Medical Research

Ep. 21: Ramping Up, with Novartis’s Vasant Narasimhan

“Our thinking is, how do we create a protease inhibitor that could work on future coronaviruses, not just the current coronavirus?...Fundamentally, our ability to withstand pandemics is likely going to center around our ability to think of...

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Ramping Up, with Novartis’s Vasant Narasimhan

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Ep. 16: The Translator, with PCF’s Jonathan Simons

“This is why we all went into medicine—for moments like this where we come together.” For Jonathan Simons and the Prostate Cancer Foundation, global collaboration and team science were a way of life long before the pandemic. The...

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The Translator, with PCF’s Jonathan Simons

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Report

Back to Basics: HIV/AIDS Advocacy as a Model for Catalyzing Change

1 Jun 2011

This report highlights how people affected by HIV rallied together and created an HIV advocacy movement that demanded change and got results. The milestones of this movement include transforming the research system through patient-driven...

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Michael Milken Interviewed by Bloomberg About Covid-19 Treatment and Vaccine Tracker

14 Apr 2020

Michael Milken, chairman of Milken Institute, discusses the institute’s efforts to help combat the spread of coronavirus, the challenges in containing the virus and the launch of the COVID-19 treatment and vaccine tracker. He speaks on...

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Ep. 10: The Public Servant, with former FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg

“I always said it was a question of when, not if, we would have to combat a global pandemic. But I never really thought I'd be watching it play out in real time.” Margaret “Peggy” Hamburg has devoted her life to elevating the best in public...

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The Public Servant, with former FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg

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Power of Ideas

Not All Heroes Wear Capes—Some Wear Lab Coats

14 Apr 2020

As the number of COVID-19 cases exceeds 1 million globally, commerce, tourism, and travel have nearly ceased as people hunker down in their homes to avoid spreading the virus to their families, neighbors, and colleagues. While some can work...

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Jim Greenwood

President and CEO, Biotechnology Innovation Organization

Ep. 8: Legacy, with former FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach

“If we think of the game-changers of what is going to get America and the world back functioning normally, the FDA is probably right now the most central and critical of all the federal agencies.” Long before Andrew von Eschenbach served as...

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Legacy, with former FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach

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Ep. 7: Team Science, with MD Anderson’s James Allison and Padmanee Sharma

“There’s an amazing collaboration of institutions across the country to bring all our knowledge together to try to do this as fast as we can.” Dubbed the ‘Cancer fighting power-couple’ by the Washington Post, James Allison and Pam Sharma...

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Team Science, with MD Anderson’s James Allison and Padmanee Sharma

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News Release

Michael Milken Engages Crisis Leaders in New Podcast

6 Apr 2020

Responding to COVID-19: Conversations with Mike Milken features medical research, business, and public policy leaders LOS ANGELES, April 7, 2020 – The Milken Institute today introduced a new program focusing on leaders in the war against...

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Mike Milken

Chairman

Mike Milken, chairman of the Milken Institute, has been at the forefront of successful initiatives in medical research, education, public health and access to capital for more than four decades. Fortune called him “The Man Who Changed Medicine” and Forbes listed him among “Visionaries Reimagining Our Children’s Future.”

Ep. 5: Breaking the Code, with Nobel Laureate David Baltimore

“There has never been a larger international effort to try to deal with an infection. That alone makes me optimistic.” In the midst of a public health crisis, David Baltimore can be trusted to offer reason and rational thinking when the...

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Breaking the Code, with Nobel Laureate David Baltimore

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