Podcasts

We recently attended Pfizer’s Annual Postdoc Symposium, held at our La Jolla, California, research site, to bring you a special miniseries of the Get Science Podcast. Pfizer’s postdoctoral training program offers recent PhD graduates the opportunity to gain firsthand industry experience and to contribute to cutting-edge research that makes a positive impact on patients.

From military defense systems to a symphony orchestra, metaphors for the immune system abound.

In the latest episode of the Get Science podcast, immunologist Tom Wynn shares his favorite metaphor for explaining the immune system to his mom. It’s like a “kill-and-repair mechanism,” he says. As immune cells do their job of fighting infections, cells and tissues sustain collateral damage. Most often, a healthy…

Developing treatments for rare diseases is among the most challenging areas of science. By definition, in the U.S., a disease is considered rare when it affects fewer than 200,000 Americans. Roughly 80 percent of rare diseases are known to be caused by genetic disorders. Given the uncommonness of each…

Continuing our series on “rule-breaking” science, we have a conversation with Mike White, Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer in the Tumor Cell Biology Group at Pfizer’s La Jolla Research site. For nearly two decades, White was based at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center as an expert in cancer cell…

In the latest series of the Get Science podcast, we’re talking to Pfizer researchers about how pursuing rule-breaking science can lead to new discoveries. Our next guest, Mike Vincent, Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Inflammation and Immunology Research Unit offers a new twist on…

When babies are born, they are at their most vulnerable, as their immune systems are still developing and they are too young to be vaccinated. But thanks to the protection from antibodies they receive in the womb, through a process…

Since grade school, we’ve been taught that the laws of science are hard and fast. But as technology enables scientists to delve deeper and collaborate better, they’re increasingly encountering surprising pockets of science that defy these “rules.” In a special series of the Get Science Podcast, we’ll explore some of science’s unknowns with the…