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 an RNA printer device that could print RNA… overnight.
This would drastically alter the pace at which RNA is designed and made- which consequently would increase the pace of researchers as they develop the next vaccines and therapies for us.
Welcome back to Next Breakthrough: The Biomedical Innovation Brainstorm, everyone. In this episode, I interviewed Dr. Anna Blakney, and she, similar to Dr. Kelly McNagny, who you met in our first episode, is a Principal Investigator at School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Blakney’s lab is interested in RNA formulations and their delivery into the human body, for vaccine and therapeutic purposes. I’m not sure if many of you are aware of this, but Dr. Blakney works closely with Dr. Pieter Cullis, who was a pivotal part of the development of the Lipid nanoparticle (LNP) based vaccines during the pandemic. Throughout this episode, we talked about this development, and the continued improvement of self-amplifying RNA delivery Dr. Blakney and her team are working on. Fun fact: Dr. Blakney began a TikTok channel during the pandemic to answer the questions people had regarding vaccines.
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And without further ado, let’s go ahead and meet Dr. Anna Blakney.