In documents submitted to the court, the defense pointed to the significant financial and psychological hardships endured by Tao and his family. He is no longer employed by KU, according to a spokesperson from the university. The defense submitted more than a dozen letters from researchers in support of Tao for the court’s consideration.
by Ariana Remmel | January 18, 2023
“I think it’s very important to incorporate psychological monitoring” in the studies, she says. Some clinical trials have already grown out of the results of mouse studies. Three years ago, Cantley, Vousden, Maddocks, and others started a company called Faeth Therapeutics to test whether combining cancer drugs with foods could enhance the drugs’ response.
by Alla Katsnelson, special to C&EN | September 17, 2022
She was surrounded at home by anatomy and psychology textbooks, which she enjoyed reading. But her parents, noting the difficult work-life balance for doctors, encouraged her to pursue law or accounting over medicine. Her interest in chemistry began in high school, at lunchtime Chemistry Olympiad lessons with a friend.
by Arminda Downey-Mavromatis | September 13, 2022
Sherry Molock, an associate professor of clinical psychology at the George Washington University, says she knows why none of the grant proposals she’s written in the past 10 years have been funded: research area. Molock studies suicide prevention in Black adolescents and young adults. But she can’t say she wasn’t warned that it would impact her ability to attract research funding.
by Melba Newsome, special to C&EN | May 22, 2022
But the perception that some people are boring is, ironically, an interesting subject of psychological study. A recent paper, “Boring People: Stereotype Characteristics, Interpersonal Attributions, and Social Reactions,” dug into the content of the “boring” label and what its implications might be (Pers.
by Corinna Wu | May 20, 2022
Psychologically, it is a burden to always think about how to come out, how your friends will react, or how it could influence your career. I guess that is compounded by the fact that I’m a Chinese immigrant. I think that Chinese society is a little bit less receptive to the idea of being gay. Before I accepted the invitation to do this interview, I was a little worried about how friends and colleagues in China would perceive this.
by Alby J. Joseph, special to C&EN | April 08, 2022
For closeted LGBTQ+ scientists, holding back an important part of their identity creates psychological stresses that their straight and cisgender peers generally do not have to consider. These cognitive burdens can prevent smart, well-trained scientists from being as productive as they might otherwise be in their intellectually challenging, creative fields.
by Tehshik P. Yoon, special to C&EN | April 08, 2022
“I keenly remember feeling this incredible psychological strain of holding back part of my identity from anybody I worked with,” he says. “I can’t imagine if I had kept that going for the last 20 years. At some point I would have broken.” Yoon’s perspective began to shift when he met Carolyn Bertozzi, a prominent chemical biologist and out lesbian who was then at UC Berkeley.
by Katherine Bourzac | April 08, 2022
Separate research groups at the University of California, Los Angeles, Johns Hopkins University, New York University, Imperial College London, and the University of Zurich found fast and lasting effects using psychedelics, particularly psilocybin, to treat small groups of people with treatment-resistant depression and existential distress—a term doctors use to describe the psychological turmoil people may feel when they face death.
by Bethany Halford | March 06, 2022