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The Elephant in the Room: What About HIV? Sep 14, 2021

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For more than a year now, COVID has been society’s focus—and rightly so. But today we turn our attention to another virus—HIV. After 40 years, there is still no cure or a vaccine for the disease. In this episode, we hear from Dr. Anthony Fauci and CEO of innovative company American Gene Technologies, Jeff Galvin, about the past, present, and future of HIV treatments and medications. Is there a cure on the horizon?

Guests:

Jeffrey Galvin, American Gene Technologies

Anthony Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

BONUS: Breaking Barriers in Trade: A Conversation with Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Aug 30, 2021

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We are on summer break as we work to bring you another exciting season this fall. So, for the next few weeks we’re sharing some of our favorite sessions from the June 2021 BIO Digital. Today, check out our session Breaking Barriers in Trade: A Conversation with Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization.

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Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, World Trade Organization

BONUS: Breaking Barriers in Science featuring Dr. Jennifer Doudna, Nobel Laureate and CRISPR Pioneer Aug 16, 2021

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We are on summer break as we work to bring you another exciting season this fall. So, for the next few weeks we’re sharing some of our favorite sessions from the June 2021 BIO Digital. Today, check out our session Breaking Barriers in Science featuring Dr. Jennifer Doudna, Nobel Laureate and CRISPR Pioneer. This session is sponsored by Johnson & Johnson.

Speakers:

Seema Kumar, Vice President of Innovation, Global Health and Policy Communication

Dr. Jennifer Doudna, Nobel Laureate and CRISPR Pioneer

BONUS: Growing LGBTQ Leadership in Biotech Aug 02, 2021

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Speakers:

Paul Hastings, BIO Chair and CEO at Nkarta Therapeutics

Matthew Fust, Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.

Todd Sears, Out Leadership

Denice Torres, The Ignited Company

BONUS: Fighting the Climate Crisis Through Supply Chain Sustainability Jul 18, 2021

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We are on summer break as we work to bring you another exciting season this fall. So, for the next few weeks we’re sharing some of our favorite sessions from the June 2021 BIO Digital. Today, check out our session Fighting the Climate Crisis Through Supply Chain Sustainability.

Speakers:

Dr. Michelle McMurry-Heath

Lord David Prior, National Health Service England

Rohin Mahtre, Biogen

Victor Dzau, MD, National Academy of Medicine

Improving Food Systems: The Case of the Banana Jun 28, 2021

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The banana is an interesting case study. It is the world’s most popular fruit, yet it could very soon go missing from our store shelves due to a disease we’ve seen once before—leaving a large nutritional and economic hole in our society. The banana helps tell the story of how biotech is a key tool in strengthening our food systems to make our favorite foods more resilient, more sustainable, and more accessible.

Featuring interviews with:

Anna Rath, President & CEO and Director of Vestaron

Dan Koeppel, author of Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World

Betsy Booren, SVP of Regulatory and Technical Affairs at the Consumer Brands Association

Tom Vilsack, Secretary of United States Department of Agriculture

Biotech Changed COVID. But Did COVID Change Biotech? Jun 14, 2021

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Science—particularly biotechnology—helped change the course of COVID with the development of effective vaccines and therapeutics. However, it is also true that COVID has changed biotechnology. This I AM BIO podcast will look at the way biotech addressed the crisis and explores how the crisis, in turn, changed the biotech industry—its reputation, its exposure to a broader audience and its willingness to adopt lessons learned from the pandemic. This episode is sponsored by FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies.

Dr. William Karesh, EcoHealth Alliance

Dr. Cartier Esham, BIO

Aaron Sato, TWIST Biosciences

Dr. Ron Faucheux, Certus Insights

I am BIO Uncut with Dr. Richard Hatchett May 27, 2021

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This is the I am BIO Uncut Series where we bring you a full interview from Monday’s podcast complete and unfiltered. In this episode, we’re joined by Richard Hatchett, CEO of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations or CEPI, a global vaccine procurement initiative. Check out Monday's episode here: https://iambio.simplecast.com/episodes/we-can-and-must-share-vaccines-with-the-globe

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We Can and Must SHARE Vaccines with the Globe May 24, 2021

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As the good news about the decline of COVID infections in the US continues to reverberate, the threat of the pandemic still looms globally. “Nobody is safe until everybody is safe.” Sharing life-saving vaccines around the world as quickly as possible defies a simple solution. This episode explores the recommendations and best solutions to address global distribution challenges and questions a simplistic proposal offered by some countries to the World Health Organization: waiving Intellectual Property rights for the vaccines. Will the waiver of these protections threaten to undermine the very system that produced life-saving science in the first place?

I am BIO Uncut with Gerren Wilson May 13, 2021

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This is the I Am BIO Uncut Series, where we bring you a full interview from Monday's episode complete and unfiltered. In this Uncut episode, we share the conversation we had with Gerren Wilson, Head of Inclusion & Partnering in the Chief Diversity Office at Genentech, the pharmaceutical biotech company. Check out the full episode here: https://iambio.simplecast.com/episodes/solving-an-unfashionable-problem

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