Joanna Owens, PhD
Joanna brings more than 20 years’ experience writing about a wide range of scientific topics in biosciences, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. After a PhD in Molecular Toxicology, Joanna began a career in science publishing, as associate editor on Drug Discovery Today and later as senior editor, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. In 2007, she joined one of the world’s largest biomedical charities, Cancer Research UK, specializing in plain language science communications for patients and the public. Joanna has been a freelance writer since 2017, covering all biomedical topics with a focus on oncology, pharmacology and drug discovery.
Latest Content
Article
Approaches to Preventing Healthcare-Related Infections
This article will explore the problem of nosocomial infections, what causes them and what can be done to treat and prevent them.
Article
Future Foods: Ensuring Sustainability of Our Global Food Supply
With the world’s population predicted to increase to 10 billion people by 2050, there is a pressing need to find more sustainable and healthy supplies of food. In this article, we highlight the latest research on developing foods for the future.
Article
Advances in Spheroid and Organoid Engineering and Applications
In this article, we look at some recent advances and applications and where the field of three-dimensional tissue culture is heading.
Article
Using Epidemiology in Virology: Experiences From COVID-19
We spoke to two researchers about how they use insights in epidemiology to answer key questions about existing and emerging viruses.
Listicle
Five Advances in Fragment-Based Drug Discovery
Read this listicle to discover recent advancements in fragment-based screening including fragment tailoring, affinity mass spectrometry-based fragment screening and computational approaches using fragments.
Article
Exploring the Immune System and Cancer
In this article, we look at two different approaches to optimizing immunotherapies.
Article
Towards Improved Data Reproducibility
In this article, we look at some of the measures we can take as individual scientists and as a global community to improve the reproducibility and rigor of scientific endeavor.
Listicle
Five Innovations in Cell-Based Therapy
Download this listicle to learn about recent advances in cell-based therapies including off-the-shelf chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, engineered T-cell receptor therapy and mesenchymal stem cell therapies.
Listicle
Sequencing the Microbiome: Five Recent Advances
Download this listicle to discover recent research highlights such as the role of the microbiome in food allergies, sequencing microbiome dynamics and overturning conventions in human urology.
Article
Cryopreservation: Applications and Advances
In this article, we explore the challenges with cryopreservation and the emerging advances that could improve these methods.
Advertisement