PODCASTS

JUN 18, 2024
Join us for an interview with Lasker Laureate Roderick MacKinnon, who provided the first molecular description of an ion selective channel.

May 15, 2024
Join us for an interview with Daniel Koshland, a visionary biochemist and tireless institution builder.

APRIL 17, 2024
Find out how DNA fingerprinting was developed and hear how a phone call from a lawyer helped speed its adoption by the legal system.

APRIL 17, 2024
2003 Lasker Laureate Christopher Reeve talks about the power of political activism and patient advocacy: “I truly believe that nothing is impossible.”

MARCH. 19, 2024
Nancy Brinker won the 2005 Public Service Lasker Award for increasing public awareness of breast cancer. In this interview, she talks about building the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

OCT. 18, 2023
Evelyn Witkin discovered the DNA-damage response, a fundamental mechanism that protects the genomes of all living organisms. Listen as she talks about her Award-winning work and what it was like to be at Cold Spring Harbor in the 1950s.

May 17, 2023
Listen as David Cushman tells the story of bringing captopril, the first orally active ACE inhibitor and one of the first medications developed through rational design, to the world.

APR. 18, 2023
Oliver Smithies gene targeting technology revolutionized the study of human health and disease. Listen as this Lasker Laureate tells the story of how he turned his failure into a resounding success that forever changed biomedical research.

MAR 14, 2023
Willem Kolff wanted to save as many people as he could from renal failure. Listen as this Lasker Laureate tells the story of how he developed renal hemodialysis, artificial kidneys, and more.

NOV. 15, 2022
Millions of babies have been conceived through IVF, but developing the technology took decades. Robert Edwards guides us through the seminal research.