Thiago Arzua

Mar 15, 2024 | statnews.com | Thiago Arzua

Scientists are taught early in our training that criticism is a fundamental part of the job. What we are not usually trained to navigate, however, is public backlash, which is exactly what followed the publication of the comprehensive genomic sequencing results from the All of Us Research Program. The study aims to add the genomic information of 1 million volunteers from normally underrepresented genetic backgrounds to datasets that have been mostly constituted by people of European descent.

Aug 29, 2023 | nyas.org | Thiago Arzua

Even after doing this countless times before, I was still nervous waiting outside my advisor’s office to talk about some experiments that did not work. “What if they ask for more data than I have? What if I picked the wrong project?” These thoughts quickly devolve into something darker like: “Do I deserve to be here?