
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
Episodes
691 episodes
Dr. Brigitte Robertson, MD - CMO, Adial Pharmaceuticals - Combating Alcohol Use Disorder
Dr. Brigitte Robertson, MD ( https://www.adial.com/team/brigette-roberston-md/ ) is Chief Medical Officer of Adial Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharma company focused on developing therapies for the treatment of addiction and related di...
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57:45

Bilu Huang - CSO, Fuzhuang Therapeutics - Conquering Aging Via The Telomere DNA And Ribosomal DNA Co-Regulation Model For Cell Senescence (TRCS)
Bilu Huang ( https://biluhuang.com/ ) is a visionary scientist dedicated to finding solutions to some of the most pressing challenges facing humanity. His interdisciplinary work spans multiple fields, including biological aging, dinosaur extinc...
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1:02:56

Dr. Karen Knudsen - CEO, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy - Turning All Cancers Into Curable Diseases
Dr. Karen Knudsen, MBA, PhD, is the Chief Executive Officer of The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy ( PICI - https://www.parkerici.org/ ), a 501c3 nonprofit organization driving the next generation of cancer treatment by accelerating t...
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1:07:20

Ayah Hamdan - Head of Health, Plug and Play Tech Center - Solving Pressing Challenges In Healthcare
Ayah Hamdan is the Head of Health, at Plug and Play Tech Center ( https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/ ), where she spearheads strategies that bring together startups, corporations, and investors to solve some of the most pressing challenges ...
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45:35

Dr. Stephanie Psaki, Ph.D. - CSIS / Brown University - Global Health And National Security
Dr. Stephanie Psaki, Ph.D. is a public health leader with expertise at the intersection of national security, global health, and equity who is currently both a Senior Advisor, Global Health Policy Center, Center for Strategic and International ...
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52:13

Alex Haro - CEO - Hubble Network Inc. - Launching A Global Bluetooth Space Network
Alex Haro is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Executive Chairman of Hubble Network Inc. ( https://hubble.com/ ), a startup building the first global satellite network capable of communicating directly with standard Bluetooth devices...
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51:28

Dr. Adam Rogers, MD - CEO, NervGen Pharma - Innovative Treatments For Nervous System Repair
Dr. Adam Rogers, MD is Chief Executive Officer of NervGen Pharma Corp. ( https://nervgen.com/ ) a clinical-stage biotech company dedicated to developing innovative treatments to enable nervous system repair in the settings of traumatic injury a...
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30:20

Professor Dragan Primorac, MD, PhD - Shaping The Future Of Personalized Medicine
Professor Dragan Primorac, MD., PhD ( https://www.draganprimorac.com/ ) is a globally recognized physician-scientist whose work spans personalized medicine, regenerative therapies, and forensic genetics. From 2003 to 2009 Prof. Pri...
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1:17:01

Dr. Juho Jalkanen, MD, Ph.D. - CEO, Faron Pharmaceuticals - Tackling Cancers Via Novel Immunotherapies
Dr. Juho Jalkanen, M.D., Ph.D. is CEO and Founder of Faron Pharmaceuticals ( https://faron.com/ ), is a global, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focused on creating innovative cancer treatments that leverage the patient’s own immune sy...
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34:49

Dr. Torkil Færø, MD - The Pulse Cure: Balance Stress, Optimize Health, Live Longer
Dr. Torkil Færø, MD ( https://thepulsecure.com/ ) is a Norwegian medical doctor, author, documentary filmmaker and photographer whose work sits at the intersection of frontline medicine and practical preventive health. As a clinician who receiv...
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Annalee Kruger - President, Care Right Inc. - Navigating Family Caregiver Burnout
Annalee Kruger is the President of Care Right Inc. ( https://carerightinc.com/ ), a consultancy providing corporate training and consulting services for organizations wanting to learn more about aging, family caregiving, dementia, end-of-life, ...
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1:12:08

Dr. Neal Baer, MD - Harvard Medical School - Media, Medicine & Global Health
Dr. Neal Baer, MD ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Baer ) is an award-winning showrunner, television writer/producer, physician, author, and a public health advocate and expert.Dr. Baer lectures on Global Health and Social Medicine ...
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1:04:57

Dr. Michael Lebenstein-Gumovski, Ph.D. - Sklifosovsky Clinical and Research Institute for Emergency Medicine, Moscow - Spinal Cord Restoration, Head Transplants & Beyond
Dr. Michael Lebenstein-Gumovski, Ph.D. is Senior Scientific Officer and Neurosurgeon, in the Neurosurgery Department, of the Sklifosovsky Clinical and Research Institute for Emergency Medicine, Moscow, Russian Federation ( https://sklif.mos.ru/...
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2:08:02

Cristina Durán - President, Evinova - Accelerating Better Health Outcomes
Cristina Durán is President of Evinova ( https://evinova.com/ ), a healthtech company empowering global life sciences organizations to accelerate better health outcomes with a suite of globally scaled digital health solutions, empowering sites,...
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44:56

Professor Dr. Anders Hviid - Statens Serum Institut - Reassuring The Public About Vaccine Safety With Rigorous, Evidence-Based Research
Professor Dr. Anders Hviid ( https://en.ssi.dk/about-us/contact/employees/a/anders-peter-hviid-aii ) is Head of Department and Professor of Epidemiology at the Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, Denmark — one of the world’s foremost public h...
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54:32

Courtney Barriger - Founder, Holding Court - Reimagining Fashion
Courtney Barriger ( https://www.courtneybarriger.com/ ) is a fashion expert, sustainability advocate, writer, and entrepreneur who has dedicated her career to reimagining the way we create and consume clothing. After building a successful caree...
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43:13

Kurt Avery - Founder & President, Sawyer Products - Clean Water For The World
Kurt Avery is the Founder and Owner of Sawyer Products ( https://www.sawyer.com/) and currently serves as President. Sawyer is a leading provider of high-performance outdoor protection products, specializing in water filtrati...
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38:09

Warren Roberts - CEO, Living Legacy Forest - Returning To Earth & Living On Through Nature
Warren Roberts is CEO and Founder of Living Legacy Forest ( https://livinglegacyforest.com/ ), an innovative profit-for-purpose company and leader in green memorialization reforestation, which is creating urban memorial forests by turning human...
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44:34

Dr. Jacob Lalezari, MD - CEO, CytoDyn - Next Generation of Monoclonal Antibody Therapeutics
Dr. Jacob Lalezari, MD is the Chief Executive Officer of CytoDyn ( https://www.cytodyn.com/ ), a biopharma company committed to enhancing the lives of patients through target specific medicine and a next generation of monoclonal antibody therap...
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39:20

Dr. Reynold Panettieri, MD - Rutgers University - Novel Therapeutic Approaches To Treat Airways Diseases
Dr. Reynold A. Panettieri, Jr, MD ( https://ritms.rutgers.edu/faculty/reynold-panettieri/ ) is the inaugural Director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Science, and Vice Chancellor for Translational Medicine and Science, at Rutger...
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37:50

Alex Reed - President & CCO, Yokogawa Fluence Analytics - Smart Polymer Manufacturing
Alex Reed is a Co-founder, President and CCO of Yokogawa Fluence Analytics ( https://www.fluenceanalytics.com/ ), a manufacturer of systems that produce continuous data streams enabling real-time optimization of manufacturing and R&D proces...
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53:32

Dr. Paul Jaffe, Ph.D. - Tactical Technology Office, DARPA - Power Beaming and Space Solar
Dr. Paul Jaffe, Ph.D. ( https://www.darpa.mil/about/people/paul-jaffe ) is a Program Manager in DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office, where he oversees the Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay ( POWER - https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs...
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1:03:53

Martin Burns - CEO, Bruin Biometrics - Early Detection And Prevention Of Pressure Injuries
Martin Burns is the CEO of Bruin Biometrics, a platform company focused on digital solutions for pressure injury prevention and management, where since 2012 he has designed and led the successful journey of Bruin Biometrics’ Provizio SEM Scanne...
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49:17

Dr Ashwin Gopinath, PhD - CTO, Biostate AI - Transforming Healthcare Through Next-Gen RNAseq & GenAI
Dr. Ashwin Gopinath, Ph.D. ( https://ashwingopinath.com/ ) is Co-Founder and CTO of Biostate AI ( https://biostate.ai/ ), a startup building generative AI that predicts the evolution of human disease and drug response based on RNA sequencing da...
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52:16

Dr. Luis Pizarro, MD - Executive Director, DNDi - The Best Science For The Most Neglected Patients
Dr. Luis Pizarro, MD is Executive Director of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative ( DNDi - https://dndi.org/ ), the international, not-for-profit research and development organization focused on discovering, developing, and delivering a...
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