Science Communication: Let's Talk About Cancer

A Science Communication Workshop 
 

This interactive workshop is designed to help cancer biologists effectively explain their research to a non-expert audience, which may include patient advocates, grant reviewers, hiring managers or scientists in other fields. This is a hands-on opportunity to practice communicating your own work and get feedback on how to make your science more accessible. Participants will leave this workshop with a short verbal pitch of their research as well as a 3 sentence written description of their work.

This workshop was created as a collaboration between the Landry Cancer Biology Consortium and the Fellowships & Writing Center and was curated by Jialu Bao, Ph.D., Shannon McCarthy, Ph.D. and Isabella Del Priore. 

Jialu Bao, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Fellowships and Writing Center, received her Ph.D. from the Molecules, Cells, and Organisms program at Harvard and conducted research at the HMS Neurobiology department. She has also published sci-fi novels with Penguin Random House and Lerner Books. 

Shannon McCarthy, Ph.D. earned her Ph.D. from Harvard's Biological Sciences in Public Health Program and conducted her Ph.D. work at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. She is now a postdoc focusing on STEM writing at Harvard's Fellowships & Writing Center. 

Isabella Del Priore is a current Ph.D. student in Harvard's Biological and Biomedical Science Program and is conducting her dissertation research in the Toker Lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. 

A Panel Discussion on Communicating Research 

With Judith Agudo, Sloane Furniss, Anahita Vieira, and Bruce Zetter
Facilitated by Isabella Del Priore 
 

For biographies of our panelists, visit here.