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Oren Ganor, MD of Boston Children’s Hospital discusses the important challenges and considerations in providing safe and ethical resources to transgender individuals.

Dr. Anne Thorndike of Massachusetts General Hospital, explains how choice architecture and improved food labeling can change our eating choices.

Caterina Stamoulis, PhD, of Boston Children’s Hospital, discusses the next generation of neuroscience experiments that use noisy, big data collected in unsupervised settings.

Although interventions to help individuals suffering from bipolar disorder, depression, and schizophrenia exist, they tend to focus solely on mitigating the illness. Roscoe Brady, PhD, of McLean Hospital, and his team are advancing promising research to determine the neurological basis for the symptoms of these illnesses. Their goal: to understand the neurological differences in brains afflicted with these conditions in comparison with healthy brains

When the first line of epileptic drugs fail to control seizures in young children, doctors turn to resective surgery. Christos Papadelis, PhD, of Children’s Hospital, explains to us the noninvasive imaging he is developing to improve these surgical outcomes.

This week on ThinkResearch, Dr. Roland Carlstedt of McLean Hospital shares the dynamics behind athletes’ peak moments, or their worst frailties. Hear how he hopes to improve the field of sport psychology for the betterment of treating players.

Michael Super, PhD, of the Wyss Institute, shares his story of how the spread of infectious disease throughout South Africa and London inspired him to pursue human health and combat disease.

Nick Menzies, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, was originally a dentist from New Zealand before he decided to pursue a broader career in public health. Tune in now to hear the importance and difficulty of mathematical modeling in treating infectious disease.

This week on ThinkResearch we conclude our conversation with Jonathan Beckwith of Harvard Medical School. Hear how Dr. Beckwith used his laboratory studies to educate others about wrongful genetic discrimination while combating the misinformation that transcended the late 20th century.

Last time on ThinkResearch, we learned of the social climate that shaped Dr. Jonathan Beckwith's science. This week, hear about the studies Beckwith undertook to find out just what genetic engineering was capable of.

This week, Dr. Jonathan Beckwith of Harvard Medical School explains his experience at the intersection of science and social activism during the 1960s and 70s that shaped his career as a chemist and bacterial geneticist.

This week on ThinkResearch, Dr. Carmen Priolo of Brigham and Women, walks us down her own path of metabolic pathway imaging in tumor cells. By studying different enzymatic reactions, the goal is to better treat various metabolic features in patients.

When angiosarcoma left Dr. Corrie Painter with a grim prognosis and limited information, she turned to online social communities, and found a wealth of resources and knowledge. Dr. Painter then worked to create her own online, direct-to-patient resource for metastatic cancer patients. This week we re-air Dr. Painter's inspiring story to celebrate the launch of her third initiative, the Metastatic Prostate Cancer Project. Learn more at mpcproject.org.

To ring in the New Year, we are featuring a replay of ThinkResearch’s “Let’s Get Clinical” episode to help you get the most out of your workout resolutions. Dr. I-Min Lee, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, explains the importance of physical activity to improve overall wellbeing long beyond January 1.

We are winding down 2017 with an exciting encore of our premiere episode featuring Dr. Elliott Antman’s explanation of Coumadin’s complex history. From farm cows and sweet clover hay to a rat poison antidote, learn the interesting chain of events that gave modern day medicine one of its most commonly prescribed blood thinners.

This month, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Brian Healy, PhD gives insight into the future of clinical trials and model building in biostatistics. At the crux of study design innovation and new prediction model building, researchers should take advantage of this unique time in research and technology to do their best work.

Alexander Lin, PhD, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, joins us to discuss the important research his lab is undertaking: using technology to perform a virtual biopsy of a brain that has been exposed to a traumatic injury.

We are joined by Giorgio Giatsidis, MD, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, to discuss the field of plastic surgery. In our talk, Dr. Giatsidis talks about the common misconceptions related to the field and how his lab is working to develop new ways to reconstruct soft tissues.

We are joined by Taylor Kimberly, MD, PhD from Massachusetts General Hospital to talk about the important research his lab is doing regarding strokes and secondary brain injuries that occur after the initial trauma.

We are joined by Niroshana Anandasabapathy, MD, PhD from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, to discuss how her career path evolved from studying art history to today, a successful dermatologist who is studying why your immune system fails to see cancer.