ReGEN Podcast

This episode features our conversation with Dr Kenneth A. Savin, Chief Scientist at Redwire.  Dr. Savin was named to TIME's "2025 TIME100 Health List of the 100 Most Influential People in Global Health." We discuss his 20-plus year career and expertise in the pharmaceutical industry and his pioneering work accelerating cutting-edge space biotech research capabilities, leveraging microgravity to im...

Our conversation with Dr. Sheldon Morris, M.D., MPH, includes an overview of stem cells and some of the basics of regenerative medicine.  Our Stem Cells 101 episode provides listeners with high-level, foundational knowledge about research and therapeutic treatments, clinical trials and related work from Dr. Morris and his team at the UC San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute and the Sanford Stem Ce...

The Sanford Stem Cell Institute's Bobby Gordon sits down with Davide Marotta, Ph. D., program director of in-space biomanufacturing at the International Space Station National Laboratory (ISSNL), to discuss the innovative low-Earth orbit economy and the future of science in space. We also discuss ISSNL's collaborations with UC San Diego's Sanford Stem Cell Institute. Before joining the ISSNL in 20...

Jessica Pham — manager of Dr. Catriona Jamieson's lab at the University of California San Diego and Stellar Mission Specialist at it s Sanford Stem Cell Institute — has successfully prepared seven research payloads for transport to the International Space Station. There, astronaut - scientists have used the tumor organoids she create s from the stem cells of consenting cancer patients to better un...

Our conversation explores the work of John E. Dick, Ph. D., FRS, senior scientist and cancer research chair at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, of the University Health Network; professor of molecular genetics at the University of Toronto; and co-leader of the Acute Leukemia Translational Research Initiative at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Resear...

Our conversation with Jana Stoudemire , M.S., highlights her expansive career . Among her chief accomplishments : creating new market sectors in the low-Earth orbit economy , for in-space manufacturing of biomedical and advanced mat eri al applications .     Stoudemire transitioned away from pharma to help lead microgravity life science research at the Center f or the Advancement of Science in Spa...

Dr. Cech grew up in Iowa, attending Grinnell College (B.A.) and then UC-Berkeley (Ph. D.). After postdoctoral research at M.I.T., he joined the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder in 1978. In 1982 Dr. Cech and his research group announced RNA self-splicing in Tetrahymena, providing the first exception to the long-held belief that biological reactions are always catalyzed by proteins. Dr....

This episode features our conversation with Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph. D., Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, CA.  She won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009 for discovering the molecular nature of telomeres, the ends of chromosomes that serve as protective caps essential for preserving genetic information, and for co-discovering...