Case study · The Journal of Clinical Investigation
Conversations with
Giants in Medicine.
Field notes
On the record, properly
80 giants.
One series.
Since 2012, The Journal of Clinical Investigation has been putting the most decorated names in medicine on camera for its interview series, Conversations with Giants in Medicine: 80 giants across 74 conversations, including 15 Nobel laureates and 27 Lasker winners, the people behind the discoveries the rest of the field builds on. Image Media Lab filmed those conversations for over a decade, a credit the journal's 2025 farewell essay for the series records by name.
An interview like this gets one chance. It happens on the subject’s calendar, in whatever room the day provides, and it has to hold up as a record, not just a video. So the craft is quiet: prepare deeply, light fast, keep the conversation moving, and let the camera disappear. It’s the same discipline we bring to every executive interview and founder story we film today.
The finished interviews live on JCI’s channels. These links go straight to the source, plus two places to keep going on ours.
From the set
A decade of shoot days
The rooms change.
The standard doesn’t.
Frames from the series’ production life, from the early seasons through the most recent conversations: cue cards, softboxes, two cameras, and whatever room the day provided.
Client testimonial
In her words
The person who ran the series.
Ushma Neill, PhD, Editor at Large of The Journal of Clinical Investigation, hosted Conversations with Giants in Medicine for its entire run. Here she is on working with Image Media Lab.
Ushma Neill, PhD, host of Conversations with Giants in Medicine for The Journal of Clinical Investigation, on working with Image Media Lab to film the series' interviews with Nobel laureates and other leaders of science, and on the editing that keeps each conversation tight.
Read the transcript
Hi, I'm Ushma Neill of The Journal of Clinical Investigation, and just as myself. And in these capacities, of working for the JCI and as an independent scientist who wants to communicate about it, I've worked with the Image Media Lab over the last two and a half to three years to produce what I think is scintillating content about the history of science, from interviewing Nobel laureates and Knight Bachelors of the Order of the British Empire.
I've had a fascinating time kind of telling the story of science. I wouldn't be able to do it without Image Media Lab. They make me look good when I flub my lines. They help me edit things out that I didn't actually mean to say, or when some of the people drone on a little bit too long.
They've been essential partners in my ability to tell the story of science, and I couldn't do it without them. Thank you, Image Media Lab.
The archive
74 conversations, on the record.
The finished films live on JCI’s channels. Browse the full playlist here, or visit the official series page at jci.org.