The Incubator At The Bench

About The Incubator At The Bench

At the Bench is a podcast series produced by The Incubator and hosted by Dr. Elizabeth Crouch, Dr. David McCulley, and Dr. Misty Good. This series is dedicated to exploring the lives and work of neonatal physician scientists. Each episode features in depth conversations with neonatologists who have chosen careers rooted in discovery science, offering listeners a closer look at what it truly means to be “at the bench.” Through thoughtful discussion, the hosts explore how these clinicians found their path into research, the scientific questions that drive their work, and the challenges and rewards of balancing clinical care with life in the laboratory. The series provides insight, inspiration, and practical perspective for trainees, early career investigators, and anyone curious about the role of physician scientists in advancing neonatal care.

Publisher

The Incubator Podcast

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Nov 2025

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

31 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Oct 2026

   #031 - The Case for a CMV Vaccine with Dr. Sallie Permar

   In this episode of At the Bench, Misty Good and David McCulley interview Dr. Sallie Permar, Chair of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and Director of the Pediatric Scientist Development Program. Dr. Permar shares how her early global health experiences in Zambia inspired her career as a pediatric infectious disease physician-scientist and vaccine researcher. She discusses the challenges and advances in developing vaccines against HIV and congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV), the importance of...

2. 

   17 Sept 2026

   #030 - Hydrogen, Metformin, and the First Two Hours - Rethinking HIE Neuroprotection with Brian Kalish

   In this episode, Misty and Betsy sit down with Dr. Brian Kalish, a neonatologist-neuroscientist at Boston Children's Hospital, for a wide-ranging conversation on building a career at the intersection of fetal and neonatal brain injury research. Brian traces his path from public health and pediatric surgery to neuroscience, describes what "technical courage" means in the lab, and shares the story behind his move to SickKids Toronto and back. He discusses his lab's work on Down syndrome neurobi...

3. 

   27 Aug 2026

   #029 - What If Regulatory T Cells Hold the Key to Preterm Birth?

   What happens when a mom's immune system loses its tolerance for pregnancy, and a physician-scientist builds an entire lab, and career, around figuring out why? On this episode of At the Bench, hosts Ben Fensterheim and David McCulley sit down with Dr. Jackie Lajiness, a neonatologist and physician-scientist at Indiana University. Dr. Lajiness traces her path from an undergraduate laser spectroscopy lab to an MD-PhD, and shares her current research using a mouse model of regulatory T-cell (Tre...

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