Rethinking how science is done — and building the tools to make it possible.

I did not enter science to publish. I entered science because I wanted to help.

I am Dr. Emilie Gueguen, and I am a biomedical scientist, tool-builder, and former PhD researcher working at the intersection of experimental biology, omics data, and scientific workflows.

Before my PhD, I worked as a caregiver in a nursing home while studying biology. I was surrounded by people living with Alzheimer’s disease, chronic pain, and complex conditions I could not yet understand. I was not a doctor. I was not the person making decisions. And I kept asking myself: What can I truly contribute?

Research became my answer.

I went on to complete a PhD in biomedical science, working on eosinophilic oesophagitis and analysing bulk RNA-sequencing data, while spending long days in the lab growing primary cells, building 3D models, running qPCRs, staining tissues, and troubleshooting experiments that rarely behaved as planned.

But something unexpected happened along the way.

To survive the complexity of experimental life, I started writing code — first in R, then in Python, and later in web technologies. I built small tools for myself: to design plate layouts in seconds instead of hours, to structure my qPCR analyses, to generate usable datasets without handling sensitive patient information, to avoid rewriting the same templates again and again.

Those tools changed my daily life. They gave me clarity. They gave me time to think.

And I realised that what excited me most was not only generating results — it was designing systems that made research more intelligent, more intuitive, and more humane.

At the same time, I was watching brilliant PhD students and early postdocs around me feel lost, unsupported, and overwhelmed. Projects were abandoned. Ideas were rushed into publications that added little to the field. People worked in isolation, under pressure, often without proper guidance.

I had been lucky with mentorship at key moments — but many were not.

This platform is the resource I wish I had when I was a PhD student.

My goal is not to produce more content. It is to help create better science — and healthier scientists.