Coffee Break Science
The podcast that dives into groundbreaking research from the University of Cambridge and provides powerful stories from patients whose lives are forever changed by the diseases we receive funding to study.
Hosted by Dr Ahsen Ustaoglu, breast cancer survivor and postdoctoral researcher working on early detection of oesophageal cancer at the Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 13
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Decoding the cancer genome to personalise patient care
In this episode, I'm joined by Prof Serena Nik-Zainal, a legendary research group leader in genomic medicine. Join us for a deep dive into the cancer genome, and how we can harness it to better infor…
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 muta…
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
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 consu…
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 vir…
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 …
Clinical Research, Medical Education & Imposter Syndrome
Today I'm joined by Dr Irem Ishlek, a clinical doctor who is currently undertaking paediatric training and we talk all things medical education, research during medical training and challenges common…
Anthropology to Medical Imaging in Gastroenterology
In this episode, we explore Dr Heather Fitzke's diverse career journey from social anthropology to public health & epidemiology, to a PhD and now post-doc in medical imaging in the field of neurogast…
Molecular Oncology, Medical Writing and Data Science
In this episode, we explore Dr Joe Worrall's path to landing a PhD in molecular oncology, and how he decided to pursue a career in medical writing/publishing in the pharmaceutical industry, including…
Self-Exploration Experiments: Bench to Digital Nomad
Today I am joined by Dr Hannah Thompson, who is a PhD scientist by training, but has now worked in many start-ups across product, business, operations and people functions. She has worked on software…
Accounting to Neuroscience: The Excitatory Road to Assistant Professorship
Today we are joined by Dr Kristen Smith-Edwards who talks about her rather unconventional route to earning a faculty position at the Mayo Clinic, US. Her passion for neuroscience research is inspirin…
Academia to Product Management
In this episode, we explore Dr Atiya Sarmin's transition from a Bioengineering PhD to product management in a scale-up company using AI to improve drug discovery pipelines. We discuss the challenge t…
Welcome to Coffee Break Science!
A short trailer of what you can expect on this show. Conversations with super cool scientists to follow very soon!