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Once A Scientist is a podcast about how science is changing and the people changing with it. Hosted by scientist and entrepreneur Nick Edwards, the show features conversations with researchers, founders, technologists, investors, and operators working at the edges of biology, AI, automation, robotics, and drug discovery. Guests talk about the technologies reshaping scientific work, the problems they believe are worth solving, and the often-unplanned paths that brought them there. Along the way, Nick explores a bigger question: as machines take on more of the work of reading, analyzing, designing, and eventually executing experiments, what becomes possible for science—and what becomes more important for scientists? Once A Scientist is about where science is going, who is building it, and how the next generation of scientists can find their place in it.
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Signup to Generate a PitchOnce A Scientist is a podcast about how science is changing and the people changing with it. Hosted by scientist and entrepreneur Nick Edwards, the show features conversations with researchers, founders, technologists, investors, and operators working at the edges of biology, AI, automation, robotics, and drug discovery.
Once a Scientist is hosted by Nick Edwards. The show has published 104 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "98. Renee Wegrzyn and Anna Marie Wagner, Founders of Transfyr, on Why Science's Reproducibility Problem Isn't in the Lab Notebook" (15 September 2026, 51 minutes), "97. Ron Alfa, CEO of NOETIK, on Biology as a Search Problem" (18 August 2026, 46 minutes), and "96. Chris Anderson, Advisor to Pillar VC and former Wired Editor, on How Adjacent Technologies Will Transform Lab Automation" (29 July 2026, 41 minutes).
Once a Scientist publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 58 minutes across 104 episodes.
Booking probability for Once a Scientist is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Once a Scientist requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Once a Scientist's contact route on record: verified email.
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Nick Edwards hosts Once a Scientist, a science podcast with 104 episodes published.
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Renee Wegrzyn, PhD, is co-founder of Transfyr AI. Recognized as a TIME 100 Innovator, Rock Health Top 50 Digital Health Innovator, and recipient of the Superior Public Service Medal, Renee holds a BS and PhD in Applied...
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Ron is Co-Founder and CEO of NOETIK , a next generation precision oncology company using multimodal foundation models pre-trained on large-scale human tumor data to discover cancer therapeutics. He holds an MD and PhD...
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Chris Anderson currently serves as an advisor at Pillar VC and Renaissance Philanthropy. He was editor of WIRED and spent seven years at The Economist, where he worked as editor of both the technology and business...
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Stacie Calad-Thomason is Head of BioPharma Labs and Manufacturing Business Development at NVIDIA. She has a PhD in Chemistry from UC Irvine and a B.A. in Chemistry from UC Berkeley. Topics & Timecodes: Physical AI Tools...
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Ira Hoffman is the CEO of HighRes. He has a M.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Physics/Mathematics from the University of Vermont. OUTLINE: [00:00] - Introduction to collaborative robots and safe human-robot...
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Episode 93. Jason Kelly is the co-founder and CEO of Ginkgo Bioworks. He has a Ph.D. in Biological Engineering and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. References...
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Episode 92. Ashlee Vance is a renowned tech and science reporter, filmmaker, and founder of Core Memory, a podcast and blog that chronicles the lives and discoveries of scientists and engineers...
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Episode 91. Michael Koeris is the Director of the Biotechnologies Office at DARPA. Michael completed his PhD at Boston University and did postdoctoral research in synthetic biology at MIT. He spent time early in his...
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Episode 90. Barry Bunin is the CEO and President at Collaborative Drug Discovery, which he founded 20 years ago. Prior to that, Barry was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Eli Lilly. He completed his PhD in Bioorganic...
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Seemay Chou is co-founder and CEO at Arcadia Science, Board Member at Astera Institute, and Board Chairperson at The Navigation Fund. Seemay was previously an assistant professor at UCSF and completed her PhD in...
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Episode 88. Eugene Yeo is a Professor at UC San Diego and is building a scientific ecosystem in San Diego. He runs the Innovation Center at Sanford Stem Cell Institute, is Scientific Director at the Sanford Consortium...
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Episode 87. Sudarshan Pinglay is a researcher at the University of Washington and faculty at the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology (SeaHub). He did his PhD at New York University and bachelor's degree at Johns Hopkins...
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Episode 86. Prachee Avasthi is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Arcadia Science and Head of Open Science at the Astera Institute. Prachee was previously a professor at Dartmouth and University of Kansas. She...
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Episode 85. Fay Lin is a Senior Editor at GEN Biotechnology. She completed her PhD in Biochemistry, Molecular, and Structural Biology at UCLA and undergrad in Biology at NYU with minors in Computer Science and...
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Episode 84. Maryann Martone is an emeritus professor of neuroscience at UC San Diego. She received her BA from Wellesley College in Biological Psychology and Ancient Greek and her PhD in Neuroscience from the UC San...
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Anand Muthusamy is a Fellow at Convergent Research, where he's l aying the groundwork for a focused research organization (FRO) to monitor the real-time activity of biomarkers in humans. Anand is a chemist and...
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Episode 82. Alexander Titus is a professor at USC, doing research at the intersection of biology and AI. He completed his PhD in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences at Dartmouth. He's also the founder of Bioeconomy.xyz and...
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Episode 81. Ashley Ruba is the founder of After Academia and a Human Factors Engineer at Arthrex. Ashley did her PhD in developmental psychology at the University of Washington and her undergrad degree at Duke...
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Episode 80. Amy Kruse is Chief Investment Officer at Satori Capital and a Venture Partner at Prime Movers Lab. Amy completed her PhD in Neuroscience at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. After leaving the bench...
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Episode 79. Sammi Sison is co-president of Nucleate, an international student-led organization designed to help scientists kick off careers in entrepreneurship, business development, and venture capital. Sammi is a PhD...
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