Bringing DARPA’s Innovation to Health

Regina Dugan, CEO of new biomedical non-profit Wellcome Leap and former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the U.S., joins Azeem Azhar to explore how she approaches delivering breakthrough technologies, and why she has now set her sights on global health.

They also discuss:

• The thinking behind DARPA’s early support of Moderna’s mRNA vaccine technology.


• How the DARPA model of innovation can apply to advancing medical technologies.


• How the lessons from her experience of childhood cancer have guided Dugan’s career.

Further resources

• “Understanding the Enduring Consequences of Covid-19” (Exponential View podcast with Professor Nicholas Christakis, 2020)


• “The Covid-19 Pandemic May Be a ‘Sputnik Moment’” (Bloomberg New Economy, 2020)


• “The Health Age” (Wellcome Leap, 2020)

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