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The company offers FDA-approved medicines for pulmonary hypertension and neuroblastoma and is working on manufacturing an unlimited supply of transplantable organs.Dr. Rothblatt previously created and led Sirius XM as its Chairman and CEO and launched other satellite systems for navigation and international television broadcasting. In the field of aviation, her Sirius XM satellite system enhances safety with real-time digital weather information to pilots in flight nationwide. She also designed the world’s first electric helicopter and piloted it to a Guinness world record for speed, altitude, and flight duration.In the legal arena, Dr. Rothblatt led efforts of the transgender community to establish their own health law standards and of the International Bar Association to protect autonomy rights in genetic information via an international treaty. She also published dozens of scholarly articles and papers on the law of outer space, resulting in her election to the International Institute of Space Law, and represented the radio astronomy community’s scientific research interests before the Federal Communications Commission.She has bachelor’s (communications studies, summa cum laude), JD (Order of the Coif) and MBA degrees from UCLA, which in 2018 awarded her its highest recognition, the UCLA Medal, and she holds a PhD in medical ethics from the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Her patented inventions cover aspects of satellite communication, medicinal biochemistry, and cognitive software.Dr. Rothblatt’s recent books are on xenotransplantation (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Revival-Geoethics-Interests-Xenotransplantation-Routledge-dp-1138709476/dp/1138709476/?tag=offsitoftimfe-20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Your Life or Mine</a>), gender identity (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Transgender-Transhuman-Manifesto-Freedom-Form/dp/0615489427/?tag=offsitoftimfe-20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Transgender to Transhuman</a>), and cyberethics (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Virtually-Human-Promise_and-Peril_of-Immortality/dp/1250046912/?tag=offsitoftimfe-20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Virtually Human</a>). 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#487: Dr. Martine Rothblatt — The Incredible Polymath of Polymaths

By Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig