November 02, 2024

397. From ADHD to Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Harvard: How Jeff Karp, PhD, Developed LIT Tools to Transform His Life and Medicine

45 minutes

In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Tom Loarie talks with Jeff Karp, PhD, one of the most innovative minds in medical science. Jeff is a professor of biomedical engineering at Harvard Medical School and MIT, and he leads the Karp Lab, which has pioneered bio-inspired technologies that have led to the formation of 12 companies. His groundbreaking work includes a tissue glue that can seal holes in a beating heart and a ‘smart needle’ that stops automatically upon reaching its target.  Dr. Jeff Karp has been honored as an Outstanding Faculty Mentor at MIT and as the top graduate student mentor at Harvard-MIT. Jeff is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Dr. Karp will share insights from his discovery of Life Ignition Tools (LIT)—a toolkit that came from overcoming ADHD and put him on a path for doing great things with his life. Jeff will explain how this toolkit can help people break free perceived constraints and/or autopilot…and it will ignite you for great things as well. Listen to THE MENTORS RADIO podcast anywhere, any time, on any platform, just click here!

SHOW NOTES:

JEFF KARP, PhD:

BIO: https://www.jeffkarp.com/author/

BOOKS:

LIT: Life Ignition Tools: Use Nature's Playbook to Energize Your Brain, Spark Ideas, and Ignite Action, by Jeff Karp and Teresa Barker

Micro- and Nanoengineering of the Cell Surface (Micro and Nano Technologies), by Jeffrey Karp, Welan Zhao

Biology and Engineering of Stem Cell Niches, by Ajaykumar Vishwakarma (Editor), Jeffrey M Karp (Editor)

WEBSITES:

https://www.jeffkarp.com/

https://www.karplab.net/

SOCIAL MEDIA:

Instagram: @mrjeffkarp