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Exponential View with Azeem Azhar / Season 5, Episode 14
Bringing DARPA’s Innovation to Health
The U.S. military’s approach to developing emerging technologies is famous for cutting edge innovation. Can the same model work for healthcare?
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January 27, 2021
Regina Dugan, CEO of new biomedical non-profit Wellcome Leap and former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA) in the U.S.,
joins Azeem Azhar to explore how she approaches delivering breakthrough technologies,
and why she has now set her sights on global health.
They also discuss:
The thinking behind DARPA’s early support of Moderna’s mRNA vaccine technology.
How the DARPA model of innovation can apply to advancing medical technologies.
How the lessons from her experience of childhood cancer have guided Dugan’s career.
Further resources
“Understanding the Enduring Consequences of Covid-19” (Exponential View podcast with Professor Nicholas Christakis, 2020)
“The Covid-19 Pandemic May Be a ‘Sputnik Moment’” (Bloomberg New Economy, 2020)
“The Health Age” (Wellcome Leap, 2020)
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“Special Forces” Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems
by Regina E. Dugan and Kaigham J. Gabriel
From the Magazine (October 2013)
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RD
Regina E. Dugan is the former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
She is currently a senior vice president at Google’s Motorola Mobility business,
where she leads the Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group.
KG
Kaigham J. Gabriel is the former deputy director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
He is currently a corporate vice president at Google’s Motorola Mobility business and the deputy director
of its Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group.
https://hbr.org/2013/10/special-forces-innovation-how-darpa-attacks-problems
https://archive.ph/gExXT