Lady Scientist Podcast

Supercharging Scientific Publishing with Dr. Jessica Polka of ASAPBio

“Science can only progress if others are able to read and build off of what has been learned in the past.” Jessica Polka shares this insight and many more in this convers

Building Software for Biologists with Dr. Vega Shah (Benchling)

Dr. Vega Shah was was like a gold miner during her undergraduate and graduate school studies, except instead of panning for gold, she was searching the metagenomes of oce

Biotech Platform and Product with Dr. Erandi De Silva, Co-Founder Forge Biologics

Scientist & entrepreneur, Dr. Erandi De Silva, grew up in the small country of Botswana, where she lived through an HIV epidemic. Seeing scientists and epidemiologists ha

De-Extinction, Patient Advocacy, and Journey To The C Suite With Claire Aldridge and Emily McGinnis

In this episode of Lady Scientist Podcast, Dr. Jocelynn Pearl hosts Emily McGinnis, Chief of Patient Advocacy at Taysha Gene Therapies, and Claire Aldridge, Chief Strateg

Dr. Madeleine Oudin - Cancer & Neuroscience Researcher, Rare Disease Mom

Dr. Madeleine Oudin knew she was interested in medicine and biology from a young age. She took a science track of courses in high school in France and went on to do her u

Crash Course in Yeast Chromatin with Dr. Christine Cucinotta

Today we’re joined by another awesome scientist, Dr. Christine Cucinotta. Christine studies gene regulation in yeast in her postdoctoral studies in the Tsukiyama Lab at t

Somalogic Scientist Spotlight!

In today’s episode of Lady Scientist Podcast, Jocelynn chats with Yolanda Hagar, Associate Director of Bioinformatics and Clare Paterson, Director of Clinical Research, b

CEO & Founder of Femasys, Kathy Lee-Sepsick, on Leading in Women’s Health Tech for 18 Years

Kathy Lee-Sepsick founded Femasys, a women’s health technology company, 18 years ago. Since then, she’s been the primary leader and inventor behind the company’s expansiv

Let’s Make the Change! Understanding Diabetes in Women with Dr. Stacey Gorniak

Research suggests that diabetes affects men and women quite differently! But did you know that the current standard treatment for type 2 diabetes is exactly the same for

Behind the Book, "Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19" with Co-author Dr. Alina Chan

Meet Dr. Alina Chan, a molecular biologist and author of Viral, a book she co-wrote with renowned science writer Matt Ridley, where they go on the hunt for the origin of

This Graduate Student Is Spilling the Sci-Tea!

Today, we’re sitting down with Ryan Brown, a psychology Ph.D. student from Rice University. She studies how relationships help people navigate stress during and after pre

Dr. Kiana Aran, CRISPR-Chip Inventor, Cardea CSO, Professor and Biomedical Device Pioneer

Meet Dr. Kiana Aran – recent winner of Nature's Award for Inspiring Women in Science and the brain behind The CRISPR-Chip™, also known as the DNA Search Engine as it can

This Biotech CEO Wants Your Dog to Live Longer, an Interview with Celine Halioua

Meet Celine Halioua, founder and CEO of Loyal, a biotech startup developing drugs to extend dog lifespan. In this episode of Lady Scientist Podcast, Celine reveals how a

Female Founder Dr. Lindsay Pino on her Career Journey to Founding Talus Bio

Five years ago, Lindsay could not have predicted she would one day found a biotech. Fast forward to today where she's cofounded Talus Bio and is leading technology develo

Psychedelic Scientist Spotlight with Dr. Allison Coker and Dr. Alia Lilienstein, MAPS PBC

In this special episode of LSP, we sit down with not one but two women from the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies - Public Benefit Corporation (MAPS PB

Dr. Kanaka Rajan, Computational Neuroscientist & Assistant Professor at Mt Sinai

Kanaka Rajan, Ph.D. is a Computational Neuroscientist and Assistant Professor at the Friedman Brain Institute at Mount Sinai in New York. Her research seeks to understand

Dr. Shon Green, Senior Director at Umoja Biopharma, Cancer Immunotherapy

Shon joined the cancer therapy field a little later than most. She was older than her graduate school peers, where she studied the dynamics of cancer in mouse models with

Dr. Lexi Walls, Coronavirus Spike Protein Expert, Structural Biologist, Vaccine Scientist

Lexi Walls set out to investigate coronaviruses back in 2015 when little was known about these large viruses and the spike protein that they use to gain entry into host c

Nikhita Singh, Robotics Engineer and Chief Product Officer at Artificial Inc.

Nikhita Singh has had a fascinating career thus far. She once led product design at Palantir and demo'd robots as part of her research at MIT Media Lab, experience that l

Dr. Christina Trojel-Hansen, Serial Biotech Entrepreneur and CEO

Christina was named Endpoints 20 under 40 for 2021 (article link: https://endpts.com/the-201-under-40-i...​). She's a serial biotech entrepreneur who has been a driving f