Disruptive

Jun 11 2024 25 ep. 39 mins 336

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The Wyss Institute uses Nature's design principles to develop bioinspired technologies that will revolutionize medicine and create a more sustainable world.

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Ayush Noori Reimagine The World

Jun 11 2024 9 mins

Listen to Ayush Noori explain how his experiences caring for his grandmother after she was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy inspired him to Reimagine the World with personalized medicine for every patient, so they can live fulfilling lives surrounded by their loved ones.

Alican Ozkan Reimagine The World

May 20 2024 5 mins

Listen to Alican Ozkan explain why, after losing three grandparents to cancer and studying intestinal diseases, he is determined to find better therapeutic options for all patients, regardless of race, ethnicity, age, or sex.

Ana Raquel Santa Maria Reimagine The World

May 10 2023 7 mins

Listen to Ana explain how watching her grandparents become ill as they age, especially seeing her grandmother suffer from dementia, inspires her to reimagine the world with better prevention and treatment for brain diseases.

Nina Donghia

Dec 15 2022 6 mins

Listen to Nina explain how her grandparents inspire her to reimagine the world with careers in science and accessibility in healthcare for all.

Disruptive: 3D Bioprinting

Sep 17 2019 49 mins

There are roughly 120,000 people in the United States on waiting lists for live-saving organ transplants, with only about 30,000 transplants happening every year. To address this great challenge of organ shortages, a team at the Wyss Institute led by Core Faculty member Jennifer Lewis, Sc.D., is developing a method for 3D bioprinting organ tissues with requisite vasculature for eve

Disruptive: Accelerating Diagnostics

Aug 21 2019 51 mins

In this episode of Disruptive, Wyss Core Faculty member David Walt discusses his lessons learned from founding successful biotech companies and how he incorporates translation-minded thinking early on into his current diagnostic research in his labs at the Wyss Institute and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Walt and collaborators are inventing new diagnostic tools to allow clini

Disruptive: Soft Robotics for Deep Sea Exploration

Oct 09 2018 42 mins

The deep ocean is the least explored environment on Earth, and scientists estimate that many thousands of species are yet to be encountered. Marine researchers depend on tools primarily developed for the military or the oil and gas industry to study and capture undersea organisms. Many of them are extremely fragile, some thousands of years old, and too often they are damaged or des

Disruptive: Art Advances Science

Dec 21 2017 49 mins

In this episode of Disruptive, Wyss Institute Founding Director Don Ingber and Staff Scientist Charles Reilly discuss their process creating The Beginning, a short film inspired by Star Wars, to better communicate science to the public…and how they made a scientific discovery along the way. To make The Beginning, film industry visual effects and animation tools were used to merg

Disruptive: Cancer Vaccine and Immuno-Materials

Oct 24 2017 49 mins

Immunotherapy – treatment that uses the body’s own immune system to help fight disease – has groundbreaking and life-saving implications. In an effort to make immunotherapy more effective, Wyss Institute researches are developing new immuno-materials, which help modulate immune cells to treat or diagnose disease. In this episode of Disruptive, Dave Mooney, Wyss Core Faculty

David and Mary Mooney: Seeing Is Believing- Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines - AUDIO ONLY

Apr 13 2017 28 mins

Wyss Core Faculty member David Mooney presents a talk with Mary Mooney, titled Seeing Is Believing: Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines. Marshalling a patient’s immune system to recognize and destroy cancerous cells is an exciting strategy to attack cancer, and this talk will explore materials that engage the immune system through science and artistic representation. Mary K. Mooney is