In Today’s Email:

• Orange Podcast Episode #4

• A Sneak-Peek into Episode #5

Orange Podcast Episode #4

🎙️Hon Weng Chong: Dishbrains, Pong-Playing Stem Cells and Biological Computing 

How will computing change as we shift from hard silicon to soft tissue… as silicon meets neuron? What happens if we grow a mind native to the infinite possibility space of digital computing?

Tune in to discover how Hon Weng Chong, Founder of Cortical Labs, went from medical doctor to biotech entrepreneur building DishBrain, the $10 million innovation that fuses brain cells with computers. Together, we'll explore the exciting possibilities of human neurons and artificial neural networks collaborating to solve society's toughest challenges.

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A Sneak-Peek into Episode #5

🎙️Harry Al-Wassiti: Bioengineering and the Future of mRNA-based Therapies

Harry Al-Wassiti is a visionary bioengineer. More than 14 years after leaving war-torn Iraq, he is now spearheading Australia's mRNA therapeutic program. 

Harry believed in mRNA therapeutics well before they became mainstream via the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. In 2019, he published a Medium article advocating for mRNA-based therapeutics just months prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

But new medicines are useless without the ability to build them affordably and at scale.

There is this essential marriage of innovation and manufacturing, “We’re developing amazing medicines, but their deployment hinges on solving manufacturing issues.”

For a country that too often outsources its most complex manufacturing processes to China and the US, we need someone like Harry in Australia to be thinking about the machine that builds the machine. After all, having mRNA manufacturing facilities within our borders is a national security issue.

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