ABOUT THE GUESTS
Gregory
Stock
Research professor of genetics and genomic studies & Co-Director of the Harris Center for Precision Wellness, Icahn School of Medicine, Mt. Sinai
Dr. Gregory Stock is a leading authority on the broad impacts of advanced technologies in the life sciences. He was co-founder and CEO of Signum Biosciences, a Princeton-based biotechnology company developing therapeutics for Alzheimer’s, and of Ecoeos, a personalized healthcare company with an at-home genetic test for susceptibility to mercury. Stock was the founder and Director of the Program on Medicine, Technology and Society at UCLA’s School of Medicine where he explored critical technologies poised to reshape medical science, healthcare, and the world as a whole. His program catalyzed broad policy debate about how best to translate research advances into improved therapeutics and care.
Dr. Stewart
Prager
Director, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Stewart Prager was the sixth director of PPPL. He joined the Laboratory in 2009 after a long career at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. At Wisconsin, he led research on the “Madison Symmetric Torus” (MST) experiment and headed a center that studied plasmas in both the laboratory and the cosmos.
Edmund
Lee
Managing Editor, Recode
Edmund Lee has been a journalist for two decades. He got his start at the Village Voice, where he wrote about everything from Asian gangsters to amateur arm wrestling tourneys. Before joining Recode, he was the media reporter for Bloomberg News and Businessweek magazine, and he occasionally jabbered on Bloomberg TV. He has worked for, or contributed to, various newsrooms and websites since then, including the New York Times, Portfolio magazine, Women’s Wear Daily, W magazine, Vibe and Advertising Age.