Geriatric psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dilip Jeste reveals how our brains compensate for physical aging and discusses an unexpected evolutionary advantage to growing old–gaining sage wisdom–which holds great promise …
Innovation expert and physician-researcher Roberta Ness will impart her wisdom about combatting science’s creativity crisis and sparking the type of revolutionary innovations that science and medicine so desperately …
Mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin gives an emotional performance that makes us feel capable of breaking through our fears and achieving our dreams. She is accompanied by her wife, Jenny …
Neurosurgeon and immunologist Kevin Tracey shares the frontiers of a new, hybrid field – bioelectronic medicine.
Scientific Director of the Thiel Foundation and Breakout Labs Hemai Parthasarathy shares what goes on behind the scenes of cultivating a scientist-entrepreneur and providing them with the tools …
Founder of Science Exchange Elizabeth Iorns identifies an integral missing piece in the research workflow and explains the cultural underpinnings of why it is so often shunned by …
Founder and Director of Stanford University’s SPARK program Daria Mochly-Rosen shares how she has liberated potential drug discoveries from academic research to industry, and discusses the countless, surprising …
NIAID Director Tony Fauci shares his deeply personal account of how he had to bend certain overly rigid rules of science to fit with the emergent needs of …
Philosopher and bioethicist Peggy Battin tells us the moving story of how and why her husband chose to die.
Amy McGuire, Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Baylor College of Medicine, provides a cautionary …