Josh Nicholson

Joshua Nicholson is currently a PhD candidate at Virginia Tech studying the role

of the karyotype in cancer initiation and progression in the lab of Dr. Daniela

Cimini. Prior to this, Josh worked as a Junior Specialist at UC Berkeley in lab of

Peter Duesberg also studying the role of the karyotype in cancer initiation and

progression. He received his Bachelors of Science degree in Molecular, Cell, and

Developmental Biology at UC Santa Cruz in 2008. During his time at UC Santa

Cruz he was a health and science reporter for the student-run newspaper City

on a Hill Press as well as an undergraduate researcher the lab of Dr. William

Scott studying the structure and function of various proteins. In addition to his

work on the bench he has also authored numerous articles on scientific funding

and publishing. Both his work in cancer and the practice of science have been

discussed in Newsweek, The Economist, The Chicago Tribune, and The

Boston Globe. He is also currently a member of the American Society for Cell

Biology and serves as communications co-chair on the Committee for Postdocs

and Students where he edits and authors various blog posts relating to graduate

student and/or postdoc issues. Most recently, he is the co-founder and CEO of

The Winnower, a new online science-publishing platform. He is the grandson, of

the late UC Berkeley Professor Richard Strohman who taught him “science is for

the surprises, not the prizes.”