How entrepreneurship can amplify scientific impact
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 …
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Prioritizing reproducibility for scientific advancement
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 …
SPARKing a new generation in translational research
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 …
Embracing flexibility as a matter of scientific principle
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 …
Choosing the least worst death
Philosopher and bioethicist Peggy Battin tells us the moving story of how and why her husband chose to die.
There is no genome for the human spirit
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 …
Insight outside: harnessing nature’s secrets
Jeff Karp, bioengineer and Associate Professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, illuminates the art and science of developing medical tools, treatments, and technologies from solutions …
Let’s quit abusing drug users
Carl Hart, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at Columbia University, offers a provocative, evidence-based view of addiction and discusses how it should impact drug policy.
Exposing the hubris in knowing
Elizabeth “Betsy” Nabel, the President of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School, shares a personally revealing story that shows how the limits of …
How better policy will trigger fewer gun deaths
Daniel Webster, Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and …