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Why microbes on your skin are good for you
Science is Fun!
English - October 04, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 88.4 MBScience Business biotech education policy research science Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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My guest this week is Tiffany Scharschmidt, a close colleague of mine in the UCSF Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine. I really admire how well-spoken she is and how carefully considered her research and other scholarly work is, a stark contrast to my own “fire, ready, aim” approach. Another remarkable fact about Tiffany is that she never got a Ph.D. Instead, she transitioned directly from an M.D. to a translational research program that spans deep molecular mechanism to clinical studies. Hear why and how she made that switch, whether or not microbes may someday cure skin disease, and what the big questions are in skin microbiome research.