Our Authors

Emma Jarvis is an editorial assistant with a London-based life-sciences web-publishing company.

Marine Engineer & Underwater Photographer

Dr. Barrie Lancaster is an electrophysiologist in the Neural Signalling department at the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London (UCL).

Alexandra Lindsay is a post-docoral scientist in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London.

Mark Lythgoe is a lecturer in radiology and physics in the Royal College of Surgeons Unit of Biophysics at the Institute of Child Health, University College London.

Dana Mackenzie is a science journalist and author of "The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be".

Gene Mascoli is the founder of popular US site ScienceMaster.com

Claire McLoughlin is from the press and publications department of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Peter is Professor of pharmacology at Cambridge University and joined us to talk about how the body signals pain and how drugs that can combat pain, including cannabis, cocaine and aspirin, work. He also gives a brief overview of how new drugs are designed and developed, and how natural drugs, produced by plants, are discovered.

Stephanie is currently undertaking PhD research into the area of breast cancer-related lymphoedema at St. George’s, University of London.