Adam Torres and Dr. Robert Schiestl discuss the Cardiovascular Tech Forum
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Listen to the Cardiovascular Tech Forum coverage. In this episode, Adam Torres and Dr. Robert Schiestl, Professor and Entrepreneur, explore the Cardiovascular Tech Forum.
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About Dr. Robert Schiestl
Dr. Schiestl received his Ph.D. in Biology and Genetics from the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1983. He is currently a Professor Emeriti of Pathology, Environmental Health and Radiation Oncology. Previously, he served as Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Cancer Cell Biology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is Director of the UCLA Center for Environmental Genomics and a current member of the UCLA Cancer Center, UCLA Center of Occupational and Environmental Health, UCLA Interdepartmental Program in Molecular Toxicology (Faculty Advisory Committee), and UCLA ACCESS Graduate Program steering committee. He is also a member of the Planning Committee for the Environmental Mutagen Society meeting as well as Chair and Speak at the Symposium on “Genetic Instability” which will be held on March 11-15, 2003 at Miami Beach, Florida.
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Hey, I’d like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres, and if you’d like to apply to be a guest in the show, just head on over to missionmatters. com and click on be our guest to apply. All right. So today I am in Newport, California, and I am at the Cardiovascular Tech Forum.
And my guest today is Dr. Robert Schistel, Dr. Welcome to the show. Thank you so much. All right. So a lot going on today at this tech forum. What, what brings you out today? Oh, I’m a member of Octane and I go to all the Octane conferences. Yeah. Have you been to this particular one in Newport? It’s my, my first time.
No, this is actually a first time at cardiovascular, but I go to all the other Octane conferences. What, why, what are some of the reasons that you like going to the Octane events? I do networking and tell people about what I do. Mm hmm. And. Get investors, get people interested in things. Yeah. Lots of things.
Networking. Yes. Yeah. I find the crowd and also the content, right? Like when I watch some of the panels up there and I’m like, man, every time I go to something, I always want to take, have some takeaways. Yes. Absolutely. What has been one of your favorite parts of the conference so far? Oh, just talking to people, networking, they’re always very nice to me, their food everything.
I agree with that. That one’s to the hotel. Yes. The food is amazing here. Yes. I’ll take that. And I know that I know you’re, you work on a lot of different projects. So I’ll ask you, what kind of projects are you working on that you can talk about? What kind of things you got going on? Maybe whatever doesn’t need FDA approval, which is my cosmetic and my probiotic.
Mm. So. Tell me a little bit more about that. So my cosmetic makes everybody beautiful, and it also has medical applications, but some of those need FDA approval. How’d you get it? Everybody, yeah, what I do is health, beauty, and sanity. How did you get, how’d you get into that industry? Like health and beauty, like what drew you to that?
Oh, because I like everybody beautiful. Hold on, really? So you, I mean, I know you Lots of beauty queens. Really? And so how, like how, what was your first, like, like your first introduction when you were like, you know what? I want to pursue this just as an entrepreneur, a lot, by the way, a lot of entrepreneurs watch this.
I’m a serial entrepreneur. I have 16 patents in six companies. So what got you into beauty originally? Like a lot of different things entrepreneurs can do. Like what got you into it? Do you remember? Because I like to look at beautiful. Yeah. people. Wow. Even guys can be more beautiful. Absolutely. I agree with that.
I’m working on it. No, I can’t get rid of all the anyway, all the cosmetic surgeries. Yeah. Yeah. That’s amazing. And then you mentioned also probiotics. So you have another, we’ll talk about that a little bit. So the probiotic also has medical applications, but it, it has, yeah, it actually, Probiotic by itself doesn’t need FDA approval unless you claim medical application, medical functions.
What got you into that part of it? Belly feeling and lots of, so, yeah. And we can produce 2, 000 tons per year of my probiotic currently. Wow. How did you get into that business? As a serial entrepreneur, I’m always, I’m always interested in like, and you can’t, and this can’t be your answer because I like gut health.
I want you to be beautiful on the outside and the inside. Actually, the gut is influencing everything. Yeah. Oh. And there’s a gut brain axis, even the brain and actually 95 percent of all surgery is made in the guts, not in the brain. And it influences everything in your body. So I want to talk about entrepreneurship just for a bit here.
So there’s a lot of entrepreneurs that watch this show and a lot of maybe even would be serial entrepreneurs that are launching different businesses, but How do you go about your process of deciding what type of next project you’re going to work on? Like, how do you make those decisions for yourself? I observe.
So what I do rather than designing something from specific disease, I use what I have for all other diseases. And anyway, yeah. So, so so I want to go take that a little step further. Cause I think there’s a lot we can learn from that because, so you’re not, you’re not jumping from like one project to another.
It’s like, it’s building, it’s buildings in the problem. With looking for treating a particular disease is that you have all those negative side effects Which you don’t really observe initially when you do your your screen and your your animal Effects you only find that in people and that’s that’s part part of the problem Mm hmm.
And so now you have an open approach then You can try different things. Yeah. And so now let’s, let’s take that a little bit further. So now you’re building on maybe some other work or some ideas that you’ve had. You’re going further. Now when you’re And whenever you find something new, you can find a new patent or a CIP or, yeah.
And so now, not to, and obviously this is a short podcast interview, so not to oversimplify, but like, so now you have an idea or you have a concept or you have a thing, what, what do you do next? Like, what’s the next part of your process? How do you think about whether you’re going to actually bring this to market?
You talk to people, you get feedback, you present things, all the conferences, I go to lots of different conferences, tons of things. And I’m a member of 180 different clubs. All the city clubs, all the country clubs, and talk to people too. And so when you start getting that feedback, does that kind of give you the, the like, okay, this has some legs, this might be okay for the market.
And then you tweak it and you take into account what other people tell you what your, your patients tell you and so on. Yeah. Yeah, sure. I’m guessing sometimes ideas are maybe like. Too far ahead, like maybe the market might be a great idea, but the market might not be ready for it. Does that ever happen?
Like you have some ideas and you’re not No, no, no, no. You, you just have to try things out. And when you see effect, you observe effects. Then when it’s ready. And so now, and then that’s when you make You can never be too much ahead. Because It only makes sense once it works. Oh, see what I mean? Yeah. So the market wouldn’t even, it wouldn’t even move for it then anyway, like when you’re presenting, when you’re doing the ideas and yes, then you can present it.
Yes. See, I wanted to, I’ve been wanting to get you on the show for a while. Cause I wanted to learn your process because I feel like, you know, every entrepreneur have their different processes and their different ways of going about it. So to see your end on what you can do that’s interesting to me.
Well, I know that you got a lot to do here at the conference. I know I only had you here for a couple of minutes, but if somebody wants to follow you on social media or go to your, one of your websites, or how do people connect in general? If you look up my name on the internet, you find 14, 000 pages. Oh, best interview of the day.
Well, well, Dr. Schuster, I want to say Thank you for coming on the show today. It’s been an absolute pleasure. I was happy to finally get you on into the audience as always. Thank you for tuning in. If you haven’t done it yet, make sure you hit that subscribe or follow button. This is a daily show each and every day.
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