Decoding the Brain with Ed Boyden
Business Trip by PsyMed Ventures, a podcast exploring the future of mental health & wellness
Welcome back to Business Trip by PsyMed Ventures, a podcast exploring the future of mental health & wellness! 🍄
Greg and Matias interview Ed Boyden on the latest episode of Business Trip about neuroscience frontiers and its applications to mental health.
Ed is a pioneer in areas of neuroscience including optogenetics and expansion microscopy. 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. 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
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