• Decoding the Brain with Ed Boyden

  • Feb 22 2024
  • Length: 51 mins
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  • Greg and Matias interview Ed Boyden about neuroscience frontiers and its applications to mental health.

    Ed is a pioneer in understanding the fundamental mechanisms of the brain. He runs a lab at MIT for Synthetic Neurobiology and is a professor across the departments of neurotechnology, biological engineering, and cognitive science at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research. His inventions include optogenetic tools and expansion microscopy. He is co-founder of Cognito Therapeutics, Elemind, TI Solutions, and Synlife, and scientific advisor to several other companies.

    In this episode, we discuss…

    • Academia vs. startups for neuroscience advancement
    • Evaluating data vs intuition to assess new technologies
    • Breakthroughs like optogenetics and expansion microscopy
    • How to translate neurotech into companies/commercialization
    • Approaches for clearly communicating and "storytelling" complex science.

    Credits:

    Created by Greg Kubin and Matias Serebrinsky
    Host: Matias Serebrinsky & Greg Kubin
    Produced by Jonathan A. Davis, Nico V. Rey & Caitlin Ner

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    Theme music by Dorian Love
    Additional Music: Distant Daze by Zack Frank
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