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Senior Director Says If You Don't Try You'll Never Know
Name: Glen James (he/him) PhD: Cancer Epidemiology & Public Health, Queen's University Belfast, 2012 What is your current job? I am a Senior Director & Research Scientist for Eli Lilly, working remotely and based in Boston, Massachusetts. I develop and execute research strategies using real world data to generate high impact real world evidence for key stakeholders (e.g. patients, payers, and healthcare professionals supporting Lilly assets across all therapeutic areas). What
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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
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Principal Scientist Highly Recommends Industry Experience
Name: Pravallika Manjappa (she/her) PhD: Neuroscience, The Royal Veterinary College, 2023 What is your current job? I am a Principal Scientist at ViaNautis Bio Ltd, based in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. I am a preclinical scientist, responsible for building data packages to develop new medicines for various diseases. A big part of my job involves designing and executing preclinical studies to build confidence that the medicines we discover and develop will work in the clin
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Imaging Scientist Gets to Apply His PhD Knowledge
Name: Jack Breen (he/him) PhD: Artificial Intelligence, University of Leeds, 2025 What is your current job? I am an Imaging Scientist for...
Oct 7, 20252 min read
Behavioral Scientist Urges You to Stay True to Who You Are
Name: Nikkita Sarna PhD: Business (Marketing), University of Texas at Austin, 2023 What is your current job? I am a Senior Behavioral...
Oct 7, 20253 min read
Space Technology Consultant Works on Cutting-Edge Projects
Name: Rowan Curtis PhD: Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford, 2022 What is your current job? I am a...
Oct 5, 20252 min read
Research Engineer Works On State-of-the-Art Research
Name: Prafful Golani PhD: Electrical Engineering (Semiconductor Physics Focus), University of Minnesota, 2022 What is your current job? I...
Oct 5, 20252 min read
Program Officer Says You Are More Equipped Than You Think
Name: Harry Alesco (he/him/el) PhD: Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2022 What is your current job? I am a Program Officer for...
Oct 5, 20252 min read
Senior Engineer Emphasizes Both Technical & Soft Skills
Name: Ilaria Sanzari PhD: Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Southampton, 2017 What is your current job? I am a Senior...
Oct 5, 20252 min read
Lead UX Researcher with Incredible Advice for PhDs
Name: Vasudha Chaudhari (she/her) PhD: Learning & Technology, The Open University, 2020 What is your current job? I'm currently a Lead...
Oct 5, 20255 min read
Data Analyst Says to Go for the Whacky Ideas & Jobs
Name: Henry Zovaro (he/him) PhD: Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Australian National University, 2020 What is your current job? I am a Data...
Oct 4, 20254 min read
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 21, 20253 min read
Director of AI Oversees the Deployment of AI Innovation
Name: Srikanth Thudumu PhD: Artificial Intelligence, Swinburne University of Technology, 2021 What is your current job? I am the Director...
Jul 21, 20255 min read
Director of External Scientific Affairs Facilitates Research
Name: Valerie Estela-Pro (she/her) PhD: Neuroscience, Brown University, 2020 What is your current job? I am the Director of External...
Jul 21, 20253 min read
Data Platform Engineer Learned Technical Skills for Free
Name: Bartosz Turkowyd (he/him) PhD: Microbiology, University of Marburg, 2019 What is your current job? I am a Data Platform Engineer...
Jul 21, 20253 min read
Director of Clinical Operations Turns Discoveries into Real Tools
Name: Roberta Gatta PhD: Molecular Bacteriology, University of Gdansk, 2024 What is your current job? I am the Director of Clinical...
Jul 21, 20252 min read
Quantitative Researcher Says to Be Brutally Honest with Yourself
Name: Sanha Cheong (he/him) PhD: Physics (Experimental Particle Physics), Stanford University, 2025 What is your current job? I am a...
Jul 21, 20253 min read
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 21, 20252 min read
Boeing Human Factors Engineer Applies His PhD Work
Name: Stephen Cauffman (he/him) PhD: Psychology - Human Factors and Applied Cognition, North Carolina State University, 2020 What is your...
Jul 21, 20252 min read
Senior Analyst Does Similar Work to Her PhD
Name: Aimee Jones (she/her) PhD: Biochemistry, University College Dublin, 2024 What is your current job? I am a Senior Analyst for...
Jul 20, 20252 min read
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