Robin Wolfe Scheffler

News & Events

  • Lunchtime Talk at Science History Institute (1-1:45pm EST)

    Brightening Biochemistry: The Role of Humor in Scientific Research Lunchtime Lectures Wednesday, February 17, 2021 1:00 p.m.–1:45 p.m. EST (UTC -5) Watch Live on YouTube In the 1920s members of the Sir William Dunn Institute for Biochemistry at Cambridge University published Brighter Biochemistry, a comic…

  • COVID CALLS appearance

    The Library & Museum at the American Philosophical Society and the Linda Hall Library are excited to collaborate on a series of COVID-Calls focused on what library and archival materials in the history of science, technology, and medicine can teach us about COVID-19.  COVID-Calls is…

  • Presentation on the Politics of Molecular Medicine for “MIT Better World”

  • “Brigthening Biochemistry” featured by the HIstory of Science Society

    Featured article: Robin Wolfe Scheffler on “Brighter Biochemistry” Robin Wolfe Scheffler’s article, “Brightening Biochemistry: Humor, Identity, and Scientific Work at the Sir William Dunn Institute of Biochemistry, 1923-1931” appears in the September issue of Isis. The article is free to all readers for a limited…

  • Interview with Rice Digital Oncology Initatitve on “Contagious Cause”

  • Scheffler’s history of biotechnology research featured on Gotham Center Blog

    Biotechnology, Race, and Memory in Washington Heights By Robin Wolfe Scheffler Amidst the economic and human toll inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic on the City of New York, one industry still thrives: the city’s Economic Development Corporation trumpeted the news in June that biotechnology companies…

  • Scheffler to take part in Duke University Event on the Promise and Peril of a COVID-19 Vaccine

    Promises and Perils of a COVID-19 Vaccine Sep 5 Saturday, September 5, 2020 – 11:00am to 12:00pm Virtual – Zoom Add to calendar » Presenter Dr. Robin Wolfe Sheffler, Dr. Yolonda Wilson, Elise A. Mitchell “Researchers across the globe are busily working to manufacture a…

  • Editorial in Washington Post

    In today’s Washington Post I use the research from A Contagious Cause to argue that we cannot allow hope for a coronavirus vaccine to distract our efforts from dealing with the harms of COVID 19 in the present.

  • Hunting for the Viruses That Cause Cancer @ Westport Public Library

    **Cancelled, but recorded and avaliable here: https://youtu.be/RNksA-WFDfU** Robin Wolfe Scheffler follows the search for infectious agents responsible for cancer from nineteenth century theories that cancer was caused by germs through our modern understanding of cancer viruses in his book, A Contagious Cause. Speculation that cancer…

  • Speaking at McGill SSoM

    The McGill University Social Studies of Medicine Department will host Robin Scheffler as he speaks on:  Genetown: Boston and the Modern Biotechnology Industry Today, the Boston area hosts the densest cluster of biotechnology and biopharmaceutical firms anywhere in the world. Economists and urban theorists have…