Category Archives:  Social Sciences

Professor Orgoi, Credit:First Central Hospital of Mongolia

Mongolia: Bringing Cutting Edge Surgery To A Million Nomads

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Professor Sergelen Orgoi, MD, PhD and general surgeon from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, who is best known for pioneering and developing low cost liver transplantation and laparoscopic surgery in Mongolia. Ira Pastor comments: On previous ideaXme episodes, we’ve been taking a “virtual global road trip”, talking about […]

Prioritising Facts Over Fear in the Age of Coronavirus

Prioritising Facts Over Fear in the Age of Coronavirus

Media manipulation is not a new phenomenon, but the means and speed by which fake news reaches the general public is drastically changing thanks to the instantaneous nature of social media. With social media algorithms and our own patterns of content consumption favouring sensationalist content, it’s easy to prey on the public’s desperation for information […]

Dr. Michael Roizen

Preventative and Wellness Care for Health and Longevity

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Michael Roizen, Chief Wellness Officer at the Cleveland Clinic, Founding Chair of the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute, Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, and developer of the RealAge Test. Ira Pastor comments: Today we are going to journey into […]

Credit: Mary Furlong

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 […]

Sir David Richard CEO of the Brazzaville Foundation

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 […]

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 […]

Credit: Perry Marshall

$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 […]

Credit: CIRM

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, […]

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 […]