Category Archives: Science

Credit: DARPA

Brain-Computer Interfaces

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Alfred Emondi, Program Manager in the Biological Technologies Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Ira Pastor Comments: Today, we are going to go down the fascinating pathway of advanced neuro-technologies and in doing so, are going to be joined again by our friends from […]

Dr. Michael Levin Tufts University Professor who holds the Vannevar Bush endowed Chair in the Biology Department, and who serves as both the Director of the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology and Director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts.

Bio-Electricity For Regeneration and Cancer Control

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Michael Levin, Tufts University Professor who holds the Vannevar Bush endowed Chair in the Biology Department, and who serves as both the Director of the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology and Director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts. Ira Pastor […]

Track and Trace Covid 19 Apps

Track and Trace: An Issue of Access

On the 18th of June, the U.K. Government announced that it would be scrapping its NHSX track and trace app, and instead switch to a model provided by Apple and Google’s Covid-19 development partnership, due to numerous issues with the NHSX app’s software. The U.K. is not the first country to halt the development of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. 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 […]

Dr Sneh Khemka thought leader, VHealth Virtual Population Healthcare

Virtual Health with Dr. Sneh Khemka

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr Sneh Khemka, thought leader in Virtual Population Healthcare. Ira Pastor comments: Population Health is a discipline that helps governments and large organizations manage the health of their populations better, primarily through infrastructure development (major IT systems), clinical data analytics, health & disease management, and […]