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This week on Simply Blood we close out our 2022 Interview Spotlight Series! Part IV features the ISEH 2022 Donald Metcalf Award Winner:  Jim Palis, MD . Click below to listen as Dr. Palis answers questions about his scientific passions, career path, mentorship and more. Interested in hearing more about Dr. Palis' fascinating work?    Don’t miss his session at the ISEH 51st Annual Scientific Meeting this September ! Jim Palis, MD Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Hematology and Oncology Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester, NY, USA Interviewed by Stephen Loughran of the  ISEH New Investigators Committee

This week on Simply Blood we continue our 2022 Interview Spotlight Series. In Part III we are featuring the ISEH 2022 McCulloch & Till Awardee: Louise Purton, PhD. Here, Dr. Purton answers questions about her scientific achievements, personal passions, mentorship, and more. Interested in hearing more about Dr. Purton’s fascinating work?  Don’t miss her session at the ISEH 51st Annual Scientific Meeting this September ! Dr Louise Purton Head, Stem Cell Regulation Unit  St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Interviewed by Alejo Rodriguez-Fraticelli,  ISEH New Investigators Committee

This week on Simply Blood we continue our 2022 Interview Spotlight Series. In Part II we are featuring the ISEH 2022 Janet Rowley Awardee: David Kent, PhD. Here, Dr. Kent answers questions about his scientific passions, career path, mentorship and more. Interested in hearing more about Dr. Kent’s fascinating work?  Don’t miss his session at the ISEH 51st Annual Scientific Meeting this September ! Dr David Kent York Biomedical Research Institute Department of Biology University of York, York, UK Interviewed by Francois Mercier,  ISEH New Investigators Committee  & Beth Psaila, ISEH Junior PI Committee. 

 Junior PI Networking Event – Raging Bull, Edinburgh, Scotland (Friday Sept. 2, 20:00-23:00) The newly formed Junior PI committee is following on from its successful webinar series highlighting the “ Journey and Lessons Learned ” by hosting a dedicated Junior PI Networking Event at this year’s ISEH Annual Meeting to build a strong, supportive community of junior faculty worldwide Starting out as a new PI can be a daunting proposition with challenges including moving to an entirely new institute, reducing hands-on time in the laboratory, securing competitive grant funding and the need to recruit new staff and students. All whilst sustaining scientific productivity and maintaining a work/life balance. It pays to remember that science at its core is a ‘ human business ’, with building meaningful relationships, a sense of community and learning through shared experience all being essential to the progress of science.   Whilst the sharing of knowledge has been accelerated and democratized t