From Lab to Market: Navigating the Obstacles of Medical Innovation | Dr Jeff Karp
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this fascinating discussion, Dr. Jeff Karp, a top biomedical innovator pulls back the curtain on the difficult journey medical breakthroughs must take to actually help patients. From navigating financial hurdles and clinical trial complexities to manufacturing challenges, hear the surprising barriers promising cures often face on their journey to your local pharmacy.
You'll also get an inside look at how real solutions are being developed. Discover how a nasal spray was created to potentially block COVID transmission and learn about groundbreaking "medical superglue" aiming to revolutionize heart repairs.
If you've ever wondered what really happens after exciting discoveries are made in white coats and petri dishes, don't miss this amazing conversation revealing the untold story of how cutting-edge science becomes accessible healthcare.
Highlights:
00:00 Intro
00:45 Who is Dr. Jeff Karp?
02:30 Complexity of finding and commercializing new solutions
06:42 Dr. Karp’s new book overview
08:30 Indigenous holistic approach to health
09:44 Narrowing of the senses we use to experience the world
11:40 Spartan shield for your nose – Profi Nasal Spray
15:10 Developing glue that can work inside the body
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All of us are hardwired for these survival instincts that really don't serve us anymore. |
| 0:05.8 | The fear that we have that holds us back, the hesitation that we have that holds us back, |
| 0:10.1 | it's really a feature of our species, but we're also hardwired to be incredibly curious and explore the world and discover new things and that just lights up our brain with the flow of all these positive neurotransmitters. |
| 0:24.8 | Welcome to the Hard Way Podcast with Joe the Senna, founder and CEO of Spartan Races. |
| 0:30.0 | We're teaching you how to overcome your obstacles in your life the same way we teach our 10 million plus Spartans to overcome obstacles on the course. |
| 0:38.0 | With insight from the smartest, most accomplished experts from every corner of the world. |
| 0:42.0 | Get ready to elevate your life today. accomplish experts from every corner of the world. |
| 0:42.6 | Get ready to elevate your life today. |
| 0:45.3 | Joe DeSena here, CEO and founder of Spartan |
| 0:48.0 | and the Hardway Podcast. |
| 0:49.8 | Used to be called Spartan Up Podcast. |
| 0:51.7 | Now we call it the Hardway Podcast, because going the hard way is the right way. |
| 0:56.2 | Anyway, I got Jeff Karp. |
| 0:57.6 | I don't know him as Jeff Karp. |
| 0:59.2 | In my phone, I have Harvard Doctor, because that's how I know him him because I'm so impressed that I know anybody from Harvard let alone a doctor |
| 1:06.9 | For the last five six years anytime I have a jam anywhere in my life God forbid somebody gets sick hit up Jeff, he takes care of it. |
| 1:14.4 | He knows how to get to the right person. |
| 1:16.0 | And so if you have a problem, reach out to me, I'll ask Jeff, Dr. Karp. |
| 1:21.2 | So let's just set the table here. |
| 1:25.0 | You work for a bunch of universities, you work for a bunch of hospitals, |
| 1:28.0 | and you help them innovate? |
| 1:30.0 | Tell me, what do you do? |
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