The Founding And Future Of The Ragon Insitute with Bruce Walker

Dr. Bruce Walker interviewing Elizabeth Taylor

Dr. Bruce Walker, Director of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, interviewing famous actress and HIV/AIDS activist Elizabeth Taylor about her work.

How can technology help find the cure to HIV?

Inside Ragon is the official podcast of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard. Join Liam Fitzgerald as he talks with some of the brightest minds in HIV/AIDS research. In this episode of Inside Ragon Liam sits down with Alex Shalek, PhD, to talk about the latest technologies driving immunological research including his work on nanoscale manipulation and measurement technologies such as single-cell RNA-sequencing. Dr. Alex Shalek is a Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT, a Core Member at the Institute for Medical Engineering at MIT, and an Associate Member here at the Ragon Institute.

The Founding And Future Of The Ragon Insitute with Bruce Walker

In this episode of Inside Ragon Liam sits down with Bruce Walker, MD, to talk about the founding of the Ragon Institute, the role of philanthropy in scientific research, and the promising frontier of chronic nonprogressors in the pursuit of an HIV/AIDS vaccine. Dr. Bruce Walker is the Director of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Inside Ragon is the official podcast of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard. Join Liam Fitzgerald as he talks with some of the brightest minds in HIV/AIDS research.

Clinician-researchers in the world of bench-to-bedside medicine (Part II)

Inside Ragon is the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard’s official podcast. Join Liam Fitzgerald as he talks with some of the brightest minds in HIV/AIDS research. In this episode of Inside Ragon Liam talks with Doug Kwon, M.D., Ph.D., about the socioeconomic and behavioral aspects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and continues his series on clinician-researchers in the rising world of bench-to-bedside medicine. Dr. Douglas Kwon is a physician scientist at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard and Director of Clinical Operations at the Ragon Institute. In addition, he has a clinical practice in the division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. He received his M.D. Ph.D. degrees from New York University and then underwent Internal Medicine training at the University of California, San Francisco and New York Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He then completed his training in the combined Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital Infectious Disease fellowship program. To learn more about Dr. Kwon, visit his website KwonLab.org.

Clinician-researchers In the world of bench-to-bedside medicine (Part I)

Inside Ragon is the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard’s official podcast. Join Liam Fitzgerald as he talks with some of the brightest minds in HIV/AIDS research. In this episode of Inside Ragon Liam talks with Boris Juelg, M.D., Ph.D. about what it means to be both a clinician at Mass General Hospital and a researcher at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard. Dr. Juelg is a physician scientist at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He received his M.D. Ph.D. degrees from Christian Albrecht University in Kiel, Germany. He completed a postdoctoral research fellowship with Bruce Walker before undergoing Internal Medicine training at Massachusetts General Hospital followed by a fellowship in Infectious Diseases in the combined program of Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.