Topic: Health and Medicine
Dr. Moira Gunn gets a crash course in identifying biomarkers and what can are doing in personalized medicine from Amgen Vice President for Medical Sciences, David Reese.
Dr. Moira Gunn learns how mutations caused cancer from Nobel Prize winner, Michael Bishop and Genetech chairman, Art Levinson.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about a different way of designing drugs, from anxiety and depression to Type II diabetes, with Addex Pharmaceuticals CEO, Bharatt Chowrira.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about genetic mutation base being used with autism and tourette's patients from Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository CEO, Jay Tischfield.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Scientific Director from the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University, where they have learned how to make blood from skin cells.
Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, shows Dr. Moira Gunn just how much biotechnology is already working in health care.
The United States has been a global leader to medical technology innovation, however a changing investment environment and tougher regulatory requirements prove unique challenges for early stage innovators. From the 2011 Stanford Graduate School of Business Healthcare Summit, Stefanos Zenios, director of Stanford's GSB Program in Healthcare Innovation convenes a panel of health care investors who give those entrepreneurs starting out a full picture of the product development cycle and how to successfully raise capital.
Dr. Moira Gunn learns how a group from Purdue University studied the brains of local football players and landed on the cover of Sports Illustrated, from Team Lead, Tom Talavage.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the latest treatments for cancer with John Beadle, CEO of PsiOxus Therapeutics and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals President, John Maraganore.
The Veteran's Administration, Medicare, and Medicaid make up the largest repository of public health data in the world, and now it's being made available in appropriate forms for the use of patients and innovators alike. Todd Parks, CTO of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, wants to change the fee structure of healthcare from "Fee for Service" to something more efficient, and he's freeing up information on public health so everyone can see and help design better health systems.
