Focus In Sound

FOCUS 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...

FOCUS In Sound #36: Leenoy Meshulam    Octopus during active sleep video: https://www.oist.jp/video/octopus-during-active-sleep 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...

FOCUS 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 Scienc...

FOCUS 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 developm...

FOCUS 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 join...

FOCUS 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 ad...

  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 ha...

This 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 pr...

In 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...

In 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 tea...

In 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 pos...

In 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. Transcription of “Interview with Louis Muglia” 00;00;02;02 – 00;00;32;25 Ernie Hood Welcome to a special edition of...

In 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 Departmen...

In 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 batt...

In 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” 00;00;02;02 – 00;00;32;26 Ernie Hood Welcome to Focus In Sound, the...

This 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” 00;00;00;28 – 00;00;28;26 Ernie Hood Welcome to a special edition of Focus In Sound, the podcast series...

Program Officer Alfred Mays Provides Insight into the Career Awards for Science and Mathematics Teachers Transcription of “Career Awards for Science and Mathematics Teachers” 00;00;02;19 – 00;00;20;01 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 progr...

In 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. Transcription of “Interview with Andi Webb” 00;00;02;20 – 00;00;28;28 Ernie Hood Welcome to Focus In Sound, the podcast series from the Fo...

In 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. Transcription of “2017 Annual Report with John Burris” 00;00;04;22 – 00;00;33;00 Ernie Hood Welcome to Focus In Sound...

In 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” 00;00;07;27 – 00;00;39;13 Ernie Hood Welcome t...

In 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. Transcription...

In 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 stoc...

In 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...

In 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 Inst...

On 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. Geo...