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Ep. 51: Service, with Former Congressman Henry Waxman

“Explain things in a credible way so that the public understands why they're being asked to do things. You can't force people – especially Americans – to do things they refuse to do.” When he retired from the U.S. House of Representatives...

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Service, with Former Congressman Henry Waxman

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Ep. 50: Special Edition — Potential Breakthroughs in COVID-19 Research Coming From Cancer Research

For our 50th recording, Jonathan Simons (President and CEO, Prostate Cancer Foundation) and Esther Krofah (Executive Director, FasterCures) join Mike for a special discussion on how breakthroughs in cancer laboratories are advancing our...

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Special Edition — Potential Breakthroughs in COVID-19 Research Coming From Cancer Research

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Ep. 49: Time Equals Lives, with FasterCures’ Esther Krofah

“We spend numerous hours a day updating that tracker because what is critical is real-time information that researchers and scientists can respond to....As I've been speaking to colleagues, ranging from NIH to these large companies, they're...

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Time Equals Lives, with FasterCures’ Esther Krofah

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Ep. 48: Commencement, with UCLA’s Gene Block

“Normally about 14,000 students live on our campus in our dormitories and that's down to I think less than about 900 students....The campus has taken on an eerie feeling of really being abandoned.” Big changes are afoot at UCLA, America’s...

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Commencement, with UCLA’s Gene Block

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Ep. 47: Unprecedented, with UCLA Health’s John Mazziotta

“One day, for the first time in my 39 years, there were no patients in the emergency department. It was a Sunday morning. Never seen that in my life....Heart attacks, strokes, mental illness—these people were not coming in....There are a...

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Unprecedented, with UCLA Health’s John Mazziotta

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Ep. 46: Stewardship, with DBS Group’s Piyush Gupta

“Most times your right or your requirement for personal privacy trumps other kinds of needs. But a pandemic is...when it becomes quite clear that sometimes the needs of the collective, the needs of society, trump the needs of the individual...

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Stewardship, with DBS Group’s Piyush Gupta

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Ep. 45: Anchored, with Admiral James Stavridis

“The US and China, particularly in 2020, are on something of a collision course....We should confront where we must, we should cooperate where we can, and we should be clear-eyed that we're in for a period of real tension.” A retired 4-star...

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Anchored, with Admiral James Stavridis

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Ep. 44: The Virus and the Clock, with Moderna’s Tal Zaks

“In this fight, where we are today—this is May of 2020—there's a lot of other companies and a lot of other approaches that are trying to generate vaccines. I wish them all success, and we all need to be successful here. I have only two...

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The Virus and the Clock, with Moderna’s Tal Zaks

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Ep. 43: Turning Point, with CEPI’s Richard Hatchett

“When I was working at ground zero, I saw a level of cooperation and willingness for everybody to sort of check their egos at the door because we knew that we were all facing an external threat. And that's exactly what we're seeing today...

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Turning Point, with CEPI’s Richard Hatchett

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