Category Archives: Medicine

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” […]

Tom Lawry, National Director for Artificial Intelligence, Health and Life Sciences at Microsoft.

Tom Lawry: Champion of Intelligent Health at Microsoft

 Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Tom Lawry, National Director of AI for Health and Life Sciences at Microsoft . This interview is for the technology geeks amongst us as well as the general public who’d like to know more about what’s happening next in health. Before becoming National Director for AI in the health […]

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 Adam Freund, Principal Investigator Calico Life Sciences Credit: Calico Life Sciences

Google / Alphabet’s Quest to Solve Aging: Calico Life Sciences

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Adam Freund, Ph.D., Principal Investigator at Calico Life Sciences. Ira Pastor Comments Calico Life Sciences (Calico) is a research and development focused biotechnology company founded and backed by Google / Alphabet with the goal of combating aging and associated age-related diseases. Calico has a major billion […]

Credit: Civica Rx

A Revolution: Non-Profit Drugs

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Daniel Liljenquist, former US Senator and Lead Architect and Board Chair of Civica Rx. Ira Pastor Comments: A generic drug is a pharmaceutical drug that contains the same chemical substance as a drug that was originally protected by chemical patents, and are typically allowed […]

Rick Bente, CEO Seventh Sense Biosystems

No More Needles with Seventh Sense Biosystems

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Rick Bente, MSc, MBA, BS, CEO of Seventh Sense Biosystems. Ira Pastor Comments: Getting blood drawn is not a fun activity for many. It can be scary for some (especially if you have children); it can be painful for others (especially where frequent blood draws are required). […]

Dr. Rachel Ramoni, Credit: US Department of Veteran Affairs

Dr. Rachel Ramoni: Innovation in Healthcare for Veteran

   Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Rachel Ramoni, Chief Research and Development Officer at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. Ira Pastor Comments: The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a federal Cabinet-level agency that provides comprehensive healthcare services to military veterans at over 1,000 VA medical centers and […]

Dr Alexandre Kalache PhD President International Longevity Centre Brazil

Aging and Longevity in Brazil

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Alexandre Kalache, President of the International Longevity Centre-Brazil (ILC-Brazil). Ira Pastor Comments As we continue our virtual road-trip around the globe per the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Age Friendly Cities Global Movement, during the WHO defined “Decade of Healthy Aging”, we are headed down to the southern hemisphere […]

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 […]

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 […]