The RE-Search Podcast

EP 5: Instrument-free biosensing tools with Nina Patrick

Our guest today is Nina Patrick. Nina is the co-founder and CEO of MiProbes Biotechnologies. MiProbes is a German startup that's building hardware-free, next-generation diagnostics, to empower users to make data-driven decisions about themselves. MiProbes has won the Global Health & Pharma Breakthrough Innovation Excellence Award and was a finalist for the Royal Society of Chemistry Emerging Technologies competition.  In this episode, Nina tells us about her amazing journey from academic research to entrepreneurship- from drug discovery and synthesis to creating bacteria-based biosensors for diagnostics.  She also tells us how she witnessed the medical diagnostics evolve rapidly as a response to the pandemic and her vision for the future of health monitoring!  Follow us here for updates! LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-re-search-podcast/] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/theresearchpodcast/] Twitter  [https://twitter.com/TheRESearchPod1]Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/theresearchpodcast]

EP 4: DNA Repair, Ribosomes and the Future of Biochemistry Research with Chandrima Majumdar

Our guest today is Chandrima Majumdar. Chandrima is postdoctoral researcher in structural biology at University of California, Berkeley working on ribosome engineering. Chandrima has a PhD from the University of California Davis where she studied the underlying mechanisms behind DNA repair. In today's episode, Chandrima tells us about her incredible work on understanding how enzymes identify DNA mutations was published in the Journal of American Chemical Society! She also tells us what inspired her to study Chemistry, the impact of techniques like CryoEM on biochemical research, how the pandemic has affected biochemistry research and her take on research in a post-covid world. Follow us here for updates! LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-re-search-podcast/] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/theresearchpodcast/] Twitter  [https://twitter.com/TheRESearchPod1]Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/theresearchpodcast]

EP 3: Understanding technology adoption using economics with Juni Singh

Our guest today is Juni Singh, an economist who specializes in behavioural economics, networks and developmental economics. Juni has had a rich and international scientific career: She holds a PhD from the Paris School of Economics; she was a researcher at MIT J-PAL and she is an incoming postdoc at CalTech. Besides academic research, Juni has also been a Researcher and Consultant at the World Bank where she worked on framing policy for global challenges. In this conversation, Juni breaks down lab-on-the-field experiments in behavioural and network economics. She explains their long-term impact in understanding technology adoption, peer monitoring and long-term policymaking. She also shares how economics research is evolving to meet the challenges of the future – particularly those especially raised during the pandemic. Follow us here for updates! LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-re-search-podcast/]  Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/theresearchpodcast/] Twitter  [https://twitter.com/TheRESearchPod1]Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/theresearchpodcast]

EP 2: The future of collaborative interdisciplinary research

In this episode, we're going to talk about collaborative interdisciplinary research, with a focus on biophotonics. What unique advantages do specialists in diverse domains bring to interdisciplinary research? How will this ecosystem evolve in a post-covid world? Our guest today is Pamina Martina Winkler, who is the perfect person to address these questions. Pamina has a Ph.D. in Photonics from ICFO in Barcelona and is an incoming postdoc at EPFL in Lausanne. A physicist by training, she talks about what drew her to life science research, the advantages physicists bring to interdisciplinary projects, and how she thinks biophotonics research will evolve in the future. We also talked about the question every researcher asks after their Ph.D. - should I create knowledge by staying in academia or should I create value by moving to the industry? Pamina has an interesting perspective on this question. Stay tuned to find out in this episode of the research podcast! Follow us on social media for updates! LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-re-search-podcast/ ]  Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/theresearchpodcast/]  Twitter  [https://twitter.com/TheRESearchPod1]

EP 1: Scaling a European medtech startup

In this inaugural episode of The Re-Search Podcast, I sit down with Anna Shirinskaya to talk about the scaling a European medtech startup in the post-pandemic world. Anna is a founder and the CTO Omini, a French medtech startup developing point-of-care biosensing devices for rapid blood testing. To go further in their mission, Omini has recently raised about 2 million USD in their seed funding round. We talk about Anna's PhD research on bioelectronic sensors, her passion for technology transfer, raising seed funding through the pandemic and the future of medtech in Europe. Stay till the end to hear about a very special recommendation from Anna! Follow us on social media for updates! LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-re-search-podcast/] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/theresearchpodcast/] Twitter  [https://twitter.com/TheRESearchPod1]