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My guest this week is Esteban Burchard an expert in pharmacogenetics and asthma. Esteban’s prolific scientific contributions have been featured on Science Friday and other shows. He also served on President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative. I was particularly excited to discuss issues of Diversity, Equity, and...

Last July I had the pleasure of talking with Dr. Melanie Ott, the Director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology in San Francisco. While I would have been thrilled to talk to her under any circumstance, the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has made one-on-one time with a virologist more valuable than ever. In addition to...

Last March, as the pandemic was picking up steam, I had the pleasure to interview a friend and colleague Dr. Rushika Perera, a rising star and Assistant Professor at UCSF. Before our conversation, I had heard about the lysosome but just had some vague notion that it is similar to recycling, an essential service for sure...

My guest this week is Tiffany Scharschmidt, a close colleague of mine in the UCSF Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine. I really admire how well-spoken she is and how carefully considered her research and other scholarly work is, a stark contrast to my own “fire, ready, aim” approach. Another remarkable fact about...