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Ep. 56: The Analyst, with Two Sigma’s David Siegel

“This experience is a grand experiment in online work, online education, online shopping. You really couldn't have created a better experiment, and we're learning an awful lot. Not everything is working so well, and some things are working...

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The Analyst, with Two Sigma’s David Siegel

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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. 53: Helping Hand, with Brent McIntosh

“In America, we don't look to the government alone to develop the solutions. We look to the creativity and ingenuity and vitality of the private sector, whether it's corporations or philanthropic organizations for many of those solutions.”...

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Helping Hand, with Brent McIntosh

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Ep. 52: The Stakes, with Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa

“Public health will not be able to cope with this pandemic if it becomes a major crisis of the scale that we have seen in the West and in China. There's almost nothing we can do about it because we just don't have time. But it has been a...

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The Stakes, with Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa

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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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