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Send us Fan Mail Dr. Patricia Verduin, PhD, ( https://www.colgatepalmolive.com/en-us/snippet/2021/circle-cards/our-leadership/patricia-verduin ) is Chief Technology Officer for the Colgate-Palmolive Company where she provides leadership for product innovation, clinical science and long-term research and development across their Global Technology Centers’ Research & Development pipeline. Dr. Ve...

Send us Fan Mail Colonel Victor Suarez, currently serves as Commander (Chief Executive) of the 6th Medical Logistics Management Center ( https://6mlmc.amedd.army.mil/ ), in Fort Detrick, Maryland (the U.S. Defense Department's only Medical Logistics Management Center ready to deploy in support of global and domestic operations) responsible for leading, organizing, equipping, training, maintai...

Send us Fan Mail Olivia Zetter is Head of Government Affairs and AI Strategy at National Resilience, Inc. ( https://resilience.com/ ) a first-of-its-kind manufacturing and technology company dedicated to broadening access to complex medicines and protecting bio-pharmaceutical supply chains against disruption. Founded in 2020, National Resilience, Inc. is building a sustainable network of high-tech...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Stephen Johnston, Ph. D. ( https://biodesign.asu.edu/stephen-johnston ) is the Director for the Center for Innovations in Medicine, a Professor in the School of Life Sciences, and Director of the Biological Design Graduate Program at The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. Dr Johnston is also Founding CEO and Chairman of the Board Of Directors of Calviri ( https:/...

Send us Fan Mail Sonia Arrison ( https://soniaarrison.com/ ) is a best-selling author, analyst, entrepreneur, and investor. Sonia is founder of 100 Plus Capital ( https://100pluscap.com/ - Investing in companies positively impacting human longevity), Chair of the Alliance for Longevity Initiatives ( https://a4li.org/ - The first and only 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization founded with the goal of cr...

Send us Fan Mail Teresa Bonner is the Executive Director of the E.A. Michelson Philanthropy ( https://eamichelsonphilanthropy.org/ ), an organization with a mission of championing programs that break barriers, build community and spark creativity, through funding and advocacy. E.A. Michelson Philanthropy has made grants totaling more than US$47 Million since 2006, actively supporting nonprofit org...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph. D. ( https://peterhotez.org/ ), is Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine where he is also Chief of the Section of Pediatric Tropical Medicine and the Texas Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics . Dr. Hotez is also Rice Univer...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Andrew Adams, Ph. D. is Vice President of Neurodegeneration Research at Eli Lilly ( https://www.lilly.com/ ) and Co-Director of their new Lilly Institute for Genetic Medicine, a $700 million initiative to establish an institute for researching and developing genetic medicines, specifically acting at the nucleic acid level, to advance an entirely new drug class that target the...

Send us Fan Mail The Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X - https://carb-x.org/ ) is a global non-profit partnership accelerating antibacterial products to address drug-resistant bacteria, a leading cause of death around the world. 1.27 million deaths worldwide were attributed to resistant bacterial infections in 2019. The CARB-X portfolio is the world’s mo...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. David Su, Ph. D. ( https://atmosic.com/company/leadership/ ) is CEO and Co-Founder of Atmosic, a fascinating company that is “re-architecting” wireless connectivity solutions from the ground up to radically reduce Internet of Things (IoT) device dependence on batteries, aiming to make batteries last forever and the Internet of Things battery free – thus breaking the power barr...

Send us Fan Mail Ms. Victoria Laskina-Ustimenko (https://www.instagram.com/laskinavika_2/?hl=en) is a multi-industry entrepreneur with specialization in biotechnology, cryptocurrency, fashion and capital markets, where she collaborates with a wide variety of companies across the world, providing public relations & business development services. As a distinguished young thinker from Ukraine, sh...

Send us Fan Mail Longer term correctional facilities, of which we have around 2,000 in the U.S., are not geared to accommodate the needs of a growing aging population. Within this aging population, we see the natural slowdown of physical mobility and cognitive processes, aging prisoners are prone to predation and humiliation, and major CNS degenerative disorders, such as early onset dementia, incl...

Send us Fan Mail Akshay Talati, RPh, is Vice President Of Product Development, Research & Innovation, Regulatory, at the Beauty and Wellness Division of Goop ( https://goop.com/ ), a wellness and lifestyle brand and company, founded by actress Gwyneth Paltrow, where he leads new product development and innovation for the company’s wellness and lifestyle brands. Initially trained as a Pharmacis...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Emilio A. Emini, Ph. D. is the CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute ( https://www.gatesmri.org/ ), a non-profit organization dedicated to the development and effective use of novel biomedical interventions addressing substantial global health concerns, for which investment incentives are limited, and he leads the Institute’s research and development o...

Send us Fan Mail Colonel (ret) Dr. Samantha "Combo" Weeks, Ph. D. is the Science & Research Director, of the Polaris Dawn Program ( https://polarisprogram.com/dawn/ ), a planned private human spaceflight mission, operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman, planned to launch using the Crew Dragon capsule. Polaris Dawn is the first of three planned missions in t...

Send us Fan Mail Katie Baca-Motes, MBA, (https://www.scripps.edu/science-and-medicine/translational-institute/about/people/katie-baca-motes/) is Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives at the Scripps Research Translational Institute, and Co-Founder of the Scripps Research Digital Trials Center ( https://digitaltrials.scripps.edu/ ). Katie leads various initiatives, including launching their new Dig...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Douglas E. Willard, PhD, (https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/game_changing_development/about/program-leadership/doug-willard/) is Program Element Manager, Game Changing Development Program, Space Technology Mission Directorate, at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Game Changing Development (GCD) Program advances space technologies that...

Send us Fan Mail Søren Smed Østergaard is Vice President of Digital Health globally for Novo Nordisk ( https://www.novonordisk.com/ ), where he leads the company’s initiatives in Digital Health as well as leading the Digital Health solutions in development. Furthermore, Søren is responsible the commercial development all digital health injection & other devices in development, as well as Novo’...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Philip Nitschke, MD, Ph. D. is a medical doctor, humanist and founder and director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International ( https://www.exitinternational.net/ ), a leading end-of-life rights advocacy and information non-profit. Dr. Nitschke has written extensively in the area of voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide, including three books, including: Killing Me Sof...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Kara Spiller, PhD ( https://drexel.edu/biomed/faculty/core/SpillerKara/ ) is Associate Professor in the Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at Drexel University, in Philadelphia. Dr. Spiller received her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in biomedical engineering from Drexel University where she conducted her doctoral research in the design of...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Gaurav Bansal, Ph. D. is Senior Manager, Computer Vision and Machine Learning at Blue River Technology ( https://bluerivertechnology.com/ ), a company of innovators focused on driving radical change in agriculture by creating intelligent machinery, to empower their customers – farmers – to implement more sustainable solutions, optimize chemical usage, re-imagine routine proces...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Adam Wolfberg, MD, MPH, is the Chief Medical Officer at Current Health ( https://currenthealth.com/ ), a Best Buy Health company ( https://healthcare.bestbuy.com/ ) and part of the American multinational consumer electronics retailer. Current Health is an organization that enables the delivery of healthcare services in the home to enable healthcare organizations to deliver hig...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Lamya Abdulaziz AlOmair, Ph. D. is the Head of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and Bioinformatics, at King Abdullah International Medical Research Center ( https://kaimrc.ksau-hs.edu.sa/ ), and an affiliated faculty member in the systems biology group at George Mason University. Dr. AlOmair is one of the first Saudi women to obtain a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, from Ki...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian, Ph. D. is Director of the Department of Social Inclusion at the Organization of American States ( https://www.oas.org/en/ ). For more than 15 years, she has led missions, programs, and projects and conducted research on issues of democracy and elections, and equity and social inclusion, among others. At the Department of Social Inclusion, Dr. Muñoz-Pog...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Sanjoy Dutta, PhD, is the Chief Scientific Officer at JDRF International ( https://www.jdrf.org/ ) a nonprofit organization that funds Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) research, provides a broad array of community and activist services to the T1D population, and actively advocates for regulation favorable to medical research and approval of new and improved treatment modalities. Dr. Dutt...