIEL KRAFT with JORDAN AMADIO describes the emergent technology in the field of neurosurgery, and DR. ELLIOT GOLDSTEIN from ProMIS Neurosciences discusses the particular kind of plaque that brings about Alzheimer’s.
DR. TAJ MANKU is the Co-Founder of Cognitive Systems in Waterloo, Canada. Their product, AuraHome, enables in-home security with no gadgets to put on your windows and no need to arm it when you leave. Then a new segment on Tech Nation - Tech Nation Health! Where we reimagine the future of health and healthcare with the emergence of new technologies. DR. PATRICIA FLATLEY BRENNAN is the Director of the National Library of Medicine. She disscusses information available worldwide. Then chief correspondent for Tech Nation Health, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, talks about 3-D printing in medicine.
DR. MARIO LIVIO discusses his book: "Why? What Makes Us Curious". On Tech Nation Health, a look at rapid genome analysis for newborns in trouble. DR. STEPHEN KINGSMORE, the President and CEO of the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine tells us about their experience.
Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times journalist MATT RICHTEL describes his latest novel, "Dead on Arrival". On Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT examines the reality and the potential of using drones in healthcare.
DR. NORA VOLKOW, the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, talks about the grip of addiction and the opioid crisis - prescription opiates, heroin and fentanyl, synthetically-produced heroin. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR DANIEL KRAFT examines "misaligned incentives" in healthcare, and DR. CIARA KENNEDY, CEO of Amplyx Pharmacecuticals, tells us about treating life-threatening fungal infections.
MARK WOLYNN is the Director of the Family Constellation Institute, and author of "It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle." Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT speaks to the new science of diet, and DR. EVAN SNYDER from the Sanford Burnham Prebus Medical Discovery Institute. They figured why Lithium works for Bipolar Disorder, and why that's important for all of us.
DR. HERB NEEDLEMAN, from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, measured the impact of very low levels of lead on children. He discusses the results of his study - removing lead from household paint and putting unleaded gasoline in our cars. Then, another scientist who wanted research to reach the people who needed it - DR. PERRY NISEN, CEO of Sanford Burnham Prebus Medical Discovery Institute. And DR. OLIVER FETZER, CEO of Synthetic Genomics, enabling scientists to create unique DNA overnight in their own labs.
CARMINE GALLO relates "The Story Teller's Secret." Turns out - there's a science to telling your story. Then on Tech Nation Health, there's more in your gut than bacteria. Case-Western University Professor MAHMOUD GHANNOUM and his son, AFIF GHANNOUM, the CEO of Pathobiome, about fungus. Decades of NIH-funded research tell us what they do, how they interact with the bacteria, and why that's important.
If it looks like a newborn baby and moves like one and sounds like one, well, it just might be Super Tory, the newborn simulator from Gaumard Scientific. JIM ARCHETTO joins Moira to talk about Super Tory in detail. Then, speaking of what it takes to address complex engineering feats, DR. DANIEL MOTE, the President of the National Academy of Engineering. He joins Moira to talk about how everyone, one way or another, can be an engineer.
DR. MITCH PRINSTEIN, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. There's a science to being popular and a proven path to likability. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT brings 3D printing into healthcare. There's a lot of value there - far more than printing cute little widgets just for fun. And DR. SERGE SAXONOV, CEO of 10x Genomics, explains how our current technology for decoding our genomes has its limits, and how we can improve it.
DR SANDRA AAMODT discusses her book: “Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession with Weight Loss.” Then on BioTech Nation, DR. EDUARDO ESQUENAZI, the Founder and CEO of Sirenas Marine Discovery, talks about bioprospecting for new drugs in the ocean.
Professor Emeritus from Arizona State University, ROBERT CIALDINI is the author of “Pre-suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade”. Then on BioTech Nation, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, the Chair of Medicine at Singularity University. He’s the Founder of Exponential Medicine, the annual fall conference each year in San Diego, which brings together people interested in the frontiers of medicine, and the technology that can drive it.
DR. RITA COLWELL, the first woman to head the National Science Foundation. Today, she has founded and chairs CosmosID, a bioinformatics company on a mission to change how we diagnose disease. Then on BioTech Nation, DR. KEVIN JUDICE, President and CEO of DICE Molecules tells us why every medication can be delivered in pill form. And also DR. THOMAS HALLAM from Leading Biosciences.They discuss the work they are doing to intervene when a person goes into shock.
EDWARD TUFTE, Yale University Professor Emeritus who is most widely known for this work in Data Visualization – and his books, including "Beautiful Evidence". Then on BioTech Nation, efforts to treat the rare genetic cardiovascular disorder – HCM. You will recognize it as the leading cause of sudden death in young athletes. TASSOS GIANOKAKOS, the CEO of MyoKardia, describes the condition, the impact on families and Myokardia’s approach.
Neuroscientist DR. ALEX PANG about “Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less.” Then on BioTech Nation, the focus is Alzheimer’s Disease. Dr. Gunn speaks with KEVIN COX, CEO of Imanova about the ability to actually examine the state of the brain on a more routine basis, improving diagnosis and predicting the success or failure of drugs. Then, it’s DR. CHARLES STACEY, the President and CEO of Accera. The basis for their Alzheimer’s treatment centers on glucose uptake in the brain.
ANDREAS WEIGAND, former chief scientist at Amazon, is the author of “Data for the People.” Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. MARSHALL SUMMAR, Director of the Rare Disease Institute and Chief of Genetics and Metabolism at Children’s National Health System in Washington, DC. They talk about treating rare diseases in the very young, and the efforts to support families, local pediatricians and the patients themselves, nationwide and around the world.
A full hour of Tech Nation Health: reimagining the future of health and healthcare with the emergence of new technologies. DR. DANIEL KRAFT, Chief Correspondent for Tech Nation Health talks about the future of Surgery and Other Interventions. Purdue Professor, DR. PHIL LOW, the Director of Purdue Center for Drug Discovery and Chief Scientific Officer of Endocyte, talks about why it’s hard to surgically remove all the cancerous tissue, and a technology that can change that. And DR. RICHARD KUHN, the Director of the Purdue Institute for Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Disease. He was the first to discover the structure of the Zika virus, and he compares it to other viruses, like Polio and HIV.
MIT professor Sherry Turkle about the psychological effect of the 2016 presidential campaign.
LARRY BRILLIANT, physician, technologist and best friend to Wavy Gravy, talks about helping to eradicate smallpox globally. He’s the author of “Sometimes Brilliant … The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History.” Then on BioTech Nation, correcting the underrepresentation of Latinos in testing pharmaceuticals and directly addressing the Zika virus in humans. Dr. KOSMAS KRESTOS, the Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Consortium for Clinical Investigation (PRCCI) describes the efforts underway in Puerto Rico.
Data Scientist Dr. CATHY O’NEIL discusses her book, “Weapons of ‘Math’ Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.” Then on BioTech Nation, Dr. DAVID JOHNSON is the Founder, President & CEO of GigaGen. He describes a new approach to achieving health with a compromised immune system. Also on BioTech Nation, critically-ill newborns get the genetic information they need … and fast. GAVIN STONE is the Vice President for Marketing at EdicoGenome in San Diego.
Neuroscientist DANIEL LEVITIN talks about how we can tell the difference between a simple lie and a weaponized lie. His book is “Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era.” Then on Tech Nation Health, chief correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT tells us about The Internet of Medical Things and what it can do for us.
NOAH KONIG from Cambridge Cognition and BEN FEHNERT from The CTRL Group, talk about their new venture upping the game for wearables, Cognition Kit, measuring cognition along with the impact of medications, and opening up these measurements for others to develop applications.
KEITH DEVLIN, “The NPR Math Guy”, tells us about "Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World”. Then on Tech Nation Health, chief correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT tells us about the winners of the Qualcomm Tricoder Xprize - StarTrek medicine isn’t fiction any more.
BRAD STONE from Bloomberg News talks about “The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World.” On Tech Nation Health, integrating the data from all our smartphones apps and exercise bands, and much more is DREW SCHILLER, the CEO of Validic. Every nation approves drugs, medical devices and even cosmetics differently - GREER DEAL, the Director of Global Regulatory Services, breaks it down.
NYU marketing professor, ADAM ALTER describes the rise of addictive personal technology. Then on Tech Nation Health, chief correspondent, DANIEL KRAFT, talks about the cutting edge of stem cell therapies today and in the future, and Second Genome’s DR. KARIM DABBAGH links bacteria in the gut to the inflammation experienced in IBD, Irritable Bowel Disease.
Former Google CEO and Alphabet Executive Chair, ERIC SCHMIDT along with former Senior Vice President for Products, JONATHAN ROSENBERG talk about “How Google Works”. Then on Tech Nation Health, faster diagnostics for the 25 species of bacteria which cause Sepsis. JOHN MCDONOUGH, the CEO of T2 Biosystems, talks about their efforts in Sepsis and other new diagnostics for candida and Lyme disease.
This Special Edition of Tech Nation Health figures in both the NFL and Major League Baseball. First up is JIM JOYCE, CEO of Aethlon Medical and Executive Chairman of Exosome Sciences. Its blood test appears to identify CTE – Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy – in retired NFL players. Then Right Eye returns with improvements to its eye tracking diagnostics for medical conditions, and a new project with professional sports. BARBARA BARCLAY is the President of Right Eye, and DR. MELISSA HUNFALVAY is its Chief Scientific Officer. Then, Tech Nation Health’s chief correspondent, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, talks about disruption in medical care, all brought about by emerging technology.
OLIVIA FOX CABANE and JUDAH POLLACK disscuss their book: “The Net and the Butterfly – The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking”. Their exercises all source from breakthroughs in neuroscience. Then on Tech Nation Health, DR. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the future of Neuroscience and Neuromedicine. On BioTech Nation, DR. ASHA DAS from Tocagen talks about their approach to treating brain tumors – it starts with a virus.
In the second part of a two-part series on Digital Health, DR. RAJAIE BATNIJI describes how he became the Co-Founder and Chief Health Officer of Collective Health. It all started with a nightmare in filing health claims. Then on BioTech Nation is RIF PAMUKCHU, the CEO of RxMP Therapeutics. It’s about the technology of stopping blood loss.
STEVEN JOHNSON, the author of “Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World” discusses his book. Then on Tech Nation Health, chief correspondent Dr. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the future of cancer – its prevention, early detection and emergent treatments. And Dr. NICLAS STIERNHOLM, the President & CEO of Trillium Therapeutics, tells us about identifying cancer cells so that the immune system can remove them.
DEREK THOMPSON, a Senior Editor at The Atlantic, talks about his book “Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in the Age of Distraction”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent Dr. DANIEL KRAFT talks about the future of aging, longevity and technology in the near and more distant future, and on BioTech Nation, Dr. NATHANIEL DAVID, Founder & CEO of Unity Biotechnology talks about the role of “senescent” cells in aging.
ALAN BURDICK, former senior editor at The New Yorker and National Book Award finalist, discusses his latest book: “Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Ken Horne, the CEO of SymicBio describes their efforts to better the long term results of angioplasty and a clinical trial for osteoarthritis in the knee. We’ll also hear from our chief correspondent DR. DANIEL KRAFT on the future of medical education. It’s not just doctors and nurses, but it’s also changing for everyday people.
DANIEL LEVITIN, Dean of Social Sciences at the Minerva Schools at KGI, discusses his book “A Field Guide to Lies – Critical Thinking in the Information Age”. Then on BioTech Nation, the second installment in our two-part series on Women in biotech venture capital. It’s WENDE HUTTON, NINA KJELLSON and JULIE PAPANEK, all from Canaan Partners.
Stanford Professor HANK GREELEY explains his book: “The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction”. Then on BioTech Nation, the winner of BIO’s Future Maker 2016 Award - Dr. HOWARD JACOBS from the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama.
Dr. Taj Manku, the Co-Founder of Cognitive Systems in Waterloo, Canada, discusses AuraHome, a system which enables in-home security with no gadgets to put on your windows – no need to arm it when you leave. Then a new segment on Tech Nation - Tech Nation Health! Where we reimagine the future of health and healthcare with the emergence of new technologies. Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan is the Director of the National Library of Medicine. She talks about information available worldwide. Then chief correspondent for Tech Nation Health, Dr. Daniel Kraft, talks about 3-D printing in medicine.
Jim Barry from the Consumer Technology Association discusses the latest tech from CES 2017 in Las Vegas. Also, Andrew Thomas, the co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer for SkyBell, explains their product - a video doorbell which you monitor from anywhere. He also describes his transition from a person dissatisfied with his work life to becoming an entrepreneur.
Dava Sobel, author of “Longitude” talks about her new book: “The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars.” Then on BioTech Nation, Tom Kottler, the CEO of Healthprize Technologies, talks about strategies to get patients to take their prescribed medications. And Dr. Arnold Lippa, the Chief Scientific Officer of RespireRX reveals their multiple approaches to the respiratory problems relating to the overuse of opioids.
EDWARD TUFTE, Yale University Professor Emeritus, tells us about his work in Data Visualization – and his books, including "Beautiful Evidence". Then on BioTech Nation, efforts to treat the rare genetic cardiovascular disorder – HCM. You will recognize it as the leading cause of sudden death in young athletes. TASSOS GIANOKAKOS, the CEO of MyoKardia, tells us about the condition, the impact on families and Myokardia’s approach.
Journalist BRIAN CHRISTIAN and UC Berkeley Professor TOM GRIFFITHS, the Director of the Computational Cognitive Science Lab discuss their book, “Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions”. Then on Biotech Nation, it’s all about Youth Rally, an annual camp for kids and teens with conditions of the bowel and bladder. We’ll hear from its chair, PAUL HASTINGS, who is also the President and CEO of OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, as well as Youth Rally’s APRIL GIMLEN and EMILY MALLAR. 
SC MOATTI speaks about her background with Facebook, Trulia and Nokia, and her book, “Mobilized …. An insider’s guide to the business and future of connected technology”. Then on BioTech Nation, how much do we know about the clinical trials behind drugs approved by the FDA? JENNIFER MILLER, the Founder and President of Bioethics, International and a professor at NYU Medical School, talks about the Good Pharma Scorecard. 
The founding executive editor at Wired magazine, KEVIN KELLY, discusses “The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 technological forces that will shape our future.” Then on Biotech Nation, looking for cancer cells in the blood. DR. PAUL DEMPSEY, Chief Scientific Officer of Cynvenio Biosystems talks about their technology and an ongoing clinical study of women with breast cancer. 
Neuroscientist DR. ALEX PANG is the author of “Rest … Why You Get More Done When You Work Less.” Then on BioTech Nation, the focus is Alzheimer’s Disease. Dr. Gunn speaks with Kevin Cox, CEO of Imanova about the ability to actually examine the state of the brain on a more routine basis, improving diagnosis and predicting the success or failure of drugs. Then, it’s Dr. CHARLES STACEY, the President and CEO of Accera. The basis for their Alzheimer’s treatment centers on glucose uptake in the brain. 
DR. ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ, the Director of the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard is the author of “Being a Dog: Following the Dog into a World of Smell.” Then on BioTech Nation, Dr. IGNACIO PINO, is the CEO of the next generation proteomics company, CDI, located in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. 
DR. SUSAN DAVID, a psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School tells us about “Emotional Agility” - what is it, how we can use, and what science can tell us about how it actually works. Then on BioTech Nation, DANIEL ZARR, CEO of Quark Pharmaceuticals. Their approach uses a part of the immune system called siRNA, and they are working on treatments for kidney damage following open heart surgery, damage to kidneys during the transplantation process, and sudden vision loss. 
BRIAN SAGER, the Co-Founder, President and CEO of Omnity, a search engine – not based on keywords, but search in the context of entire documents. Google isn’t going away – but your need to find information is growing. Then on BioTech Nation, the promise and challenges of cancer immunotherapy. Dr. Gunn speaks with DR. SEAN MCCARTHY, the CEO of CytomX Therapeutics. 
MIT professor SHERRY TURKLE about the psychological effect of the 2016 presidential campaign.
LARRY BRILLIANT, physician, technologist and best friend to Wavy Gravy, about helping to eradicate smallpox globally. He’s the author of “Sometimes Brilliant … The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History.” Then on BioTech Nation, correcting the underrepresentation of Latinos in testing pharmaceuticals and directly addressing the Zika virus in humans. DR. KOSMAS KRESTOS, the Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Consortium for Clinical Investigation (PRCCI) describes the efforts underway in Puerto Rico. 
GARY SHAPIRO, head of the Consumer Technology Association. He’ll tell us what’s coming up at CES 2017 in Las Vegas. Then on BioTech Nation, DR. STEVE MENTO, the CEO of Conatus Pharmaceuticals, talks about their efforts to treat NASH – Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, and BILL NEWELL, the CEO of Sutro Biopharma, fills us in on their strategic approach to treating cancer. Their first target? B-cell lymphomas. 
PBS Nova columnist ANIL ANANTHASWAMY about “The Man Who Wasn’t There … Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self”. And on BioTech Nation, STEVE HURST, the President & CEO of Savant HWP. We hear about an emergent treatment for cocaine addiction, work in the tropical disease Leishmaniasis, and the unexpected link between addiction to dopamine in Parkinson’s patients. 
Data Scientist Dr. CATHY O’NEIL about her book, “Weapons of ‘Math’ Destruction … How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.” Then on BioTech Nation, a new approach to achieving health with a compromised immune system. Dr. DAVID JOHNSON is the Founder, President & CEO of GigaGen. And critically-ill newborns get the genetic information they need … and fast. GAVIN STONE is the Vice President for Marketing at EdicoGenome in San Diego. 
DAN MOTE, the President of the National Academy of Engineering. They talk about the difference between technology and engineering. Then on BioTech Nation, SIR JOHN CHISHOLM, head of Genomics England and the 100,000 Genomes Project. 
ROSS KING, the author of Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lillies. Then on BioTech Nation, upping the game for wearables – NOAH KONIG from Cambridge Cognition and BEN FEHNERT from The CTRL Group, talk about their new venture, Cognition Kit. Measuring cognition along with the impact of medications, and opening up these measurements for others to develop applications. 
AL RAMADAN, DAVE PETERSON, and CHRIS LOCHHEAD, the authors of “Play Bigger - How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets”. Then on BioTech Nation, GEORGE YEH, the President of Taiwan-based TLC Biotherapeutics, tells us about their efforts to make treatments for Aged-related Macular Degeneration last longer, and Dr. CHUCK SHERWOOD, President & CEO of Anika Therapeutics, on how Anika is bringing three Osteoarthritis treatments, approved in Europe, to the US market. 
ROBERT CIALDINI, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University, and author, “Pre-suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade”. Then on BioTech Nation, DR. DANIEL KRAFT, the Chair of Medicine at Singularity University. He’s the Founder of Exponential Medicine, the annual fall conference each year in San Diego, which brings together people interested in the frontiers of medicine, and the technology that can drive it. 
DANIEL LEVITIN, Dean of Social Sciences at the Minerva Schools at KGI, and author of “A Field Guide to Lies – Critical Thinking in the Information Age”. Then on BioTech Nation, the second installment in our two-part series on Women in biotech venture capital. It’s WENDE HUTTON, NINA KJELLSON and JULIE PAPANEK, all from Canaan Partners. 
SHARON VOSMEK, the CEO of Astia, providing capital, connections, and guidance highly-innovative, women-led ventures around the globe. Then on BioTech Nation, the first of a two-part series on Women in biotech venture capital: DR. MARIANNE DE BACKER, the Vice President for Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Janssen Business Development. 
Stanford Professor HANK GREELY about “The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction”. Then on BioTech Nation, the winner of BIO’s Future Maker 2016 Award - DR. HOWARD JACOBS from the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama. 
DR. SANDRA AAMODT, the author of “Why Diets Make Us Fat … The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession with Weight Loss.” Then on BioTech Nation, looking for new drugs … in the ocean. DR. EDUARDO ESQUENAZI, the Founder and CEO of Sirenas Marine Discovery, talks about bioprospecting. 
DR. SHAI GOZANI, President & CEO of Neurometrix. It’s about treating chronic pain with a small device strapped to your calf. Apparently … it’s all in your brain. Then on BioTech Nation, DR. THEODORA ROSS, the Director of Cancer Genetics Program at Southwestern Medical Center talks about cancer susceptibility genes. Her book is “A Cancer in the Family … Take Control of Your Genetic Inheritance” 
Tech Nation broadcasts from the International Biotechnology Conference, BIO 2016 in San Francisco. This week’s guests are JIM GREENWOOD, President and CEO of BIO, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, MIKE MAY, Editorial Director, Scientific American WorldView 2016, and YALI FRIEDMAN, its head of Data Analytics, ROGER CRYSTAL, the CEO of Opiant Pharmaceuticals, and GARETH WILLIAMS with Marks & Clerk International Intellectual Property Firm. 
SC MOATTI about her background with Facebook, Trulia and Nokia, and her book, “Mobilized …. An insider’s guide to the business and future of connected technology”. Then on BioTech Nation, how much do we know about the clinical trials behind drugs approved by the FDA? JENNIFER MILLER, the Founder and President of Bioethics, International and a professor at NYU Medical School, talks about the Good Pharma Scorecard. 
Journalist BRIAN CHRISTIAN & UC Berkeley Professor TOM GRIFFITHS, the Director of the Computational Cognitive Science Lab about their book, “Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions”. Then on Biotech Nation, it’s all about Youth Rally, an annual camp for kids and teens with conditions of the bowel and bladder. We’ll hear from its chair, PAUL HASTINGS, who is also the President and CEO of OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, as well as Youth Rally’s, APRIL GIMLEN, and EMILY MALLAR. 
The founding executive editor at Wired magazine, KEVIN KELLY, talks about “The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 technological forces that will shape our future.” Then on Biotech Nation, looking for cancer cells in the blood. DR. PAUL DEMPSEY, Chief Scientific Officer of Cynvenio Biosystems talks about their technology and an ongoing clinical study of women with breast cancer. 
Johns Hopkins professor DR. DAVID LINDEN about “Touch … The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind.” Then on BioTech Nation, ANTHONY RAESIDE, the Head of Research at The Evaluate Group in London. He’ll preview the global pharmaceutical industry and give us a look ahead to 2020, and on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, it’s President Obama’s announcement about a precision medicine initiative. 
MIT professor DAVID MINDELL about “Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy.” He’s out to dispel the “persistent misconceptions about robots.” Then on BioTech Nation, PAUL PERRAULT, the CEO of CSL Behring, on their long history from the Spanish flu a century ago to Hemophilia today, and SHANE KOVACS from PTC Therapeutics, on nonsense mutations and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. 