Category Archives: Biotech

Dr Jo Zayner talks with ideaXme

Dr. Jo Zayner Celebrity Bioactivist | Invites You To Try Biotech

Dr. Jo Zayner, PhD, Biophysics, founder of The ODIN talks with ideaXme’s founder, Andrea Macdonald. Dr. Jo Zayner Biochemist and Genetic Engineer Dr. Jo Zayner is a visionary biochemist and genetic designer. Zayner is transgender and uses she/her pronouns advocating for diversity, body autonomy and science for all. For over 15 years, she has pioneered work […]

William Haseltine, PhD, President ACCESS Health International

How Has Covid-19 Changed Science?

 Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Dr. William A. Haseltine, President ACCESS Health International. In this interview William Haseltine talks of: -How Covid-19 has changed science -How high levels of scientific collaboration and knowledge sharing were sparked in this crisis and a precedent set in which it has become institutionalised within the “virus science” […]

Dr. Gulden Camci-Unal, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department Chemical Engineering, Francis College of Engineering, UMass Lowell

Chemical Engineering to Build Bones for Humans with Eggshells and Origami

 Ira Pastor ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Dr. Gulden Camci-Unal, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department Chemical Engineering, Francis College of Engineering, UMass Lowell. Ira Pastor comments: A few episodes ago ideaXme hosted the University of Michigan’s Dr. Bruce Carlson. We spoke to him about the interesting and important topic of “substrate” […]

Dr. Patrick Rose Credit: ONR Global

Synthetic Biology Innovations with Dr. Patrick Rose

   Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Patrick P. Rose, Science Director for Synthetic Biology at the Office of Naval Research Global, as well as Program Manager, Bioindustrial Manufacturing Innovation Institute at United States Department of Defense. The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) is an organization within the United States Department […]

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” […]

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 […]