My Story

I’m Dr. Erika Yashiro, an independent life scientist, editor, and science communicator. I help research teams and professionals move forward faster, effectively, and with more confidence. Over the last two decades, I gradually transitioned from field and lab work to bioinformatics, operational bioinformatics, expert editing, and science communication. Thanks to this broad range of hands-on experience and expertise, I’m able to see the bigger picture of projects and really connect the dots. It also allows me to deliver results under real-world constraints: tight timelines, shifting staff, and complex datasets and research infrastructure.

Why Did I Build Life Sciences Research Support?

Every project, team, and timeline is different, but the bottlenecks are often the same. Maybe you’ve experienced these too:

• Grant proposals that are all due at the same time.
• Manuscripts that need to be clearer, grammar error-free, and more persuasive.
• Unfinished analyses.
• Data that needs troubleshooting.
• Not enough time to handle them all.

My aim is to be a reliable partner who can step in quickly, understand your team’s scientific and operational context, and deliver clear results, polished writing, and practical next steps.

Where Do I Add The Most Value?

• Grant writing: Help time-constrained scientists and novices write clear, compelling narratives and increase grant output and chances of obtaining grants.
• Editing and scientific/technical writing: Improve clarity, accuracy, and impact of manuscripts, grant proposals, theses, and user guides, especially for non-native English authors
• Rapid, reliable help: Step in when you need extra staff or when deadlines loom and finish research, technical, or administrative projects and tasks to make stakeholders happy.
• Research support: Troubleshoot, analyze, and package NGS and bioinformatics results into clear figures, tables, and text for reports and manuscripts.
• Operational bioinformatics: Support non-experts of NGS data handling and novices, document processes, and support day-to-day research operations so projects keep moving.

How Do I Work? (Collaboration Model)

• Discovery: We clarify goals, scope, timeline, rates, and confidentiality requirements.
• Proposal: You get a clear plan with deliverables and milestones.
• Communication: We regularly communicate updates and discuss the work in progress.
• Delivery: You get the output in a timely fashion accompanied by a detailed report.
• Follow-through: Edits, revisions, and final polish as needed.

What Do Clients Say?

Simply put, I gain your trust by delivering high-quality output. Check out what some of my clients have written by clicking here!