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Neural Data Architect Working on Difficult Issues in Science
Name: Bryce Grier (he/him) PhD: Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2020 What was your main area of research? As...
Aug 30, 20242 min read
Drug Development to Transform the Lives of Kids with Disability
Name: Jan Lui (he/him) PhD: Biomedical Sciences/Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco, 2011 What was your main area of...
Aug 29, 20242 min read
Data Scientist Encourages Doing Internships
Name: Albee Ling (she/her) PhD: Biomedical Informatics, Stanford University, 2020 What was your main area of research? I studied...
Aug 29, 20242 min read
Strategic Alliances Manager Working on a Global Scale
Name: Yara Reis (she/her) PhD: Cell Biology, University of Heidelberg, 2011 What was your main area of research? My research involved...
Aug 28, 20244 min read
Data Scientist in a Fast-Paced & Collaborative Environment
Name: Jordan Sorokin (he/him) PhD: Neuroscience, Stanford, 2019 What was your main area of research? I studied the neural dynamics...
Aug 27, 20242 min read
Medical Science Liaison Contributes to Advancing Patient Care
Name: Brandon McFarlin (he/him) PhD: Medical Biology, University of Southern California - Keck School of Medicine, 2022 What was your...
Aug 27, 20243 min read
Reading & Talking About Science Without Doing Experiments
Name: Greg Gillispie (he/him) PhD: Biomedical Engineering, Wake Forest University, 2020 What was your main area of research? I studied...
Aug 27, 20242 min read
Job in Industry as the Best Financial Decision
Name: Erin Sanders (she/her) PhD: Stanford University, Developmental Biology, 2021 What was your main area of research? I studied how...
Aug 26, 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
Medical Science Liaison For Neurodegenerative Diseases
Name: Christopher Gallardo (he/him) PhD: Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, 2018 What was your main area of research? The majority...
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...
Aug 25, 20242 min read
Immunologist With a Desire for More Translational Work
Name: Sally Demirdjian (she/her) PhD: Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth, 2020 What was your main area of research? During my PhD, I...
Aug 25, 20243 min read
Allen Institute Investigator Works With Cutting-Edge Data
Name: Forrest Collman (he/him) PhD: Neuroscience and Molecular Biology, Princeton, 2010 What was your main area of research? In my PhD,...
Aug 25, 20242 min read
Senior Director of Drug Discovery Says to Trust Your Training
Name: Aimee Iberg (she/her) PhD: Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Health Science Center and MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2009...
Aug 25, 20241 min read
JD + PhD Becomes an Investor
Name: Ishan Kumar (he/him) PhD: Stem Cell Biology & Neuroscience, Stanford University, 2023 What was/is your main area of research? I...
Aug 24, 20241 min read
Chemical Engineer Called to Entrepreneurship
Name: Brandon Wilson (he/him) PhD: Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, 2020 What was your main area of research? I developed...
Aug 23, 20242 min read
NASA Scientist Studies Effects of Space Radiation & Lunar Dust
Name: Egle Cekanaviciute (she/her) PhD: Neurosciences, Stanford University, 2014 What was/is your main area of research? I currently...
Aug 23, 20243 min read
Environmental Engineer Advances California's Decarbonization
Name: Jon Bradshaw (he/him) PhD: Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 2020 What was your main area of research? My...
Aug 22, 20242 min read
Art History PhD Turned Entrepreneur
Name: George Philip “GP” LeBourdais (he/him) PhD: Art History and Digital Humanities, Stanford University, 2018 What is your current...
Aug 21, 20242 min read
Machine Learning Scientist With a Free & Rewarding Career
Name: Eshed Margalit (he/him) PhD: Neurosciences, Stanford University, 2022 What is your current job? I am a Machine Learning Scientist...
Aug 21, 20242 min read
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