Episode 297: Medical Innovation

Episode 297 originally broadcast on February 12, 2011

It all began with doctors at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center seeking a better way to manage pain with fewer side effects. Russ visits with Danguole Altman, co-founder of Vapogenix, an early stage pain management company. Even in medicine, innovation is entrepreneurial.

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Russ and John present the show about those who make business happen, the people who hire people, innovate and make the economy go. We’re on the brink of our 300th episode! Includes: the BusinessMakers Quote of the Week—a clever political observation from P.J. O’Rourke. This Week in Business History includes innovation and controversy among Alexander Graham Bell, the Church of Scientology and Facebook; the Jargon Challenge Round—trendy technospeak that YOU should know; and Dumb Moments in Business History—the Super Bowl could have been done better.

Danguole Altman - Vapogenix

Russ visits with Danguole Altman, co-founder of Vapogenix, an early stage pain management company. The company is developing a new class of localized, non-narcotic pain medication that will work directly on the affected nerves, having fewer side effects because it is not absorbed by the entire body. It all began with doctors at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center seeking to use existing drugs more efficiently to better manage pain without the threat of addiction; the Vapogenix technology is now in the early stages of research. Even in medicine, innovation is entrepreneurial.

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