Topic: Biotech
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Paul Swain, the inventor of the capsule you swallow; with a tiny little camera inside.
Dr. Moira Gunn checks in with Dr. Joshua Boger, from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, who has made progress with rational drug design: how Vertex re-engineered their HIV/AIDS drug into one for Hepatitis C.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with UCLA's Dr. Marco Iacoboni about mirror neurons: the cells in our brains which enable us to comprehend how others are feeling.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Colin Garner, CEO at Xceleron, about new technologies which would reduce the need for animal testing.
Physician and medical informatician John Faughnan is an eclectic and engaging thinker and writer. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, he converses with host Jon Udell about the progress of knowledge representation and information exchange in the field of health care, and about personal strategies for memory management and effective communication.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Lee Goldstein, from Neuroptix Corporation, about a problem five million Americans cope with, and for which there is no definitive diagnostic test - until possibly now. Goldstein explains what we know today about Alzheimer's, and that which we didn't five years ago.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with author Carl Zimmer about Ecoli: the good, the bad, and the under appreciated.
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with BIO's Jim Greenwood, and Josh Boger from Vertex Pharmaceuticals during the anual International BIO Conference 2008.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Paul Tan, CEO of Living Cell Technologies, who have a new innovative approach to diabetes.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Peter Lee, CEO of UniServices, about the computers which model biology, some of which has reached all the way to Hollywood.
