Because of ethical and medical challenges, early human embryo development remains “a black box” to us, as Prof. Jacob Hanna himself puts it. Despite all the progress made in medicine over the past decades, there is still a whole lot to learn about the causes of miscarriages, infertility, or early developmental defects. In 2023, Jacob’s group from t…

To discover the whole episode type "#28 - Modeling embryos to understand early life - Jacob Hanna - Weizmann Institute of Science" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

We are at a turning point for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and neurotechnology. We have all witnessed phenomenal progress in this field recently via images shared by Neuralink, showing paralyzed patients who can communicate with a computer through their own thoughts. Other fascinating applications, such as those being worked on by Gregoire Cour…

To discover the whole episode type "#27 - Reinventing neuroelectronic therapies - Carolina Aguilar - Inbrain Neuroelectronics" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

Many of us struggle with allergies, usually something we’ve been dealing with our whole life, either continuously or episodically. Be it related to food, pollen, dust, pets, or many others, it’s quite a pain and it can take us away from many things we appreciate in life. And I deliberately include myself in this group. Somehow it was engraved in my…

To discover the whole episode type "#26 - Redefining allergy care - Kenneth Chahine - Nectar Life Sciences" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

We don’t need to look far in the daily news to understand the stakes and the importance of having efficient solutions to control and stop bleeding. In the times we live in, where the world is crippled by a series of humanitarian catastrophes (some of natural origin, some of human origin), technological wonders from the medical field make me truly h…

To discover the whole episode type "#25 - Stopping a bleed in three seconds - Joe Landolina - Cresilon" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

How would the world look like if men had the most efficient and reversible means of birth control? The outstanding work that L.R. Fox and his team at NEXT Life Sciences are leading might bring a very tangible answer to this question. Based on the pioneering work from Prof. Sujoy K. Guha and The Parsemus Foundation, they are developing one of the mo…

To discover the whole episode type "#24 - Reimagining male contraception - L.R. Fox - NEXT Life Sciences" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

Wearables are a form of technology that has rapidly become a part of our lives over the past 15 years, with the introduction of devices from Fitbit, Apple, Samsung, and others to the market. Initially informing us about our heart rate and daily step count, they have evolved to incorporate increasingly sophisticated features, allowing us to track ou…

To discover the whole episode type "#23 - Disrupting the smart wearables industry - Leo Grünstein - Spiden" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

Given the rapid progress made in this field in recent years, autonomous vehicles could soon become part of our daily lives, bringing with them all the consequences and questions they raise in terms of modern mobility. This would benefit people with visual impairments who are unable to drive. However, it wouldn't necessarily assist them in their ped…

To discover the whole episode type "#22 - Harnessing self-driving technology to guide the visually impaired - Maël Fabien - Biped.ai" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

Few companies can claim to be a step ahead of tech giants in the wearable race. The Swiss company Aktiia can. They were the first to successfully bring to market a device capable of continuously and accurately measuring blood pressure, officially approved in Europe and soon to be in the US. All in a discreet bracelet that resembles a traditional je…

To discover the whole episode type "#21 - Transforming hypertension care with a bracelet - Jay Shah - Aktiia" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

Restoring one of our five senses, in this case, touch. The stakes are immense (1 in 1000 people are affected yearly by a peripheral nerve injury!) and the origins are diverse: traumatic accident, cancer, amputation, and many others. And solutions to this problem have long needed to be improved. Karen Zaderej and her team at Axogen have set themselv…

To discover the whole episode type "#20 - Restoring touch through nerve repair - Karen Zaderej - Axogen" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

We all know that medical data is sensitive personal information, which we would not like to have falling into the wrong hands. Along with the progress of digitalisation in healthcare, the number of cyberattacks towards this particular sector has dramatically increased over the past years. The ultimate risk? Slowed or even paralysed hospitals, with …

To discover the whole episode type "#19 - Saving lives through cybersecurity - Richard Staynings - Cylera" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

Most of our genome does not code for any protein, which led us to believe that 98% of our genetic material was useless. But what was initially termed as the “dark side of the genome” (which Star Wars fans will certainly appreciate!) turns out to play a crucial role in modulating our biology. It is in fact the software translating environmental fact…

To discover the whole episode type "#18 - The dark genome as the next revolution in drug discovery - Samir Ounzain - HAYA Therapeutics" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

How can we support each and every one of us in identifying and pursuing our goals towards a healthier life, in a world where access to care seems to be continuously shrinking? The solution may lie in health coaching and making it accessible across the globe. Having witnessed his wife successfully battling breast cancer and becoming a certified heal…

To discover the whole episode type "#17 - Coaching as the key to a better health - Eugene Borukhovich - YourCoach.Health" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

Starting a career in the Israeli army, becoming a lawyer, and finally transforming the field of medical imaging. In a very schematic way, this is what might define Ohad Arazi’s path, who is now spearheading the field of handheld ultrasound as the CEO of Clarius. His curiosity for medical imaging - coupled with a very product-oriented mindset and an…

To discover the whole episode type "#16 - Making ultrasound portable to transform medical imaging - Ohad Arazi - Clarius" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

Nicolas Durand is the CEO of Abionic, a Swiss-based startup which developed and commercialises the abioSCOPE®, a unique diagnostic platform characterised by its compact size and ability to deliver high quality results in a fraction of time. Passionate about high tech and wishing to become an entrepreneur from a very early age (he created his first …

To discover the whole episode type "#15 - Propelling diagnostics through miniaturization - Nicolas Durand - Abionic" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

Will the next revolution in personalized health be led by connected clothes? This is the bet that Vincent Martinez and his team at Nanoleq are making, and they are putting all their efforts into turning their vision into reality! Originally, their idea was to target the cable industry with a proprietary technology enabling to create stretchable cab…

To discover the whole episode type "#14 - Preserving our health with smart clothes - Vincent Martinez - Nanoleq" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

Developing a new drug is a tough and strenuous endeavour, requiring investments that go beyond $1 billion and sometimes up to 15 years of time. On top of that, only 1 out of 10 drug candidates successfully passes clinical trial testing and regulatory approval. The Dutch company Mimetas, specialized in the use of organ-on-a-chip technology, aims to …

To discover the whole episode type “#13 - Catalyzing drug discovery using organ-on-a-chip models - Bas Trietsch - Mimetas" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

Daniel Kraft is a surprising and admirable figure in the digital health landscape. Originally trained as a physician in internal medicine and pediatrics, he then distinguished himself by his research work focusing on regenerative medicine, while at the same time initiating several entrepreneurial projects in the medtech space. RegenMed Systems is o…

To discover the whole episode type “#12 - Unleashing the power of digital health - Daniel Kraft - Digital.Health" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

Miniaturizing the lab to allow for the continuous analysis of proteins and hormones circulating in our body through a wearable. This is the aim of Xsensio - a Swiss startup developing the Lab-on-Skin(c) platform - which will enable in the future to continuously track compounds present in the interstitial fluid, right underneath our skin. It is in e…

To discover the whole episode type “#11 - Turning the lab into a wearable platform - Esmeralda Megally - Xsensio" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

Most of us have already heard about blockchain technology, as well as many things about cryptocurrencies and how they are transforming traditional approaches in the field of finance. But what about its relevance to healthcare and the potential applications it may have in this space? Eberhard Scheuer is the President of the dHealth Foundation, a not…

To discover the whole episode type “#10 - Applying blockchain technology to healthcare - Eberhard Scheuer - dHealth Foundation" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

Raimundo Sierra is the Founder and CEO from VirtaMed, a Swiss company specialized in surgical simulation systems, covering interventions in orthopaedics, gynecology, laparoscopy and urology, providing true-to-life training for aspiring surgeons and established ones, as part of their continuing education. At the edge of robotics and gaming, Raimundo…

To discover the whole episode type “#9 - Creating the Gran Turismo of surgery - Raimundo Sierra - VirtaMed" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

Disclaimer: Nikolce and I both work for Roche, nevertheless all opinions expressed in this episode are our own and do not necessarily represent the position of our employer. Nikolce is leading the Organoid Engineering Group at the Roche Institute for Translational Bioengineering. Organoids are miniaturised versions of the organs and tissues that ma…

Disclaimer: Nikolce and I both work for Roche, nevertheless all opinions expressed in this episode are our own and do not necessarily represent the position of our employer. To discover the whole episode type “#8 - Using organoids to transform drug discovery - Nikolce Gjorevski - Roche” on your streaming platform.…

Naveed Ejaz is VP Product Strategy and Clinical Development (formerly Director of Digital Therapies) at MindMaze, the very first unicorn from Switzerland, pioneering the fascinating field of digital neurotherapeutics. Underneath these fluffy terms lies the concept of “software-as-a-medicine”, where pieces of code come together to drive a behavioura…

To discover the whole episode type "#7 - Redefining motor rehabilitation with digital neurotherapeutics - Naveed Ejaz - MindMaze" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

This is a special episode where we receive Saul Marquez, host of Outcomes Rocket, one of the leading podcast series in the healthcare space, having already interviewed key opinion leaders from the field throughout more than 1000 episodes! The format of the podcast is slightly different from the episodes produced so far as part of Impulse, with shor…

Bringing back mobility to those who lost it. This is the challenge that Jocelyne Bloch, neurosurgeon at the CHUV, together with the neuroscientist Grégoire Courtine from EPFL and their teams at .NeuroRestore and Onward set out to address. A decade after demonstrating that the technology developed by Prof. Courtine’s lab was able to bring back lower…

To discover the whole episode type “#6 - Bringing back walking to paraplegics - Jocelyne Bloch - .NeuroRestore” on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

Transforming our understanding of how our immune system works and how certain pathologies like cancer unfold: that is the mission to which Lunaphore has committed since 2014. Through a cutting-edge platform capable of accelerating complex staining and imaging procedures, the Swiss startup is pioneering what is now named “spatial biology”, recognize…

To discover the whole episode type "#5 - Transforming diagnostics through spatial biology - Déborah Heintze - Lunaphore" on your streaming platform.By Mathieu Chaffard

One consequence of the covid-19 crisis we are still going through is sepsis, a lethal misguided reaction of the immune system following an infection, currently responsible for 11 million deaths yearly on a global scale. Together with his team, Lukas Langenegger is addressing this life-threatening condition using a unique technology leveraging magne…