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!
The elimination of life-long immunosuppressant drugs begins with being able to able to avoid the immune system's attack.
Avoiding the immune system’s attack, as Dr. Zhao explains, lies in the generating of hypoimmune cells, and the tweaking of certain genes in order to “mask” the molecular ID of these cells when they are in the body....
Welcome back, innovators! My name is Francesca Chen, your host for Next Breakthrough. In this episode we interviewed Dr. Jia Zhao, a post doc in the Kieffer Lab, which is part of the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences at UBC. The Kieffer Lab delves into the treatment of Type 1 diabetes, focussing on a combination of insulin producing cells and macroencapsulation devices, and genetic engineering. In this episode, we discussed stem cell therapy, donor alleles, pancreatic pregenital cells, Beta cells (you will learn what all these are soon!) macroencapsulation, CRISPR and gene editing, hypoimmune cells, and more. We ended off by addressing the efforts need to make these emerging diabetes therapies more accessible and less expensive to a larger population. There are lots of fascinating components embedded in our interview- as always, should you find anything you want to look into on your own time, please do- I would recommend looking into the Yamanaka factors Dr. Zhao and I talk about a little later in the interview.
Without further ado, here is Dr. Jia Zhao!