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Clinical research plays a critical role in developing healthcare innovations that can be made available quickly to serve the needs of patients. Lina Williamson, DVM, PhD, director of the Translational Accelerator at Brigham and Women's Hospital, discusses her entrepreneurial program’s role in supporting both the investigator and patient communities in these efforts.

What if you could avoid the hospital and receive care in your own home? David Levine, MD, MPH, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital discusses this innovative new model, including the social and economic benefits.

Today, many individuals are at risk for cancer due to heredity factors. Megan Underhill, PhD, RN, AOCNS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses her work in genetic testing and the importance family, perceptions and knowledge play in supporting those at risk.

Dr. Richardson (see October 10 episode) returns to discuss the theories and systems that currently shape how we understand public health, including how these perceptions can be problematic to our progress.

Gene Richardson, MD, PhD, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health discusses how his background in anthropology, philosophy, Buddhism, and medicine led him to a deeper understanding of public health challenges – including inequality -- throughout the world.

Panic and anxiety disorders affect two to four percent of Americans. However, those afflicted often know little about these conditions and suffer from a lack of treatment options. In her work at Massachusetts General Hospital, Amanda Baker, PhD, is striving to develop an improved -- and personalized -- standard of care.

John Quackenbush, PhD, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discusses his research on networks within the genome that impact the functionality of cells.

Due to a deep societal stigma around HIV, many individuals in Southern India do not seek care. Brian Chan of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, explains how mixed methods approach to combating these obstacles.

This week on ThinkResearch, Raj Gupta of MGH, explains how his team, along with his engineering background, is working to advance the future of clinical imaging to improve efficiency and accessibility.

Oren Ganor, MD of Boston Children’s Hospital discusses the important challenges and considerations in providing safe and ethical resources to transgender individuals.

Dr. Anne Thorndike of Massachusetts General Hospital, explains how choice architecture and improved food labeling can change our eating choices.

Caterina Stamoulis, PhD, of Boston Children’s Hospital, discusses the next generation of neuroscience experiments that use noisy, big data collected in unsupervised settings.

Although interventions to help individuals suffering from bipolar disorder, depression, and schizophrenia exist, they tend to focus solely on mitigating the illness. Roscoe Brady, PhD, of McLean Hospital, and his team are advancing promising research to determine the neurological basis for the symptoms of these illnesses. Their goal: to understand the neurological differences in brains afflicted w...

When the first line of epileptic drugs fail to control seizures in young children, doctors turn to resective surgery. Christos Papadelis, PhD, of Children’s Hospital, explains to us the noninvasive imaging he is developing to improve these surgical outcomes.

This week on ThinkResearch, Dr. Roland Carlstedt of McLean Hospital shares the dynamics behind athletes’ peak moments, or their worst frailties. Hear how he hopes to improve the field of sport psychology for the betterment of treating players.

Michael Super, PhD, of the Wyss Institute, shares his story of how the spread of infectious disease throughout South Africa and London inspired him to pursue human health and combat disease.

Nick Menzies, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, was originally a dentist from New Zealand before he decided to pursue a broader career in public health. Tune in now to hear the importance and difficulty of mathematical modeling in treating infectious disease.

This week on ThinkResearch we conclude our conversation with Jonathan Beckwith of Harvard Medical School. Hear how Dr. Beckwith used his laboratory studies to educate others about wrongful genetic discrimination while combating the misinformation that transcended the late 20th century.

Last time on ThinkResearch, we learned of the social climate that shaped Dr. Jonathan Beckwith's science. This week, hear about the studies Beckwith undertook to find out just what genetic engineering was capable of.

This week, Dr. Jonathan Beckwith of Harvard Medical School explains his experience at the intersection of science and social activism during the 1960s and 70s that shaped his career as a chemist and bacterial geneticist.

This week on ThinkResearch, Dr. Carmen Priolo of Brigham and Women, walks us down her own path of metabolic pathway imaging in tumor cells. By studying different enzymatic reactions, the goal is to better treat various metabolic features in patients.

When angiosarcoma left Dr. Corrie Painter with a grim prognosis and limited information, she turned to online social communities, and found a wealth of resources and knowledge. Dr. Painter then worked to create her own online, direct-to-patient resource for metastatic cancer patients. This week we re-air Dr. Painter's inspiring story to celebrate the launch of her third initiative, the Metastatic...

To ring in the New Year, we are featuring a replay of ThinkResearch’s “Let’s Get Clinical” episode to help you get the most out of your workout resolutions. Dr. I-Min Lee, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, explains the importance of physical activity to improve overall wellbeing long beyond January 1.

We are winding down 2017 with an exciting encore of our premiere episode featuring Dr. Elliott Antman’s explanation of Coumadin’s complex history. From farm cows and sweet clover hay to a rat poison antidote, learn the interesting chain of events that gave modern day medicine one of its most commonly prescribed blood thinners.

This month, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Brian Healy, PhD gives insight into the future of clinical trials and model building in biostatistics. At the crux of study design innovation and new prediction model building, researchers should take advantage of this unique time in research and technology to do their best work.