Focal Points

Sep 30 2024 6 ep. 55 mins 10
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Focal Points is the official podcast of Focalpoint Partners. Focalpoint Partners is a venture capital fund that catalyzes healthcare breakthroughs by aligning people, technology and capital.

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Making Deep Brain Stimulation Minimally Invasive with MJ Antonini and Nicki Driscoll of NeuroBionics

Sep 30 2024 54 mins  
Today’s guests are MJ Antonini & Nicki Driscoll, the founders of NeuroBionics, a neurotech startup out of MIT. NeuroBionics is making Deep Brain Stimulation minimally invasive though the development of nano fibers that are 10X thinner than traditional Deep Brain Stimulation leads - allowing them to be inserted endovascularly into the brain. Check out NeuroBionics at https:/

Advancements in Male Sexual Health w/ John Boghossian & Ryan Protzko of Kadence Bio

Apr 30 2024 60 mins  
Can a succulent plant from South Africa treat premature ejaculation? John Boghossian and Dr Ryan Protzko from Kadence Bio think so. www.kadencebio.com

Can Skull Implants Treat Depression? Jacob Robinson & Motif Neurotech (Crossover Episode on Business Trip)

Oct 23 2023 55 mins  
Can brain implants treat your depression? Ok, technically this would be a skull implant, not a brain implant - but still! Jacob Robinson from Motif Neurotech discusses the future of minimally invasive electronic medicine from mental health and beyond. This is a crossover episode from the Business Trip podcast.

Sam Banister - The Art and Science of Designing Novel Psychoactive Therapeutics

Jun 30 2022 61 mins  
Sam Banister is a medicinal chemist and co-founder of Psylo.  Psylo is an Australian psychedelic biotech company using machine learning assisted drug design techniques to developing novel psychedelic medicines to treat mental illness.    Sam is here to help us understand how new chemical entities are reshaping the psychedelic field; how novel psychedelic molecules a

Tom Feegel, CEO of Beond - Ending the Opiate Addiction Epidemic with Safe Ibogaine Treatment

Mar 27 2022 58 mins  
Tom Feegel is the Founder and CEO of Beond. Beond exists to help end the opiate addiction epidemic with safe ibogaine treatment. In this episode Tom speaks on the severity of the opioid epidemic and explains how ibogaine assisted therapy can help heal those who are suffering from addiction. Tom gets into his personal story, how Ibogaine helped someone in his family, the economics

Dillan DiNardo - CEO of Mindstate Design Labs | Creating Novel Psychoactive Drugs at Y Combinator

Feb 10 2022 41 mins  
Dillan DiNardo is the CEO of Mindstate Design Labs - a preclinical-stage biotechnology company developing the next generation of psychedelic-inspired therapeutics for intractable mental health conditions. Mindstate's mission is to map the biological basis of the varieties of psychedelic experience, and to use that map to pharmacologically design therapeutic states of mind to