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Send us Fan Mail Dr. Haileyesus Getahun, MD, MPH, Ph. D. is Director of AMR (Antimicrobial Resistance) Global Coordination at the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Quadripartite (FAO/UNEP/WHO/WOAH) Joint Secretariat on Antimicrobial Resistance. ( https://www.who.int/about/people/biography/dr-haileyesus-getahun ) Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens the effective prevention and treatment...

Send us Fan Mail Rear Admiral Lorin C. Selby, is the 26th Chief of Naval Research, for the United States Navy ( https://www.navy.mil/Leadership/Flag-Officer-Biographies/Search/Article/2236263/rear-admiral-lorin-selby/ ), a position he assumed command of in May of 2020. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is an organization within the United States Department of the Navy responsible for the science...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Richard K. Burt MD ( https://astemcelljourney.com/about/drrichardburt/ ) is a Fulbright Scholar, Professor of Medicine at Scripps Health Care, tenured retired Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University where he served as Chief of Immunotherapy and Autoimmune Diseases, and CEO of Genani Biotechnology. Dr. Burt endeavored for thirty-five years, first with animal models and...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Victoria Coleman, Ph. D. is the Chief Scientist of the United States Air Force ( https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/2556343/dr-victoria-coleman/ ), where she serves as the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Secretary of the Air Force, Air Force Chief of Staff, and Chief of Space Operations, providing assessments on a wide range of scientific and technical iss...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Stuart Minchin, Ph. D. is the Director General of the Pacific Community ( SPC - https://www.spc.int/about-us/director-general ) which is the largest intergovernmental organization in the Pacific and serves as a science and technology for development organization owned by the 26 Member countries and territories in the Pacific region. SPC’s 650 member staff deliver services and...

Send us Fan Mail Judge Karen Friedman is the Director of Criminal Justice Innovation, Development and Engagement, at the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, at the U.S. Department of Justice ( https://bja.ojp.gov/bio/karen-friedman ), a position she was appointed to by President Biden on January 3rd of 2022. The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) was created in 1984 to reduce...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. David A. Tarantino, Jr., MD, MPH; CAPT MC (FS/FMF) Ret., is the Chief Medical Officer, at the United States Customs and Border Protection ( CBP - https://www.cbp.gov/ ), the largest federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security ( DHS - https://www.dhs.gov/ ), and the country's primary border control organization. It is charged with re...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Tobias Reichmuth, Ph. D. is Founding Partner at Maximon ( https://www.maximon.com/ ), The Longevity Company Builder, which empowers entrepreneurs to build impactful, science-based and scalable companies providing healthy aging and rejuvenation solutions. Maximon recently announced the launch of their 100 million CHF Longevity Co-Investment Fund, which will be looking to invest...

Send us Fan Mail Professor Dr. Edward (Eddie) Holmes, Ph. D. ( https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/about/our-people/academic-staff/edward-holmes.html ) is an evolutionary biologist distinguished for his work on the emergence and evolution of viruses and over the years of his career he has used genomic and phylogenetic approaches to reveal the major mechanisms of virus evolution and determined the ge...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Loren Matheson, Ph. D. is a Portfolio Manager at the Center For Security Science, at Defence Research and Development Canada ( DRDC - https://www.canada.ca/en/defence-research-development.html ), which is a special operating agency of the Department of National Defence, whose purpose is to provide the Canadian Armed Forces, other government departments, and public safety and n...

Send us Fan Mail Prof. Dr. Tony Donne, Ph. D. is Program Manager (CEO) of the EUROfusion ( https://www.euro-fusion.org/ ) research consortium, a European consortium of 30 national fusion research institutes, in 26 EU countries, plus Switzerland and Ukraine, where he coordinates the work of over 4,000 scientists and engineers. Dr. Donne trained as a physicist, obtaining his Masters in Experimental...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Seemay Chou, Ph. D. is the Co-Founder, CEO, and Board Member of Arcadia Science ( https://www.arcadia.science/ ), a research and development company focusing on under researched areas in biology, with a specific focus on novel model organisms that haven't been traditionally studied in the lab. The goals of Arcadia Science are to unlock the knowledge and ingenuity containe...

Send us Fan Mail H. E. President Surangel S. Whipps, Jr. is the 10th President of the Republic of Palau ( https://www.palaugov.pw/executive-branch/president/ ). President Whipps was formerly a two-term Senator having served in the 8th and 9th Olbiil Era Kelulau (OEK, Palau National Congress) from 2009 through 2016. His Senate report card maintains his reputable record in policy making to promote a...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Jennifer A. Fogarty, Ph. D. ( https://www.bcm.edu/people-search/jennifer-fogarty-100936 ) is the Chief Scientific Officer for the Translational Research Institute for Space Health ( TRISH - https://www.bcm.edu/academic-centers/space-medicine/translational-research-institute ) at Baylor College of Medicine, and the Director of the Applied Health and Performance at Sophic Synerg...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Svitlana Volkova, Ph. D. ( https://www.pnnl.gov/people/svitlana-volkova ) is Chief Scientist, Decision Intelligence and Analytics, National Security Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), which is one of the United States Department of Energy national laboratories, managed by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science. Dr. Volkova is a recogniz...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Egbert Edelbroek, Ph. D. is the CEO & Founder of SpaceBorn United ( https://spacebornunited.com/ ), a research and mission design company focused on researching optimal conditions for human reproduction in space, with a focus on novel assisted reproductive technologies. Dr. Edelbroek is passionate about accelerating space life science research, helping humanity to become a...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. David A. Markowitz, Ph. D. ( https://www.markowitz.bio/ ) is a Program Manager at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity ( IARPA - https://www.iarpa.gov/ ) which is an organization that invests in high-risk, high-payoff research programs to tackle some of the most difficult challenges of the agencies and disciplines in the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). IARPA’...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Margaret "Peggy" Hamburg, MD is an internationally recognized leader in public health and medicine, who currently serves as chair of the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s (NTI) bio Advisory Group ( https://www.nti.org/about/people/margaret-hamburg-md/ ), where she has also served as founding vice president and senior scientist. She also currently holds a role as Commission...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Renée Deehan, Ph. D. is the VP of Science & Artificial Intelligence at InsideTracker ( https://www.insidetracker.com/ ), and leads a science team that builds and mines the world's largest data set of blood, DNA, fitness tracking and phenotypic data from healthy people, creating evidence-based solutions that are simple, clear, and actionable. Dr. Deehan has spent her c...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Sharon K. Inouye is the Director of the Aging Brain Center at the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston, Massachusetts ( https://www.marcusinstituteforaging.org/scientists/team-profiles-and-bios/sharon-k-inouye-md-mph ). Dr. Inouye has an M.D., from University of California San Francisco and M.P.H. from Yale and currently holds the M...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Michael Hufford, Ph. D. is the Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of LyGenesis ( https://www.lygenesis.com/ ), a clinical-stage cell therapy company that transforms patient’s lymph nodes into bioreactors capable of growing functioning ectopic organs. He also serves as the Interim CEO of Morphoceuticals ( https://www.morphoceuticals.com/ ) a company focused on modifying...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Brett Kagan, Ph. D. is the Chief Scientific Officer at Cortical Labs ( https://corticallabs.com/ ), a biological computing startup putting live neurons into chips to revolutionize computing and help usher in the post-silicon age. Potential applications for the unique organic-digital convergence tools that Cortical Labs is working on are quite broad including: novel ex-vivo mod...

Send us Fan Mail Dee Siren ( https://mrssiren.com/ ) is a veteran adult entertainment professional who wears many titles within the industry including as a director, producer, sex educator, performer, content creator, and CEO of SirenXXXStudios ( https://sirenxxxstudios.com/ ) . Dee attended the University of Texas in San Antonio, earning a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies and a certification i...

Send us Fan Mail John Sherman is the Chief Information Officer (DoD CIO) at the U.S. Department of Defense ( https://www.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography/Article/2881098/john-sherman/ ), a role he was sworn in on December 17, 2021. In this role he is the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense for Information Management / Information Technology (IT) and Information Assurance, as well...

Send us Fan Mail Beth Bell ( https://bethbell.me/ ) is an author, advisor and an entrepreneur who has been on a fascinating journey of spiritual awakening. Beth started out as a rising sales star turned marketing executive, spending more than 16 years at Bayer Pharmaceuticals leading strategic brand planning and other functions in the female health and contraception space. However, somewhere betwe...