ReGEN Podcast

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...