Month / February 2022
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Tarris Rosell – Center for Practical Bioethics
Episode 17:
Tarris Rosell is the Rosemary Flanigan Chair at the Center for Practical Bioethics and faculty at the Central Baptist Theological Seminary. With extensive experience providing bioethics education and consultation at Kansas City University and the University of Kansas Medical Center, Tarris provides some excellent perspectives on the things that must be considered when discussing immortality.
In this episode, Tarris explains how we ought to try and provide the same quality of healthcare to everyone, no matter their personal decisions in life. He also shares why the rejection of life extension is not the same as refusing life by comparing it to cases where people have opted to reject certain technologies and therapies. Finally, Tarris also gives some thought as to what Protestant Christians might think of life extension.
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Michael Trinh – BioDojo Co-Founder, Immunology/Genome Biology Student
Episode 16:
Michael Trinh is an Immunology and Genome Biology student at the University of Toronto. He is also the Co-Founder of BioDojo, a community for students to learn about the frameworks for scientific innovation as well as providing them with a platform to learn about and engage with the biotech industry.
In this episode, Michael gives his thoughts on everything from immune memory and developments in synthetic biology to implications of genetic editing and problems of uploading a consciousness. Towards the end, Michael also gives some excellent advice on how undergraduate students can get involved in research themselves.
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Liz Parrish – BioViva & Gene Therapy
Episode 15:
Liz Parrish is the CEO of BioViva, a company whose goal is to genetically modify humans so that the body continuously stays in a state of homeostasis, as well as a graduate from Buckinghamshire University for her International MBA.
In this episode, she provides insight on the work BIoViva is doing, various gene therapies, her acts as a pioneer, statins, telomerase, the benefits and deficits of medical tourism, and present and future technologies that can help extend life.
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Oliver Zolman – Longevity Levels, Sleep, Medical Doctor Perspectives
Episode 14:
Oliver Zolman is a Medical Doctor graduating from King’s College London, and founder of 20one Consulting Ltd. With a Medicine Degree under his belt, alongside his vast experience with solving-level problems in health care and aging, Oliver provides a never heard before perspective on Im a Mortal about the field of Aging and Longevity.
In this episode, he shares and describes his Longevity Levels framework and the three levels, how sleep quantity and quality differ and affect our aging, more reasons for you to drink wine, and the longevity field’s role in medicine and academia; all from a doctor’s perspective.
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