SNF NOSTOS 2022 // the HEALTH podcast

How technologies shape the future of medicine? Is bioethics one of the most crucial issues of our time? How does global inequality define health statistics? Are we heading to a future of robotics, psychedelics, and new body perspectives? SNF Nostos 2022 Health Conference tried to address all these major topics (and many more) with the help of some top-level scientists, researchers and thinkers who painted the portrait of this brave new world. We interviewed some of them.

06. Valentina Fossati: How can we turn two drops of blood in stem cells and open a new window in our body?

Dr. Valentina Fossati is Senior Investigator at The NYSCF Research Institute where she focuses on advancing preclinical studies of neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory disorders, utilizing human iPSC-derived brain cell study.

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05. Sharon Kaur: Would you take a test that would tell you exactly when you are going to die?

Sharon teaches Medical Law and Ethics to both undergraduate and graduate students at the Law Faculty, University of Malaya.

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04. Emma Ross: Would we trust scientists more if they were better trained in storytelling?

Emma Ross is the Senior Research Fellow in Chatham House’s Global Health Programme, where she leads the Institute’s health security portfolio.

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03. Beth Blauer: What’s more important for your health? The place you were born or your type of blood?

Beth Blauer is the Associate Vice Provost for Public Sector Innovation at Johns Hopkins University and is currently the Data Lead for Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.

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02. Dr. Frederick Barrett: What if our future is more psychedelic than we think of?

Dr. Frederick Barrett is a cognitive neuroscientist with training in behavioral pharmacology who has been conducting psychedelic research at Johns Hopkins University since 2013.

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01. Brian Lobel: Why cancer resembles to capitalism?

Brian Lobel is a performer, educator and curator who is interested in creating work about bodies and how they are watched, policed, poked, prodded and loved by others.

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