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TechNation Radio Podcast

Dr Moira Gunn

TechNation Radio hosted by Dr Moira Gunn

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Episode 23-21 New Ways to Treat What Ails Us

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2023/05/24

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.

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Episode 23-20 Wisdom for the Ages

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2023/05/19

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

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Episode 23-19 Is The Internet Untrustworthy???

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2023/05/17

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.

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Episode 23-18 Bigotry, justice and environmental...

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2023/05/03

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Kirk Wallace Johnson talking about fishermen, 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.

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Episode 23-17 How Healthy Are You???

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2023/04/28

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”.

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Episode 23-16 Tech Visionary but No Tech?

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2023/04/21

On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withJohn 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, 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

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Episode 23-15 What’s Really Happening to Your Liver ???

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2023/04/14

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”.

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Episode 23-14 Neurotech and the battle for your brain???

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2023/04/06

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”.

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Episode 23-13 How Data Happened ???

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2023/03/29

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.

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Episode 23-12 Neuroscience and Dreaming

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2023/03/23

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

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Episode 23-11 The EU Plays Tough with Silicon Valley

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2023/03/16

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

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Episode 23-10 Experiential Intelligence?

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2023/03/09

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.”

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Episode 23-09 Oh, Yeah – We’re Talkin’ Phosphorus

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2023/03/03

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dan Egan takes us on 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.

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Episode 23-08 FOLLOW-ON INTW - The Science of Ageing

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2023/02/23

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Andrew Steele in a FOLLOW-ON science-focused interview on the latest science behind ageing. 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 ageing process.

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Episode 23-07 Psychological Safety at Work??

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2023/02/15

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”. The 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.

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Episode 23-06 In the Mouth of the Wolf

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2023/02/09

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

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Episode 23-05 We’re all aging – in *every* cell in...

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2023/02/03

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

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Episode 23-04 How To Calm Your Mind? (And Why)

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2023/01/27

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

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Episode 23-03 The Right Antidepressant the First Time?

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2023/01/19

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.

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Episode 23-02 Can’t Stop Measuring, If We Tried

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2023/01/12

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.

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