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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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Ep. 9: Shock Treatment, with Google's Eric Schmidt

“We're going to need … some kind of shock treatment for seven, eight, nine days where we shut down everything to stop the spread…. And when I say shut down, I mean shut down.” That’s Eric Schmidt’s bold plan to put a stop to the pandemic so...

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Shock Treatment, with Google's Eric Schmidt

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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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Ep. 6: Mobilization, with George Washington University’s Lynn Goldman

“We need to be preparing for the second and third waves, revving up testing and contact tracing to, as quickly as possible, prevent it from spreading out of control.” When it comes to COVID-19, Lynn Goldman sees the big picture...

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Mobilization, with George Washington University’s Lynn Goldman

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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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Ep. 4: Moonshot, with Johnson & Johnson’s Alex Gorsky

“What we announced that day was that we have identified a lead candidate for COVID-19 vaccine…. This is a bit of a moonshot for us.” That’s Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky talking about the $1 billion partnership his company formed with...

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Moonshot, with Johnson & Johnson’s Alex Gorsky

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Ep. 3: Physician Heal Thyself, with Allogene’s Arie Belldegrun

“On day eight, I had a...low grade temperature of 100.7 and then muscle ache and fatigue. That night...I requested to be tested and had a positive testing for COVID-19.” Following a conference in Boston, Arie Belldegrun—oncologist...

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Physician Heal Thyself, with Allogene’s Arie Belldegrun

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Ep. 2: Grand Rounds, with Providence’s Rod Hochman

“As soon as that patient hit the doors of our emergency room, our people were gowned and gloved...and put that patient into isolation...got testing done, and we immediately found out that we had the first case of COVID-19 in the United...

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Grand Rounds, with Providence’s Rod Hochman

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Ep. 1: Big Science, with NIH’s Francis Collins

“We have on our own campus the vaccine research center that is working 24/7 to accelerate the progress with as many different vaccines as possible, but particularly one that is already in phase one trials.” Francis Collins was born for big...

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Big Science, with NIH’s Francis Collins

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