1:2:1 Stanford University
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- Health & Fitness
An award-winning podcast from Stanford's School of Medicine, 1:2:1 presents engaging conversations about how advances in health-care policy and biomedical research touch our lives. The podcast is hosted by Paul Costello, executive director of the School's communication office.
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New hope in treating cancer
Crystal Mackall, MD, will lead a cancer immunotherapy center at Stanford that is being launched with an initial $10 million grant from the Parker Foundation.
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Stanford Biodesign: 15 years of success
Over the last 15 years, Stanford Biodesign – now called the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign - has trained more than 1,000 graduate students and nearly 200 fellows. In a new 1:2:1 podcast, Paul Yock, the Martha Meier Weiland Professor of Medicine, founding co-chair of Stanford’s Department of Bioengineering, and Biodesign’s director, discusses the program's success.
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Tom Brokaw on 'A Lucky Life Interrupted'
Veteran NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw takes life at a much different pace than during his swashbuckling days as a mega broadcaster. In 2013, he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma at age 73. He chronicled his battle with cancer in the recent memoir, A Lucky Life Interrupted.
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A word with Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, calls the human brain “the most complicated object in the universe.” The Stanford psychiatrist and bioengineer is well-known for developing two game-changing techniques — optogenetics and CLARITY.
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Jimmy Carter on righting the greatest wrong
In this podcast, former President Jimmy Carter talks about the plight of women and girls around the globe.
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Charlotte Jacobs on 'Jonas Salk: A Life'
Jonas Salk: A Life tells the story of the brilliant and complicated physician who discovered and developed the first vaccine for polio. Physician-author Charlotte Jacobs, MD, professor emerita of medicine at Stanford, spent the past decade digging through archives, conducting over a hundred interviews and reading countless first-hand accounts and period news to write her latest biography.