Moira Gunn

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Moira Gunn
Moira Gunn speaks in October 2014
Born	New York City, U.S.
Nationality	American
Education	University of San Francisco (BS) Purdue University (MS) Purdue University (PhD)
Known for	Public Radio host

Moira Gunn is both an academic and a professional journalist. She is perhaps best known as the host of the public radio program Tech Nation, its regular segment BioTech Nation, as well as the weekly tech-sci commentary, Five Minutes. It airs on the National Public Radio "NPR Now" channel at SiriusXM 122, public radio stations both nationally and internationally, and the Internet in a number of podcast syndication outlets podcast. A former NASA computer scientist and engineer, Dr. Gunn is an associate professor at the University of San Francisco,^[1] where she is the Director of Bioentrepreneurship, where her work on BioTech Nation dovetails with academic, reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of moving scientific breakthroughs on the lab bench through to the commercial products.

On Tech Nation, Gunn's focus has always been on the societal impact of technology and science, understanding the nature of innovation, and giving everyday listeners a sense of how to deal with the technological tsunami around them. The BioTech Nation segments, in particular, explore the new vision of humanity with afforded by the information of DNA, the evolution of medical treatments, the expanded capabilities of Digital Health, and the challenge of protecting individual privacy while the collective information of all may be necessary to address many of the challenges we face today. Media contact information is available on the Tech Nation website

Academically, Bioentrepreneurship courses are throughout the university as they require the successful collaboration of multi-disciplinary expertise. This includes science, intellectual property, venture capital, bioenterprise finance, bioenterprise law, strategic market insights, regulatory expertise, biostrategic media relations, bioethics, bioenterprise information systems, social policy and multinational expertise. Gunn's graduate courses include: Legal-Social-Ethical Impact of Biotech, Global & US Regulatory Affairs, Bioinnovation Management, and Local-National-Global Bioenterprise, as well as study tours to leading global bioclusters, including Washington, DC, London-Oxford-Cambridge, Switzerland, Ireland/Northern Ireland, Australia, Montreal/Quebec, Puerto Rico and San Diego. A new course is scheduled for Spring, 2021 - Biotech's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.