Progress, Potential, and Possibilities Podcast / Show

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Mindy Howard is a Future Astronaut, and Founding Director and Lead Trainer of Inner Space Training ( https://www.innerspacetraining.com/ ), an organization focused on psychologically preparing commercial astronauts for their space flights, including psychological acclimation to the different flight phases, as well as optimizing conditions for creating peak performance and a pe...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Judith Campisi, PhD (https://www.buckinstitute.org/lab/campisi-lab/) is a biochemist, cell biologist, and Professor of Biogerontology at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. Dr. Campisi received a PhD in biochemistry from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and completed her postdoctoral training in cell cycle regulation at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Björn Lárus Örvar, Ph. D. is Chief Scientific Officer, Executive VP of Business Development, and a Co-Founder of ORF Genetics ( https://www.orfgenetics.com/ ), an innovative plant biotechnology company and a pioneer in developing and manufacturing high-quality recombinant proteins, such as growth factors, derived from barley plants. ORF Genetics was established in 2001 to deve...

Send us Fan Mail Mansoor Hanif is the Executive Director of Emerging Technologies at NEOM ( https://www.neom.com/en-us ), a fascinating $500 billion planned “cognitive city" & tourist destination, located in north west Saudi Arabia, where he is responsible for all R&D activities for the Technology & Digital sector, including space technologies, advanced robotics, human-machine int...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Christof Koch, Ph. D. ( https://alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/brain-science/about/team/staff-profiles/christof-koch/ ) is Chief Scientist of the MindScope Program at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, originally funded by a donation of more than $500 million from Microsoft founder and philanthropist Paul G. Allen. With his B.S. and M.S. in physics from the University of Tü...

Send us Fan Mail Gwen Darien is Executive Vice President for Patient Advocacy and Engagement, at the National Patient Advocate Foundation ( https://www.npaf.org/ ), an organization with a mission of bringing patient voices to health system delivery reform, developing and driving initiatives promoting equitable access to affordable quality health care, and prioritizing the patient voice in health s...

Send us Fan Mail Ben Novak is Lead Scientist, at Revive & Restore ( https://reviverestore.org/ ), a California-based non-profit that works to bring biotechnology to conservation biology with the mission to enhance biodiversity through the genetic rescue of endangered and extinct animals . Ben collaboratively pioneers new tools for genetic rescue and de-extinction, helps shape the genetic rescu...

Send us Fan Mail  H.E. Dr. Sara Al Madani (https://www.sara-almadani.com/), is a well-known entrepreneur, advocate for women, fashion designer, brand ambassador, social media personality, and has served as a board member of the UAE Ministry of Economy's SME Projects and Enterprise Council, Board Member of the Sharjah Economic Excellence Network, and board member of the Sharjah Chamber of Comm...

Send us Fan Mail  Ms. Bayan Abusalameh is a 2020/2021 Chevening Scholar in Advanced Mechanical Engineering, at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), who just finished off her Master’s Dissertation entitled “An Innovative Structural Design For a 1U CubeSat” (The Palestine-1) Ms. Abusalameh is also a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) team of QMUL. Ms. A...

Send us Fan Mail Mati Gill is the Chief Executive Officer, of AION Labs ( https://aionlabs.com/ ), a company recently launched and backed by a coalition of pharma and tech leaders, including AstraZeneca, Merck, Pfizer, Teva, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and the Israel Biotech Fund (IBF) and Israel Innovation Authority, to improve the whole drug discovery & drug development process with AI and co...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Ann Marie Kimball  is a physician, epidemiologist and currently holds the roles of Associate Fellow at the international affairs think tank Chatham House, and Vice Chair, COVID 19 task force, at The Rotary Foundation / Rotary International. Previously, Dr. Kimball served as a strategic advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation, supporting the strengthening and development of strat...

Send us Fan Mail  Dr. Volkmar Weissig, Sc. D., Ph. D. is a Tenured Full Professor of Pharmacology, Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Co-Director of the Nanomedicine Center of Excellence in Translational Cancer Research, at Midwestern University, Glendale, AZ, USA. Dr. Weissig received his B.S., M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in Chemistry, and his postdoctoral Sc. D. degree in Bioche...

Send us Fan Mail Mr. Viren Shah is Vice President & Chief Digital Officer, at GE Appliances (GEA - https://www.geappliances.com/ ), the American home appliance manufacturer, now a majority owned subsidiary of the Chinese multinational home appliances company, Haier ( https://www.haierappliances.com/ ). Mr. Shah has been with GEA since October 2018, in which time he was appointed to lead the bu...

Send us Fan Mail Eric G. Meyer is the Founder and Director of Generation Atomic ( https://generationatomic.org/ ), a nuclear advocacy non-profit which he founded after hearing about the promise of advanced nuclear reactors, and he decided to devote his life to saving and expanding the use of atomic energy. Eric worked as an organizer on several political, union, and issue campaigns while in gradua...

Send us Fan Mail Mr. Larry Curley is Executive Director of The National Indian Council on Aging ( https://www.nicoa.org/ ), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1976 by members of the National Tribal Chairmen’s Association who called for a national organization focused on the needs of aging American Indian and Alaska Native elders. The mission of NICOA is to advocate for improved comprehe...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Evelyne Bischof, MD  is an expert in internal medicine and oncology, with a focus on preventative and precision medicine, bio-gerontology, and geronto-oncology. Dr. Bischof is deeply passionate about next-generation medical technology, and the applications of artificial intelligence for biomedical research and practice. Dr. Bischof spent a decade practicing medicine and perfor...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Sana Farid, MD ( https://www.drsanafarid.com/ ) is a Surgeon, Entrepreneur, and Futurist, who strives to utilize Emerging Technologies to make the world a better place, and has been key to pushing this vision and the boundaries of innovation through her extensive research and development of impactful programs using immersive technologies like Extended Reality (XR). A driving f...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Morgan Levine, PhD ( https://www.morganlevinelab.com/ ) is Assistant Professor of Pathology and Epidemiology, at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Levine is also a member of both the Yale Combined Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and the Yale Center for Research on Aging. Her work relies on an interdisciplinary approach, integrating theories and methods from...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Paul A. Offit, MD, ( https://www.paul-offit.com/ ) is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of virology and immunology, Co-Inventor of a landmark vaccine for the prevention of Rotavirus gastroenteritis, and holds multiple titles including - Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia (CHOP), Maurice R. Hilleman Chair of Vac...

Send us Fan Mail Mike Graglia is the Managing Director & Co-Founder of the SynGAP Research Fund (SRF - https://www.syngapresearchfund.org/ ), an organization that he set up in 2018 with his wife Ashley, after their son was diagnosed with a rare neurological disease caused by an insufficiency in SynGAP protein, which causes the life-changing diagnoses of Epilepsy, Autism, sleep disorder and int...

Send us Fan Mail Joanna Bensz is Founder and CEO of Longevity Center ( https://longevity-center.eu/ ), a boutique preventive health and longevity medical center, that focuses on scientifically and medically advanced technologies and protocols for healthy longevity and sustainable health. Joanna is also Founder and CEO of the International Institute of Longevity (IIOL - https://l-institute.com/ ),...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Antonio Giordano, MD, Ph. D., ( https://www.drantoniogiordano.com/ ) is President and Founder of the Sbarro Health Research Organization ( https://www.shro.org/ ), which conducts research to diagnose, treat and cure cancer, but also has diversified into research beyond oncology, into the areas of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other chronic illnesses. Dr. Giordano is als...

Send us Fan Mail Mr. Lameen Abdul-Malik is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Coffeepreneur, Intellectual Philanthropist, and Executive Director of Honest Management LLC, UAE. ( https://www.honestmanagement.org/ ) Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2005, for which he worked for over 14 years, Mr. Abdul-Malik has over twenty years’ experience in internat...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Jean C. Accius, PhD, is Senior Vice President, AARP Global Thought Leadership ( https://www.aarp.org/ ). Dr. Accius leads a team in positioning AARP (formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons) as a global thought leader, identifying emerging trends around the world, cultivating and elevating new ideas, forging global strategic alliances that become the foun...

Send us Fan Mail  The Chernobyl disaster / nuclear accident, occurred on April 26th, 1986, at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of Ukraine. The initial emergency response, together with later decontamination of the environment, ultimately involved more than 500,000 personnel and cost an estimated US$68 billion, adjusted for inflation. The...