Tech Tonics Podcast
1) Tech Tonics: Karen Hong, Turning Grad School Pain To VC Gain
In graduate school, Karen Hong’s dream of becoming a biologist crashed into the inconvenient reality that she couldn’t stand working in the lab. Undaunted, Karen, pivoted into venture capital, a...Show More
2) Tech Tonics: Griffin Weber – Bringing Clinical Sense & Sensibility to Healthcare Data
Inspired by health technology from the age of five, Griffin Weber has pursued this passion both doggedly and joyfully. Now an associate professor of medicine and bioinformaticist at Harvard, Griffin s...Show More
3) Tech Tonics: Matt Wilsey, Leading with Grace
Matt Wilsey grew up wanting to serve. He spent his early career in government working for both blue and red administrations, but was eventually lured back to where he grew up–Silicon Valley—to ...Show More
4) Tech Tonics: Amy Emerson and Her Psychedelic Mission
Amy Emerson, CEO of MAPS Public Benefit Corp. (MAPS), grew up in Kodiak, Alaska and fell in love with both animals and science as a child. Later in life, when considering veterinary school, she reali...Show More
5) Tech Tonics: Stacy Feld – Innovating Where the Consumer Meets Life Sciences
Stacy Feld had settled into a satisfying career in biotech business development when she accidentally found her way into a meeting with Genentech’s CEO and a tiny startup company called 23andMe. The m...Show More
Tech Tonics: Stacy Feld – Innovating Where the Consumer Meets Life Sciences
0:00 | Jan 11th, 2021
6) Tech Tonics: Takeda’s Ariel Dowling: An Engineer With A Passion For Digital Health
A Jersey girl drawn first captivated by engineering while in college at Dartmouth, Ariel Dowling went on to pursue her PhD at Stanford, exploring the use of wearables to anticipate and prevent knee in...Show More
7) Tech Tonics: Paul Bleicher – Physician, Scientist, Entrepreneur, Innovator
A self-described “nerdy” kid from a working class family in a bedroom community of “The City,” on the South Shore of Long Island, Paul Bleicher trained as a physician-scientist, and was heading toward...Show More
8) Tech Tonics: Dr. Sally Shaywitz: Advancing Science, Driving Policy, Overcoming Dyslexia
Dr. Sally Shaywitz – Yes, she is David’s mom – has brought an entrepreneur’s mindset to her life’s work in dyslexia, recognizing the condition as a prevalent and underappreciated need, then working ti...Show More
9) Tech Tonics: Matthew Zachary – Making Noise and Making a Difference that is Music to Patient’s Ears
Matthew Zachary, CEO of Offscrip Media has had multiple careers despite the fact that he shouldn’t have had any. He had studied to be a concert pianist and composer and conductor through college, bu...Show More
10) Tech Tonics: Kevin Lyman – From Halo to CEO
Kevin Lyman was once the world’s highest ranked Warlock in Worlds of Warcraft and a professional Halo2 player. But that wasn’t his original plan. In fact, growing up in New Jersey, Kevin always wanted...Show More