Sarah Weil
Columbia University
Disciplines: Biology
Sarah grew up in Denver, CO and studied math at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. After a plant-centric introduction to biology, she became interested in molecular and cellular biology and earned a PhD from Columbia University's Biological Sciences Program. Her graduate work focused on understanding regulation of the molecular motor complex, cytoplasmic dynein. She now works as a medical writer. The opinions expressed on Footnote are her own and do not represent those of current or past employers.
Articles
What can the scientific community do to ensure research findings are reproducible? Researchers, publishers, and funders all have a role to play.
Why are scientific results so hard to replicate? The complexity of experiments, lack of researcher accountability, and publish-or-perish mentality in academia are all to blame.