Dial An Idol

Lasker Foundation
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How do you silence the naysayers or manage your self-doubt? Is there an upside to failure? On Dial an Idol, emerging scientists and physicians call their scientific heroes for guidance. They get advice that's useful whether you want to be a scientist or anything else.

Episodes

  1. 02/10/2021

    I Doubted My Place

    Emily Ashkin met Nobel laureate J. Michael Bishop at a high school science fair. At the time, Emily didn't feel like she belonged and Bishop gave her advice that still comforts her today.

    14 min

  2. 02/10/2021

    Don't be Dissuaded by the Naysayers

    How do you explain complicated science and not put people to sleep? How do you balance home life with a career?  PhD student Martyna Kosno talks about it with Jennifer Doudna. Doudna won the Nobel Prize in 2020 for her discovery of the gene-editing tool CRISPR–Cas9.

    16 min

  3. 02/10/2021

    I Wanted The Wrong Things

    When MD-PhD student David Basta started his PhD, he thought he wanted a mentor who would tell him exactly what to do. Instead, he got a helpful lesson in failure from his principal investigator, Dianne Newman -- a MacArthur-Award-winning microbiologist.

    16 min

  4. 02/10/2021

    Reach Higher

    Kwabena Kusi-Mensah, a child psychiatrist from Ghana, meets one of his scientific heroes: Harold Freeman. Early in his career, Harold Freeman recognized that poor Black Americans were disproportionately dying from cancer. He made it his mission to change that.

    22 min

  5. 02/10/2021

    Nobody Wanted Me to be a Doctor

    When Dina Zamil was growing up, the people around her discouraged her from going to medical school. She took inspiration from Eqbal Dauqan, a biochemist and refugee from Yemen, who has succeeded in science despite enormous obstacles.

    12 min

  6. 02/10/2021

    99 Percent of Us Are Underdogs

    Andrew Tran struggled with self-doubt. But Andrew's obsession with instant ramen led him to a scientist who changed his perspective. He learned about Barry Marshall, who discovered the cause of ulcers by taking matters into his own gut.

    15 min

  7. 01/27/2021

    Dial an Idol

    How do you silence the naysayers or manage your self-doubt? Is there an upside to failure? On Dial an Idol, emerging scientists and physicians call their scientific heroes for guidance. They get advice that's useful whether you want to be a scientist or anything else.

    1 min

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How do you silence the naysayers or manage your self-doubt? Is there an upside to failure? On Dial an Idol, emerging scientists and physicians call their scientific heroes for guidance. They get advice that's useful whether you want to be a scientist or anything else.

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  • Creator
    Lasker Foundation
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    7
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Lasker Foundation 2021
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    Dial An Idol