Paul Tadich brings a richly-diverse perspective to his skills at Vesicle Consulting. While earning his BSc in developmental biology from the University of Toronto (2002), Paul worked in Dr Tak Mak’s lab at the Ontario Cancer Institute, helping to unravel the inner workings of the smad/msx oncogenic signalling pathway. He then earned a journalism MA at Goldsmiths College in London: one of Europe’s most sought-after postgraduate journalism programs. He used these skills while in England, working as a reporter for The Times and as a copyeditor at The Guardian. He put these skills into practice further as a freelance correspondent for various TV and radio networks throughout Europe. Career highlights include a rare interview with scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider experiment at the CERN particle physics lab in Geneva and covering the Nobel Prize awards ceremony in Stockholm.
He returned to North America in 2008 and worked at various mainstream news outlets before joining one of Canada’s most daring and innovative videogame studios as in-house writer and editor. He decided to re-engage with the scientific community by launching Vesicle Consulting to assist researchers in the lab with communicating their ideas to funding agencies and to the public.
Everyone who’s worked in a life sciences lab can likely relate to this scenario: friends and family want to know what you do for a living — but it’s sometimes hard to tell them what your research is all about in a non-technical way
Learning to communicate your ideas to non-specialists can actually result in a significant re-orientation of your own approach to your research — which can sometimes result in a novel approach to your work
Services Offered
Media Literacy
Many scientists who are doing exciting work in the lab often face a similar difficulty: how do you promote your research to a news media that can often seem disinterested in technical details?
The answer may lie in how you perceive your own work. I offer intensive, 1-on-1 coaching sessions with postdocs and other scientists to drill through layers of your research which may be obscuring the elements that resonate with storytellers. I will help you preserve important details of your research while finding ways to make your work make sense with a non-specialist audience
1-on-1 Coaching
Are you working for a biotech startup and have a big meeting with potential VC partners? Are you in a leadership position and meet with funders — but sometimes lack a precise understanding of what goes on in your lab on a day-to-day basis?
I’ve experienced it all – from high-speed pitch competitions to down-and-dirty overhauls of mission statements and research goals.
If you come to me with a specific task or event to prepare for — funding roadshows; product displays; conference applications — I’ll provide a valuable workshopping experience involving structured roleplay exercises; goal-setting and managing expectations. I’ll also show you how to deal with the potential minefield of negative product expectations and how to re-orient the narrative to provide a hopeful outcome
English Proficiency Training
If English isn’t your first language, I am a trained and experienced copyeditor who can examine a manuscript for publication and immediately suggest more impactful writing to make your research stand out. I can do the same for grant applications or conference publication entries. Let me help you make your scientific writing have maximum impact
Get in touch with me today to effectively craft your scientific narrative