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Episode 16-25 Jonas Salk and the Scourge of Polio Jun 24, 2016

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with A BioTech Nation Special!
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.

Episode 16-24 The Emphatic Mind Jun 15, 2016

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with A BioTech Nation Special!
DANIEL LEVITIN, Dean, Arts & Humanities at the Minerva Schools at KGI talks about his latest neuroscience research on empathy and pain.
And on BioTech Nation, on BioIssue Issue of the Week with DAVID EWING DUNCAN, a potential new and different approach to treating Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.

Episode 16-23 Science & Technology Collaborate Jun 09, 2016

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with A BioTech Nation Special!
DR. MARSHALL SUMMAR from Children’s National Medical Center and JIM POWERS, CEO of Hemoshear Therapeutics. They talk about their breakthrough collaboration helping a young girl and her rare disease.
Then Darren Cunningham, the CEO of Inflection Biosciences in Dublin, Ireland. This start-up did things differently – they didn’t start with new science; they started with a checklist.

Episode 16-22 Machines of Loving Grace? May 31, 2016

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with New York Times journalist JOHN MARKOFF about “Machines of Loving Grace.”
Then on BioTech Nation, STAN ERCK, the President & CEO of NovaVax joins us to talk about their “RSV” vaccine for the elderly, as well as for pregnant mothers to reach their newborns.

Episode 16-21 Nobel Prizes 2015 Explained !!! May 26, 2016

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with BOB CHAPMAN, Chairman & CEO of a long-time company of many companies - Barry-Wehmiller. They’ve acquired 75 companies in trouble while preserving employee trust.
Then on BioTech Nation, DR. TONY SHUH, the CEO of Trovagene, talks about precision cancer monitoring, and DR. YUVAL COHEN, the CEO of Corbus Pharmaceuticals tells us about a new approach for cystic fibrosis and their efforts surrounding auto-immune diseases.

Episode 16-20 Nobel Prizes 2015 Explained !!! May 17, 2016

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with a group of distinguished professors from Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UCSF and the University of San Francisco. They explain each of the 2015 Nobel Prizes, and why each prize was so deserving.
Convener, Dr. Ludwig Chincarini, University of San Francisco
PEACE PRIZE, Dr. Rebecca Gordon, University of San Francisco
LITERATURE. Dr. Susanna Elm, University of California Berkeley
PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE Dr. Darvin Scott Smith, Kaiser Permanente
ECONOMICS Dr. Michael Boskin, Stanford University
CHEMISTRY Dr. Jim Cleaver UCSF - University of California San Francisco
PHYSICS Dr Yasunori Nomura, University of California Berkeley

Episode 16-19 The Alien Language on Game of Thrones May 11, 2016

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On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DAVID PETERSON, a creator of alien languages, including Dothraki for HBO’s Game of Thrones. He’s here with The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building.
Then on BioTech Nation, Merck’s DR ROY BAYNES takes us through their wide ranging cancer program based on their therapeutic: Keytruda, and on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, IT meets biotech.

Episode 16-18 Digital Health, Part II May 03, 2016

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On this week’s Tech Nation, it’s the second of a two-part series on Digital Health. On this show, Moira speaks with DR. RAJAIE BATNIJI, the Co-Founder & Chief Health Officer of Collective Health. It all started with a nightmare in filing health claims.
Then on BioTech Nation, Rif Pamukcu, the CEO of RxMP Therapeutics. It’s about the technology of stopping blood loss.

Episode 16-17 Digital Health, Part I Apr 26, 2016

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On this week’s Tech Nation, it’s the first of a two-part series on Digital Health. On this show, Moira speaks with
RAY BRADFORD, the Founder of Spruce Health, with their smartphone app which enabling you to be treated by a dermatologist. It’s working in 15 states and expanding rapidly.
Then on BioTech Nation, SPIRO ROMBOTIS, the President & CEO of Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals, talks about their approach to treating Leukemia in the aging population, and PARIS PANAYIOTOPOULOS, President of EMD Serono, talks about moving beyond specialty therapeutics into developing new cancer treatments.

Episode 16-16 Farewell, Andy Apr 19, 2016

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On this week’s Tech Nation, our 2002 interview with ANDY GROVE, the former CEO and Chairman of Intel, who recently passed.
And JIM HOUGH, a Professor of Experimental Physics from the University of Glasgow. He will explain the importance of the scientific news – that scientists have measured “gravitational waves”.
Then on BioTech Nation, a Canadian company’s drug to treat cardiovascular disease in diabetics. DON McCAFFREY, the CEO of Resverlogix, joins us, and explains how “epigenetics” was used. An animation is available at resverlogix.com.

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