Progress, Potential, and Possibilities Podcast / Show
Interviews and Discussions With Fascinating People Who are Creating A Better Tomorrow For All Of Us - Host - Ira S. Pastor
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896 episodes
Is Science Being Hijacked? The Dark Side of Scientific Publishing - Kent Anderson And Joy Moore - Authors, How the Internet Disrupted Science
What if the biggest threat to scientific integrity isn't bad science - but the system we use to decide what gets called science in the first place?Every year, millions of scientific papers enter the literature. But behind those papers i...
Your Urine Contains a Fingerprint of Disease. Can AI Read It? | Dejan Nenov - Co-Founder, Luventix
What if we could take something as simple - and seemingly ordinary - as a urine sample, measure thousands of chemical signals within it, and use artificial intelligence to recognize the metabolic fingerprint of disease?And what if, inst...
Beyond The Lab - How Medicines Become Successful Businesses | Jane Gonnerman - Executive Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development, Collegium Pharmaceutical
We tend to think that a new medicine's journey begins in the laboratory and ends when the FDA approves it. But there's an enormous part of that journey that most people never see: Who decides which medicines a company should acquire? Which ones...
The Next Generation of CRISPR Has Arrived | Dr. Trevor Martin, Ph.D. - CEO, Mammoth Biosciences
Most of us think of medicine as something we take every day - a statin, a blood pressure pill, or perhaps a monthly injection. But what if those lifelong treatments eventually become obsolete? What if one carefully targeted gene edit could dram...
Why the Intelligence Community Is Betting on Biotechnology | Dr. Jessica Dymond, Ph.D. - Vice President of Technology, In-Q-Tel
The same technologies that could transform medicine, agriculture, and manufacturing could also reshape global security. Understanding the future of biotechnology requires scientists who can bridge discovery, engineering, and responsibility....
Brilliant Ideas Aren't Enough - Why Scientists Must Learn to Communicate | Nancy Ancowitz - NYU Educator, Career Strategist, Executive Presentation Coach, Author
We spend billions of dollars each year funding scientific discovery - but what happens if the people making those discoveries can't communicate them? Today we're exploring why communication may be just as important as innovation itself, and why...
Inside the Global Biotech Ecosystem - Where Innovation Goes Next | Sara Jane Demy - Founder and CEO, Demy-Colton
What happens when you step back from individual biotech companies and look at the entire industry?Today's guest has spent decades connecting biotech CEOs, investors, pharmaceutical leaders, and innovators from around the world - giving ...
Reversing Cellular Age: The Scientist Who Helped Create iPS Cells Reveals What’s Next - Dr. Koji Tanabe, Ph.D. - Founder and CEO, I Peace Inc.
For most of human history, scientists believed that once a cell became a skin cell, a neuron, or a heart cell, that identity was permanent. Then a group of researchers discovered something extraordinary: cells could be reset. My guest today was...
The End of High Cholesterol? The First Oral PCSK9 Drug Could Change Heart Medicine Forever - Dr. Norman Lepor, MD - Founder and Director, National Heart Institute
Heart disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide, and one of its most important modifiable risk factors is elevated LDL cholesterol - the so-called "bad cholesterol." While statins have transformed cardiovascular care for decades, and...
The Hidden Heart Risk: Amgen’s Dr. Paul Burton on the Future of Preventing Heart Attacks - Dr. Paul Burton, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.C., M.R.C.S., F.R.C.P. - Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer - Amgen
What if I told you there is a major genetic risk factor for heart attacks and strokes that affects roughly one in five people worldwide - but most people have never heard of it, and it isn't measured on a standard cholesterol test? Today we're ...
RNA Medicines, Human Genetics & The Future of Obesity Treatment | Dr. Erik Ingelsson, MD, PhD - Chief Scientific Officer, Wave Life Sciences
For decades we've measured obesity using one simple number on a scale - but what if that's the wrong metric? Today, one of the world's leading experts in genetics explains why the future of obesity medicine may not be about losing more weight, ...
Norovirus: The World's Most Contagious Virus & The Race For The First Antiviral - James Sapirstein, CEO and Dr. Sam Lee, Ph.D., President and Chief Scientific Officer - Cocrystal Pharma
Every year, nearly 700 million people around the world are infected by norovirus. Most people know it as a miserable few days of vomiting and diarrhea - but for transplant patients, cancer patients, and other immunocompromised individuals, it c...
Nuclear Reactors Are Saving Millions Of Lives | James Scongack - Chair, Canadian Nuclear Isotope Council
When most people hear the word "nuclear," they think of power plants and clean energy production. But every day, nuclear science is helping diagnose and treat millions of cancer patients around the world. Today, we're exploring one of the power...
Can Photobiomodulation Improve Brain Health? A New Frontier In Neuroscience Research - Dr. Neda Rashidi-Ranjbar, MD, Ph.D. - Unity Health Toronto - St. Michael's Hospital / Peter Adams, VP, Business Development, VieLight
What if one of the most intriguing Alzheimer’s interventions isn’t a drug…but light?Light has long been recognized as essential for vision, sleep, and circadian rhythms - but could certain wavelengths of light actually influence the bio...
Air Launch, Hypersonics & Responsive Space | Tim Franta - CEO, Starfighters Space
For decades, getting to space has largely meant one thing: launching vertically atop massive rockets from fixed launch pads. But what if the future of space access also includes aircraft capable of flying at more than twice the speed of sound, ...
Engineering the Human Body to Beat Extreme Heat | Justin Li - CEO, Qore Performance
Today on Progress, Potential and Possibilities, we're exploring one of the most fundamental challenges facing human performance: heat. Whether it's soldiers operating in desert environments, firefighters battling infernos, police officers weari...
Cancer Recovery Is Being Reinvented | The Science of Cancer Rehabilitation - Dr. Jessica Cheng, MD - City Of Hope; Sharyn Araki - Breast Cancer Survivor
We spend billions of dollars developing drugs to fight cancer - but what if one of the most powerful therapies begins before treatment even starts? Today we're exploring the rapidly growing field of cancer rehabilitation and the science showing...
Immune Engineering: The Next Revolution in Cancer Immunotherapy | Dr. William Williams, MD - President and CEO, BriaCell Therapeutics
For decades, the war on cancer has focused on destroying cancer cells directly - with chemotherapy, radiation, and targeted drugs. But what if the future of cancer treatment is not about attacking cancer ourselves...but teaching our own immune ...
Menopause: The Workplace Blind Spot Costing Billions | Karen Bishop, MS - Senior Director of HR Rewards, Astellas Pharma US
We tend to think of menopause as a personal health issue - but in the workplace it quietly shows up as one of the largest unmodeled productivity shifts in the modern economy.Recent data from the Korn Ferry Institute, in collaboration wi...
The Future Of Food Depends On Water: Inside The Global Water Challenge | Paul Reig - CEO, Bluerisk
Every cup of coffee, every chocolate bar, every loaf of bread has a hidden ingredient you probably never think about: water. But as climate change reshapes where and how we grow food, water is becoming one of the biggest risks facing our global...
From Cambridge to Cabinet - Dr. Evis Sala, MD, PhD - Minister of Health and Social Protection of Albania
We usually think of health ministers as politicians. Dr. Evis Sala, MD, PhD is something entirely different. She's one of the world's leading cancer imaging researchers who helped pioneer AI in radiology - and now she's responsible for the heal...
Building the Internet of Medicine: How AI Could Transform Children's Healthcare | Dr. Timothy Chou - Founder, Pediatric Moonshot
Imagine a world where a child with a rare disease in a rural hospital could benefit from the collective intelligence of 500 of the world's best children's hospitals - not years later, but in real time. What if artificial intelligence could conn...
How Regenerative Medicine Is Reinventing Breast Reconstruction | Dr. Claudia Chavez-Munoz, MD, PhD - Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder - Conexeu Sciences
For decades, women undergoing mastectomy have largely faced the same choice: reconstruct with permanent implants or use tissue transplanted from another part of the body. But what if there was a third option - not replacing what's been lost, bu...
How Radiopharmaceuticals Are Changing Cancer Forever | Dr. Ebrahim Delpassand, MD - Founder, Chairman and CEO - RadioMedix
What if radiation could become one of the most precise medicines ever invented? Long before radiopharmaceuticals became one of the hottest areas in biotech, today's guest was helping pioneer targeted radiation therapies that seek out cancer cel...
Inside Israel's Health Innovation Revolution | Dr. Michal Tzuchman-Katz, MD - Chief Innovation & Research Officer, Maccabi Healthcare Services
Can artificial intelligence really think like a physician - or is it simply predicting words?This week we're joined by Dr. Michal Tzuchman-Katz, MD, physician, AI entrepreneur, pediatrician, and Chief Innovation & Research Officer a...