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SKRAPS: Deep Dive

SKRAPS is your podcast where we, on your behalf explore the stories of sparks of scientific brilliance in science and innovation. SKRAPS is the word sparks spelt backwards and also a play on the idea that ideas are written on back of a napkin or scraps of paper. We explore stories of people in science, while elaborating on the scientific details so that experts and non-experts can relate to science better in today"s whimsical world that acts to spread mis-information.

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01:21:04

S2 E6: Dr. Robert Hamlin - A Living Legend (OR - Arun...

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2021/02/23

We try to capture myriad voices on Skraps, but this one is legendary. Truly. If you don't trust us, we have a few testimonials to prove it. Dr. Robert Hamlin is a DVM and Professor Emeritus at The Ohio State University (please don't get Arun started on his Buckeyes) and he knows more about the heart (animals and humans) than any single person has a right to. We dive into a fan favorite of his distinguished lectures - "'Slightly' Modified, Giraffes Would Make Great Fighter

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S2 E5: The Fit and the Furious - TK Kozai from lab...

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2021/02/16

TK Kozai is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh. You can check out his prolific research publications here, but don't miss out on the story behind the investigator as we take on the peer-review process, lab culture and contracts (get that heart rate up!), being an outsider to both of your own cultures, sleep and exercise, and InequalityInSTEM (which his wife aptly points out should be STEAM!) an effort driven by Dawn Taylor that TK whole-heartedly

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01:05:01

S2 E4: The Room Where It Happens with Juan-Pablo Mas

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2021/02/09

"Two Virginians and an immigrant walk into a room"Diametrically opposedFoes"They emerge with a compromiseHaving open doors that were previously closedBros"The immigrant emerges with unprecedented financial powerA system he can shape however he wantsThe Virginians emerge with the nation's capitalAnd here's the pièce de résistance"No one else was in the room where it happened..."Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton" may be dark on Broadway for now, but

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01:14:18

S2 E3: Call Me By My Name - Anil Achyuta

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2021/02/02

Arun and JoJo have a candid chat with Anil Achyuta - a founding member of TDK Ventures and recently ranked as #2 of the Global Corporate Venturing's Rising Stars of 2021- and yes, you'll get to hear how he feels about that. You'll also get to hear about what's in a name? To some folks, an awful lot - to others, not so much. Have a listen and find out what it's like to fit into a new culture - how you need to adapt and how others should adapt to you. We hear so much about

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S2 E2: Getting Your Foot and Pivoting In the Digital...

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2021/01/26

How exactly do you get your foot in the door in digital health? I had a hunch you'd be asking that. And so did Carolyn Casterton, engineer, business person, and founder of Healthtech Hunches - a resource dedicated to learning and sharing about life in the digital health careers.Casterton worked her way through the bigs (Edwards Lifesciences, Boston Scientific, Stryker, and Verily) and picked up a thing or two along the way. She's broken the land-speed record in medical device product

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01:07:08

S2 E1: Human Composting - What Will Your Posthumous...

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2021/01/18

Join us as we talk to Professor Lynne Carpenter-Boggs about the new trends in final remains disposal - human composting (or more tactfully called Natural Organic Reduction). If you've tried to live a life of sustainability, why stop there? Why not let your final act of earthly love be 1.4 tons less carbon than cremation or burial?Sound crazy? It is. It's crazy cool. Carpenter-Boggs is a professor at Washington State University's Department of Crop and Soil Sciences. Her research is

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01:11:25

E19: What if you were a Psychopath? - w/ Dr. James...

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2020/12/22

Have you ever wondered or seen someone and thought they could be a psychopath or have psychopathic tendencies? What if you found out if you really had the all the attributes of being a psychopath? Does it make you question everything you have experienced and have been trhough wondering what if you had flipped and why you hadn't flipped yet? This is exactly what happened to our guest., Dr. James Fallon. His journey, chronicled in the book (Link Here) outlines and we had a fantastic conversation

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01:23:34

E18: Cochlear Implants, Tinnitus, Ultrasound, Immune...

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2020/12/15

Join Dr. Hubert Lim for a fantastic virtual fire-side chat where he talks about how his love for biomedical engineering starts off with wanting to understand music preferences a.la Napster, then branching to auditory implants, invasive and non-invasive neuromodulation. We talk about his fantastic journey into figuring out a treatment for Tinnitus via his company, Neuromod Devices. They published a fantastic study by performing bi-modal stimulation of the brain using tongue stimulation and sound to

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E17: Alissa Eckert - Designing the COVID-19...

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2020/12/08

It's true. You can run but you cannot hide. Such is the power behind Alissa's SARS-CoV-2 illustration. As a wannabe vet and an artist who took up medical illustrations as a career, Alissa's career has surely been an unusual one. She has mastered the art of pushing beauty and uncovering of sense of awe and fear into people's minds with her illustrations of Zika, Ebola and now infamous - SARS-Cov-2. Some incredible resources: Alissa's Twitter:

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01:05:47

E16: Bioethics and Bioelectronic Medicines - An...

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2020/12/01

Have you ever realized that a neuro-surgeon could be faced with an interesting conundrum? The very patient that gave him consent might ask him to stop doing what he is doing when he is inserting an electrode to treat depression. Does the surgeon do what the patient says on table or does he work off the informed consent form that the patient signed? What if, some of the data that is currently mined is used to inform a third observer of the state of mind? What if, this data can be used for purposes

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01:04:25

E15: Scoring three-pointers with Graphene w/ Kostas...

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2020/11/24

Kostas Kostarelos and Carolina Aguilar join us in this fantastic hour where they narrate to us, their personal experiences with Graphene and why it provides a novel way to interface with the brain and other parts of the nervous system. It is an interesting journey from liposomal drug delivery to looking carbon nanotubes to graphene in Kostas' case. While, in Carolina's case how her journey through deep brain stimulation and diabetes franchise shaped her outlook and leadership

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01:02:56

E14: "Meandering" Journey in Innovation with Kate...

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2020/11/10

This is one fantastic conversation that we are proud to state that no one has brought this story out to the listeners. Join us to listen to one of the best storytellers whose career has experienced the amazing innovation that straddles engineering and medicine. To make it more interesting, she is the first person we know of, who has experiences in people from pioneers in silicon valley, biotechnology and bioelectronic medicines (including making a name for herself). Kate recounts the story from her

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E13: Konstantinos Alataris : Nevro and now Vorso...

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2020/11/03

Join us to listen to Dr. Konstantinos Alataris' wondrous story of how he created Nevro. The company that challenged established players and in 5 years sneaked into the $2 billion dollar spinal cord market and became the "Big 4" in neuromodulation. Konstantinos' diplomacy, critical reasoning and how he overcomes challenges is a lesson to many budding and established entrepreneurs. He can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/konstantinos-alataris-phd-b77b915b/

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01:31:22

E12: The story of Mission ISRO podcast

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2020/10/27

Join us for an in-depth interview with the creators of the Mission ISRO podcast - Gaurav Vaz (Twitter handle: @GauravVaz) and Archana Nathan (@nathan_archana). Both Gaurav and Archana are part of a year old, media company called All Things Small (https://allthingssmall.in/).This is a behind-the-scenes look at the journey that these wonderful people took to making this wonderful piece of scientific story-telling.

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Breaking: Rune Labs Funding Announcement

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2020/10/26

Today's mini-episode is slightly different from what we normally do. We've decided to bring you a little bit of breaking news. Today, October 26, 2020 - Rune Labs announced the closing of their seed round of $5 million. While this is exciting in and of itself, the round was opened and completed during active quarantine for COVID19. Join us as we talk through how COVID has affected the fundraising process, how you can leverage some of the successful tactics, and what Brian Pepin and Rune

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01:12:13

E11: Analytical chemistry, Climate change and...

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2020/10/20

Dr. Amanda Grannas leads us a fantastic journey of her experiences as an analytical chemist and how analytical chemistry is a topic that most people don't think but still is such an important part of our life. It surrounds us yet we know so little about it. She re-lives some of the most personal journey of how climate change affects all of us and gives a very passionate defense of "why we must save our planet"? Finally, she closes by how her experiences shapes her leadership both in

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01:17:59

E10: Drug Discovery and Resilience in Innovation with...

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2020/10/13

Join us to talk about the discovery of some of the most amazing medicines that changed the face of treatment for patients with heart failure. Reducing the death sentence that congestive heart failure with a pharmacological drug is no mean feat. Our guest, Robert Ruffolo Jr has accomplished this feat as the lead scientist for Carvedilol, the first beta blocker ever to be approved for heart failure. He did this in the face of adversity and with a lot of scientific rigour and audacity. This is a story

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01:25:22

E9: Jarrod Kimber - Challenging an age-old system in...

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2020/10/06

DO NOT FORGET TO CHECK OUR BLOGIf you love baseball (dare I say, CRICKET), you will love this episode that talks about intersection of data and sport. Jarrod Kimber is an award winning documentary film maker. From humble beginnings in Melbourne to becoming a well known sports writer and documentary film maker, Jarrod has constantly used data to point to the fallacies, assumptions and substantiate where the game should go. His writings are so data driven, yet simple to read that it comes across like

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01:11:51

E8: Your data won’t leave your phone/device -...

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2020/09/29

Imagine a world where there ia data deluge; much more than what it is today. What if there was a way to tap into this data without compromising privacy. While existing hardware and chip technologies do not have the ability to process information right on your device, they rely on sending this out to processing centers via the cloud. What if your device (be it a consumer device (like a phone or a driverless car) or a medical implant) was capable of doing all of this on the chip and enable real-time

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01:21:13

E7: Hello Darkness, my old friend with Dr. Sanford...

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2020/09/22

Most of you know "Cape of Good Hope" as the southern most tip of the Cape Peninsula. But our guest, Dr. Sanford Greenberg has overcome disability that affected him since he was a Junior at Columbia University. He has since overcome this limitation to chart an unprecedented success as an innovator, entrepreneur, in politics, administration and more recently, in philanthropy via his www.Endblindnessby2020.com campaign. We join Sandy in walking through his adult life and listening to his

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