The Life Sciences Revolution Armando Cuesta, MD & Alex Wise

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.