What drives women in science to challenge the status quo? In this episode of The Life of Her Mind, host Mia Wood sits down with Dr. Katherine Roe, Chief Scientist in the Laboratory Investigations Department at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). 

Hear Dr. Roe:   

- explain her initial interest in science, which led her to graduate magna cum laude from Syracuse University, with degrees in biology and psychology

- discuss her graduate work in psychology and cognitive science at the University of California San Diego, culminating in a PhD

- discuss her post-doc fellowship at Johns Hopkins University and then research fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health

- explain the development of her thinking about the use of non-human animals in the sciences and her move to PETA

- discuss the challenges and opportunities of shifting scientists’ thinking from traditional non-human animal experimentation in the sciences

- explain ways in which new and emerging techniques and technologies for scientific experimentation are superior to non-human animal testing

- discuss the opportunities to influence funding sources, like the NIH, on moving away from costly and minimally useful non-human animal testing in the sciences 

If  you’re inspired by women who are reimagining science and shaping the future of discovery and how that discovery happens, this conversation is one you  won’t  want to miss.   

Episode Resources:

Dr. Roe's Academia.edu Page

Dr. Roe and Dr. Juan Carlos G. Marvizón Debate Animal Experimentation

Some of Dr. Roe's publications

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