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Examining Arizona’s Technology and Research Initiative Fund
In November 2000, voters passed Proposition 301 in the state of Arizona.
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Ep. 7: Team Science, with MD Anderson’s James Allison and Padmanee Sharma
“There’s an amazing collaboration of institutions across the country to bring all our knowledge to
gether to try to do this as fast as we can.”
Dubbed the ‘Cancer fighting power-couple’ by the Washington Post, James Allison and Pam Sha
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Ep. 6: Mobilization, with George Washington University’s Lynn Goldman
“We need to be preparing for the second and third waves, revving up testing and contact tracing to
, as quickly as possible, prevent it from spreading out of control.”
When it comes to COVID-19, Lynn Goldman sees the big picture.
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Ep. 32: Sequencing, with Illumina’s Francis deSouza
“The first genome sequence of the virus that was published on January 12th online was done on Illu
mina machines, and so we have been working on this outbreak [since] well before it became a pandemic.”
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Ep. 3: Physician Heal Thyself, with Allogene’s Arie Belldegrun
“On day eight, I had a...low grade temperature of 100.7 and then muscle ache and fatigue.
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Ep. 5: Breaking the Code, with Nobel Laureate David Baltimore
“There has never been a larger international effort to try to deal with an infection.
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Ep. 4: Moonshot, with Johnson & Johnson’s Alex Gorsky
“What we announced that day was that we have identified a lead candidate for COVID-19 vaccine….
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Ep. 1: Big Science, with NIH’s Francis Collins
“We have on our own campus the vaccine research center that is working 24/7 to accelerate the prog
ress with as many different vaccines as possible, but particularly one that is already in phase one trials.”
Francis Collins was born for big sci
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Ep. 8: Legacy, with former FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach
“If we think of the game-changers of what is going to get America and the world back functioning n
ormally, the FDA is probably right now the most central and critical of all the federal agencies.”
Long before Andrew von Eschenbach served as Co
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Ep. 10: The Public Servant, with former FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg
“I always said it was a question of when, not if, we would have to combat a global pandemic.
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Ep. 25: Essential Work, with Kindercare’s Tom Wyatt
“[Our teachers] write me, they call me, they are so taken aback by the grateful comments they get,
the emotional letters and emails they get from the doctors and nurses and others saying that they could not be doing their work without our suppor
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Ep. 16: The Translator, with PCF’s Jonathan Simons
“This is why we all went into medicine—for moments like this where we come together.”