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Cancer in our Community - The caregiver's episode pt 2

Cancer in our Community - The caregiver's episode pt 2

Terms like hospice and palliative care can instantly make us think of worst case scenarios, but whether you are a patient or a caregiver, they should be considered a normal part of the experience offered by experts in Supportive Care Medicine.

Treating a patient is not just about killing the cancer, but doing everything you can to improve their quality of life, a subject that Dr. Saima Rashid is familiar with as a specialist in palliative care, and Parmvir as a caregiver to her sister Sukhneil.

Season 10ScientistsIncApril 29, 2026Everyman Kings Crosscancer, cancer research, caregiving, palliative careComment

Cancer in our Community - The caregiver's episode pt 1

Cancer in our Community - The caregiver's episode pt 1

Cancer is a profoundly disabling illness, whether that is due to side effects from the life-saving treatments or the disease itself. Understandably then, patients need constant and vital support in the form of caregivers, but who do we consider to be a caregiver, and what does their role involve?

Season 10ScientistsIncApril 17, 2026Everyman Kings Crosscancer, cancer research, caregivingComment

Neobe and the Cancer Matrix

Neobe and the Cancer Matrix

Using bacteria to treat a disease like cancer may not seem very intuitive, but there are very smart reasons for doing so. No one knows this better than Dr. Pedro Sampaio, co-founder of Neobe, a company doing just that.

Season 10ScientistsIncJuly 25, 2024Everyman Kings Crossbacteria, cancer, bioengineering, biotechComment

Brains, drones and smart apps for our phones

Brains, drones and smart apps for our phones

Have you ever just though how easy it would be to control everything with your brain? Poof, the lights go on, and Netflix just chooses your favorite show. Beyond these niceties though, Dr. Marvin Andujar has bigger and better plans.

Season 9ScientistsIncDecember 23, 2023world of beerComputer Science, biomedical engineering, neuroscience, neurology, brain-computer interface, brain drone, ADHDComment

This time it's personal...

This time it's personal...

It may feel like 2Scientists has dropped off the face of the planet since our last release, so we wanted to check in and let you all know where we’re at.

Season 9ScientistsIncJuly 14, 2023Kensington Gardenspodcast, familyComment

The pharmacovigilante

The pharmacovigilante

He’s here, he’s there; Dr. Hillman brings drug safety everywhere! So given the rules and regulations he needs to follow, the title “vigilante” could be nothing but ironic.

We chart David’s progress through choosing pharmacology as a subject to study, and settling on pharmacovigilance as a career to pursue.

Season 9ScientistsIncDecember 13, 2022Kensington Gardenspharmacology, pharmacovigilance, drug safety, pharmaceuticalComment

The salamander scientist

The salamander scientist

He conserves wild spaces, he climbs tall trees, he records flying amphibians. He is: Christian Brown – the Salamander Scientist! We talked about his graduate research involving dropping salamanders in a wind tunnel, watching hours of recordings to get his data, and his work outside the lab to save a local forest preserve.

Season 9ScientistsIncOctober 9, 2022The Corner Clubsalamanders, amphibian, conservation, ecologyComment

The ambassador for microfluidics

The ambassador for microfluidics

Microfluidics is, as the name might imply, the study of small amounts of liquid. Now this may not sound super exciting until you hear Dr. Éadaoin Carthy talking about her field.

Season 9ScientistsIncJuly 24, 2022skerriesscience, scicomm, #2scis, devices, engineering, microfluidicsComment

Serendipity in chemistry

Serendipity in chemistry

Chemistry and chemicals get a bad rap, but unfairly so. Certainly that’s the view of AP De Silva, someone who fell in love with the subject in his native Sri Lanka and who has continued a fruitful career in Northern Ireland.

Season 9ScientistsIncJune 25, 2022Queen's University, Belfastscience, scicomm, #2scis, chemistry, immigrant, education, devicesComment

The Patient Doctor

The Patient Doctor

That a doctor listens to their patients should not be a surprise, but that they use information from their patients to help improve care may well be. Enter Dr. Jason Wilson an emergency physician, a graduate trained anthropologist and a man with his finger on the pulse of many projects.

Season 9ScientistsIncMay 27, 2022New World Breweryscience, scicomm, #2scis, COVID19, Opioids, emergency medicine, anthropologyComment

Piensa en los niños

Piensa en los niños

So with much fanfare, we launch our accompanying podcast 2Cientificos in Spanish! You’ll be able to find all future episodes on our new dedicated page, but for the bilingual among you, this is one to enjoy here and now.

Season 9ScientistsIncMay 7, 2022the corner clubscience, scicomm, #2scis, infection, infectious disease, HIV, COVID19, vaccineComment

Winning Webbys and Science in Spanish

Winning Webbys and Science in Spanish

Vote for us in the Webbys!

Season 9ScientistsIncApril 14, 2022the corner clubscience, scicomm, #2scis, webbys, awardComment

This one's for the kids

This one's for the kids

Dr. Carina Rodriguez is physician-researcher who has transported her skills from her home nation of Argentina to the US. While she has experience in the prevention and treatment of a wide range of diseases, as a pediatric infectious disease specialist her focus has been on the little ones.

Season 9ScientistsIncMarch 31, 2022the corner clubscience, scicomm, #2scis, infection, infectious disease, HIV, COVID19, vaccineComment

The science of cancer and care

The science of cancer and care

Dr. Brandon Blue is an oncologist and physician-scientist at Moffitt Cancer Center. As a medical doctor he spends his time treating blood cancers, so this is an apt episode for Blood Cancer Awareness Week.
As a researcher though he's trying to understand more about disparities in diagnosis and treatment of such cancers so that all patients receive better care.

Season 8ScientistsIncSeptember 7, 2021science, scicomm, #2scis, cancer, blood cancer, health equity, black in cancerComment

Psychology, psychopathy and creating positive change

Psychology, psychopathy and creating positive change

What happens when your psychology research just doesn’t quite scratch that itch any more? Well, in the case of Prof. Edelyn Verona, it means you join with your colleagues to create a Center for Justice Research and Policy, something she is well placed to do as an expert in mental health, and violent and criminal behavior.

Season 8ScientistsIncAugust 31, 2021science, scicomm, #2scis, psychology, psychopathy, legal system, policing, criminologyComment

NDN Science on Earth Day

NDN Science on Earth Day

Meet Annie Sorrell the lover of manatees, from Montana (Annie is from Montana - not the manatees). And Loga Fixico, scientist, philosopher and studier of complex systems. What do they have in common? Well, they both studied at the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at SUNY ESF, they’re cousins, and they’re cohosts of the NDN Science Show.

Season 8ScientistsIncAugust 24, 2021science, scicomm, #2scis, ecology, grad school, indigenousComment

From pikas to politics

From pikas to politics

Prof. Nancy Huntly is the scientist who almost never was. All through high school and university she didn’t feel like science was for her, but her curiosity has led her to study ecosystems as an academic, work for government agencies and more recently she's been researching how best to keep grad students in STEM programs. All that was not enough for Nancy though as she has also run for State Senate in Utah!

Join us as we chat about her unique and inspiring journey from pikas to politics

Season 8ScientistsIncAugust 17, 2021science, scicomm, #2scis, politics, ecology, grad schoolComment

Math the vote pt II: Polls and predictions

Math the vote pt II: Polls and predictions

While at Northwestern University, Dr. Alexandria Volkening and her colleagues developed compartmental mathematical models to predict the 2020 US elections. What's a compartmental model? How do you teach kids about math modeling using Finding Nemo? Which is better: the Parmvir poll or the Alexandria poll? We ask her about this and more.

Season 8ScientistsIncAugust 10, 2021science, scicomm, #2scis, math, politics, polls, math modelComment

Math the vote pt I: The geometry of gerrymandering

Math the vote pt I: The geometry of gerrymandering

Gerrymandering has been described as the process by which the people being elected get to chose the people that elect them. It turns out that, while many people would argue that gerrymandering is not healthy for democracy, doing it right requires some maths.

Dr. Thomas Weighill is a mathematician “weighing in” to do just that.

Season 8ScientistsIncAugust 3, 2021science, scicomm, #2scis, math, geometry, gerrymander, politicsComment

COVID-19 special: The Math Epidemiologist

COVID-19 special: The Math Epidemiologist

A journey through ecology, evolution, infectious disease, mathematics and computational biology in medicine is what has made Dr. Brandon Ogbunu the scientist he is today. And he is completely unapologetic about it because Brandon’s believes that all these facets of his work, personality and ethnicity put him in a unique position to understand complex interactions. That includes those that we’re seeing in the midst of a pandemic.

COVID-19ScientistsIncMay 1, 2020science, scicomm, #2scis, math, epidemiology, evolutionComment