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When Science Finds a WayVaccine equity: searching for a cureThe Covid-19 pandemic laid bare a truth we can't ignore: vaccine equity, the principle that everyone should have fair and timely access to life-saving vaccines, is still out of reach for many. This is especially true across Africa, where local manufacturing supplied less than 1% of the vaccines used. But change is happening. Alisha sits down with Dr. Delese Mimi Darko to hear about how international collaboration is leading to the exciting growth of vaccine manufacturing on the continent. We also hear from the CEO of Biovac, a South African organisation developing an Oral Cholera Vaccine with the goal of...
2025-10-2230 minWhen Science Finds a WayFood for thought: eating our way to a sustainable futureFood production drives nearly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. So how do we help people choose meals that are good for their health, and the planet? Alisha sits down with Professor Pete Scarborough, who's co-leading research to help decision-makers and the public make better informed choices. We also meet Jo, who's testing a digital tool designed to help her make sustainable, affordable and healthy choices at the supermarket. Together, they explore the complexities of applying Western dietary guidance in diverse global contexts, and how we can make sustainable diets a reality world-wide. Grab a sustainable snack and...
2025-10-1543 minWhen Science Finds a WayEarly warning systems: using tech to predict disease outbreaksBy the time we realise an outbreak is underway, the disease is already spreading, and the window to act is closing fast. But what if we could get ahead of it? Over the past decade, scientists and technologists have been developing powerful modelling tools that combine health and climate data to forecast where and when outbreaks might occur. Alisha is joined by Dr Anna Ibarra Stewart to explore how early warning systems are being developed to help stay ahead of viruses like dengue and Zika and reduce the impact of outbreaks before they escalate. They also discuss...
2025-09-2437 minWhen Science Finds a WayInclusive research: autism from menstruation to menopauseNavigating healthcare can be particularly challenging for autistic people. Reasons for this are complex, but for women and people assigned female at birth, the problem is compounded by a lack of representation in autism research, leaving healthcare services ill-equipped to meet their specific needs. Alisha speaks with Dr Aimee Grant about a groundbreaking study that's working to change this. Led and delivered entirely by autistic people, Autism: from Menstruation to Menopause is gathering data across the reproductive life cycle to design tools that make healthcare more accessible and inclusive. We also meet three members of the project's Community Council...
2025-09-1742 min
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2025-09-0100 min
RNIB ConnectAccessible Zines And Disability Justice At The Wellcome CollectionWhat are zines and how have they been used in disability justice?
Amelia spoke to Adam Rose, the Co-curator of the Zines display, and Jake Blackavar, a Visitor Experience and Engagement Facilitator, to learn about tactile and audio zines and their upcoming audio described tours of the Wellcome Collection's exhibition.
Learn more about Zines Forever! on the The Wellcome Collection Website - Zines Forever! DIY Publishing and Disability Justice | Wellcome Collection
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2025-08-0808 minWhen Science Finds a WayNow try... Outrage + Optimism: The Climate PodcastWe’re going to be back with new episodes of When Science Finds a Way in the not too distant future so stay subscribed so you’re the first to hear them. In the meantime, we've got another show to fill your time with. Outrage and Optimism is a climate podcast for anyone who is not ready to give up on creating a better world. They speak to the crucial decision makers at the intersection of climate science, policy and business to make sense of the latest headlines in one of the most urgent stories of our time...
2025-07-0107 min
Seeing Senses with Sarah HyndmanExhibition curation with Wellcome Collection’s Janice LiExhibition curation with Wellcome Collection’s Janice LiDesigning beyond sight: Curation, memory and multi-sensory engagement“Having something to touch really brings you to the landscape.” Janice LiWhat does yellow feel like? How can data become music? And what happens when a beautiful installation evokes a bad memory?In this episode of Seeing Senses, curator Janice Li joins Sarah for a conversation about designing exhibitions that engage the whole body. They explore how materials, texture, scent, and sound create emotionally resonant experiences—far beyond what we see.
2025-06-2646 minWhen Science Finds a WayAVATAR Therapy: digital dialogues for mental healthHearing voices is a challenging symptom of psychosis that treatments have often failed to address effectively - until now. Introducing AVATAR therapy, a remarkable approach using digital technology to help patients engage with distressing voices and regain control. Alisha meets Dr Vaughan Bell to explore the therapy's potential, talk about findings from the latest clinical trial and hear a personal story of transformation. When Science Finds a Way is brought to you by Wellcome, an independent global foundation that supports science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. For more information and podcast transcripts visit wellcome.org...
2025-05-1442 minWhen Science Finds a WayDecoding cancer: how genomics is transforming treatmentGenomics has revolutionised cancer research, offering new hope for cancer diagnosis and treatment. But there are challenges ahead. Alisha is joined by Dr Peter Campbell and researchers Dr Solomon Rotimi and Sara Gómez Trillos to discuss the breakthroughs and the issue of ensuring fair access to advancements for patients worldwide. When Science Finds a Way is brought to you by Wellcome, an independent global foundation that supports science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. For more information and podcast transcripts visit wellcome.org/podcast
2025-05-0737 min
benevoltalkDie praktische Hilfe nach der Geburt – mit Liliane Inauen von wellcomeDie ersten Wochen mit einem Neugeborenen können sehr aufreibend sein: Trotz aller Freude ist der Alltag einer jungen Familie oft turbulent. In dieser Phase sind Familienangehörige, Nachbarn und Freunde eine wichtige Unterstützung. Wo diese Bezugspersonen fehlen, vermittelt «wellcome» nach Möglichkeit freiwillige Mitarbeitende zur Entlastung von Familien mit einem Baby oder Kleinkind im ersten Lebensjahr. Liliane Inauen ist eine solche wellcome-Begleiterin und spricht in dieser Folge von ihren Einsätzen und ihrer Motivation, sich für dieses Angebot zu engagieren. Hier gibt es mehr Infos zu wellcome.
2025-05-0138 minWhen Science Finds a WayCombating cholera: can technology really turn the tide?Despite efforts to eliminate cholera by 2030, it remains a formidable global threat. Could technology hold the key to combating this deadly disease? Alisha sits down with Professor Iruka Okeke to talk about the factors driving cholera's spread and the innovative mapping techniques being used in Kenya to identify hotspots. When Science Finds a Way is brought to you by Wellcome, an independent global foundation that supports science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. For more information and podcast transcripts visit wellcome.org/podcast
2025-04-3038 minWhen Science Finds a WayPregnancy and research: inclusion in vaccine trialsOver the years, the reluctance to include pregnant participants in vaccine trials has been increasingly challenged. That's because their inclusion can make vital medications available during pregnancy and provide data that could improve survival rates for both parent and baby. Alisha is joined by Dr Flor M Munoz, a global expert in maternal immunisation to discuss a new vaccine trial, safety considerations and the future. When Science Finds a Way is brought to you by Wellcome, an independent global foundation that supports science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. For more information and podcast transcripts vis...
2025-04-2343 minWhen Science Finds a WayCool roofs: homes fit for a hotter worldAs rising temperatures challenge vulnerable regions, could 'cool roofs' be the affordable, sustainable solution? Alisha joins Dr. Aditi Bunker to talk about the remarkable health benefits uncovered in Burkina Faso's trial, hearing firsthand accounts of how this simple intervention significantly reduces indoor temperatures, lowers heart rates, and improves overall health. When Science Finds a Way is brought to you by Wellcome, an independent global foundation that supports science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. For more information and podcast transcripts visit wellcome.org/podcast
2025-04-1636 minWhen Science Finds a WayWorking it out: exercise, the brain, and mental healthExercise is more than just fitness – it can be a powerful tool for mental health. But what actually occurs in the brain during a workout, and how can it help in treating mental health issues? Alisha meets Dr Jonathan Roiser and his team of researchers to uncover insights from a groundbreaking pilot study exploring brain activity during exercise, including how it could transform the diagnosis and treatment of conditions like depression. When Science Finds a Way is brought to you by Wellcome, an independent global foundation that supports science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. For...
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MITANANDwellcomeKommt ein Kind zur Welt, überwiegt meist die Freude. Doch im Alltag mit dem Neugeborenen kann es schnell drunter und drüber gehen. Besonders in dieser Lebensphase beansprucht das Baby viel Zeit, sodass vieles liegen bleibt. Manche Eltern fühlen sich bald überfordert. Hier setzt das Angebot von «wellcome» der «Stiftung Gott hilft» an. «Wir möchten helfen, bevor Probleme entstehen», erklärt wellcome-Projektleiterin Anina Recher. Gemeinsam mit ihrer Mitarbeiterin Tamara Lys verrät sie in diesem Podcast, wie Eltern vom wellcome-Angebot profitieren können. Für beide ist es ein Herzensprojekt, das durch die ehrenamtliche Arbeit vieler freiwilliger Helferinnen get...
2025-04-0425 minWhen Science Finds a WayCultural burning: could traditional practices prevent modern wildfires? Wildfires are intensifying globally, posing threats to health and Indigenous communities. Join Alisha and Dr Nicole Redvers as they explore cultural burning, a traditional Indigenous technique offering a potential solution to modern wildfire challenges and hear from those bridging traditional practice and science. A fascinating conversation on the future of land management, wildfire resilience and health. When Science Finds a Way is brought to you by Wellcome, an independent global foundation that supports science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. For more information and podcast transcripts visit wellcome.org/podcast
2025-04-0239 minWhen Science Finds a WayFrom risk to remedy: how mosquitoes could save lives Diseases like dengue, yellow fever and Zika claim over 700,000 lives a year. But a breakthrough from the most unlikely of places could be about to change all that. Travel to Colombia to see how Professor Scott O'Neill, founder of the World Mosquito Program, is using mosquitoes infected with a naturally occurring bacterium as part of a game changing approach that's revolutionising disease prevention. When Science Finds a Way is brought to you by Wellcome, an independent global foundation that supports science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. For more information and podcast transcripts...
2025-04-0237 minWhen Science Finds a WaySeason 2 trailer: the remarkable discoveries shaping our future More incredible stories of how scientists and communities are leading the charge against urgent health challenges. Join botanist-turned-Hollywood actor Alisha Wainwright as she explores groundbreaking research and pioneering innovations transforming the science of health. From traditional wildfire management approaches — rooted in Indigenous practices — to disease-preventing mosquitoes, pioneering mental health treatments, and the genomic revolution in cancer care, season two uncovers remarkable discoveries shaping our future. Brought to you by Wellcome, an independent global foundation that supports science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. Please visit wellcome.org for more information.
2025-03-2700 min
Leaf Media Global PodcastHe Greened the Bank of England & LSE. Now He’s Coming for Healthcare, with Charles Joly @Wellcome TrustThis podcast is produced by Leaf Media, and powered by Greenly. 🌱 This episode is hosted by sustainability editor and journalist Juliet Kinsman.After setting the first net-zero targets at the Bank of England and guiding the London School of Economics to become the first net-zero university in the UK, @Charles Joly now leads sustainability efforts at Wellcome Trust. With a strong commitment to environmental responsibility, Wellcome has set an ambitious goal to achieve net-zero emissions for its Scope 1 and 2 by 2030 under his leadership, ensuring a more sustainable future for both science and society.
2025-03-0639 min
Making SenseTrading Insights: Long-term investing for a long-term mission, with Wellcome TrustIn this episode we hear from Elaina Elzinga, Principal and Head of Active Manager Selection at Wellcome Trust. Elaina runs through portfolio construction when spanning investments from HFs to LOs to real assets, how use of data and AI in the investment space influences allocation decisions, and how these longer term investment goals interplay with Wellcome Trust’s mission and purpose. Elaina is in discussion with Eloise Goulder, Head of the Data Assets & Alpha Group at J.P. Morgan.
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2024-11-2124 min
Time For Impact PodcastEpisode 13 - Corporate Volunteering - Kishma Smithurst - Volunteering Lead - WellcomeFor those exploring corporate or employee volunteering this is a must-listen episode.Kishma is responsible for employee volunteering across Wellcome, one of the richest charities in the world, and a significant employer in the UK.Wellcome's ethos and culture means that they see employee volunteering as a key ingredient of staff wellbeing.Tune in to hear a perspective from an employer, about what we need to do to partner effectively with them to build successful partnership between our causes and their employees....
2024-10-0949 min
Focus In SoundFOCUS In Sound #37: Jennifer BrophyFOCUS In Sound #37: Jennifer Brophy
ERNIE: Welcome to FOCUS In Sound, the podcast series from the FOCUS newsletter published by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. I’m your host, science writer Ernie Hood.
In this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we welcome a young investigator who is pioneering in the field of plant tissue engineering—a remarkable emerging technology that just might eventually save the human race. Jennifer Brophy received one of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s Career Awards at the Scientific Interface, or CASI, in 2019. She is an Assistant Professor of Bioengine...
2023-11-0617 minWhen Science Finds a WayBonus Episode: Julia Gillard discusses the future of global health Julia Gillard, the 27th Prime Minister of Australia and Chair of Wellcome, brings together three experts from Season 1 to delve into the key themes that have emerged and to explore the challenges ahead for global health. Julia is joined by: Dr Anand Anandkumar – from Episode 1, "Stopping superbugs: antimicrobial resistance and the race for new antibiotics" Kathy Baughman-McLeod – from Episode 3, "Feeling the heat: how can we work on a warming planet?" Professor Crick Lund – from Episode 11, "Cash transfers: can they improve mental health?"
2023-09-0630 minFocus In SoundFOCUS In Sound #36: Leenoy MeshulamFOCUS In Sound #36: Leenoy Meshulam
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Welcome to FOCUS In Sound, the podcast series from the FOCUS newsletter published by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. I’m your host, science writer Ernie Hood.
In this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we get to know a young researcher who in 2022 was the recipient of a Burroughs Wellcome Fund CASI award, the Career Awards at the Scientific Interface. Those awards recognize outstanding scientists who have made significant contributions at the interface of biolog...
2023-08-2927 minFocus In SoundFOCUS In Sound #35: Michael FerdigFOCUS In Sound #35: Michael Ferdig
Welcome to FOCUS In Sound, the podcast series from the FOCUS newsletter published by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. I’m your host, science writer Ernie Hood.
In this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we welcome a biomedical scientist who in 2022 was the Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s first Resident Faculty Scholar. Michael Ferdig is a Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, where he has been on the faculty since 2001. He specializes in the genetics and genomics of drug resistance and virulence in the malaria...
2023-08-2530 minWhen Science Finds a WayCash transfers: can they improve mental health? Poor mental health has always been associated with lower socio-economic status, but what if you turned the idea on its head and administered cash transfers as a mental health treatment in and of itself? The scientific research community has long grappled with the lack of major breakthroughs in the treatment of mental health disorders. So could cash transfers hold the key to coming up with a universally applicable and low-cost mental health intervention? In this episode Alisha is in conversation with Professor Vikram Patel, a world leader in global mental health, who explains the challenges researchers have f...
2023-08-2333 min
MacroaggressionsFlashback Friday | #202: Wellcome To HellThe world’s wealthiest medical research foundation, Wellcome Trust, long disguised as an altruistic charity organization committed to helping humanity, has been knee-deep in the COVID corruption and has major and long-lasting ties to the British eugenics movement.
With over $40 billion in funds, the organization has invested heavily in vaccine development and has been instrumental in providing shots to the developing world with the help of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The most concerning aspect might be the development of the Wellcome Leap program that seeks to become the pharmaceutical version of America’s DARPA. With seed...
2023-07-141h 07
MacroaggressionsFlashback Friday | #202: Wellcome To HellThe world’s wealthiest medical research foundation, Wellcome Trust, long disguised as an altruistic charity organization committed to helping humanity, has been knee-deep in the COVID corruption and has major and long-lasting ties to the British eugenics movement.
With over $40 billion in funds, the organization has invested heavily in vaccine development and has been instrumental in providing shots to the developing world with the help of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The most concerning aspect might be the development of the Wellcome Leap program that seeks to become the pharmaceutical version of America’s DARPA. With seed...
2023-07-141h 07When Science Finds a WayPredicting psychosis: can AI transform diagnosis? Psychosis is one of the most severe, and most stigmatised, mental health conditions. But what if technology could help us spot the signs early on? Could more accurate prediction help guide earlier intervention, to produce better outcomes for people at risk of psychosis? Alisha is in discussion with Professor Iris Sommer, a global leader in the psychosis field to examine exactly where the understanding of the condition is, whether we're approaching treatment in an equitable way, and how we can ensure earlier diagnosis and better treatment. They hear from a therapist in Brazil, Dr Alexandre Loch, and his...
2023-07-1237 minWhen Science Finds a WayStudying a city: can research transform communities?What can you learn from studying 40,000 people in one city? A UK study called Born In Bradford is doing just that, and it's a concept that could be applied around the world. It began in 2007, tracking pregnant women, their children and families. Over the decades, the study has changed Bradford, impacting policy on education, early years development and even the environment. But it has also provided robust evidence on health and wellbeing that is relevant in any city. In this episode, we hear from some of the parents who've taken part in the study on h...
2023-07-0530 min
Progress, Potential, and Possibilities Podcast / ShowDr. Elica Kyoseva, Ph.D. - Quantum for Bio Program Director - Wellcome Leap - Quantum Computing And Drug DiscoverySend us a textDr. Elica Kyoseva, Ph.D. is the Quantum for Bio Program Director, at Wellcome Leap ( https://wellcomeleap.org/our-team/elicakyoseva/ ), a $40M +$10M program focused on identifying, developing, and demonstrating biology and healthcare applications that will benefit from the quantum computers expected to emerge in the next 3-5 years. Wellcome Leap was established with $300 million in initial funding from the Wellcome Trust, the UK charitable foundation, to accelerate discovery and innovation for the benefit of human health, focusing on build bold, unconventional programs and fund them at scale—specifically programs that target global hu...
2023-06-0142 minFocus In SoundFOCUS In Sound #34: Lisa Hara LevinFOCUS In Sound #34: Lisa Hara Levin
Welcome to FOCUS In Sound, the podcast series from the FOCUS newsletter published by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. I’m your host, science writer Ernie Hood.
In this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we meet a veterinarian who has become one of the leading voices in the movement to reduce, refine, or replace the use of animals in research and product development testing, also known as the 3Rs. As we will hear, she recently teamed up with Burroughs Wellcome Fund president Dr. Lou Muglia to publi...
2023-02-0723 minFocus In SoundTammy Collins, Innovation in Regulatory Science Awards (IRSA) ProgramFOCUS In Sound #33: Tammy Collins, Innovation in Regulatory Science Awards (IRSA) Program
Welcome to FOCUS In Sound, the podcast series from the FOCUS newsletter published by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. I’m your host, science writer Ernie Hood.
In this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we meet one of the newest members of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund family, Program Officer Dr. Tammy Collins, who joined the Fund in October 2022. Tammy leads the Fund’s efforts in interdisciplinary science, including the Career Awards at the Scientific Interface and the Innovation in Regulatory Science Awards, which we will...
2023-01-0610 minFocus In SoundInterview with Dr. Dudley FloodFOCUS In Sound #32: Alfred Mays, Dr. Dudley Flood, Dr. Deanna Townsend-Smith
Welcome to FOCUS In Sound, the podcast series from the FOCUS newsletter published by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. I’m your host, science writer Ernie Hood.
In this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we meet a civil rights and education pioneer, Dr. Dudley Flood, and learn about the center named in his honor that is working to advance educational opportunities in North Carolina. To get us started, we will first hear from Burroughs Wellcome Fund Chief Diversity Officer and Strategist, Alfred Mays. Alfred also ser...
2022-10-0442 min
The Halfway Healthy ShowWellcome to the Future of Health and Wellness | Adam WrightDalton talks with Adam Wright, founder of Wellcome brand, about how he plans to bring the best of web2 and web3 to the wellness industry. They discuss all things from consumer packaged goods to utility in the NFT space. Quality products are of utmost importance to Adam and the Wellcome team. His connections with professional athletes and influencers will play a large role in being a part of the Wellcome community.
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1:08 Adam Wright intro
4:43 What is Wellcome?
10:23 Why should business enter web3?
17:59 Founder's Pass h...
2022-08-221h 15
The Wellcome Collection PodcastThe Root of the Matter: WastelandIn the final episode of ‘The Root of the Matter’, JC takes us to the least human habitat of all – the wasteland. It’s a space which often fills us with a sense of foreboding and yet, these places teach us some of the most profound lessons about the plant world and our relationship to it: Author of Islands of Abandonment: Life in the post-human landscape, Cal Flyn, shows us how wastelands can demonstrate nature’s resilience in the most hostile of situations. Artist and writer James Bridle explains how plants force us to f...
2022-08-1832 min
The Wellcome Collection PodcastThe Root of the Matter: WetlandsWhat does the word ‘wetland’ mean to you? Many of us don’t encounter them at all, and at best we might think of a muddy, boggy marshland. But these landscapes, and the plants that thrive in them, are crucial for ecological health, biodiversity, and capturing carbon. In this episode, JC and her contributors invite you to see these misunderstood spaces in a new light. Ecologist and writer Mordecai Ogada talks about the cultural and ecological significance of Nam Lolwe (also known as Lake Victoria) to the Luo peoples who live on its shores. ...
2022-08-1125 min
The Wellcome Collection PodcastThe Root of the Matter: WoodlandWe think of forests and woodlands as wild spaces, or areas where we can lose ourselves in nature, and yet they also provide us with a wealth of resources such as food, building materials, or medicines. But they are also globally under threat of destruction… In this episode, JC delves into the contradictions in our relationship with woodlands, and explores different ways we can think about them, if we are to use and protect them more wisely. Joseca, a Yanomami artist from the Amazon, and anthropologist and interpreter Anna Maria Machado, shar...
2022-08-0431 min
The Wellcome Collection PodcastThe Root of the Matter: FarmlandFruit and veg are a clear link to our relationship to the plant world. Yet many of us have little understanding of the farming industry and the impacts it has on our planet, in bringing crops to our plates.In this episode, JC untangles the knots of these complex global food systems - and focuses on a grain that is central to many of our diets, wheat. Professor of Archeological Science, Martin Jones, shares how our early ancestors began to cultivate crops, and why crops may have begun to cultivate us too. Author an...
2022-07-2829 min
The Wellcome Collection PodcastThe Root of the Matter: The GardenGardens are hugely personal, they are an extension of how we see ourselves and how we are in the world. They can also be a strong reminder of what is excluded as much as what is included. In this episode JC asks, what does the Garden reveal about the way we relate to the natural world and to each other? Writer and grower Claire Ratinon explores colonial legacies in the garden, through our use of language and readiness to embrace and celebrate some plants, whilst excluding others. We visit the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, where...
2022-07-2132 min
The Wellcome Collection PodcastThe Root of the Matter: TrailerIn Wellcome Collection’s new series, ‘The Root of the Matter’, we join JC Niala on a journey to understand how plants can provide a lens on human health, history and belonging.
2022-07-1401 minMacroaggressions#202: Wellcome To HellThe world’s wealthiest medical research foundation, Wellcome Trust, long disguised as an altruistic charity organization committed to helping humanity, has been knee-deep in the COVID corruption and has major and long-lasting ties to the British eugenics movement.
With over $40 billion in funds, the organization has invested heavily in vaccine development and has been instrumental in providing shots to the developing world with the help of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The most concerning aspect might be the development of the Wellcome Leap program that seeks to become the pharmaceutical version of America’s DARPA. With seed...
2022-02-091h 12Macroaggressions#202: Wellcome To HellThe world’s wealthiest medical research foundation, Wellcome Trust, long disguised as an altruistic charity organization committed to helping humanity, has been knee-deep in the COVID corruption and has major and long-lasting ties to the British eugenics movement.
With over $40 billion in funds, the organization has invested heavily in vaccine development and has been instrumental in providing shots to the developing world with the help of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The most concerning aspect might be the development of the Wellcome Leap program that seeks to become the pharmaceutical version of America’s DARPA. With seed...
2022-02-091h 12
The Wellcome Collection PodcastTranquillityWhen was the last time you felt utterly tranquil? Moya Lothian-McLean searches for an oasis of calm, taking Wellcome Collection’s ‘Tranquillity’ exhibition as a point of inspiration. She visits St Bartholomew’s Hospital to experience the installation ‘Regarding Forests’ by Chrystel Lebas. Hear tips from staff and visitors as they share how they find a moment of peace in the middle of a bustling hospital. Moya speaks with three young people from RawMinds, Fawaz Sajid, Malika Sandover and Tahmina Sayfi and they talk about whether phones can ever help us to find calm in our bu...
2021-10-2741 min
The Diverse Podcast#29 Life as a Software Developer at the Wellcome Sanger InstituteCongrats to DIVERSE. community member, Cordell Charles who landed a role as a Software Developer with the Wellcome Sanger Institute.
Cordell was kind enough to help us understand 👇🏽
✅ How to break into Software Development without any experience
✅ What life is like at the Sanger Wellcome Institute
✅ His best advice on the application process
✅ How he stuck with it during the pandemic facing job application rejections
Do you want to join Cordell at the Wellcome Sanger Institute?
Check out their early-career job opportunities on our job board here...
2021-10-2035 min
The Wellcome Collection PodcastResolveHello Happiness is the first series of The Wellcome Collection Podcast. In this episode, Bidisha chats to her guests about their personal experiences of resolve, and considers its complicated relationship to happiness. Psychotherapist Susie Orbach and broadcaster Jeff Brazier discuss the power and limitations of resolve in managing grief and mental health. Hear about the hurdles faced by champion athlete Yasmin Miller and how she works with coach Leah Dunthorne to overcome them. Artist and writer Scottee reads his specially commissioned text asking whether resolve is all it’s cut out to be. Storytellers and activists...
2021-09-2945 min
The Wellcome Collection PodcastHopeHello Happiness is the first series of The Wellcome Collection Podcast. In this episode, Bidisha asks: What are our emotions and how are they made? She then attempts to pin down the purpose and uses of hope. Listen to historian Tiffany Watt Smith explain how our understanding of emotion has been shaped throughout time, from the ancient Greeks to our present-day obsession with wellbeing and productivity. Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett speaks with anthropologist Kit Davies about how emotions are made by our brains and society. Black Lives Matter activist Ndumiso Peter Ndlovu (“Dee...
2021-08-2543 min
The Wellcome Collection PodcastTrailerBidisha introduces a new five-part series from Wellcome Collection, exploring the meaning of positive emotions: hope, resolve, tranquillity, joy and ecstasy.
2021-08-1601 minFocus In SoundInterview with Dr. Florence Bourgeois
FOCUS In Sound #31: Florence Bourgeois
Welcome to FOCUS In Sound, the podcast series from the FOCUS newsletter published by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. I’m your host, science writer Ernie Hood.
In this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we meet a Burroughs Wellcome Fund grantee who is researching issues related to the inclusion of children and adolescents in clinical trials. She has also recently published an important international study of pediatric COVID-19 patients.
Dr. Florence Bourgeois is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School a...
2021-07-0615 min
All in the MindAll in the Mind Awards ceremony from the Wellcome Collection in LondonClaudia Hammond hosts the All in the Mind Awards Ceremony from Wellcome Collection in London and meets all the finalists.Back in November we asked you to nominate the person, professional or group who had made a difference to your mental health. Throughout the current series we've been hearing the individual stories of the nine finalists, and this edition offers the chance to recap the people and organisations who've made a huge difference to other people's lives - and to hear comments from the judges and winners from each of the three categories.The event...
2021-06-2935 minFocus In SoundScience Education in North Carolina and BeyondThis edition of FOCUS In Sound is a family affair, as we connect with two members of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, gentlemen who are primary practitioners of the Fund’s profound commitment to supporting science education. I will mercilessly pick their brains to gather their thoughts about the Fund’s activities and the larger importance of science education in our society.
Alfred Mays is a senior program officer at the Fund, and serves as the Director and Chief Strategist for Diversity and STEM Education. He began his tenure at the Fund in 2015, and is responsible for strategic prog...
2021-05-1429 minFocus In SoundInterview with Dr. Laura EnsignIn this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we meet Dr. Laura Ensign who is making important strides in nanomedicine for drug delivery, in a variety of therapeutic areas.
Her wide-ranging interests and research pursuits focuses on the characterization of biological barriers in health and disease in order to design more effective formulations for prophylactic and therapeutic drug delivery.
Transcription of “Interview with Dr. Laura Ensign”
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Ernie Hood
Welcome to Focus In Sound, the podcast series from the Focus newsletter published by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. I’m your host, science writer Ernie Hood. In this editio...
2021-04-2121 minFocus In SoundInterview with Dr. Robert LefkowitzIn this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we are honored to welcome to our microphones the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Dr. Robert Lefkowitz of Duke University.
Dr. Lefkowitz is James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Professor of Biochemistry, Professor of Pathology, Professor of Chemistry, and Member of the Duke Cancer Institute. He has been at Duke since 1973.
He and his team pioneered understanding of receptors, particularly G-protein coupled receptors, or GPCRs.
He has been a member of the board of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund since 2019. Most recently, he just...
2021-03-1531 minFocus In SoundInterview with Amy WesolowskiIn this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we meet a Burroughs Wellcome Fund grantee who is innovating in methods of detecting infectious disease.
Dr. Amy Wesolowski is an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She holds a BA from College of the Atlantic, and earned her PhD from Carnegie Mellon in 2014.
She completed her postdoc at the TH Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University.
Amy received a 2016 Career Awards at the Scientific Interface, or CASI, grant from the Burroughs Wellcome...
2021-01-2112 min
One Zero OneS3 #3 – Eileen Jennings-Brown, Head of Technology at Wellcome TrustSeries 3 of the One Zero One podcast continues our journey of exploring what tech leaders around the UK have been doing to manage and drive digital change and positive progress throughout a global pandemic.
Sooraj Shah, a technology-focused journalist (the BBC, The Independent, The Guardian, Business Insider & more) speaks to Eileen Jennings-Brown, Head of Technology at Wellcome Trust in this episode to discuss the Digital Transformation journey the Wellcome Trust was on before the global pandemic forced organisations to become ‘digital-first’ remote-working environments overnight, and how that journey still doesn’t have a ‘hard stop’.
Eileen explains in this epis...
2021-01-2033 minFocus In SoundInterview with Louis MugliaIn this Special Edition of FOCUS In Sound, we meet with the CEO and President of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Dr. Louis Muglia, who will guide us through the Fund’s multi-faceted response to the COVID-19 pandemic and will discuss the Fund’s stance on Social Justice.
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Ernie Hood
Welcome to a special edition of Focus In Sound, the podcast series from the Focus newsletter published by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. I’m your host, science writer Ernie Hood. In this special edition of Focus In Sound, we meet with the CEO...
2020-09-0113 minFocus In SoundInterview with Dr. Theanne GriffithIn this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we meet a Burroughs Wellcome Fund grantee who is not only an accomplished scientist, but also a published children’s book author.
Dr. Theanne Griffith has just had the first two of her three-book STEM-themed chapter book series called The Magnificent Makers released, with number 3 scheduled to come out in September 2020.
Griffith is an instructor in the Department of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience at Rutgers University. She is a neuroscientist with a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. She completed her postdoc at Columbia University in 2019. In 2017 she was re...
2020-08-0116 minFocus In SoundInterview with Paul BlaineyIn this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we meet a Burroughs Wellcome Fund grantee who participated in the development of a remarkable new pathogen detection technology that may be vastly important in the detection and surveillance of COVID-19, among several other pathogens. He and his colleagues have just had a landmark paper published in Nature, describing the technology and its importance in the battle against the pandemic pathogen. With this story moving so rapidly, I should include that we recorded this interview on April 17, 2020.
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Ernie Hood
Welcome to Focus In Sou...
2020-04-1717 min
Take as DirectedCoronavirus Crisis Update: Live from Munich with Jeremy Farrar of the Wellcome TrustIn mid-February, Steve Morrison of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center attended the Munich Security Conference. There, he moderated a roundtable on health in disordered settings, a town hall on COVID-19, and a dinner with Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg. He also spoke with a variety of policymakers, donors, and agency heads that are leading the response to the coronavirus epidemic.In this third episode, Steve speaks with Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust. They talk about his experience with SARS in Vietnam, the number of unknowns surrounding the coronavirus, China's unprecedented response and its impacts...
2020-03-2415 minThe CommonHealthCoronavirus Crisis Update: Live from Munich with Jeremy Farrar of the Wellcome TrustIn mid-February, Steve Morrison of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center attended the Munich Security Conference. There, he moderated a roundtable on health in disordered settings, a town hall on COVID-19, and a dinner with Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg. He also spoke with a variety of policymakers, donors, and agency heads that are leading the response to the coronavirus epidemic.In this third episode, Steve speaks with Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust. They talk about his experience with SARS in Vietnam, the number of unknowns surrounding the coronavirus, China's unprecedented response and its impacts...
2020-03-2415 min
The Mental ElfJon Roiser and Pasco Fearon, UCL Wellcome 4-year PhD in Mental Health ScienceProf Jonathan Roiser (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and programme lead) and Prof Pasco Fearon (UCL Chair in Developmental Psychopathology) talk about the new Wellcome funded Mental Health Science PhD programme, which will bring six new mental health PhD students per year to UCL over the next five years: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/news/2019/sep/ucl-awarded-first-wellcome-funded-phd-programme-focused-mental-health Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2020-01-3111 min
Postdocalypse: King's College London Health Sciences DTC PodcastSpecial Guest: The Wellcome Trust & Changing PhD CultureWelcome to episode 7 of Postdocalypse 2019! This podcast is produced by health sciences postgraduate researchers at King's College London.
This month we have a special guest! We met Anne-Marie Coriat, Head of UK and EU Research Landscape at the Wellcome Trust, at VItae Conference and we are so excited to have picked her brains about the changing face of academia. Listen on to hear all about Anne-Marie's job, how she got there, her experiences and musings on the future of PhDs.
Here are some of the links that Anne-Marie and Julie referred to in this episode:
- Wellcome Global Monitor: https...
2019-11-2634 min
Horizon CIO PodcastCIO Podcast: Wellcome Trust CTO James ThomasWellcome Trust chief technology officer (CTO) James Thomas told a Horizon CIO Network roundtable how his organisation has built a new operation with data and change at its heart. Talking to CIO and CTO peers from FTSE 100 organisations Thomas gives a frank insight into how to deliver change and reveals how he created a new culture and set of measurements to benefit the organisation and its technologists. The Wellcome Trust is headquartered in central London, but owes its philanthropic heritage to an American, Sir Henry Welcome who moved to th...
2019-10-0335 minFocus In SoundInterview with Ariana AndersonIn this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we focus on a dynamic scientist from UCLA who has been recognized in the past by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and we’ll see how that recognition has had a profound effect on her work, her career, and her scientific contributions.
Transcription of “Interview with Ariana Anderson”
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Ernie Hood
Welcome to Focus In Sound, the podcast series from the Focus newsletter published by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. I’m your host, science writer Ernie Hood. In this edition of Focus In Sound, we focus on a dynamic young scientist...
2019-09-2617 min
Leading with James AshtonEpisode 9 - Wellcome Trust and ParkrunSir Jeremy Farrar and Nick Pearson join James Ashton to discuss taking risks, campaigning voices and making a difference in the world’s wellbeing. Sir Jeremy Farrar is director of the Wellcome Trust, the British medical charity that spends close to £1bn every year to improve global health through research and education funded by a £26bn endowment. Wellcome has spent 25 years unravelling the human genome and has also been involved in breakthroughs that track the inner workings of the brain, diagnose prostate cancer and tackle ebola outbreaks. Before joining Wellcome six year...
2019-07-0241 minFocus In Sound2018 Career Development PanelThis special edition of FOCUS In Sound is a panel discussion on career development from the Fund’s headquarters in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina on October 10, 2018, during the Networking Meeting for New Awardees.
Transcription of “2018 Career Development Panel”
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Ernie Hood
Welcome to a special edition of Focus In Sound, the podcast series from the Focus newsletter published by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. I’m your host, science writer Ernie Hood. In this special edition of Focus In Sound, we bring you a panel discussion on career development that took place at the fund’s headquarters...
2019-02-2155 min
StemCells@Lunch DigestedEpisode 46 - Wellcome Trust PhD Cohort Review WritingToday’s episode of stem cells at lunch we are joined by 5 out of the 6 students of the Wellcome Trust PhD 2016 cohort based here at the CSCRM. They discuss their experience of co-writing a review for the International Journal of Developmental Biology looking at the latest developments in skin research. Hear about the review itself, and the highlights and challenges of the process…
Read the review for yourself here: http://www.ijdb.ehu.es/web/paper/170341fw/homeostasis-regeneration-and-tumour-formation-in-the-mammalian-epidermis
For more information about the Wellcome Trust PhD Programme click the link: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/research/divisions/gmm/departments/stem...
2018-08-0207 minFocus In SoundCareer Awards for Science and Mathematics TeachersProgram Officer Alfred Mays Provides Insight into the Career Awards for Science and Mathematics Teachers
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Ernie Hood
We are here to share some important information about the career award for science and mathematics teachers from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Joining me now is fund program officer for Science Education and Diversity, Alfred Mays, who oversees the award program.
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Alfred Mays
The Career Awards for Science and Math Teachers is one of our more recent awards. We’ve had several cycles It’s being offered every other...
2018-06-2303 minFocus In SoundInterview with Andi WebbIn this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we focus on an outstanding teacher, Andi Webb, who has been recognized in the past by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and we’ll see what impact that recognition has had on her career, her teaching, and her life.
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Ernie Hood
Welcome to Focus In Sound, the podcast series from the Focus newsletter published by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. I’m your host, science writer Ernie Hood. In this edition of Focus In Sound, we focus on an outstanding teacher who has been recognized...
2018-06-1813 minFocus In Sound2017 Annual Report with John BurrisIn this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we check in with Dr. John Burris, President of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, for an annual report in sound for the Fund for 2017. It was quite a significant year in many ways for the Fund, where John has been president since 2008.
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Ernie Hood
Welcome to Focus In Sound, the podcast series from the Focus newsletter published by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. I’m your host, science writer Ernie Hood. In this edition of Focus In Sound, we check in with Dr. John Bur...
2018-05-1624 min
Little Atoms507 - Wellcome Prize part 2 with Lindsey Fitzharris and Ayobami AdebayoIn the Second of three shows featuring shortlisted writers for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, Neil talks to Lindsey Fitzharris about The Butchering Art, and Ayobami Adebayo about her novel Stay With Me.Lindsey Fitzharris received her doctorate in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology at the University of Oxford and was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Wellcome Institute. She is the creator of the popular website The Chirurgeon's Apprentice, and she writes and presents the YouTube series Under the Knife. She has written for the Guardian, the Lancet, the New Scientist, Penthouse, the Huffington Post an...
2018-04-2732 minFocus In SoundInterview with John BurrisIn this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we check in with Dr. John Burris, President of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, for an annual report in sound for the Fund for 2016. It was a momentous year in so many ways, including for the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, where John has been president since 2008.
Transcription of “Interview with John Burris”
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Ernie Hood
Welcome to Focus In Sound, the podcast series from the Focus newsletter published by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. I’m your host, science writer Ernie Hood. In this edition of Focus In Sound, we check in with Dr...
2017-05-3120 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 460: Wellcome Prize 2017 Special - 2The second of two episodes of Little Atoms with shortlisted writers for the 2017 Wellcome Book Prize. This week, Ed Yong on his book I Contain Multitudes, plus a repeat of our interview with the winner of the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize Suzanne O'Sullivan on her book It's All In Your Head. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2017-04-1845 minFocus In SoundInterview with Todd BoyetteIn this edition of FOCUS in Sound, we meet Dr. Todd Boyette, who is the director of the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. More importantly for our purposes on this program, he is also one of the co-founders of the North Carolina Science Festival, an annual event strongly supported for many years by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
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Ernie Hood
Welcome to Focus In Sound, the podcast series from the Focus newsletter published by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. I’m your host sci...
2017-04-1813 minFocus In SoundInterview with Claudia WalkerIn 2009, Claudia received a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for Science and Mathematics Teachers, a $175,000 grant over the course of five years designed to give outstanding North Carolina classroom teachers resources to enhance professional development and collaboration with other teachers. With that five years wrapping up in 2014, we thought it would be a good time to check in and take stock with Claudia, and recognize her noteworthy achievements in mathematics education.
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Ernie Hood
Welcome to Focus In Sound Podcast series from the Focus newsletter published by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund...
2016-08-0718 minFocus In SoundInterview with Pardis SabetiIn this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we meet Dr. Pardis Sabeti, a geneticist who won a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences in 2005, and has gone on to enjoy a very distinguished career, culminating this year in being named one of the 100 Most Influential People in America by TIME Magazine. That recognition follows her inclusion as one of TIME’s Persons of the Year in 2014, celebrating her role as an Ebola fighter. Although Pardis has a long list of accomplishments in her years of research on the genetics of infectious diseases, for this edition of Fo...
2016-08-0725 min
15 días en la Wellcome Library#8. The Hub at the Wellcome CollectionEl Wellcome Trust anunciaba la inversión de 17,5 millones de libras en la reforma de la sede de la Wellcome Collection en octubre de 2012, apenas unos meses después del cierre definitivo del Centre for the History of Medicine. Dentro de esta ambiciosa reforma, se creaba el Wellcome Hub, un espacio dedicado a la investigación interdisciplinar más arriesgada. Más en jmzaragoza.net
2016-08-0300 min15 días en la Wellcome Library#4. La Wellcome CollectionHoy hablamos de la Wellcome Collection y de su creación en 2007. Nos remontamos, para ello, a la muerte de Henry Wellcome y la decisión de sus albaceas de desmantelar su colección de artefactos, un proceso que tomará casi 50 años. Nos centraremos después en al figura fundamental de Ken Arnold.
2016-07-2800 minFocus In SoundInterview with Joshua WeitzIn this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we meet a quantitative biologist who studies the structure and dynamics of complex biological systems. Most recently, he organized and chaired a two-day, so-called “rapid response” workshop called Modeling the Spread and Control of Ebola in West Africa. The meeting, which drew 180 participants from all over the world, was held in January, 2015 at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, where Joshua Weitz is a tenured associate professor of biology.
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Ernie Hood
Welcome to Focus In Sound, the podcast series from the Focus news...
2015-10-0224 minFocus In SoundInterview with George LangfordOn this edition of Focus In Sound, we bring you a special treat. In May 2015, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund celebrated its 60th anniversary with a series of events at the Fund’s headquarters in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. On May 20th, the Fund welcomed approximately 100 guests to a dinner held out in the building’s courtyard. After that dinner, I had the privilege of interviewing Dr. George Langford from Syracuse University, who has been a member of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Board since 2008.
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Ernie Hood
Welcome to Focus In Sound P...
2015-05-2129 min
NDM UnitsWelcome to the Wellcome Trust for Human GeneticsShort film introducing the Wellcome Trust for Human Genetics In the first decades of the 21st century, researchers are beginning to understand in detail how our genetic inheritance makes us who we are. At the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, our aim is to extend that understanding in order to gain a clearer insight into mechanisms of health and disease. Looking across all three billion letters of the human genetic code, we aim to pinpoint variant spellings and discover how they increase or decrease an individual’s risk of falling ill. The WTCHG is a research institute of the Nu...
2014-02-2505 minFocus In SoundInterview with John YorkOne of the keys to ultimately conquering disease and extending the healthy lifespans of human beings is going to be to advance and refine our understanding of the machinery of living cells. Our guest on this edition of FOCUS In Sound, Dr. John York, has done as much as any scientist in the last two decades to contribute to knowledge of cellular processes, particularly in the area of inositol signaling, which has emerged as a critical factor in the regulation of a wide variety of biochemical phenomena, including calcium release, membrane trafficking, channel activity, nuclear function, and more. John...
2014-02-2523 minFocus In SoundInterview with Maria GeffenOn this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we welcome a scientist who explores the way the brain encodes information about the world around us – she combines computational and biological approaches to study the mechanisms behind the transformation of sensory representations. Dr. Maria N. Geffen is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery and Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2008, when she was still at Rockefeller, she received the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface, a $500,000 grant designed to help bridge advanced postdoctoral training and the first three years of faculty se...
2014-02-2422 minFocus In SoundInterview with Eric SkaarStaphylococcus aureus is probably the most important bacterial pathogen affecting the public health of Americans. Staph is the leading cause of pus-forming skin and soft tissue infections, the leading cause of infectious heart disease, the number one hospital-acquired infection, and one of the four leading causes of food-borne illness. MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staph aureus, is a highly virulent form of the infection, and accounts for more deaths annually in the US than HIV/AIDS.
And of course the spread of MRSA and other antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections is becoming a major public health crisis in America. Joining us by phone...
2014-02-2423 minFocus In SoundInterview with the Chen-PlotkinsOn this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we welcome a married couple of researchers, both of whom have been recipients of Burroughs Wellcome Fund grant support – Doctors Alice Chen-Plotkin and Joshua Plotkin. Of course, one of the major challenges in a scientific career is an ability to balance the demands of work life and home and family life, and you can multiply those challenges when you have two active scientific careers going on in one family. Add in a couple of kids to make it even more interesting, and you’ll see why the Plotkins’ story is downright inspirational. Both A...
2013-10-3024 minFocus In SoundInterview with Sarah FortuneOn this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we’re going to learn about a devastating infectious pathogen – Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a bacterium with incredible staying power and, unfortunately, considerable killing power as well. Although we might think of it as a somewhat old-fashioned disease, tuberculosis is still an enormous global health problem, with 15 million new cases every year and as many as 3 million deaths worldwide. Also, up to one-third of the world’s population, that is, as many as 2 billion people may be latently infected with tuberculosis. Despite the many advances in biomedical research over the past several decades, it is sti...
2013-04-1324 min
Isotopica: The Resonance Series – IsotopicaA Wellcome Library Walk with David EllisSerial Digressionist David Ellis Invites Simon Tyszko for an out of hours stroll and chat, through The Wellcome Library which is founded on the collection formed by Sir Henry Wellcome (1853–1936), whose personal wealth allowed him to create one of the most ambitious collections of the 20th century. Henry Wellcome’s interest was the history of medicine in a broad sense and included subjects like...
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2012-10-1400 minFocus In SoundInterview with Kent HillOn this edition of Focus In Sound, we focus on research on a devastating disease that threatens millions of people in 36 countries in sub-Saharan Africa—Human African Trypanosomiasis, better known as African Sleeping Sickness. It’s caused by a parasite transmitted to the bloodstream of mammalian hosts by the bite of an insect vector, in this case, the tsetse fly. As with malaria and other insect-borne parasitic diseases,
elucidating the complex mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis and transmission of the disease is critical to understanding how to fight it.
Joining us on Focus In Sound today is a yo...
2012-08-1322 min
Pod AcademyDoing DNA: Wellcome Trust Sanger InstituteOn the outskirts of Cambridge sits the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, one of the world’s largest organisations dedicated to genetics research. The institute is named after Fred Sanger, the Nobel laureate who developed DNA sequencing technology in the 1970s. Sanger’s techniques are still in use today, albeit now powered by super processors.
DNA. We’ve all got it, and we’re constantly told by scientists and newspaper articles – indeed, science podcasts – that it’s the blueprint for building a living organism. There’s a version of this twisty molecule in virtually every cell in the human body and i...
2012-05-0723 minScience and Environment – Pod AcademyDoing DNA: Wellcome Trust Sanger InstituteAdam Smith takes a tour of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Europe's leading genetics institute, home to the team that made the largest single contribution to the sequencing of the human genome.
The post Doing DNA: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute appeared first on Pod Academy.
2012-05-0723 minFocus In SoundInterview with Bijan PesaranOn this edition of Focus In Sound, we meet a young investigator who is conducting groundbreaking basic research to characterize how the brain coordinates our movements and how it operates when we’re making decisions. These are both very basic but complex neural operations, and understanding their mechanisms will not only shed light on brain function, but will contribute to development of brain-machine interfaces. Dr. Bijan Pesaran of New York University received the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences in 2004, which funded his study on cortical mechanisms for hand-eye coordination. He has been on the faculty at...
2012-05-0719 minFocus In SoundInterview with Maya SalehOn this edition of Focus In Sound, we meet a young investigator who is making significant contributions to our basic knowledge of cell signaling pathways, cell death mechanisms, innate immunity, infectious diseases and autoimmune disorders. Dr. Maya Saleh of McGill University was named an Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund in 2009. Maya received her Ph.D. at McGill in 2001, served post-docs at Merck and the La Jolla Institute, and in 2005 returned to McGill to join the faculty. She is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry and Director of the...
2011-11-0918 min
Alumni WeekendThe Hidden History of the Wellcome CollectionFrom the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Frances Larson gives a talk entitled 'Shared Treasures or Just Bits and Pieces? The Hidden History of the Wellcome Collection. Examining Sir Henry Wellcome's vast hoard of Art and Antiques he collected over his lifetime.
2010-10-2542 minAlumni WeekendThe Hidden History of the Wellcome CollectionFrom the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Frances Larson gives a talk entitled 'Shared Treasures or Just Bits and Pieces? The Hidden History of the Wellcome Collection. Examining Sir Henry Wellcome's vast hoard of Art and Antiques he collected over his lifetime.
2010-10-2542 minFocus In SoundInformal Science EducationEngaging children in science has been a prime objective of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund since it became an independent, private foundation in 1994. The Fund operates on the principle that all children, regardless of their future career path, need basic science literacy to participate fully in civic life. One of the Fund’s long-standing grant-making activities puts that principle into practice. The Student Science Enrichment Program, or SSEP, which has been supporting informal science education programs across the state of North Carolina since 1996, provides more than $3 million annually to support creative science education activities for primary and secondary students in No...
2010-10-1825 minFocus In SoundInterview with Kerry ResslerWhat is the biology of fear, the emotional response that drives so much behavior in humans and animals alike? Our guest on this edition of Focus In Sound, Dr. Kerry Ressler, is determined to answer that question, and in doing so to help the millions of people who suffer from fear-based disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder and panic disorder. Kerry is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. He is also on the faculty of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience in Atlanta, and directs the Grady Trauma Project...
2010-05-0522 minFocus In SoundInterview with Blossom DamaniaOur guest on this edition of Focus In Sound is Dr. Blossom Damania, associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine and member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. In 2006, Blossom was named a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease in support of her research into the role of signaling proteins in the pathogenesis of viral-associated cancers such as Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, or KSHV. She is also a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Research Scholar, and has received major support from the V Foundation, the American He...
2010-02-2417 minFocus In SoundInterview with Laura MillerOur guest on this edition of Focus In Sound is Dr. Laura Miller, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the principal investigator in the Mathematical Physiology Group at UNC. In 2006, Laura received the Career Award at the Scientific Interface from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. That award calls for Candidates to draw from their training in a scientific field other than biology to propose innovative approaches to answer important questions in the biological sciences. Now if there was ever a recipient who personifies that concept, it’s Laura Miller. She works in...
2009-09-2128 minFocus In SoundInterview with Rochelle Schwartz-BloomOn this edition of Focus In Sound, we highlight a very successful science education program for high school students that has received support from the Fund’s Student Science Enrichment Program. It’s called LEAP, or Launch into Education About Pharmacology. Based at the Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, LEAP targets students at high schools in seven counties surrounding Durham. LEAP is an intensive three-week summer course followed by an opportunity during the school year for students to design a research project addressing pharmacology concepts, or to develop a pres...
2009-06-1820 min