Amazing Things Podcast
Amazing Things Podcast
United For Medical Research
Meet the leaders of today’s scientific revolution, and discover the new technologies allowing scientists to understand and treat disease, improve health, and overcome impossible odds. Today, research funded by the National Institutes of Health is making Amazing Things possible. The Amazing Things Podcast hosted by Adam Belmar is presented by United for Medical Research, a coalition of the nation’s leading scientific research institutions and industries, and health and patient advocates seeking steady, long-term growth in the NIH budget.
Tissue Chips: The Greatest Technology You've Never Heard Of
Precision medicine will be available to everyone because of Tissue Chips. Hear the fascinating story of the most important technology you have never heard of before. In this episode of the Amazing Things Podcast, brought to you by United For Medical...
Jun 1, 2020
16 min
Preventing Pandemic: How Ebola Prepared America for Coronavirus
Preparing for pandemic: How Ebola prepared America for coronavirus
Jan 30, 2020
11 min
NIH Funding and the Economic Impact in Rural States
The importance of strong, sustainable annual funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is known to states with major biomedical R&D hubs like California, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Texas. In these states there is a clear link...
Mar 28, 2019
14 min
A discussion with National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins
A discussion with National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins covering the new All of Us Research program, NIH’s work to combat the opioid epidemic, and advances like gene editing and cancer immunotherapy that are changing how we treat...
Oct 15, 2018
18 min
Sen. Roy Blunt: Medical Research is a National Priority
Amazing Things Podcast: Newsmaker Edition. U.S. Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri is responsible for delivery four consecutive years of increased federal funding for biomedical research to the National Institutes of Health. Sen. Blunt, Chairman of the...
Sep 17, 2018
15 min
Rep. Tom Cole: NIH Budget Has To Grow
Rep. Tom Cole on Federal Funding Increases for NIH
Jul 11, 2018
22 min
Jean Bennett: A Gene Therapy to Treat Blindness
Mar 5, 2018
12 min
Amazing Things Podcast LIVE Congressional Briefing
The Science of Amazing Things briefing for members of Congress.
Nov 15, 2017
1 hr 2 min
Li-Huei Tsai: A Ray of Hope in the Fight Against Alzheimer's Disease
The statistics on Alzheimer’s disease are daunting. More than five million Americans are living with the disease and by 2050 this number could be as high as 16 million. Dr. Li-Huei Tsai, Picower Professor of Neuroscience at MIT, and her team of...
Aug 11, 2017
14 min
Natalia Trayanova: Using a Personalized, Virtual Heart to Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death
More than 350,000 people each year will experience an out of hospital cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest is an extremely dangerous circumstance that requires immediate treatment. In cardiac arrest, death results when the heart suddenly stops working...
May 22, 2017
8 min
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