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EPISODE · Jan 23, 2026 · 46 MIN

From Iran to Innovation: How This Biotech Pioneer is Reforming Medicine & Fighting FDA Bureaucracy

from Grey Matter · host Leighton Grey K.C.

Human stories. Real impact. Essential listening. Dr. Shoshana Shulman, biotech entrepreneur and vice chair of Columbia University Medical Center's board of advisors, shares her remarkable journey from a first-generation Iranian-American immigrant to pioneering treatments for rare diseases. Discover why the FDA needs urgent reform, how obesity became a medical crisis, and what it really takes to bring life-saving drugs to patients. A candid conversation about building meaningful change in medicine, science, and society.

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