'Voices From DARPA' Podcast, Episode 18: The Disease Slayer

In this episode of Voices from DARPA, COL Matthew Hepburn, a program manager since 2013 with the Agency’s Biological Technologies Office (BTO), explains how his urgent ambition to develop ways and means of disarming current and emerging infectious and pandemic diseases—think here of Ebola, influenza, and Chikungunya—has led to a portfolio of go-for-the-gold programs that ultimately could reduce human suffering by an immeasurable degree. A biomedical engineer, physician and global disease fighter by training and experience, Matt has known since he was a child that taking care of people was going to be his mission and he says DARPA is a place where he might be able to carry out that childhood dream to an extreme that would not be possible elsewhere.

[doopy]

Thank you DARPA. Your work is important and I have always had high respect since a young child.

[saketkumar]

Great Chat !! Very encouraged to be contributing in building the solutions to these diseases.

[ianpallak]

Im inspired, but I want to here more about what is being done not kissing your own asses so that I can develop a system for people who may be positive with no symptoms come in contact with a airborne inoculation with no side effects, and just release it in the air specifically in highly populated areas were the outbreaks are most prevalent .

[garyshields]

EMP's probably won't go through glass(unleaded) & distilled water. An emp shield made up of a hollow glass jar filled with distilled water might work-however-it's temperature sensitive(could freeze shattering the jar) Patriot missiles & jets need EMP shielding.

[scottlawder]

Filtering your blood for pathogens. That is very interesting.