{"id":2566,"date":"2014-04-03T10:15:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T10:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2015-11-16T18:45:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T18:45:52","slug":"kevin-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/kevin-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 105: President of Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory Dr. Kevin Strange"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong>\u00a0105
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0March 29
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Kevin Strange
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Dr. Kevin Strange, President of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, <\/a>was born and raised in California.\u00a0 He holds bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in Biology from the University of California at Davis.\u00a0 Strange received his doctorate in Cellular and Molecular Physiology from the University of British Columbia.\u00a0 Before arriving in Maine, Strange was associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Critical Care Research Laboratories at Children\u2019s Hospital in Boston.<\/p>\n

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Steve Woods (left) host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe welcomed\u00a0President of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory\u00a0Dr. Kevin Strange.<\/p><\/div>\n

Strange is an expert in the field of cellular stress biology and leads groundbreaking research into how proteins are damaged by environmental stressors and how cells detect, degrade and repair these damaged proteins.\u00a0 This work is vital to understanding the degenerative changes that occur as humans age.\u00a0 Strange described for Stevoe what cellular stress biology is and the research currently being done to slow the aging process.<\/p>\n

Strange joined MDIBLas President in 2010.\u00a0 In 2013, Strange was named as one of ten Maine \u201cinnovative business people” who “hold tremendous promise for the state\u201d and its future economy by MaineBiz.<\/p>\n

In 2013, together with assistant professor Dr. Voot Yin, he founded MDI Biological Laboratory\u2019s first spinout company, Novo Biosciences, Inc.\u00a0 Novo Biosciences is a regenerative medicine company developing small molecule therapies that reactivate and stimulate innate healing abilities in humans and animals. The two founded this company to accelerate the testing and development of a novel drug for patients with heart disease.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1898, The MDI Biological Laboratory is a non-profit, independent biomedical research institution dedicated to improving human health and well-being through basic research, education and ventures that transform discoveries into cures.\u00a0 The MDI Biological Laboratory is located in the Bar Harbor area on Mount Desert Island in Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Woods host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe was joined by the President of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory to talk science, technology and education in Maine. The two also discussed the research MDIBL conducts and the education they provide, as well as Darwin’s The Origin of Species and how it is the fundamentals of modern biology. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}