About Emma Nichols

My mission is to help people with a scientific or medical background and writing ability to create a life they love working remotely in the lucrative field of medical communications.

I was so miserable in graduate school back in 1998. One day in lab, I was about to quit because I just couldn’t see how I could keep going. But I also didn’t want to waste all the years I had spent slogging away at it either. It struck me that I had always loved writing, and I wondered if I could somehow combine writing with science. It turned out that science writing (which for me, later became medical writing) was a “thing,” and the rest, well… here we are. 

With renewed purpose, I made myself finish my PhD, and I vowed at that time that if I could make something of this medical writing career, that I would always try to give back to those who were also struggling on their path and for whom this work might be a good fit. It turns out there are so many doctors, grad students, post docs, and academics who do not love what they do. Medicine, in particular, seems to have become increasingly burdensome to those who practice it.  

I spent the first few years as a full-time freelance medical writer, and in recent years have been running my company, Nascent Medical, LLC, which continues to grow beyond any expectation that I ever had. Many people who go through my course end up having Nascent as one of their first clients which is amazingly gratifying, I hope for them, but definitely for me.  

I am so fortunate because of my career choice to spend all kinds of time with my dear hubby, Nick, and my daughter, Madeleine, whose school bus I have met daily since kindergarten, and who now, remarkably, is driving. 

With this course and your effort, I hope I can help you achieve the same kind of remote work-life balance using your science background and writing ability to make an excellent income.  Check out the free content here.