This is where ideas for biomedical innovation are brainstormed and born.
In this extraordinarily important field, it is vital to ask the right questions- as the resulting solutions will aim to go on and solve some of the greatest medical issues.
Do you want to create this change? Because that next breakthrough starts here.
We invite guest researchers from the many niche areas of this field not only to pry at existing problems they face in their innovative work, but we then take this information, and here is our core element, look into the cracks, and derive ideas for the creation of new devices to target these problems.
My name is Francesca Chen, and as your host, I’m a student fascinated in the potential of the near future of biomedical innovation- one that the ideas cultivated directly in this podcast could go on to impact.
This is the real lab behind the innovation, alive with real ideas that could go on to change real people's lives.
With NEXT BREAKTHROUGH, you could be the one to change them.
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This is where ideas for biomedical innovation are brainstormed and born.
In this extraordinarily important field, it is vital to ask the right questions- as the resulting solutions will aim to go on and solve some of the greatest medical issues.
Do you want to create this change? Because that next breakthrough starts here.
We invite guest researchers from the many niche areas of this field not only to pry at existing problems they face in their innovative work, but we then take this information, and here is our core element, look into the cracks, and derive ideas for the creation of new devices to target these problems.
My name is Francesca Chen, and as your host, I’m a student fascinated in the potential of the near future of biomedical innovation- one that the ideas cultivated directly in this podcast could go on to impact.
This is the real lab behind the innovation, alive with real ideas that could go on to change real people's lives.
With NEXT BREAKTHROUGH, you could be the one to change them.
Follow to be the first to know when the new episode drops. In the meantime, check out our podcast trailer!
Imagine a drug that you could just take if you knew you would be outside for a long time. It would be able to mitigate your pollution exposure- as simple as ibuprofen, right off the counter. And the amount of mutagens getting into your cells, and thus causing them to become diseased states, reduced considerably, just like that.
Hi, everyone. My name is Francesca Chen, and welcome back to Next Breakthrough. In this episode we meet Dr. Emilia Lim, a PI principal investigator in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at The University of British Columbia. Dr. Lim’s team is focussed on determining how environmental pollutants alter the genomics, transcriptomics, and epigenomics of cells to transform from healthy to diseased. We discussed the evolution of cancer on a molecular level, DNA repair mechanisms and immune systems defences for mutations, the individual timeline of cancer development and the “two hit-method”, air pollutants and lung cancer development, spacial transcriptomics, age-related mutations, and more. Ending on a high note was our discussion on next-generation sequencing and the future of Dr. Lim’s research.
I know you guys are super excited and ready to dive in, as am I, so let’s go ahead! As always, please follow to never miss your monthly dosage of biomedical breakthrough knowledge. And without further ado, here is Dr. Emilia Lim.