The Life Sciences Revolution

Armando Cuesta, MD & Alex Wise
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The Life Sciences Revolution Podcast

Take a deep dive to the forefront of scientific breakthroughs, entrepreneurial happenings, and disruptive medical technologies with Dr. Armando Cuesta and Alex Wise. The LSR podcast brings you experts in biotechnology, company management, and venture capital to shed light on the medical revolutions shaping our lives. Special thanks to Jank Setup for providing their song, "In Motion," for the intro and outro to the podcast!The Life Sciences Revolution Podcast is sponsored by Korion Life Sciences

Episodes

  1. Dr. Noshir Pesika: Biomimicry & the Realm of Nature-Inspired Science

    07/14/2023

    Dr. Noshir Pesika: Biomimicry & the Realm of Nature-Inspired Science

    In this episode, Alex chats with Dr. Noshir Pesika, a specialist in biomimicry.Noshir is a Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering professor at Tulane University, where he focuses his research on creating novel products based on the natural world. His research is centered around the concept of biomimicry - the idea that nature has spent millennia designing, testing, and iterating products for highly specialized functions. By analyzing the micro and nano-level structure and design of these ...

    39 min
  2. Dr. Esteban Plata: Breaking Down the Pharmaceutical Development Pathway

    02/10/2023

    Dr. Esteban Plata: Breaking Down the Pharmaceutical Development Pathway

    In this episode, Alex chats with Dr. Esteban Plata, an expert in pharmaceutical development. Esteban is the former vice president of Western Europe and Canada for AbbVie, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. He’s spent nearly two decades working on the company’s commercial development side where he’s held VP and general manager roles across a wide range of geographies such as Turkey, Japan, Spain, and the Asia-Pacific region. He holds a Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the National...

    54 min
  3. Dr. Robert Montgomery: The Future of Organ Transplantation

    12/02/2022

    Dr. Robert Montgomery: The Future of Organ Transplantation

    In this episode, Alex chats with Dr. Robert Montgomery, one of the world's foremost organ transplantation and research experts. Dr. Montgomery is the Chairman and Professor of Surgery at NYU Langone Health and is the Director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, one of the US' top transplant centers. Dr. Montgomery has been at the forefront of organ transplantation for decades as both a surgeon and a patient. He was the first surgeon to receive an implantable defibrillator after a ge...

    58 min
  4. Martin Varsavsky: Infertility & the Ethics of Working in the Fertility Space

    06/23/2022

    Martin Varsavsky: Infertility & the Ethics of Working in the Fertility Space

    In this episode, Alex chats with Martin Varsavsky, a serial entrepreneur in the realm of fertility and the founder of Prelude Fertility, the largest fertility clinic network in North America. Before working in the fertility space, Martin was the founder of various companies in the renewables and telecommunications space, many of which have reached unicorn valuations well past the billion-dollar mark. We discuss:What does it mean to be infertile and what is IVF (in vitro fertilization)? W...

    41 min
  5. Dr. Gustavo Stolovitzky: How Artificial Intelligence Enables Precision Medicine

    03/14/2022

    Dr. Gustavo Stolovitzky: How Artificial Intelligence Enables Precision Medicine

    In this episode, Dr. Cuesta chats with Dr. Gustavo Stolovitzky, a thought leader in the realm of computational biology and a pioneer in the realm of precision medicine. Gustavo was the director of IBM's translational systems biology and nanobiotechnology program, an adjunct professor at both the Icahn School of Medicine and Columbia University, and is currently the Chief Scientific Officer at Sema4, a data-driven precision medicine company. We discuss:What is precision medicine: the hist...

    1h 7m
  6. Dr. Alexander Kushnir: An Introduction to Heart Diseases & How to Treat Arrhythmias

    01/05/2022

    Dr. Alexander Kushnir: An Introduction to Heart Diseases & How to Treat Arrhythmias

    In this episode, Alex chats with Dr. Alexander Kushnir, a cardiac electrophysiologist, about different types of heart diseases. We focus on Dr. Kushnir's specialty of electrical disorders of the heart, better known as arrhythmias, and how electrophysiologists fix these conditions.

    40 min
  7. Intro to the Life Sciences Revolution Podcast

    07/25/2021

    Intro to the Life Sciences Revolution Podcast

    Welcome to the life sciences revolution podcast, where we take a deep dive to the forefront of scientific breakthroughs, entrepreneurial happenings, and disruptive medical technology. We are living through the beginnings of an exponential revolution. The past few decades have shown incredible advancements across the realms of biology, computation, and biotechnology. This growth has primed the field of life sciences to explode with new technologies, all of which will have a direct impact on yo...

    3 min
  8. Philip Scheltens: The Science of Dementia & How it Will Impact The World

    07/25/2021

    Philip Scheltens: The Science of Dementia & How it Will Impact The World

    In this episode, Alex talks with Dr. Philip Scheltens, a neurologist, professor of cognitive neurology, and one of the world's foremost thought leaders on the topic of dementia and neurodegenerative diseases as a whole. He has authored over 1000 publications in peer-reviewed journals and is one of the most-cited scientists in the world.

    40 min
  9. Eduardo Bravo: How to Run a Biotech Company & the European SPAC Realm

    07/15/2021

    Eduardo Bravo: How to Run a Biotech Company & the European SPAC Realm

    In this episode, Alex chats with Eduardo Bravo about this experience as the CEO of various biotechnology companies, as a chairman/board member of others, and as the sponsor of the first biotech-related SPAC in Europe.

    40 min

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Take a deep dive to the forefront of scientific breakthroughs, entrepreneurial happenings, and disruptive medical technologies with Dr. Armando Cuesta and Alex Wise. The LSR podcast brings you experts in biotechnology, company management, and venture capital to shed light on the medical revolutions shaping our lives. Special thanks to Jank Setup for providing their song, "In Motion," for the intro and outro to the podcast!The Life Sciences Revolution Podcast is sponsored by Korion Life Sciences

Information

  • Creator
    Armando Cuesta, MD & Alex Wise
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2023
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2023 The Life Sciences Revolution
  • Show Website
    The Life Sciences Revolution

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