From Cell Media to Social Media

Grace Yco shares how her science career journey went beyond the bench. From her days at Biogen and the La Jolla Institute for Immunology to blogging for a completely different industry during the then-nascent world of social media, she describes how these different but complementary experiences enabled a work-life integration of science, content and creativity.

Bio: Grace Yco is a former cancer researcher turned life science storyteller. Though no longer at the bench, Grace takes her penchant for science, an aliquot of creativity and incubates with empathy for peer-resonating content. She is currently Managing Editor of Life in the Lab, a magazine/blog for scientists by Thermo Fisher Scientific as well as a founding chapter member for the Asian Employee Resource Group and passionate DE&I advocate. Grace has a bachelor’s in Biology from the University of San Diego and is based in Thermo Fisher’s Carlsbad site.