BioTech Nation ... with Dr. Moira Gunn

By Moira Gunn

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Welcome to BIOTECH NATION !!! With understandable interviews requiring no background in science, BTN attracts a wide global audience. From everyday people looking for hope in treatments in development, to bioentrepreneurs interested in the experience of their fellow travelers, to venture capitalists looking for possibilities in cutting-edge breakthroughs, to scientists simply interested in the work of others, BioTech Nation is the voice of human endeavor, driving science to new realities for everyone. These interviews are drawn directly from the public radio program, "Tech Nation", which also can be heard in numerous global radio and podcasting venues.

Episode Date
PART II: A Regenerative Leap for Epilepsy… Dr. Cory Nicholas, Co-Founder and CEO, Neurona Therapeuitcs
May 21, 2025
PART 1: A Regenerative Leap for Epilepsy…Dr. Cory Nicholas, Co-Founder and CEO, Neurona Therapeutics
May 14, 2025
Fighting Cancer, Easing Pain... Dr. Lorin Johnson, CSO, Glycyx Therapeutics
May 07, 2025
Freezing Out Chronic Pain…Sameer Sabir CEO, Brixton Biosciences
Apr 30, 2025
Beyond the One-Size-Fits-All Cure... Jeff Liter, Founder & CEO, Luminary Therapeutics
Apr 23, 2025
Beyond Pills and Shots... Sean Ainsworth, CEO, Immusoft
Apr 16, 2025
Breaking Barriers in Brain Cancer... Dr. Thomas Chen, Founder and CEO, NeOnc Technologies
Apr 09, 2025
The Future of Synthetic Biology... Dr. John Cumbers, Founder & CEO, SynBioBeta
Apr 02, 2025
Reimagining Bone Marrow Transplants... Kevin Caldwell, Co-Founder & CEO, Ossium Health
Mar 26, 2025
When Your Immune System Attacks You... Prof. Dr. Niels Riedemann, Co-Founder & CEO, Inflarx
Mar 19, 2025
Designing Healthcare for People... Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent
Mar 12, 2025
Why One Drug Isn't Always Enough... Rich Daly, President & CEO, Catalyst Pharmaceuticals
Mar 05, 2025
A Second Chance for an ALS Drug... Dr. Ari Azhir, Founder & CEO, Neuvivo
Feb 26, 2025
The Mystery of "Dark" Proteins... Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent
Feb 20, 2025
9 Million Samples: A New Era of Medicine... Dr. Lincoln Nadauld, President & CEO, Culmination Bio
Feb 12, 2025
Mobility: The New Vital Sign….Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent
Feb 05, 2025
Reprogramming the Future... Dr. Martin Borch Jensen and Dr. Francisco LePort, Gordian Biotechnology
Jan 29, 2025
One Drug, Many Diseases??? Dr. David Fajgenbaum, UPenn School of Medicine Professor and President of Every Cure
Jan 22, 2025
A Daily Pill to Fight Autoimmune Diseases…Ben Zimmer, CEO of Priovant Therapeutics
Jan 15, 2025
Fighting Inflammation, and Alzheimer's??? Dr. David Bearss, President & CEO Halia Therapeutics
Jan 08, 2025
Alcohol-Associated Hepatitis Treatment on the Horizon!!! Dr. Jim Brown, CEO of DURECT
Jan 01, 2025
Data for Good!!!... Sir Rory Collins, Oxford Professor and Principal Investigator, UK Biobank
Dec 25, 2024
Building Technology and Solving Problems!!! Dave Pacitti, President & Head of the Americas, Siemens Healthineers
Dec 18, 2024
Antidepressants Should Have Diagnostics??? Dr. Amit Etkin, Founder & CEO, Alto Neuroscience
Dec 11, 2024
Can AI Discover Drugs Better Than Humans?? Dr. Vimal Mehta, Co-Founder & CEO BioXcel
Dec 04, 2024
Food IS Medicine... Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent
Nov 27, 2024
Rewiring the Brain... Dr. Peter Vanderklish, Chief Scientific Officer, Spinogenix
Nov 20, 2024
Sepsis: First-Time-Ever Test... Dr. Rollie Carlson, CEO Immunexpress
Nov 13, 2024
CRISPR Dilemma... Dr. Eben Kirksey, Anthropologist & Author, “The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans”
Nov 06, 2024
AI & Better Health...Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent
Oct 30, 2024
A Smarter Path to Curing Diseases… Dr. Avak Kahvejian Founding CEO, Cellarity
Oct 24, 2024
Replacing Cells, Restoring Sight…Brian Culley, CEO, Lineage Cell Therapeutics
Oct 16, 2024
Multimodal Health??? Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent
Oct 09, 2024
15 Billion Vaccines Doses: COVID & the Patent Dilemma... Dr. Antony Taubman, Former Director of the Intellectual Property Division at the World Trade Organization
Oct 02, 2024
From Illness to Wellness - Can Science Tell Us How Healthy We Really Are (Part II)?? Dr. Leroy Hood and Dr. Nathan Price
Sep 25, 2024
From Illness to Wellness - Can Science Tell Us How Healthy We Really Are (Part I)?? Dr. Leroy Hood and Dr. Nathan Price
Sep 18, 2024
One Pill to Stop Many Cancers??? Dr. Michael Weickert, CEO, Pacylex Pharmaceuticals
Sep 11, 2024
Engineering the Future of Vaccines... Dr. Robert Coleman, CEO, Codagenix
Sep 04, 2024
Did That Change To My Prescription Work??? -- Dr. Kal Patel, CEO, BrightInsight
Aug 28, 2024
Can the Mapping of Human Biology Lead to Better Drugs? Dr. Chris Gibson, Co-Founder & CEO Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Aug 21, 2024
One Company, Two Different Drugs - It's All About Glucose - Too Much and Too Little! Nevan Charles Elam, Founder & CEO, Rezolute
Aug 14, 2024
A Vaccine for Breast Cancer??? Dr. Amit Kumar, President & CEO, Anixa Biosciences
Aug 08, 2024
Are Your Genes Failing You??? Dr. Noah Davidsohn, Co-Founder & CSO Rejuvenate Bio
Jul 31, 2024
Living Longer??? Dr. Peter Diamandis, XPrize Founder and Author, "Longevity"
Jul 24, 2024
Psychedelics... Prodrugs... What else? Dr. Sam Clark, CEO of Terran Biosciences
Jul 17, 2024
A Dual Approach to Combatting Hepatitis... Dr. Marianne De Backer, CEO at Vir Biotechnology
Jul 10, 2024
Solving Genetic Diseases??? Dr. Neil Kumar, Founder & CEO, BridgeBio Pharma
Jul 03, 2024
The Next Ozempic or Wegovy... But Without the Injection??? Dr. Steffen-Sebastian Bolz, CSO, Aphaia Pharma
Jun 26, 2024
FDA Approval! A New Model for BioPharma... Dr. Sam Blackman, Founder & Head of Research and Development, Day One Biopharmaceuticals
Jun 26, 2024
Everybody Has a Thyroid... What Could Go Wrong??? Dr. Mark Sumeray, CMO of Amolyt Pharma
Jun 19, 2024
Wearable Wonders! Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent
Jun 12, 2024
Robo-Docs & VR Surgery??? Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent
May 29, 2024
No More Transfusions!!! Dr. John Scarlett, President and CEO of Geron Corporation
May 22, 2024
Closing the Innovation Gap!!! Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent
May 15, 2024
The Virtual Cell??? Dr. Steve Quake, Head of Science at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
May 08, 2024
How Can Sound Deliver Drugs??? Dr. Neal Kassell, Founder & Chair of Focused Ultrasound Foundation
May 01, 2024
70% of Breast Cancers and a Link to Prostate Cancer... Dr. Sean Bohen, President & CEO, Olema Oncology
Apr 24, 2024
Tiny RNAs, Big Cures!!! Dr. Sanjay Shukla, President and CEO, ATyr (ah-tire) Pharma
Apr 17, 2024
How Can a Treatment Become a Vaccine??? Dr. Peter DeMuth, Chief Scientific Officer at Elicio Therapeutics
Apr 10, 2024
Cancer Vaccines??? Dr. Chris Pirie, Co-Founder & COO of HDT Bio
Apr 03, 2024
Redefining Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) Treatment!!! Dr. Robert Ang, President & CEO of Vor Biopharma
Mar 27, 2024
Food as Medicine, A Personalized Prescription... Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent
Mar 13, 2024
Repairing Minds, Naturally??? Mark Litton, President & CEO, Athira Pharma
Mar 06, 2024
Combatting Blood Clots!!! Dr. Daniel Bloomfield, Chief Medical Officer, Anthos Therapeutics
Feb 28, 2024
Heartburn, GERD, Cancer??? Dr. Lishan Aklog, CEO of Lucid Diagnostics
Feb 21, 2024
From Tummy Tucks to Drug Trials??? Dr. Eric Merle, Chief Business Innovation Officer, GenoSkin
Feb 14, 2024
XPrize Foundation and $101 Million!!! Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent
Jan 17, 2024
Wound Healing 2.0!!! Dr. Nik Sopko, Chief Scientific Officer at PolarityTE
Jan 10, 2024
Harnessing Natural Killer Cells!!! Dr. Eric Vivier, SVP & CSO of Innate Pharma
Jan 03, 2024
Can Every Medicine Be a Pill??? Dr. Ray Stevens, CEO of ShouTi Pharma
Dec 27, 2023
Gut-Brain Connections to Autism, Parkinson's, and More!!! Dr. Stewart Campbell, CEO Axial Therapeutics
Dec 20, 2023
Ancient Viruses in our DNA??? Dr. Neil Shubin, Professor & Author University of Chicago
Dec 13, 2023
Treating Diseases with Brain Implants??? Nicolas Vachicouras, CEO & Co-Founder Neurosoft Bioelectronics
Dec 06, 2023
The Next Ozempic or Wegovy... But Without the Injection??? Dr. Steffen-Sebastian Bolz, CSO, Aphaia (ah-phi-ah) Pharma
Nov 29, 2023
Who Could Forget About Dolly The Sheep??? Sir Ian Wilmut, Director, Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine
Nov 22, 2023
Everybody Has a Thyroid... What Could Go Wrong??? Dr. Mark Sumeray, CMO of Amolyt Pharma
Nov 15, 2023
It’s All About Cancer, and Covid??? Dr. Andrew Allen, President, CEO, & Co-Founder Gritstone Bio
Nov 08, 2023
Is Medical School Curriculum Outdated??? Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent
Nov 01, 2023
Your Digital Twin May Already Exist!!! Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent
Oct 25, 2023
A New Approach To Treating Diabetes... Dr. Anthony Japour, President & CEO, iTolerance
Oct 18, 2023
What's New in Digital Health!!! Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent
Oct 11, 2023
Google's First Radio Interview Ever!!! Larry Page & Sergey Brin, Co-Founders, Google
Oct 04, 2023
Old Dog, New Tricks ??? ... Dr. Robert Ladner, CEO & Founder, CV6 Therapeutics
Sep 27, 2023
Can Good Viruses Kill Deadly Infections??? Tom Ireland, Science Journalist & Author
Sep 20, 2023
Osteoarthritis... Mostly in the Knee, But Pick a Joint!!! Dr. Diem Nguyen, CEO of Xalud Therapeutics
Sep 13, 2023
Why Do AI One Way, When You Can Do it 25??? Dr. Ben Thomas and Dermot Tierney, CEO & CCO, Amply Discovery
Sep 06, 2023
Acute Cannabis Intoxication... Is There An Antidote??? Dr. Ken Cundy, CSO at Anebulo Pharmaceuticals
Aug 30, 2023
Gliobastoma + New View on Clinical Trials... Dr. Fahar Merchant, President & CEO Medicenna Therapeutics
Aug 16, 2023
Innovation in Head & Neck Cancers!!! Dr. Mark Newman, CSO, GeoVax
Aug 09, 2023
We Still Can't Ignore Long Covid... Dr. Jeffrey Cleland, CEO Ashvattha Therapeutics
Aug 02, 2023
Can The Time Needed for CAR-T be shortened? EXUMA Says Yes!!! Dr. Gregory Frost, CEO, EXUMA Biotech
Jul 26, 2023
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy - TLE - Will Cell Therapy Work??? Dr. Cory Nicholas, CEO, Neurona Therapeutics
Jul 19, 2023
New Hope For Glaucoma... Dr. Chris Nave, Managing Director of Brandon Capital and Chair of PolyActiva
Jul 12, 2023
The Beauty Contest... Winner Goes to Phase I - Dr. Richard Austin, Founder & CEO Reglagene
Jul 05, 2023
Sticky Proteins??? Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and ALS...Dr. Maria Maccecchini, President & CEO, Annovis Bio
Jun 28, 2023
When Your Distant Cousins ID You For Murder… Ed Humes, Author of "The Forever Witness"
Jun 21, 2023
Are Fibroblasts All Over My Body??? Dr. Hamid Khoja, CSO at FibroBiologics
Jun 14, 2023
Engineering Viruses to Treat Solid Tumors... Dr. Paul Peter Tak, CEO of Candel Therapeutics
Jun 06, 2023
AI Three Different Ways to a New Drug??? Dr. Francois Vigneault, Co-Founder & CEO Shape Therapeutics
May 31, 2023
Fighting the Most Advanced Prostate Cancer... Dr. Philip Kantoff, CEO Convergent Therapeutics
May 24, 2023
A Different Approach, A New Cancer Drug... Dr. Paul Lammers, CEO Triumvira Immunologics
May 17, 2023
Are Your Genes Failing You??? Dr. Noah Davidsohn, Co-Founder & CSO Rejuvenate Bio
May 10, 2023
25 Years in the Making - Treatment in Schleroderma? Dr. Darren Kelly, CEO, Certa Therapeutics
Apr 19, 2023
Fatty Liver, NASH, Cirrhosis - Can They Be Stopped??? Dr. Robert Foster, CEO Hepion Pharmaceuticals
Apr 12, 2023
Hand Foot Skin Reaction - A Painful Chemotherapy Side Effect - Could There Be a Treatment?? Dr. Mike McCullar, CEO of OnQuality Pharmaceuticals
Mar 22, 2023
Has Medtech Excluded Persons of Color & Women?? Dr. Patrice Matchaba President, Novartis US Foundation
Mar 09, 2023
Safe NON-OPIOID Pain Relief - Is It Possible? Dr. Hernan Bazan, Co-Fdr & CEO, South Rampart Pharma
Mar 02, 2023
Long Covid related to Fibromyalgia? Dr. Seth Lederman, Tonix Pharmaceuticals
Feb 23, 2023
The Oxford Dodo? ... Joe Hernandez, Blue Water Vaccines
Feb 15, 2023
Getting Immune Systems to Recognize HER2+ tumors - Dr. Randy Schatzman, President & CEO, Bolt Biotherapeutics
Feb 09, 2023
22-45 Getting a Vaccination? What about a nasal spray?
Feb 02, 2023
23-03 Dr. Rob Ross, CEO, Surface Oncology
Jan 15, 2023
23-01 Gene Kinney, President & CEO, Prothena Biosciences
Jan 07, 2023
22-52 Edward Humes, Pulitzer Prize Winner, "The Forever Witness"
Dec 28, 2022
22-51 Keven Ali, CEO, Organon
Dec 17, 2022
22-50 Dr. Steve Worland, Co-Founder & CEO, eFFECTOR Therapeutics
Dec 14, 2022
22-49 Dr. Zandy Forbes, Pres & CEO, MeiraGTx
Dec 10, 2022
22-48 Dr. Robert Ang, President & CEO, Vor Biopharma
Dec 07, 2022
22-47 Dr. James Mackay, President & CEO, Aristea Therapeutics
Dec 04, 2022
22-46 Dr. Maria Maccecchini, Founder, President & CEO, Annovis Bio
Nov 30, 2022
22-16 Triple-Negative Breast Cancer is the most aggressive of all
Nov 27, 2022
Dr. George Yancopoulos, CEO, Regeneron
Jun 14, 2022
Dr. Daniel Bloomfield, Chief Medical Officer, Anthos Therapeutics
Jun 13, 2022
Mark Litton, President & CEO, Athira Pharma
Jun 09, 2022