28: Paul Nurse: The power of genetics, battling politicians, and the fight against cancer
The Rest Is Politics: Leading
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🗓️ 24 July 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by London Business School, and it's a business school I'm |
| 0:08.7 | very happy to endorse because Shoshana my wife did an MBA at London Business School. She |
| 0:13.1 | found it incredibly useful, and actually I've had the pleasure over the years of doing |
| 0:16.8 | a certain amount with London Business School too. What this school really does is I think |
| 0:20.2 | give you an extraordinary opportunity because it has excellent teaching of critical business |
| 0:25.8 | skills. London Business School has got a fantastic track record of helping graduates achieve their |
| 0:30.4 | career goals in a huge variety of industries, finance, consultancy, technology, entrepreneurship, |
| 0:36.4 | 91 percent of the 2022 MBA class accepted a job offer within three months of graduating. |
| 0:42.0 | So if you're looking to invest in what London Business School would call the career of a lifetime, |
| 0:46.7 | the MBA team would love to hear from you. For more information visit London.edu forward slash |
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| 1:02.0 | Welcome to the rest of sporties leading with me, Anastacamble. And with me, Rory Stewart. |
| 1:06.7 | And we have our first Nobel Prize winner in front of us. We haven't had an MBA. Have we? |
| 1:13.2 | We haven't had Nobel Prize. And it may be cleverer than you. I don't know where the |
| 1:16.5 | is definitely on a power, definitely on a power. If I were doing this interview because one of |
| 1:21.4 | this person's students got in touch with me and said if you're interviewing really great people |
| 1:25.6 | on your podcast, you've got to get Sir Paul Nurse. That is the first and last time I shall use |
| 1:32.0 | your neighborhood. Is that okay? I'm absolutely delighted about that. Well, why do you tell us why |
| 1:38.0 | you got the Nobel Prize? What is the thing that you did? Well, I got it mainly because I was very |
| 1:44.8 | lucky. It has to be said. Not modest actually as many scientists who deserve the Nobel Prize. |
| 1:51.6 | But what it was for, and I did it with two other colleagues, what it was for was for working out |
| 1:58.8 | the mechanism by which the division of the cell is undergoes a division from one to two. Now, |
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