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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...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Benjamin L. Oakes, Ph. D., is Co-Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer at Scribe Therapeutics ( https://www.scribetx.com/ ), a molecular engineering company focused on creating best-in-class CRISPR-based therapies that permanently treat the underlying cause of disease. Previously, as an Innovative Genomics Institute Entrepreneurial Fellow, Dr. Oakes focused on the ho...

Send us Fan Mail Ben Zimmer is CEO of Priovant Therapeutics ( https://www.priovanttx.com/ ), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on delivering novel therapies for autoimmune diseases associated with the greatest morbidity and mortality. Priovant is developing oral brepocitinib, a potential first-in-class dual inhibitor of TYK2 and JAK1, across multiple severe autoimmune indications, unl...

Send us Fan Mail Rocky Batzel is CEO of SnapSlide ( https://www.snapslide.com/ ), a company that recently introduced to the market the First Child-Resistant Closure with Single-Handed Opening for RX and OTC medication Bottles. This patented solution, of which Mr. Batzell is the inventor, is focused on bringing life-changing potential for over 60 million Americans with physical limitations, finally...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Angie Burnett, Ph. D. is Program Director at the Advanced Research and Invention Agency ( ARIA - https://www.aria.org.uk/ ), a UK organization created by an Act of Parliament, and sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology, to fund projects across a full spectrum of R&D disciplines, approaches, and institutions, per the ARIA mission statement to “L...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Deborah Sesok-Pizzini, MD, MBA, is Chief Medical Officer And Senior Vice President, Labcorp Diagnostics, and Global Head of Quality And Discipline Director, Immunohematology, Labcorp ( https://www.labcorp.com/deborah-sesok-pizzini-md-mba ), where she is involved in furthering the company's initiatives to enhance the patient experience, enable health provider decisions and...

Send us Fan Mail Vid Desai is Chief Information Officer, Office of Digital Transformation (ODT), at the U.S. Food And Drug Administration (FDA), where he sets and leads the agency’s Information Technology (IT) strategy, as well as the agency’s enterprise IT, data management, and cybersecurity. (https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-organization/vid-desai) The ODT oversees the overall FDA IT spend of c...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Lily Brown, Ph. D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and Director at the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, Perelman School of Medicine, at University of Pennsylvania ( https://www.med.upenn.edu/ctsa/LilyBrownPhD.html ).   Dr. Brown received her Bachelors of Science Degree in Psychology at Drexel University and her Doctoral degree in Clinical P...

Send us Fan Mail Professor Dr. Dan Blumberg, Ph. D. is the Vice-President for Regional and Industrial Development at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ( BGU - https://www.blumberg.bgu.ac.il/ ), an elected Member of the International Academy of Astronautics, and Chair of the Israel Space Agency ( https://www.space.gov.il/en ), a position he was appointed to by the Ministry of Innovation, Science a...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Parag Mallick, Ph. D. is an Associate Professor at Stanford University ( https://profiles.stanford.edu/parag-mallick ) and Co-Founder of Nautilus Biotechnology ( https://www.nautilus.bio/ ), a development stage life sciences company, engaged in creating a platform technology for quantifying and unlocking the complexity of the proteome for a new era of scientific discovery.  Or...