Unlocking Gene Therapy with Gaurav Shah

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🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Are rare diseases themselves rare? Neil deGrasse Tysonand comedian Chuck Nice learn about the science of gene therapy and how it can treat and potentially cure rare diseases with Gaurav Shah, CEO, Rocket Pharma.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Star Talk, we feature my interview with the CEO and co-founder of Rocket Pharma.
0:07.6	This is a company in New Jersey that specializes in finding cures for genetic ailments using gene therapy.
0:18.0	More on that coming up.
0:22.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:23.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:29.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:32.6	All right, let's get this party started.
0:36.6	I don't know if we would have done this
0:38.4	if the name of your company didn't have the word rocket in it.
0:41.6	I know. I know. I know I know so if I yeah you know before this we
0:47.2	got duped into doing something for rocket mortgage. It's RKT, not RKT.
0:54.0	Okay, well, different, different, different, ticker.
0:56.7	Different, talk ticker.
0:57.7	Yeah, exactly.
0:58.9	So, if I have a hundred questions for you and I'm just wondering the fact that you had a
1:07.2	telescope as a kid and so you have you have a science geek underbelly within you,
1:13.2	Astro Science Geek Underbelly.
1:16.0	So, would you have rather have been an astrophysicist?
1:19.1	Like, did you just stumble into this field?
1:21.8	Yeah, what are you doing wasting your life on this crime?
1:24.4	Saving lives and saving lives and curing disease. Yeah, yeah, you could have been
1:31.2	completely useless like the rest of us.
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