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Send us Fan Mail 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 Scanner ( https://sem-scanner.com/) through the company’s concept-to-commercialization “formulas strategy”. Significant milestones along the way...

Send us Fan Mail Jason Matuszewski is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of BioStem Technologies ( https://biostemtechnologies.com/ ), a leading innovator focused on harnessing the natural properties of perinatal tissue in the development, manufacture, and commercialization of allografts for regenerative therapies.  Jason brings a wealth of experience in strategic operations plannin...

Send us Fan Mail 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 affordable and patient-friendly treatments for neglected patients around the world. Dr. Pizarro is a medical doctor and global health leader...

Send us Fan Mail 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 data. Its patented wet lab technologies, including BIRT (Barcode-Integrated Reverse Transcription), allow affordable and scalable collection...

Send us Fan Mail Bill Taranto is President of the Merck Global Health Innovation Fund ( MGHIF - https://www.msdghifund.com/ ). The Merck Global Health Innovation Fund was established in late 2010 as a strategic response to the challenges surrounding Merck’s core business of discovering, developing and marketing innovative drugs and vaccines. Bill has more than three decades of experience in the he...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. On-Yee (Amy) Lo, Ph. D. is Assistant Scientist II at the Marcus Institute for Aging Research ( https://www.marcusinstituteforaging.org/who-we-are/profiles/yee-amy-lo-phd ) and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ( https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/147630 ). Dr. Lo is a physical therapist a...

Send us Fan Mail George Vradenburg is Founding Chairman of the Davos Alzheimer's Collaborative ( DAC - https://www.davosalzheimerscollaborative.org/ ), a pioneering worldwide initiative to prevent Alzheimer’s disease, seeking to mirror the success of global efforts against infectious diseases. DAC is extending global research beyond its current focus on traditional Western European ethnic pop...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Lara Nyman, Ph. D. is the Vice President of Research & Discovery at AG1 ( https://drinkag1.com/learn/research/scientific-research ), responsible for leading the company's innovative research efforts to develop cutting-edge nutritional products. In this role, she oversees the research and development of new formulations, ensures the scientific integrity of product clai...

Send us Fan Mail Pedro Sanchez de Lozada is Co-Founder and CEO of Canid ( https://www.canid.io/ ), a company which is modernizing every aspect of providing vaccines in pediatrics, from operations, to finances, to maximizing care. Canid focuses the details of executing a vaccine program so that pediatricians can instead focus on the children.  Pedro is a seasoned CEO with a background in early-stag...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Marc Salzberg, MD is President, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Medical Officer of Airway Therapeutics ( https://www.airwaytherapeutics.com/ ), a biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of biologics to break the cycle of injury and inflammation for patients with respiratory and inflammatory diseases. Dr. Salzberg has more than 25 years of academic and pharmaceutic...

Send us Fan Mail Paul Keable is Chief Strategy Officer at Ashley Madison ( https://www.ashleymadison.com/ ) - the global online dating and social networking platform, specifically catering to individuals in committed relationships seeking discreet connections. As Chief Strategy Officer, Paul oversees the strategic direction of Ashley Madison, emphasizing discretion, authenticity, and innovation wi...

Send us Fan Mail William Ho is a Co-Founder, and has served as the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of IN8bio ( https://in8bio.com/ ), a biotech company with a mission of developing next-generation therapies for treating cancer, with a focus on gamma-delta T cells, since its inception.    Mr. Ho has worked in the biotechnology industry for nearly 24 years.  Prior to the founding of...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Thomas Ehmer, Ph. D.  ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/tehmer/ ) is a seasoned technology strategist with over two decades of experience in IT innovation, business development, and R&D within the pharmaceutical industry, and co-founder of the Quantum Interest Group, at Merck KGaA Darmstadt, Germany ( https://www.emdgroup.com/en ).  Dr. Ehmer currently is in the Sector Data Of...

Send us Fan Mail Josh Haimson is Co-Founder and CEO of Inductive Bio ( https://www.inductive.bio/about ), a technology company focused on democratizing artificial intelligence (AI) models to transform small molecule drug discovery, eliminating Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion and Toxicology (ADMET) bottlenecks with state-of-the-art AI models and generative chemistry, powered by a un...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Shai Melcer, Ph. D. is Head of the National Bioconvergence Program ( https://bioconvergence.org.il/ ) at the Israel Innovation Authority ( https://innovationisrael.org.il/en/ ). In this role, Dr. Melcer, who brings 15 years of experience and entrepreneurship in the bio-medical ecosystem, leads the implementation of the bioconvergence goals for TELEM – the National Infrastructu...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Robert Schwab, MD is a Resident Physician, Research Specialist, and Hematology-Oncology Fellow at Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System ( https://www3.pennmedicine.org/departments-and-centers/department-of-medicine/divisions/hematology-and-oncology/education-and-training/hematology-oncology-fellowship/fellows ). Dr. Schwab’s work to date has focused on leukem...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Frank Bedu-Addo, Ph. D. has served as a director, president and CEO of PDS Biotech ( https://pdsbiotech.com/ ) since its inception in 2005, a biotech company focused on transforming how the immune system targets and fights disease by developing a new generation of targeted cancer treatments. Dr. Bedu-Addo is a veteran biotech executive with experience successfully starting and...

Send us Fan Mail Daniel Schmitt is President & Chief Executive Officer of Actuate Therapeutics, Inc. ( https://actuatetherapeutics.com/ ), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapies for the treatment of high-impact, difficult-to-treat cancers through the inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3 beta (GSK-3β). Mr. Schmitt brings over 30 years of successful indust...

Send us Fan Mail Fiona Cauley ( https://www.fionacauley.com ) is a Nashville-based comedy superstar who uses her comedy for a greater purpose – to raise awareness about her rare, genetic disease, Friedreich's Ataxia (FA), that progressively damages the nervous system, causing loss of muscle control over time, and is found in approximately one in 50,000 people worldwide (5,000 individuals in t...

Send us Fan Mail Sarah Mastrorocco is Vice President and General Manager of Health at Instacart ( https://www.instacart.com/company/health ), the leading grocery technology company in North America, partnering with more than 1,800 retailers, covering nearly 100,000 stores, and serving over 7,000 consumer packaged goods brands. An innovative leader with extensive expertise in business development a...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Forrest Ringold, MD of Surgical Association of Mobile ( https://sampadocs.com/about-us/dr-forrest-ringold/ ), is a leading expert in bariatric and robotic surgery and is renowned for his expertise in transforming lives through weight loss surgery and innovative abdominal treatments. With an advanced understanding of both traditional laparoscopic techniques and cutting-edge rob...

Send us Fan Mail Aarti Holla-Maini is Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs ( UNOOSA - https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/de/aboutus/director.html ) in Vienna, part of the UN organization ( https://www.un.org/ ) that works to promote international cooperation in the peaceful use and exploration of space, and in the utilization of space science and technology for sustainable econom...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Sunita Satyapal, Ph. D. is an internationally known subject matter expert and leader in the field of hydrogen and fuel cells with three decades of experience in government, industry, and academia.  Dr. Satyapal has had diverse roles including as a researcher, a visiting assistant professor, as Chief Engineer and Director for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hydrogen and Fuel Ce...

Send us Fan Mail Colonel Dr. Tanja Roy is Commander, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense ( https://usamricd.health.mil/ ), a subsidiary of United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) and is the leading science and technology laboratory of the Department of Defense for the development, testing, and evaluation of medical chemical warfare countermeasures, i...

Send us Fan Mail Paurvi Bhatt is the Interim CEO of the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers ( https://rosalynncarter.org/ ), an organization that drives transformative systems change to improve the strength, health, and resilience of family caregivers. Paurvi is also the Founder and CEO of ThirdEyeFocus, a consultancy for  private companies & nonprofits focused on the care economy. Paurvi...