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BioTech Nation ... with Dr. Moira Gunn - Podcast

BioTech Nation ... with Dr. Moira Gunn

Welcome to BIOTECH NATION !!! With understandable interviews requiring no background in science, BTN attracts a wide global audience. From everyday people looking for hope in treatments in development, to bioentrepreneurs interested in the experience of their fellow travelers, to venture capitalists looking for possibilities in cutting-edge breakthroughs, to scientists simply interested in the work of others, BioTech Nation is the voice of human endeavor, driving science to new realities for everyone. These interviews are drawn directly from the public radio program, "Tech Nation", which also can be heard in numerous global radio and podcasting venues.

Entrepreneurship Life Sciences Business Science
Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
20 minutes
Episodes
136
Years Active
2022 - 2025
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Food IS Medicine... Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent

Food IS Medicine... Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent

This week on Biotech Nation, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, Dr. Daniel Kraft, talks about “food as medicine" and how eating real, minimally processed food can prevent chronic illnesses like …

00:10:37  |   Wed 27 Nov 2024
Rewiring the Brain... Dr. Peter Vanderklish, Chief Scientific Officer, Spinogenix

Rewiring the Brain... Dr. Peter Vanderklish, Chief Scientific Officer, Spinogenix

This week on BioTech Nation, Dr. Peter Vanderklish, Chief Scientific Officer at Spinogenix discusses their clinical trials focused on regenerating synapses to repair brain connections and offer hope …

00:25:28  |   Wed 20 Nov 2024
Sepsis: First-Time-Ever Test... Dr. Rollie Carlson, CEO Immunexpress

Sepsis: First-Time-Ever Test... Dr. Rollie Carlson, CEO Immunexpress

This week on BioTech Nation, Dr. Rollie Carlson, CEO of Immunexpress, talks about Sepsis—a deadly condition responsible for 1 in 5 deaths worldwide. Dr. Carlson talks about the FDA-cleared SeptiCyte …

00:12:42  |   Wed 13 Nov 2024
CRISPR Dilemma... Dr. Eben Kirksey, Anthropologist & Author, “The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans”

CRISPR Dilemma... Dr. Eben Kirksey, Anthropologist & Author, “The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans”

This week on BioTech Nation, we talk with Dr. Eben Kirksey about the ethical issues behind CRISPR, the gene-editing tool that made headlines with the birth of the first “CRISPR babies” in China. Dr. …

00:38:02  |   Wed 06 Nov 2024
AI & Better Health...Dr. Daniel Kraft,  Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent

AI & Better Health...Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent

This week on BioTech Nation, Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about how AI can personalize health advice using data from devices like your smartwatch. He explains how this technology can help people make bette…

00:12:02  |   Wed 30 Oct 2024
A Smarter Path to Curing Diseases… Dr. Avak Kahvejian Founding CEO, Cellarity

A Smarter Path to Curing Diseases… Dr. Avak Kahvejian Founding CEO, Cellarity

Dr. Avak Kahvejian, Founding CEO of Cellarity, explains their new approach to discovering drugs by using AI to look at how cells behave as a whole, rather than focusing on one part of the problem. Th…

00:19:44  |   Thu 24 Oct 2024
Replacing Cells, Restoring Sight…Brian Culley, CEO, Lineage Cell Therapeutics

Replacing Cells, Restoring Sight…Brian Culley, CEO, Lineage Cell Therapeutics

Brian Culley, CEO of Lineage Cell Therapeutics, talks about a new approach to treating diseases called whole cell replacement therapy - which replaces damaged cells with new ones. Lineage is focusing…

00:16:04  |   Wed 16 Oct 2024
Multimodal Health??? Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent

Multimodal Health??? Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent

Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent introduces "multimodal medicine", combining data like proteomics, wearables, and imaging for early disease detection. He stresses the importan…

00:09:17  |   Wed 09 Oct 2024
15 Billion Vaccines Doses: COVID & the Patent Dilemma... Dr. Antony Taubman, Former Director of the Intellectual Property Division at the World Trade Organization

15 Billion Vaccines Doses: COVID & the Patent Dilemma... Dr. Antony Taubman, Former Director of the Intellectual Property Division at the World Trade Organization

Dr. Antony Taubman, the former Director of the Intellectual Property Division at the World Trade Organization, discusses the challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the rapid develop…

00:23:14  |   Wed 02 Oct 2024
From Illness to Wellness - Can Science Tell Us How Healthy We Really Are (Part II)?? Dr. Leroy Hood and Dr. Nathan Price

From Illness to Wellness - Can Science Tell Us How Healthy We Really Are (Part II)?? Dr. Leroy Hood and Dr. Nathan Price

Part II - We continue our discussion with Dr. Leroy Hood and Dr. Nathan Price about the subject of their book "The Age of Scientific Wellness", delving into the role of artificial intelligence in hea…

00:25:03  |   Wed 25 Sep 2024
From Illness to Wellness - Can Science Tell Us How Healthy We Really Are (Part I)?? Dr. Leroy Hood and Dr. Nathan Price

From Illness to Wellness - Can Science Tell Us How Healthy We Really Are (Part I)?? Dr. Leroy Hood and Dr. Nathan Price

Dr. Leroy Hood and Dr. Nathan Price delve into the subject of their book "The Age of Scientific Wellness", which highlights the advancements in science that enable the prediction and personalization …

00:26:57  |   Wed 18 Sep 2024
One Pill to Stop Many Cancers??? Dr. Michael Weickert, CEO, Pacylex Pharmaceuticals

One Pill to Stop Many Cancers??? Dr. Michael Weickert, CEO, Pacylex Pharmaceuticals

Dr. Michael Weickert, CEO of Pacylex Pharmaceuticals, about their once-daily pill in trials now for cancer treatment - it’s already showing early indicators of success in stopping cancer growth in no…

00:16:54  |   Wed 11 Sep 2024
Engineering the Future of Vaccines... Dr. Robert Coleman, CEO, Codagenix

Engineering the Future of Vaccines... Dr. Robert Coleman, CEO, Codagenix

Dr. Robert Coleman, CEO of Codagenix, discusses their innovative approach to virus engineering, which includes developing a nasally-delivered COVID-19 vaccine that targets multiple virus proteins for…

00:26:08  |   Wed 04 Sep 2024
Did That Change To My Prescription Work??? -- Dr. Kal Patel, CEO, BrightInsight

Did That Change To My Prescription Work??? -- Dr. Kal Patel, CEO, BrightInsight

Continuous monitoring ... when we want it, when we don’t, should we share it? Or not. Or perhaps just part of it. Dr. Kal Patel, the Co-Founder and CEO of BrightInsight talks about this brave new fro…

00:35:13  |   Wed 28 Aug 2024
Can the Mapping of Human Biology Lead to Better Drugs? Dr. Chris Gibson, Co-Founder & CEO Recursion Pharmaceuticals

Can the Mapping of Human Biology Lead to Better Drugs? Dr. Chris Gibson, Co-Founder & CEO Recursion Pharmaceuticals

Dr. Chris Gibson, the co-founder and CEO of Recursion Pharmaceuticals in Salt Lake City. We talk about their efforts to map ALL of human biology, and how this mapping will lead to better drugs. 

00:21:42  |   Wed 21 Aug 2024
One Company, Two Different Drugs - It's All About Glucose - Too Much and Too Little! Nevan Charles Elam, Founder & CEO, Rezolute

One Company, Two Different Drugs - It's All About Glucose - Too Much and Too Little! Nevan Charles Elam, Founder & CEO, Rezolute

Glucose is essential for life. And the insulin we produce is designed to leave just the right of amount in our bodies for healthy functioning. Thus, when we underproduce insulin - or we overproduce i…

00:18:52  |   Wed 14 Aug 2024
A Vaccine for Breast Cancer??? Dr. Amit Kumar, President & CEO, Anixa Biosciences

A Vaccine for Breast Cancer??? Dr. Amit Kumar, President & CEO, Anixa Biosciences

This week on BioTech Nation, Dr. Amit Kumar, President and CEO of Anixa Biosciences, talks about their work on a breast cancer vaccine which targets a protein thought only to be expressed during brea…

00:25:39  |   Thu 08 Aug 2024
Are Your Genes Failing You??? Dr. Noah Davidsohn, Co-Founder & CSO Rejuvenate Bio

Are Your Genes Failing You??? Dr. Noah Davidsohn, Co-Founder & CSO Rejuvenate Bio

This week on Biotech Nation,  Dr. Noah Davidsohn, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Rejuvenate Bio. The discussion centers around the regulation of protein expression and its implications fo…

00:16:50  |   Wed 31 Jul 2024
Living Longer??? Dr. Peter Diamandis, XPrize Founder and Author,

Living Longer??? Dr. Peter Diamandis, XPrize Founder and Author, "Longevity"

This week of BioTech Nation, Dr. Peter Diamandis about his new book, "Longevity: Your Practical Playbook on Sleep, Diet, Exercise, Mindset, Medications, and Not Dying from Something Stupid". We explo…

00:25:33  |   Wed 24 Jul 2024
Psychedelics... Prodrugs... What else? Dr. Sam Clark, CEO of Terran Biosciences

Psychedelics... Prodrugs... What else? Dr. Sam Clark, CEO of Terran Biosciences

This week on BioTech Nation, Dr. Sam Clark, CEO of Terran Biosciences, discusses prodrugs—modified drugs that improve absorption and efficacy. Also, Terran Biosciences is developing non-hallucinogeni…

00:17:48  |   Wed 17 Jul 2024
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