Scientist Interviews

Meet Our Lab Heroes Awards™ 2020 Runner-Up: Dr. Abiola Isawumi

Meet Our Lab Heroes Awards™ 2020 Runner-Up: Dr. Abiola Isawumi

Meet the first of our Lab Heroes AwardsTM 2020 runners-up, Dr. Abiola Isawumi, who received 16 nominations from current and former work colleagues who told us about his passionate commitment to teaching and the calm nature and motivational words he brings to the lab...

Facts & Reasons: a rising platform which fights scientific misinformation

Facts & Reasons: a rising platform which fights scientific misinformation

Facts & Reasons is a platform that fights scientific misinformation by investigating and explaining the truth behind click-bait “science” articles in mass media. We spoke to the cofounders Kamil Wolanin and Ambra Villani to find out more...

Scientist Talks: Heema Vyas

Scientist Talks: Heema Vyas

Next up in our Scientist Talks video series, we chatted to Heema Vyas. Heema is a fourth-year PhD student at the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute at the University of Wollongong in Australia. We spoke to Heema about her current research, her experience of managing her mental wellbeing during her PhD, and her advice for new PhD students when it comes to balancing mental health and wellbeing in the academic environment.

Scientist Talks: Professor Stuart Maudsley

Scientist Talks: Professor Stuart Maudsley

Next in our Scientist Talks video series, we speak to Professor Stuart Maudsley, the Odysseus Professor of Receptor Pharmacology at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. We spoke to Stuart about the importance of motivation in science research, why it’s easy for scientists to become demotivated, and how he motivates himself and his team.

Scientist Talks: Rachelle Balez

Scientist Talks: Rachelle Balez

Next in our Scientist Talks video series, we speak to Rachelle Balez, a PhD student at the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute at the University of Wollongong in Australia.

Rachelle chatted to our Co-Founder and Marketing Director Sam Roome about her current research, as well as her experience of peer-reviewing scientific papers – including overcoming imposter syndrome and her advice for scientists who want to get started in peer-reviewing.

Scientist Talks: Dr. James Quinn

Scientist Talks: Dr. James Quinn

For the first in our brand new Scientist Talks video series, we speak to Dr James Quinn from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston! James chatted to Sam Roome, our Co-Founder and Director of Marketing, about his current research identifying biomarkers for dementia, what it's like to make the transition from PhD to postdoc (and move abroad at the same time!), and getting used to presenting at virtual conferences in the current "new normal".

Meet the Hello Bio Team: Jen Hernandez

Meet the Hello Bio Team: Jen Hernandez

Meet the Hello Bio Team! In the first in our series of mini-interviews, Dr Sam Roome chats to Jen Hernández from our Customer Services department. Jen tells us all about her role at the US office in New Jersey and how she works with our customers, her love of road trips, and how lockdown has impacted her life and work.

Interviews with Scientists: Emanuela Bottani

Interviews with Scientists: Emanuela Bottani

Dr Emanuela Bottani works at the University of Verona, Italy, studying mitochondrial function in neural stem cell development and spinal cord injury. We were delighted that she took time out to chat to us about her work, her career so far, her excellent advice for early-career scientists, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on her research.

Interviews with Scientists: Severn B. Churn

Interviews with Scientists: Severn B. Churn

We were delighted to talk to Dr. Severn B. Churn (Ben), program director at NINDS, USA. We spoke to Ben about his current work and what his role involves, his lifelong interest in science, his advice for scientists thinking about pursuing a career outside of academia, and more...

Interviews with Scientists: Eugene Eng Leng Saw

Interviews with Scientists: Eugene Eng Leng Saw

In our next Interviews with Scientists, we were delighted to speak with Dr Eugene Eng Leng Shaw from Boston University. We caught up with him to hear about his research on the heart, how COVID-19 has affected him, his advice for PhD students and more...