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Associate Director of Business Development Says to Be Bold

Name: William (Chip) Beckwith (he/him) PhD: Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, Wesleyan University, 2000 What was your main area of...

Oct 11, 20242 min read

Leaving Academia Was This Founder's Toughest Decision

Name: Lenny Teytelman (he/him) PhD: Molecular Biology, University of California - Berkeley, 2009 What was your main area of research? I...

Oct 10, 20242 min read

Scientific Director Forges Industrial and Research Partnerships

Name: Aditi Bhattacharya (she/her) PhD: Molecular Neuroscience, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 2009 What was your main area of...

Oct 10, 20242 min read

Chief of Staff Recommends Broadening Your View

Name: Orion Tong (he/him) PhD: Oncology, Oxford University, 2023 What was your main area of research? I did transcriptomic and...

Oct 1, 20242 min read

CEO Helping Women Get the Best Out of Academia

Name: Jen Harrison (she/her) PhD: English (Children’s) Literature, Aberystwyth University, 2009 What was your main area of research? My...

Sep 27, 20243 min read

CEO at the Intersection of Tech & Environmental Stewardship

Name: Joseph Kao (he/him) PhD: Materials Science and Engineering, University of California - Berkeley, 2014 What was your main area of...

Sep 24, 20242 min read

Principal and Owner Says to Do What You Love

Name: Carolyn Anderson (she/her) PhD: Organic Chemistry, University of California - Irvine, 2003 What was your main area of research? I...

Sep 21, 20243 min read

Running a Venture Capital Fund During Graduate School

Name: Tyler Benster (he/him) PhD: Neurosciences, Stanford University, 2024 What was your main area of research? I built silent speech...

Sep 21, 20241 min read

Founder Saw a Greater Need & Created Her Own Career

Name: Crystal Herron, PhD, ELS (she/her) PhD: Biomedical Science, Albany Medical College, 2011 What was your main area of research? As...

Sep 16, 20242 min read

Strategic Solutions Lead Reminds Everyone to Have Grit

Name: Rahul Mohan (he/him) PhD: Anatomy/Neuroscience, University of New South Wales, 2016 What was your main area of research? I...

Sep 13, 20242 min read

Medical Writer Runs Her Own Freelance Business

Name: Claudia Prahst (she/her) PhD: Cell Biology, University of Freiburg, 2008 What was your main area of research? I spent 12 years...

Sep 12, 20241 min read

Nanotechnologist Now Runs Medical Writing Company

Name: Mariana Dalagnol (she/her) PhD: Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil), 2016 What was your...

Sep 10, 20244 min read

Chief of Staff Helps Run a Biotech Company

Name: Akela Kuwahara (she/her) PhD: Developmental & Stem Cell Biology, University of California - San Francisco, 2020 What was your...

Sep 10, 20242 min read

Founder Emphasizes Perseverance & Determination

Name: Bonnie EJ Maven (she/her/they/them) PhD: Developmental & Stem Cell Biology, University of California - San Francisco, 2022 What...

Sep 6, 20242 min read

Freelance Medical Writer Loves the Freedom of Her Job

Name: Samantha Santangelo (she/her) PhD: Molecular Biology, King's College London, 2002 What was your main area of research? Human white...

Sep 3, 20245 min read

Chemical Engineer Excited by the Private Sector

Name: Do Soon Kim (he/him) PhD: Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2020 What was your main area of research? My research...

Sep 3, 20242 min read

Research From Her PhD Turned Into Her Company

Name: Caitlyn Miller (she/her) PhD: Bioengineering, Stanford, 2022 What was your main area of research? I was co-advised by Carolyn...

Aug 25, 20242 min read

Chemical Physicist Seeks to Take Entrepreneurial Risks

Name: James Banal (he/him) PhD: Chemical Physics, University of Melbourne, 2016 What was your main area of research? In my PhD, I...