Biotech and Economics Converge in Artribune Podcast Episode

The latest episode of the podcast "Contemporaneamente" by Mariantonietta Firmani, distributed by Artribune and Parallelo42, features a dialogue between biotechnologist Ennio Tasciotti and economist Lucrezia Reichlin. The conversation explores parallels between biological and economic systems, touching on cellular regeneration, economic models, and data management. Tasciotti, a professor of biotechnology at Università San Raffaele in Rome and director of the Human Longevity Program at IRCCS, has secured over $50 million in funding since 2010, including $15 million from the US Department of Defense for wound regeneration and $10 million from the NIH for cancer therapies. He holds 12 international patents. Reichlin, a professor of economics at London Business School, is a trustee of the IFRS Foundation and a member of Bruegel. She previously served as director general of research at the European Central Bank and co-founded now-casting economics ltd. She won the 2016 Birgit Grodal Award. The podcast delves into topics such as the body's daily regeneration of 300 billion cells, the failure of economic models to address poverty, and contrasting data management approaches in the US (insurance-driven) and Italy (state-driven for healthcare efficiency).