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Dec 20, 2020

My guest this week is Dr. Matt Redinbo from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Matt has had a remarkable career in both academia and industry. He discusses the challenges of translating basic research and the importance of doing the killer experiment as soon as possible. We talk about his evolution from...


Dec 13, 2020

This week I'm joined by my friend and collaborator Dr. Suneil Koliwad, the Chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at UCSF. Suneil discusses how the pandemic has changed medicine, the perplexing differences between ethnic groups in metabolic disease,  and his research on the complex links between...


Dec 6, 2020

My guest this week is Dr. Joe DeRisi, a pioneer in functional genomics and leader of a collaborative effort to accelerate SARS-CoV-2 testing and discovery. Joe is the co-President of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub and has had a remarkable series of technological breakthroughs throughout his career, including the invention...


Nov 22, 2020

My guest this week is Dr. Kristin Bibbins-Domingo. Her pioneering studies have used computational simulations to predict the public health implications of changes to diet, including a focus on salt and sugar intake. We discuss how she got into nutrition and some of the controversies around what we should and should not...


Nov 15, 2020

My guest this week is Dr. Adam Arkin, our first interview outside of UCSF! Adam works across the Bay at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs and is a leader in the emerging fields of systems and synthetic biology. He has published more than 300 papers on a wide range of subjects and tells us about some of the...