Interviews

Gilad Almogy

The idea is to measure enough cells that have been “perturbed” in different ways, read out their state—classically via single-cell RNA-seq—and use that data to train models that can predict how a cell will respond to drugs, CRISPR knockouts, temperature, stress, and other inputs.

Dimitri Gitas

Radioligand therapy is one of the most fascinating areas of innovation in life sciences today.

Robert Fried

We see a relationship between NAD levels and how the body ages, which is why rare Orphan Diseases in which children age rapidly is such an important area of research for us.

Tim Collins

We think tea can play a really important role in proactive health, and as part of a proactive health routine.

Steven Fife

Everything begins at the cellular level because healthy cells lead to healthy tissues, organs, systems, and ultimately a healthy body.

Rob Chambers

Thirty to forty percent of manufactured food is wasted because logistics are not in place to move it from where it is produced to where it is consumed.

Opher Flohr

I have a large grower customer who said: “I’ve been working my fields for generations — I know them very well. But now with your service, if you can show me the field doesn’t have weed pressure after post-emergence, I’m not going to do a post-emergence herbicide application.” Just by avoiding that application, he’s saving roughly $45 per acre — four times the cost of the entire Taranis service.

Brett McMickell

When you see cilantro on the shelf and think about everything required to grow and ship it, it changes your view on affordability. I’m still amazed at how affordable food has remained while feeding a growing population.

Silvia Maria Fonseca Silveira Massruhá

Embrapa was created 50 years ago to reduce food insecurity and guarantee food security. We were food importers and based on agriculture, science and technology, we went from importer to food exporter.

In 50 years we increased our planted area by 140%, but our production and productivity by 580%. Today we have the challenge of increasing production of healthy food on sustainable bases — economic, environmental and social.

Marianne Grosclaude

The key drivers of food insecurity are climate shocks, conflict and fragility, economic shocks and the policies that amplify them. We saw this in 2022 following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, now with the conflict in the Middle East, and we see extreme crises today in countries such as Sudan and Somalia, facing severe drought. We’ve stopped making progress on food and nutrition security, with 45 countries worse off than a decade ago. By the latest estimates, about 300 million people are suffering from the most acute forms of food insecurity — roughly two and a half times more than eight years ago. In addition, about one-third of the world’s population — 2.6 billion — is unable to afford a healthy diet.