Mendelspod Podcast

Guest: Mara Aspinall, Founder, DxInsights Bio and Contact Info Listen (2:43) DxInsights and EPEMED Listen (3:53) Diagnostics 5.0

Guest: Diane C. Farhi,, MD, Senior Medical Director, Quintiles Laboratories Bio and Contact Info Listen (6:37) Tracking clinical samples around the world Listen (5:34) How to measure sample stability

Guest: Janet, Woodcock, MD, Director, CDER, FDABio and Contact Info Listen (4:41) No agency charged with better translational outcomes

Guest: Scott Jewell, Senior Scientific Investigator and Director of Program for Biospecimen Science, Van Andel Institute Bio and Contact Info Listen (3:30) Do you see more creativity in the sample consent area?

Guest: Bonnie Anderson, CEO, Veracyte Bio and Contact Info Listen (5:58) What is the secret to your success? Listen (4:30) Building the case for reimbursement

Guest: Alan Mendelson, Partner, Latham & Watkins Bio and Contact Info Alan Mendelson, a partner at Latham & Watkins, is the first service provider--as opposed to a scientist, entrepreneur, or venture capitalist--to receive one of BayBio’s prestigious Pantheon Lifetime Achievement Awards. We talk to him a month before the awards ceremony which will be held in San Francisco on December 11th, 2014.

Guest: Jim Vaught, Editor-in-Chief, Biopreservation and Biobanking Journal Bio and Contact Info Listen (6:50) The importance of better biosamples only recognized in the past 10 to 15 years

Guest: Paul Davies, Principal Investigator, Center for the Convergence of Physical Science and Cancer Biology, ASU Bio and Contact Info Listen (4:05) The phone call Listen (3:39) Too focused on a cure

Guest: Jonathan Brody, Assoc Professor of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University Bio and Contact Info Listen (8:17) BRCA testing being used for pancreatic cancer as well

Guest: Ulf Gyllensten, Professor, Department of Immunology, Genetics, and Pathology, Uppsala University, Sweden Bio and Contact Info Listen (4:24) What are your goals at the National Genomics Infrastructure?

Guest: Emanuel "Chip" Petricoin, Co-Director, CAPMM, George Mason University  Bio and Contact Info Listen (4:00) Beyond the genome Listen (5:30) Challenges to mapping the proteome

Guest: Gene Myers , Founding Director, Systems Biology Center, Max Planck Institute Bio and Contact Info Listen (6:10) What have you been up to since the Celera days?

Guest: Aubrey de Grey, CoFounder, CSO, SENS Research Foundation Bio and Contact Info Chapters: (Advance the marker) 0:35 First Rejuvenation Biotechnology Conference 4:50 Shackled by “short-termism” 6:00 Aging was not a topic for biologists 11:32 A serious nuisance 17:13 Smoking out the opposition

Guest: Connor Dickie, CEO, Synbiota Bio and Contact Info Listen (5:13) Has open science really taken off in the life sciences? Listen (4:58) #ScienceHack

Guest: Michael Pishvaian, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University; CMO, Perthera  Bio and Contact Info Listen (4:08) Untapped potential

Guest: Comfort, Nathaniel, PhD, Author, Professor, History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Bio and Contact Info Listen (4:20) Debate about race and genetics is really about social justice

Guest: Eric Schadt, Professor & Chair Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Director Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology Bio and Contact Info Listen (5:01) Getting buy-in from a few lead doctors

Guest: George Church, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School  Bio and Contact Info Listen (6:11) Church's Law Listen (6:45) Colbert, Der Spiegel and Regenesis

Guest: Dan Geraghty, Researcher, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center; CEO, Scisco Genetics Bio and Contact Info Listen (4:43) Unable so far to find causal linkages in MHC region of the genome

Guest: Shawn Baker, CSO, AllSeq Bio and Contact Info Listen (5:27) Taking the X Ten for a test drive Listen (6:56) What is the latest price for a whole human genome sequence through Allseq?