Cognition Studio is a life sciences creative strategy studio. We pair deep scientific credibility with elite craft, translating complex science into the stories, strategies, and visuals that move investors, regulators, patients, and the public to act.
We believe the work we do today will have global impact tomorrow.
One
studio, where strategy leads and execution is the proof.
Three
disciplines at the highest level, practiced as one.
Twenty-five
years translating the science that shapes human health.
Our range is the reason the hardest science finds its audience: the craft that makes a mechanism legible to a Series B investor makes evidence legible to a payer committee and a movement legible to the public.
What we do
Where we go deep
Science Communication
When the mechanism is the story, and the wrong frame costs credibility.
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Venture Design
When scientific conviction has to become capital confidence, stage by stage.
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One Health
When human, animal, and environmental health are one argument that has to move policy and the public.
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Three disciplines, practiced as one, with the strategy in front and the science underneath.
We do not apply creative to your science. We build from it.
The strategy comes before the brief, and the craft proves the strategy was right.
Proof
How a cell-and-gene-therapy pioneer made two platforms legible to investors in sixty seconds each.
Two one-minute mechanism films let a non-specialist grasp and repeat the science. Sana uses both across its S-1, investor engagements, and website.
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How a studio-run science hub turned a pandemic's information chaos into figures the world could trust.
Published in Nature and used in talks at institutions worldwide, from a public case study updated 148 times over two years.
How a muscle-biology company built its science into the walls of its new headquarters.
The sarcomere carries the story floor to floor, so employees meet the science and the patient every day.
Twenty-five years of partners
Cooper Hewitt National Design Award nominee, with honors from AIGA, AMI, Rx Club, MUSE, the Telly Awards, Titan, and a SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater selection.
Thinking
Science Storytelling
The scientific value proposition, and why investors stop at the mechanism.
Turning a scientific foundation into an investable, communicable case, stage by stage.
David Ehlert, MAMS, CMI, FAMI · 4 min read
One Health
Designing strategic data visualizations for global health decision-making.
Leaning into the complexities of global health data to streamline effective decisions.
Rachel Poovathoor, MPA, MHA · 8 min read
Careers
Cognition Studio is where craftspeople and leaders build a discipline of practice at the intersection of science and craft.
Tell us what it has to do and who has to believe it, and we will tell you how we would approach it.
