Macrofab Engineering Podcast

Matt has been teaching Robotics and Embedded Systems at the University of Advancing Technology since 2019. Before that, he worked in the pharmaceutical Industry for 15 years, primarily for Cardinal Health where he made radiopharmaceuticals (radioactive drugs) and worked as the Quality Unit in production for seven years, before switching to R&D as a Senior Principal Scientist. Guests:Matthew Prater from the University of Advancing TechnologyIncreasing the dosage Matt on how he began making radiopharmaceuticals Going from manufacturing five to thousands of doses a day Programming robotics…with an Excel sheet? Enviable synthesis machines Up Late to Fight Cancer Baking radioactive fluorine Cancer cells that eat and make babies Chemistry and Robots “$130,000 to go from 23 seconds to forever” Check flights to Fargo at 3 AM before drugs died House and ER and radioactivity and PET in cancer treatments Getting the fluorine carbon bond to happen where you want to A little bit of spicy sugar The F-18 Radioactive Tr