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Ep. 55: Test and Isolate, with Nobel Laureate Paul Romer

“The fundamental decision that every society has to make is, can we suppress this virus forever if necessary? Can we afford to do that?...If you know that you're going to give up, there's no point to suppress for a while.” Nobel Prize...

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Test and Isolate, with Nobel Laureate Paul Romer

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Ep. 54: In Translation, with NCATS’ Christopher Austin

“Are we going to require the same level of evidence for a vaccine...before it is approved? Could we potentially begin to use it at the same time we're still studying it? Normally we would never do that, but it's this kind of translational...

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In Translation, with NCATS’ Christopher Austin

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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. 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. 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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Report

Leveraging Data-Driven Patient Participation to Accelerate Medical Research

14 May 2020

The fuel for biomedical innovation is data. Data-driven patient participation — or patient contribution of their biospecimens, self-reported or wearable data, health record data, and other information — has emerged as a tool that may help...

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Ep. 36: The Pioneer, with the National Cancer Institute’s Steven Rosenberg

“We're perhaps working now at 10% of where we were working before the COVID infections. It's heartbreaking to think what cancer patients are going through as they're watching their cancers grow, and yet have to deal with this threat of the...

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The Pioneer, with the National Cancer Institute’s Steven Rosenberg

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News Release

Milken Institute COVID-19 Tracker Update Identifies More than 100 Vaccines and Nearly 200 Treatments in Development

4 May 2020

Nine vaccines and more than 50 treatment candidates currently in clinical trials. WASHINGTON – Monday, May, 4 2020 – The Milken Institute COVID-19 Treatment and Vaccine Tracker has identified more than 111 vaccines and 197 treatments in the...

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Ep. 32: Sequencing, with Illumina’s Francis deSouza

“The first genome sequence of the virus that was published on January 12th online was done on Illumina machines, and so we have been working on this outbreak [since] well before it became a pandemic.” Sequencing DNA quickly and cheaply has...

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Sequencing, with Illumina’s Francis deSouza

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