Category Archives: Ambassador Interviews

Dr. Matt Kaeberlein, Professor University of Washington

Targeting Mechanisms of Aging Cross Species

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Matt Kaeberlein, Professor of Pathology, Adjunct Professor of Genome Sciences, and Adjunct Professor of Oral Health Sciences at the University of Washington. Dr. Matt Kaeberlein’s Research: Targeting Mechanisms of Cross Species Aging Dr. Matt Kaeberlein, is Professor of Pathology, Adjunct Professor of Genome […]

Credit: Florian Brand, CEO ATAI Life Sciences

ATAI Life Sciences: Psychedelic Therapies For Global Markets

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Florian Brand, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of ATAI Life Sciences AG. Ira Pastor comments: On a few recent episodes, we have journeyed into the area of psychedelic therapies, which broadly refers to specific therapeutic practices involving pharmacotherapeutic interventions based on psychedelic drugs. In […]

Relentless, by Dean Stott

Dean Stott: Relentless: From SBS To World Record Breaker

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dean Stott, former British Special Forces soldier, adventurer, philanthropist, author, international speaker, and two time world record holder. Ira Pastor comments: Today we have the honor to be joined on the show by Mr. Dean Stott, former British Special Forces soldier, adventurer, philanthropist, author, […]

Chris Lunt, CTO, NIH

A Million Volunteers Improving Healthcare for All Of US

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Chris Lunt, Chief Technology Officer of the All of Us Research Program run by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Ira Pastor comments: Precision medicine refers to the tailoring of medical treatments to the individual characteristics of each patient and away from the predominant “one-size-fits-all” […]

Human Longevity via Preventative Medicine

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Wei-Wu He, Ph.D, Executive Chairman of Human Longevity Inc (HLI). Ira Pastor comments: The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) calls chronic degenerative disease “the public health challenge of the 21st Century,” especially as 75% of our healthcare spending is on people with chronic […]

Dr Thupten Jinpa, founder of Compassion Institute

Compassion, Spirituality and Human Longevity

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D. the Founder and Chairman of Compassion Institute, and the principal author of Compassion Cultivation Training. Ira Pastor comments: “Compassion” is broadly defined as sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others, involves allowing ourselves to be both […]

Naveen Jain, founder of Viome an app to optimise gut health and nutrition

Personalised Nutrition App to Optimise Gut Health and Overall Wellness

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews, Naveen Jain, M.B.A, BS, Founder and CEO at Viome as well as founder of several companies including Moon Express, Viome, Bluedot, TalentWise, Intelius and InfoSpace. Optimising Wellness via Nutrition Ira Pastor comments: On this ideaXme episode, we are going to head back towards the […]

Dr Marcus Remmers talks of holistic health

Dr. Marcus Remmers talks of Holistic Nutrition and Health

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews, Dr. Marcus Remmers, PhD, Chief Technology Officer at DSM. Ira Pastor comments: As we continue upon our core themes of health, wellness, and longevity, amongst the unique aging demographic shifts occurring in the coming decades, we can’t overlook the importance of the global chemicals […]

Dr. Andrei Gudkov pre-eminent cancer researcher

Longevity Research for Humans and Dogs

  Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Andrei Gudkov, PhD, DSci, pre-eminent cancer researcher who serves as Senior Vice President, Research Technology and Innovation, Chair of the Department of Cell Stress Biology, and a member of the senior leadership team for National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Center Support Grant at […]

Dr. Eric Van Gieson Program Manager DARPA

DARPA – Emerging military innovations to benefit humanity

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Eric Van Gieson, Program Manager in the Biological Technologies Office (BTO) at DARPA. Ira Pastor comments: On several recent ideaXme episodes, we have spent time on different topics pertaining to human health, disease, degeneration and aging, focused on a variety of therapeutic and preventative […]