As last year, the Nature video team in cooperation with the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings filmed discussions between one or two young researchers and a Nobel laureate about current research topics in Physiology and Medicine, the world’s greatest health challenges and how to tackle them. Today we may present the trailer and the first of five such videos.

The young researchers the team follows in these films are working on malaria, cancer, viruses and more. They are also learning how to be scientists; how to write grant applications, how to collaborate with other research groups, and how to find the right career path. See what advice the laureates offer — and what questions the laureates have for them.

Trailer: Strands of life

Unlike other scientific conferences, the scope of the annual Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau is very broad. The participants enjoy exchanging ideas across disciplines and often they find surprising connections. We followed a diverse bunch of young researchers as they met with Nobel laureates. By the end of the meeting, several collaborations were in the pipeline! This trailer gives you a flavour of the films that follow.

The virus catchers with Harald zur Hausen

Young researchers Jan Gralton and Sven-Eric Schelhorn are fascinated by the minute world of viruses. They have plenty of questions for Harald zur Hausen who won a Nobel Prize for proving that human papillomaviruses (HPV) can cause cervical cancer. All three are worried by public distrust of the HPV vaccine, which was made possible by zur Hausen’s work.

Harald zur Hausen, 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Jan Gralton, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Sven-Eric Schelhorn, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany