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Dig into the leading edge of pediatric research with scientists from Stanley Manley Children's Research Institute at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, one of the nation's largest freestanding pediatric research centers. On each episode, Patrick Seed, MD, PhD, president and chief research officer of Stanley Manley Children's Research Institute, talks with experts chasing solutions to the most pressing health challenges faced by kids and teens today.

When Peter Piot was in medical school, a professor warned, "There’s no future in infectious diseases. They’ve all been solved." Fortunately, Piot ignored him, and the result has been an exceptional, adventure-filled career. In the 1970s, as a young man, Piot was sent to Central Africa as part of a team tasked with identifying a grisly new virus. Crossing into the quarantine zone on the most dangerous missions, he studied local customs to determine how this disease - the Ebola virus - was spreading. Later, Piot found himself in the field again when another mysterious epidemic broke out: AIDS.