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Scientist Picked Up the Necessary Skills in Graduate School
Name: Sayantan Chatterjee (he/him) PhD: Chemistry, Stanford University, 2023 What is your current job? I am a Scientist (Oligonucleotide Chemistry) for Korro Bio, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I invent new chemistries to support Korro Bio’s oligonucleotide-based gene editing platform technology, including novel strategies to generate chemically modified nucleobases, sugar, and nucleic acid backbones. To achieve that, I operate modern automated oligo synthesizer instrumen
Oct 164 min read
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Chief of Staff Specializes in Deep Tech Strategy
Name: Cam Watson (he/him) PhD: Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University College London, 2018 What is your current job? I am Chief of Staff for Nuclera, based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. In my job, I develop business strategy, identify markets to enter, build partnerships/collaborations for research and commercial teams, win funding from government and investors, and work with R&D to refine products based on market feedback. What is your favorite thing about your job? I lo
Oct 162 min read
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Scientific Director and Founder Left Academia with a Startup
Name: Andrea Villanueva PhD: Cellular, Molecular Biology, and Neurosciences, Universidad de Chile, 2018 What is your current job? I am a...
Jul 213 min read
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Startup Director Scaling Sustainable Fuels & Decarbonization
Name: Elvis Ebikade (he/him) PhD: Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, 2021 What is your current job? I am the Director for SAF...
Jul 212 min read
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CEO Emphasizes Gaining Experience to See What You Like
Name: Gaurav Goyal (he/him) PhD: Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University, 2015 What is your current job? I am the CEO of Nanolyze AB...
Jul 192 min read
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Associate's Job Search Like Planning a Trip to a New City
Name: Nirali Rathwa PhD: Biochemistry, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, 2021 What was your main area of research? During my...
May 43 min read
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Senior Scientist + Founder Gets to Mentor and Innovate
Name: Carmen Banks (she/her) PhD: Animal Biology (with Designated Emphasis in Reproductive Biology), University of California - Davis,...
May 13 min read
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Senior Director Values the Experiences of Failure
Name: Shay Neufeld (he/him) PhD: Neuroscience, Harvard University, 2017 What was your main area of research? Armed with microscopes,...
Apr 303 min read
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Senior Principal Data Scientist Advises You to Work in Public
Name: Eric Ma PhD: Biological Engineering, MIT, 2017 What was your main area of research? I studied influenza evolution and ecology....
Apr 262 min read
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Global Lead Emphasizes That There Are No Rules
Name: Patricia Valerio (she/her) PhD: Neurosciences, University of Basel, 2022 What was your main area of research? My PhD focused on...
Apr 227 min read
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Lead Data Scientist Says Her Job Is Never Boring!
Name: Maia Frieser (she/her) PhD: Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado - Boulder, 2020 What was your main area of research? I...
Apr 223 min read
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Linguist Works on Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses
Name: Alice Shen (she/her) PhD: Linguistics, University of California Berkeley, 2020 What was your main area of research? I studied how...
Apr 162 min read
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Scientist Loves Real World Impact and Good Work Hours
Name: Jerry Chien (he/him) PhD: Neuroscience, University of Southern California, 2024 What was your main area of research? I studied how...
Apr 142 min read
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Unsupportive Advisor + Layoff Didn't Stop this Manager
Name: Stephanie Silva-Del Toro (she/her) PhD: Immunology, University of Iowa, 2021 What was your main area of research? Neutrophils are...
Apr 144 min read
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Director of Research Worked at the Company in Grad School
Name: Tricia Thrasher (she/her) PhD: Second Language Acquisition / French, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022 What was...
Apr 142 min read
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Director of Community Wanted Something Different
Name: Susanna Harris (she/her) PhD: Microbiology and Immunology, UNC at Chapel Hill, 2020 What was your main area of research? Just like...
Apr 143 min read
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Meta Research Scientist Faced Challenges in Grad School
Name: Ronshee Chawla (he/him) PhD: Statistics and Machine Learning, University of Texas at Austin, 2024 What was your main area of...
Apr 145 min read
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From PhD to Domain Expert Engineer in a Tech Company
Name: Marcial Otero (he/him) PhD: Electrical Engineering, National University of Rio Cuarto, 2022 What was your main area of research? I...
Apr 133 min read
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Biotech Scientist Advocates for Authenticity
Name: Jesse Weber (he/him) PhD: Cell & Molecular Biology, University of Pennsylvania, 2024 What was your main area of research? My major...
Apr 122 min read
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Director of R&D Gives Tips for Career Prep You Should Do Now
Name: John Watkins (he/him) PhD: Chemistry, University of Bath, 2012 What was your main area of research? I studied electrochemical...
Apr 113 min read
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