Mónica Vara Pérez is a postdoctoral researcher at the VIB-VUB Center for Inflammation Research in Belgium. We spoke to Mónica about her research into brain cancer, and her thoughts on equality in science…
Dr Enitome Bafor is a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and was the overall winner of our Lab Heroes Awards in 2018. We caught up with Enitome to find out how her career is progressing and what she is working on currently.
Dr. Emiliano Cocco is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Miami. We spoke to Emiliano about his current role, the lessons he has learned in his career so far, and the challenges of setting up his own lab.
Leonardo Ferreira is an Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology. He recently set up his own lab at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and we were lucky enough to speak in detail with him about his current research and some of the important lessons he has learned in his career so far...
Adviti Naik is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Qatar Biomedical Research Institute. She specialises in breast cancer research, and was commended by our judges in the Lab Heroes Awards 2020. We were delighted to speak to Adviti in more detail about her current research, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on her work, her admiration for women in STEM, and lots more...
Cancer researcher Dr Lahiru Gangoda is working on improving treatment outcomes for melanoma patients at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia. We spoke to Lahiru about her current research, the biggest lessons she’s learned in her career so far, and more...
In our latest Interviews with Scientists we're talking to Dr. Matthew Lloyd - he shared with us his research, his passion for both science and Taekwon-Do, his advice for scientists who are just starting out on their PhD journey, and more...
Next in our Interviews with Scientists series, meet Martyn Webb. Martyn is a PhD student at the University of East Anglia, working on developing a clinically implementable urine test for prostate cancer. We found out more about his fascinating work, and what challenges he has faced...
Next in Our Interviews with Scientists series, we have the great pleasure of talking to Kate Manley, an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow and Specialist Registrar in Urology, currently working in the Prostate Cancer Genetics Team at the University of East Anglia. She told us about her work, the challenges she faces, and her thoughts on working both as a clinican and a researcher...
Agnese Solari is a final year PhD student working on cancer stem cells in human primary brain tumors like glioblastoma and meningioma at the Pharmacology Lab of Professors Barbieri and Florio, in the Experimental Neuroscience Dept at the University of Genova.
We spoke to Agnese all about her work, her interests, and what a typical day in the lab looks like for her.