Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Robert Bilott, environmental attorney and partner at Taft Stettinius and Hollister LLP and author. Andrea Macdonald comments: When you think of environmental justice, many hot-button issues spring to mind, such as climate change, global warming, and pollution. What we don’t, unfortunately, hear enough about, are the people fighting for […]
Category Archives: Ambassador Interviews
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Apr
Apr
Karen Potter, director of Sustainability Hub and ideaXme sustainability ambassador interviews Paula Owen, Ph.D., Founder and CEO of Green Gumption and Director and Chief Fun Officer at Eco Action Games. Karen Potter comments: On 1 May 2019, the UK Government declared a climate emergency. It recognised that climate change was the biggest threat facing us […]
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Apr
Apr
Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Linfa Wang, director of the Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases at the collaborative Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School in Singapore. Ira Pastor comments: As we sit here in 2020 in the middle of the Covid-19 global pandemic, we’re hearing terms like “zoonotic […]
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Apr
Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Derek Yach, the founder, president, and board member of The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. Ira Pastor comments: The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that we currently have over 1.1 billion smokers on earth, and that tobacco kills more than 8 million people […]
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Mar
Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Ekaterina Malievskaia MD, Chief Innovation Officer, Co-founder, and Research and Development Director, at COMPASS Pathways. Ira Pastor comments: On the few past episodes, we have journeyed into the area psychedelic therapies, which broadly refers to therapeutic practices involving psychedelic drugs. In psychedelic […]
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Mar
Mar
Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Bruce M. Carlson, M.D., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Michigan. Ira Pastor comments: Today we’re honored to be joined by a true living legend of the regenerative biology world, Dr. Bruce M. Carlson, M.D., Ph.D., Professor […]
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Mar
Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Professor Sergelen Orgoi, MD, PhD and general surgeon from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, who is best known for pioneering and developing low cost liver transplantation and laparoscopic surgery in Mongolia. Ira Pastor comments: On previous ideaXme episodes, we’ve been taking a “virtual global road trip”, talking about […]
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Mar
Mar
Media manipulation is not a new phenomenon, but the means and speed by which fake news reaches the general public is drastically changing thanks to the instantaneous nature of social media. With social media algorithms and our own patterns of content consumption favouring sensationalist content, it’s easy to prey on the public’s desperation for information […]
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Mar
Mar
Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Hamed Faridi, Chief Science Officer of McCormick. Ira Pastor comments: Throughout the 20th century, natural products, especially those from the plant kingdom, formed the basis for a majority of all pharmaceuticals, biologics, and consumer healthcare products used by patients around the globe, […]
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Mar
Mar
Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Christopher Bomgaars, founder of EveryPig. Ira Pastor comments: Today, we have an ideaXme episode at the epicenter of a fascinating set of topics. But first, some background numbers and definitions: Antibiotic resistance is when germs (i.e., bacteria, fungi, etc.) develop the ability to defeat the […]
