Articles by Sam Roome PhD

Meet The Lab Heroes Awards™ 2024 Winner

Meet The Lab Heroes Awards™ 2024 Winner

The winner of our Lab Heroes Awards™ 2024 has been chosen! Find out which inspiring scientist has scooped our top prize, and read about the 10 runners-up who’ve been named this year’s Lab Stars!

Meet our Early Career Scientist Grant Winner Chanpreet Kaur

Meet our Early Career Scientist Grant Winner Chanpreet Kaur

It’s time to meet another of our Early Career Scientist Grant winners! Chanpreet Kaur is a researcher at Loyola University Chicago, USA, and is the next lucky recipient of our monthly $500 career grant! Find out more about Chanpreet, and how the grant will support her career development.

Conversation Starters: 10 Dream Dinner Dates with Scientists

Conversation Starters: 10 Dream Dinner Dates with Scientists

If you could have dinner with any scientist, dead or alive, who would it be? We asked ten life science researchers to tell us about their dream dinner dates from the world of science! From historical heroes to social media icons, the list is fascinating, and gives us real food for thought!

Meet our Early Career Scientist Grant Winner Denise Ragusa

Meet our Early Career Scientist Grant Winner Denise Ragusa

We’re delighted to introduce Denise Ragusa - the latest winner of our monthly Early Career Scientist Grant! Denise is a life science postdoc at the Brunel University of London, UK, and in this great interview she told us more about her research and the scientists she admires the most!

The Science Behind Five Favorite Thanksgiving Side Dishes

The Science Behind Five Favorite Thanksgiving Side Dishes

If you’re leaving the lab for a traditional Thanksgiving celebration this year, you’ll no doubt be ready for a feast! But do you know the science behind some of our favorite holiday foods? Which chemical reactions make these heart-warming dishes so delicious? We delve into the science behind our five favorite Thanksgiving side dishes!

10 Award-Winning Female Scientists of 2024

10 Award-Winning Female Scientists of 2024

As we reach the end of 2024, we’d like to shine a spotlight on some of the inspiring female scientists who have won awards for their research this year. The Nobel Prizes may not have awarded any women in science this year, but we’re more than happy to champion these 10 Award-Winning Female Scientists of 2024.

Nominations Are Now Open For The Lab Heroes Awards™ 2024!

Nominations Are Now Open For The Lab Heroes Awards™ 2024!

It’s time to celebrate the shining stars in your lab by nominating them for the Lab Heroes Awards™ 2024! Nominations are now open for our annual celebration of the science world’s brightest and most inspiring superstars, and we want YOU to tell us about the colleague who makes your lab a better place!

The Life Scientists’ Guide to Lab Harmony

The Life Scientists’ Guide to Lab Harmony

How can lab leaders promote harmony within a competitive science lab? How can you ensure your colleagues get along and work together productively? In this great new guide we’ve gathered advice from experienced scientists on keeping things running smoothly in the lab and building an effective and harmonious team!

Career Spotlights: Scientific Project Manager

Career Spotlights: Scientific Project Manager

In our new Science Career Spotlights series, we’re having great conversations with scientists about their unique career journeys! Next in our series is Agnese Solari, a Scientific Project Manager at Pharmadoc who told us about her transition from a PhD student researching brain tumours to a collaborative manager within the pharmaceutical sector!

Interviews with Scientists: Mark Hunt

Interviews with Scientists: Mark Hunt

We’re pleased to bring you another installment of our Interviews with Scientists series, and this week we spoke to Mark Hunt of the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Poland. He told us all about his research work into the effects of ketamine on the brain, as well as his academic business services and how he uses TikTok to share scientific writing tips with others!