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• Beyond the Statistics: Ovarian Cancer from Community to Clinic

  Welcome back to Coffee Break Science Season 2! In this episode I'm joined by Christen Williams, co-founder of cancer prevention charity BRCA Chat who support people navigating a germline genetic mutation that significantly increases risk of developing breast and ovarian cancers. The expert scientific landscape is then beautifully set by Dr Siddhartha Kar, associate professor of clinical epidemiology at the Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge. You can find out more about BRCA chat on their website: https://brcachat.com/Siddhartha's latest research: https://www.earlycancer.cam.ac.uk/dr-siddhartha-karContact Ahsen with feedback, questions or if you're interested in sharing your story, contact her at [email protected], or @ahsenonfilm on Instagram

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• Welcome to Season 2

  It has been a while! Welcome back to Coffee Break Science. This season, we're brewing up something truly special.This podcast is sponsored by NIHR Cambridge BRC Devices and Advanced Therapies Theme

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• Academia to YouTube & Entrepreneurship

  In the final episode of Season 1, we are joined by the phenomenal Dr Amina Yonis, a research scientist by background who became a Youtuber with over 200K subscribers and set up her own academic consultancy business: ThePageDoctor We discuss what Amina loved about academia, and what made her start her YouTube channel which has since grown into multiple other streams of income resulting in her eventually leaving academia to pursue her business and social media presence full time. Hope you enjoy our discussion! (23) Dr Amina Yonis - YouTube

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• Infectious Disease Research & Science Communication Across Europe

  In this episode, Dr Carla Usai talks about her international career journey so far as a postdoctoral scientist in infectious disease. Carla has a science communication blog where she writes about viruses, immunology and more, in both English and Italian: Home – Virus&Co. (art.blog) You can contact her on LinkedIn: (4) Carla Usai, PhD | LinkedIn

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• Dentistry, Head and Neck Cancer Research & Motherhood

  In this episode, I am joined by Dr Elham Sahafi, a dentist who became a scientist through a drive to make a difference to the lives of Head and Neck Cancer Patients. We talk about her incredible PhD research which found EGFR as a molecular biomarker for worsened prognosis for HNCSCC. You can find her publication mentioned in the episode here: EGFR overexpression increases radiotherapy response in HPV-positive head and neck cancer through inhibition of DNA damage repair and HPV E6 downregulation - ScienceDirect We also talk about the challenge of going through pregnancy, miscarriage and motherhood during a PhD, and how Elham has managed to handle them all. You can connect with Elham on LinkedIn: (22) Elham Sahafi | LinkedIn

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