Saloni Dattani | Pathways to Progress
Saloni Dattani, researcher on global health at Our World in Data and a founder and editor at Works in Progress, joins Berke Celik to discuss global health R&D, snake bites, and the challenges in collecting health data.
Check out Saloni's blog and work at Our World in Data.
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Saloni Dattani - The Hidden Bottleneck Holding Back the Future of Medicine (Ep. 312)
Saloni Dattani, author of the Scientific Discovery Substack and founding editor of Works in Progress magazine, joins Infinite Loops to discuss why medical innovation is often much slower than it needs to be. We explore why so much research still begins in animal models, how poor data distorts our...
Inventing the second malaria vaccine with Katharine Collins
Malaria is caused not by a virus or bacterium, but by a complex, shape-shifting parasite that has evolved alongside us for millennia. This has made vaccine development a brutal challenge.
In this episode, Jacob and Saloni are joined by Katharine Collins, who co-invented the second malaria vaccine...
Inventing the second malaria vaccine with Katharine Collins
Malaria is caused not by a virus or bacterium, but by a complex, shape-shifting parasite that has evolved alongside us for millennia. This has made vaccine development a brutal challenge.
In this episode, Jacob and Saloni are joined by Katharine Collins, who co-invented the second malaria vaccine...
Ep 445: 'I Am Saloni and I Like Collecting Mice'
She's one of the best writers on science today, combining optimism about progress with a realist understanding of the messiness of our world. Saloni Dattani joins Amit Varma in episode 445 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss science, medicine, data, academia and how to make the world a better p...
Are miracle drugs hiding in plain sight?
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GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro have transformed the treatment of obesity ...
Are miracle drugs hiding in plain sight?
GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro have transformed the treatment of obesity as well as diabetes, help treat heart disease, kidney disease, sleep apnea, and maybe even Alzheimer’s. But they are far from the only medicine with more than one use. Aspirin, colchicine, minoxidil, and Viagra were a...
We’ve solved many medical mysteries. Where are the cures? | Saloni Dattani
Science communicator Saloni Dattani traces the quiet revolution of medical innovation that has slashed death rates from conditions like heart disease and malaria — and reveals the broken incentives that have delayed other lifesaving treatments for decades. "Diseases are not a fact of life," she s...
Can we switch off diseases?
** We’ve paused the Works in Progress podcast feed, so head over to our dedicated Hard Drugs podcast feed to listen to future episodes, if you hadn’t subscribed there already! https://harddrugs.worksinprogress.co/ **What if treating diseases was as simple as telling your cells to stop making a ha...
Can we switch off diseases?
What if treating diseases was as simple as telling your cells to stop making a harmful protein? That’s the premise of siRNA, a technology that silences genes without changing DNA. Just a single dose of siRNA can last for months. Better, it can be reprogrammed to silence a different gene or mutati...
