Once a Scientist

Nick Edwards

Unfiltered career discussions with scientists

  1. 07/23/2025

    92. Ashlee Vance, tech reporter and filmmaker, on storytelling, science funding, and interviewing billionaires

    Episode 92. Ashlee Vance is a renowned tech and science reporter, filmmaker, and founder of Core Memory, a podcast and blog that chronicles the lives and discoveries of scientists and engineers (https://www.corememory.com/). He wrote the definitive biography on Elon Musk and has been documenting the modern space race and recent developments in AI, among other things.

    1h 2m

  2. 04/23/2025

    91. Michael Koeris, Director of DARPA BTO, on autonomous science to accelerate discovery

    Episode 91. Michael Koeris is the Director of the Biotechnologies Office at DARPA. Michael completed his PhD at Boston University and did postdoctoral research in synthetic biology at MIT. He spent time early in his career at Flagship Pioneering, is a former founder and executive of multiple biotechs,  and was formerly a professor at the Keck Graduate Institute.

    55 min

  3. 12/18/2024

    90. Barry Bunin, CEO at Collaborative Drug Discovery, on tapping into the collective consciousness of science.

    Episode 90. Barry Bunin is the CEO and President at Collaborative Drug Discovery, which he founded 20 years ago. Prior to that, Barry was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Eli Lilly. He completed his PhD in Bioorganic Chemistry at UC Berkeley and his bachelor's degree in chemistry at Columbia University. To learn more about CDD:  https://www.collaborativedrug.com/ai-drug-discovery#Bioisosteric-Suggestions https://www.collaborativedrug.com/curves#Calculations https://www.collaborativedrug.com/automation

    1h 18m

  4. 10/30/2024

    89. Seemay Chou, CEO of Arcadia Science, on metascience and rethinking the structure of science

    Seemay Chou is co-founder and CEO at Arcadia Science, Board Member at Astera Institute, and Board Chairperson at The Navigation Fund. Seemay was previously an assistant professor at UCSF and completed her PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley.

    1h 5m

  5. 10/01/2024

    88. Gene Yeo, professor at UC San Diego, on team science and building a training playground

    Episode 88. Eugene Yeo is a Professor at UC San Diego and is building a scientific ecosystem in San Diego. He runs the Innovation Center at Sanford Stem Cell Institute, is Scientific Director at the Sanford Consortium, Chief Scientist at the Sanford labs for Innovative Medicines, and Director of UC San Diego’s Center for RNA Technologies and Therapeutics.

    1h 13m

  6. 08/30/2024

    87. Jesse Gray and Sud Pinglay, at SeaHub, on recording cellular activity and making big bets

    Episode 87.  Sudarshan Pinglay is a researcher at the University of Washington and faculty at the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology (SeaHub). He did his PhD at New York University and bachelor's degree at Johns Hopkins. Jesse Gray is a Senior Director at SeaHub. He previously worked in industry at Ascidian Therapeutics and as a professor at Harvard Medical School. Jesse completed his PhD at UCSF and his undergrad at University of Wisconsin.

    1h 4m

  7. 07/17/2024

    86. Prachee Avasthi, CSO at Arcadia Science, on exercising agency and doing science differently

    Episode 86. Prachee Avasthi is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Arcadia Science and Head of Open Science at the Astera Institute. Prachee was previously a professor at Dartmouth and University of Kansas. She completed a PhD in Neuroscience at University of Utah and her bachelor's degree at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

    1h 8m

  8. 05/29/2024

    85. Fay Lin, science journalist and editor, on seeking out diverse voices and learning from experts

    Episode 85. Fay Lin is a Senior Editor at GEN Biotechnology. She completed her PhD in Biochemistry, Molecular, and Structural Biology at UCLA and undergrad in Biology at NYU with minors in Computer Science and Chemistry. GEN Biotechnology website:  https://home.liebertpub.com/genbio Call for Papers: Special Issue in AI in Biotechnology:  https://home.liebertpub.com/cfp/special-issue-artificial-intelligence-in-biotechnology/497/

    47 min
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Unfiltered career discussions with scientists

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  • Creator
    Nick Edwards
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
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