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Inquisitive and Idealistic: Gwendolyn Lee, Co-Founder of Students vs. Pandemics, on the Power of Students and Interdisciplinary Innovation

Gwendolyn Lee, co-founder of Students vs Pandemics, discusses with Summer Journalism Fellow Millie Muroi her vision of bringing people with different perspectives together to tackle COVID-19 through innovative solutions, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and student leadership. Lee also shares her insights on the road ahead for healthcare, policy, and business in the coming decade and how students can actively contribute beyond the academic sphere through civic engagement and public service.

Journalism Fellowship, Interviews, Culture, PoliticsMillie MuroiAugust 11, 2020COVID19, public policy, medicine, healthcare, harvard, students, pandemic

The Exciting Future of Medicine with Pablo Lapuerta

Pablo Lapuerta, the Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, focuses heavily on genetics and drug development. He discusses the messaging that the pharmaceutical industry needs to do in order to help the public understand the extensive processes behind bringing new drugs to market, improvements that could be made in the FDA’s drug approval process, and a novel drug that he and Lexicon have developed to treat Type I diabetes.

BT Events, Technology, Interviews, Event Coverage, International ConferenceArjun JagjivanApril 15, 2020medicine, pharmaceuticals, biotech, drug, genetics, ethics, fda, Pablo LaPuerta, medical, drugs, healthtech, career

Nate Massari on the Pharmaceutical Industry and Rumpus Therapeutics

Nate Massari is the co-founder and managing partner of Rumpus Therapeutics, a company devoted to combining business with research to help contribute towards the development of drugs and medicines targeted specifically at curing diseases in children.

Interviews, Finance & Business, US, TechnologyRichard YangNovember 25, 2019entrepreneurship, leadership, R&D, pharmaceuticals, therapeutics, medicine, drugs, medical, diseases, Research and development, pharma, big pharma, FDA

China’s Mutual Aid Platforms

And yet despite these issues, Chinese mutual aid platforms are shaping up to be inspiring success stories. They certainly deserve our attention.

Finance & Business, Lifestyle, Technology, InternationalAustin StiefelmaierApril 30, 2019health, healthcare, medical, medicine, insurance, health insurance, mutual aid, aid, journal, online journal, student-run, publication, student pub

Jay Banerjee: Revolutionizing the Medical Field through VR/AR

Jay Banerjee is the COO and co-founder of Immersive Touch: a company that specializes in utilizing AR/VR technologies to help in the medical industry.

BT Events, Event Coverage, Interviews, International ConferenceMaxwell ChungNovember 21, 2018technology, virtual reality, medicine, VR, ar, entrepreneurship

Consumer Genetic Testing: The Promise and Dangers

Although genetic testing allowed the Golden State Killer to be found and arrested, it seems to be an egregious breach of information when knowledge of our basic biological building blocks can be analyzed by complete strangers, all without our permission.

What is the Consumer Genetic Testing Industry?

What has made these companies unique is that they also provide information and market directly to the consumer.

All, Technology, News & AnalysisAustin StiefelmaierApril 20, 2018consumer, direct to consumer, DTC, genetics, genome, genetic testing, medicine, medical, health, tech, technology, innovation, test, DNA, FDA, 23andme, ancestry.com

‘Alexa, Buy Me a Bottle of Tylenol’: Amazon Enters Healthcare

With its technological prowess and sense for revolutionizing industries, Amazon may be able to apply its powerful voice recognition products like Alexa, ruthless cost-cutting measures, and widely used cloud computing infrastructure to improve efficiency and service in the healthcare space.