The Commons
Conversations featuring researchers, innovators, artists, entrepreneurs, community builders, and thought leaders who are improving the human condition in their own backyard and across the globe.
Podcasting since 2020 • 61 episodes
The Commons
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Season 5 Trailer
We are midway through 2025, and today’s innovation landscape can be called anything but stable.Universities are grappling with a combination of macro challenges— slashed research budgets, shrinking state support, punitive immigration pol...
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Season 5
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4:31
Unlocking the Future of Medicine: A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Dr. Drew Weissman and Dr. Jim Hoxie of The Penn Institute for RNA Innovation
Host, Thomas Osha, visits The Penn Institute for RNA Innovation and sits down with directors Dr. Drew Weissman and Dr. Jim Hoxie.Dr. Weissman's was recently awarded the Nobel Prize for groundbreaking work that has fundamentally tr...
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Season 4
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Episode 22
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29:47
Talent for Today and Tomorrow: A Conversation with Career Expert Julie Bauke
Host, Thomas Osha speaks with, Julie Bauke, one of the foremost authorities on the business imperatives and the psychological factors that play into shifts in the talent and career landscape. Julie has worked with corporate executiv...
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Season 4
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Episode 21
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37:26
Venture Capital Update: A Conversation with Illumina Ventures Partner, Mara Aspinall
Host, Thomas Osha sits down with Mara Aspinall, partner with Illumina Ventures to discuss the current state of venture capital in life sciences, Genomics 3.0, and other innovation topics.This is the final "live" interview from the BIO I...
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Season 4
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Episode 20
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14:41
Slamming Cancer: A Conversation with Steve Potts, CEO of SLAM BioTherapeutics
Commons host, Thomas Osha, catches up with serial entrepreneur, Steve Potts, to discuss his latest venture, SLAM BioTherapeutics. Slam Bio is developing a platform of first-in-class monoclonal antibody therapies and antibody-drug conjugat...
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Season 4
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Episode 19
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10:08