covid

Communicating Through COVID: Messaging, Missteps, and Fixes for the Future with Amelia Burke-Garcia, Ph.D

In this episode of the When Science Speaks podcast, Mark welcomes back Dr. Amelia Burke Garcia, an award-winning digital health communicator and researcher with 20 years of experience. Amelia is a program director at NORC at the University of Chicago, where she worked on the CDC’s Covid-19 response and directed the award-winning “How Right Now/Que…

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Pathogens, Public Health, and the Pandemic with Iain MacLeod, Ph.D.

  In this week’s episode, Iain MacLeod Ph.D., co-founder, CEO and Chief Science Officer of Aldatu Biosciences, joins Mark in discussing a range of issues related to virology and public health – and why we can’t “vaccinate our way out of the pandemic”. Topics include: How Iain became interested in pathology and virology What motivated…

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Driving and Funding Innovation in Biotech with Orange Grove Bio CEO Marc Appel

  In this week’s episode, Mark and Marc discuss innovation in the life sciences industry, including the recent launch of Orange Grove’s portfolio company, Asalyxa Bio. Topics include: Remdesivir and Marc’s view on this experimental medicine for combatting effects of COVID-19 Why Marc decided to focus his professional life on funding innovations in health care…

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