Progress, Potential, and Possibilities Podcast / Show

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Abigail Stevenson is Chief Science Officer (CSO), at Mars ( https://www.mars.com/ ), the multinational manufacturer of confectionery, pet food, and other food products, and a provider of pet care services, where she champions Mars’ involvement in global, cutting-edge science discovery, drives external partnerships with academia, start ups, non-governmental organizations and pe...

Send us Fan Mail Steve Blank is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford and Co-Founder of the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation (https://gordianknot.stanford.edu/people/steve-blank). He has been described as the Father of Modern Entrepreneurship. Credited with launching the Lean Startup movement and the curriculums for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps and Hacking for De...

Send us Fan Mail Professor Carlos Duarte, Ph. D. is Distinguished Professor, Marine Science, and Executive Director, Coral Research & Development Accelerator Platform ( CORDAP - https://cordap.org/ ), Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology ( KAUST - https://www.kaust.edu.sa/en/study/faculty/carlos-duarte ), in Saudi Ara...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. James L. Madara, MD, is CEO and Executive Vice President of the American Medical Association ( https://www.ama-assn.org/about/authors-news-leadership-viewpoints/james-l-madara-md ), the United States' largest physician organization. He also holds the academic title of adjunct professor of pathology at Northwestern University ( https://www.pathology.northwestern.edu/Facult...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Amal Al-Maani, MD is Director General for Diseases Surveillance and Control at the Ministry of Health of Oman ( https://moh.gov.om/en/hospitals-directorates/directorates-and-centers-at-hq/directorate-general-for-disease-surveillance-and-control/ ), senior consultant in pediatric infectious diseases in the Sultanate, and is the focal point for the Global Antimicrobial Resistanc...

Send us Fan Mail Michael J. Burton is the CEO of the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation ( https://diabetesresearch.org/ ), a philanthropic organization which funds the Diabetes Research Institute, one of the largest and most comprehensive research centers dedicated to curing diabetes. A passionate nonprofit executive, Michael has more than 30 years of experience in leading high-impact philanth...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Legena Henry, Ph. D. is a Lecturer for Renewable Energy at University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados ( https://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/fst/cmp/faculty-and-staff/academic-staff/physics/legena-henry.aspx ) with research specializing in Renewable Energy, Ocean Engineering Analysis, Ocean Wave Statistics, Marine Hydrodynamics, and Applied Mechanics.  Dr. Henry is also...

Send us Fan Mail Linda Jiang is Head of Strategy and Government Partnerships, Healthcare, at Lyft ( https://www.lyft.com/healthcare ), where she’s responsible for accelerating the growth of the business, driving public sector strategy, and partnering with policymakers and regulators to bring access to the rideshare service to millions of people who need it for healthcare access. Previously, Linda...

Send us Fan Mail Michael Demurjian is CEO And Chairman of Aspargo Labs ( https://aspargolabs.com/ ), which he co-founded in 2019, which is a distinguished pharmaceutical and med-tech company committed to developing innovative oral spray formulations and drug delivery systems. Mr. Demurjian brings extensive experience across finance, manufacturing, sales & marketing, logistics, and general mana...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Päivi Sillanaukee, MD, Ph. D. is Special Envoy for Health and Wellbeing, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Finland ( https://stm.fi/en/rdi-growth-programme-for-health-and-wellbeing ). Dr. Sillanaukee has over 20 years of experience at highest civil servant administrative positions, both from government, including roles as Director General at Ministry of Social Affairs and...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Tina Ipe, MD, MPH is Chief Executive Officer at Regen Med Clinic ( https://www.regenmed.vip/ ), a medical practice which provides multi-specialty infusions, cutting-edge treatments such as therapeutic apheresis (plasmapheresis and collections), as well as novel aesthetic treatments, for patients with a variety chronic illnesses.  Dr. Ipe is a board-certified physician and clin...

Send us Fan Mail Angela Aina, MPH is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Black Mamas Matter Alliance ( https://blackmamasmatter.org/ ), where she works to convene Black Maternal Health professionals and community-based organizations to develop trainings, programs, quality improvement initiatives, research projects, and black feminist advocacy strategies to advance holistic maternity servi...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. David B. Agus ( https://davidagus.com/ ) is one of the world's leading doctors and pioneering biomedical researchers.  Dr. Agus is the Founding Director and Co-CEO of the Ellison Institute of Technology  ( https://eit.org/ ) and a professor of medicine ( https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/david-b-agus/ ) and engineering ( https://viterbi.usc.edu/directory/faculty/Agus/Da...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Tristan Colonius, DVM is the Chief Veterinary Officer and Deputy Director for Science Policy at FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine ( CVM - https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary ).  Dr. Colonius previously worked in various positions at FDA, including as Deputy Chief of Staff to Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf and as an International Policy Analyst.  During his career at FDA,...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Ricardo Baptista Leite, MD is a medical doctor trained in infectious diseases, with extensive experience in global health, health systems and science-based policy making.  Dr. Baptista Leite served four terms as a Member of Parliament in Portugal on Health and Foreign Affairs committees, is currently a city councilor in Sintra, served as Deputy Mayor of Cascais, and as Head of...

Send us Fan Mail Mike Kelly is President & Chief Executive Officer of NervGen Pharma Corp. ( https://nervgen.com/ ), a clinical-stage biotech company dedicated to developing innovative treatments to enable nervous system repair in the settings of traumatic injury and disease.  NervGen’s lead drug candidate, NVG-291, is being evaluated in a Phase 1b/2a clinical trial in an initial target indica...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Leonard Tender, Ph. D. is a Program Manager in the Biological Technologies Office at DARPA ( https://www.darpa.mil/staff/dr-leonard-tender ) where his research interests include developing new methods for user-defined control of biological processes, and climate and supply chain resilience. Prior to coming to DARPA, Dr. Tender was a principal investigator and led the Laborator...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Mehmood Khan, MD is the Chief Executive Officer of Hevolution Foundation ( https://www.hevolution.com/ ), a first of its kind non-profit organization that funds research through grants and provides investments in biotech to incentivize healthspan science across disciplines and borders for the benefit of all. Established by a Saudi Royal Decree, with its headquarters in Riyadh,...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Jay Hooper, Ph. D. is Chief, Molecular Virology Branch, at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases ( USAMRIID - https://usamriid.health.mil/ ) where his research is aimed at the discovery and development of medical countermeasures targeting exotic viral diseases of military importance including hemorrhagic fever caused by hantaviruses, arenaviruses, fil...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Luba Perry, Ph. D. is Co-Founder and CEO of ReConstruct Bio ( https://wyss.harvard.edu/technology/reconstruct/ ), an innovative venture emerging from Harvard’s Wyss Institute ( https://wyss.harvard.edu/team/advanced-technology-team/luba-perry/ ), aimed at redefining the fields of medical reconstruction and aesthetics with an initial application of their groundbreaking technolo...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Oren Gilad, Ph. D., is President and Chief Executive Officer of Aprea Therapeutics ( https://aprea.com/ ), a clinical stage, platform biotechnology company focused on the development of novel, synthetic lethality-based therapies, with direct on-target mechanisms of action, and clear clinical pathways, that target various aspects of DNA Damage Response (DDR) Pathways. Dr. Gilad...

Send us Fan Mail Mrs. Cheryl Halpern is a Director, Producer, Documentarian, and Co-Founder and Partner of HQ Creative LLC ( https://www.hqcreative.com/ ), an Emmy Award-winning production company and branding agency serving clients around the world. The award winning film '"The Golden Rule: Do Unto Others" produced by HQ Creative and Indonesian award winning company Angel Pictures,...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Richard Scranton, M.D., M.P.H., is the President of Global Product Development and the Chief Medical Officer of Lyndra Therapeutics ( https://lyndra.com/ ), a company pioneering long-acting oral therapies, designed to deliver medicine for up to a week or longer in an oral form.  Dr. Scranton is responsible for advancing the company's proprietary LYNX™ drug delivery platfo...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Rasha Hammamieh, Ph. D. is Director, Medical Readiness Systems Biology (MRSB), at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research ( https://wrair.health.mil/Biomedical-Research/Center-for-Military-Psychiatry-and-Neuroscience/Medical-Readiness-Systems-Biology/ ) where her lab seeks to apply integrative biology approaches to diseases of military relevance, such as post-traumatic stre...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph. D., ( https://www.francisscollins.com/ ) is the former Director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), where as the longest serving director of NIH (spanning 12 years and three presidencies) he oversaw the work of the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world, from basic to clinical research.   Dr. Collins continues to serve...