Category Archives: Featured

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U.S. NIH – Funding Longevity Innovation and Commercialization

Ira Pastor ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Todd Haim, Chief of the Office of Small Business Research at National Institute on Aging. Ira Pastor comments: On several recent shows, we’ve been discussing some of the novel, alternative funding pools that have been emerging in and around the biotechnology space, specifically related […]

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Sir David Richmond: $30 Billion Global Threat Of Fake Medicine

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Sir David Richmond, CEO of the Brazzaville Foundation. Ira Pastor comments: Today we are going to start off with a bit of a crazy figure – the World Health Organization (WHO) currently estimates that 1-in-10 medicines in the developing world (over $30 billion worth) are […]

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Dr. Inouye: Delirium An Under Diagnosed Area Of Brain Aging And Degeneration

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Sharon K. Inouye, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Director of the Aging Brain Center at the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew Senior Life. Ira Pastor comments: Today we are going to touch on a topic that […]

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The Dinosaur Maker, Dr. Dana Rashid

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Dana Rashid, Assistant Research Professor, Cell Biology and Neuroscience at Montana State University. Ira Pastor comments: In the 1990 science fiction novel, Jurassic Park, written by Michael Crichton, a fictional genetic engineering start-up based in Palo Alto, California, called International Genetic Technologies, Inc. (InGen), […]

Dr. Michael B. Fossel, Credit: Telocyte

Dr. Michael B. Fossel: Gene Therapy For Alzheimers and Other Diseases Of Aging

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Michael B. Fossel, M.D., Ph.D.,  Founder and President of Telocyte. Ira Pastor comments: Today, we are going to journey back to the topic of Alzheimer’s disease, which as we’ve discussed on previous episodes, is one of those conditions, that while not responsible for […]

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$10 Million Prize To Discover the Origin of Humans’ Genetic Code

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Mr. Perry Marshall, business consultant, best-selling author, and founder of Natural Code LLC. Ira Pastor comments: On several recent shows we’ve been discussing some of the novel funding mechanisms that have been emerging in and around the biotech space, specifically related to some of […]

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Accelerating Stem Cell Therapies For Unmet Medical Needs

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Maria Millan, President and CEO of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Ira Pastor comments: Today we are going to journey into the always fascinating topic of stem cells and regenerative medicine. We’re going to head over to the west coast of the USA, […]

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Laura Trejo: Purposeful Aging Los Angeles

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Ms. Laura Trejo, General Manager of Los Angeles’s Department Of Aging. They talk of the Purposeful Aging Los Angles Initiative. Ira Pastor comments: The World Health Organization (WHO), through their Department of Ageing and Life Course, recently defined this new decade we have just entered […]

Dr. Josh Bongard, Credit: Dr. Josh Bongard

Xenobots: Living Machines

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Josh Bongard, Professor in the Morphology, Evolution & Cognition Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of Vermont. Ira Pastor comments: On a recent ideaXme episode, we delved into the fascinating topics of “living architecture” and “living machines” and […]

Charity Weeden, Credit: Astroscale

Astroscale: Space Sweepers of Orbital Debris

Ana Guzman, ideaXme space ambassador, interviews Charity Weeden, Vice President of Global Space Policy at Astroscale. Ana Guzman comments: In my next interview for ideaXme, I was able to chat with Charity Weeden, Vice President of Global Space Policy at Astroscale. We talked about space policy and mitigation practices to alleviate the current situation of […]