Biomedical Scientist Landed Her Dream Job
Name: Madison Phelps (she/her) PhD: Biomedical Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 2023 What was your main area of...
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From PhD to Career Success
Explore how PhDs from a variety of different
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Oct 152 min read
Science Communication Consultant Also Founded a Company
Name: Stella Belonwu (she/her) PhD: Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics, University of California - San Francisco, 2021 What...
Oct 124 min read
Analyst for the Department of Energy & a Book Author
Name: Magdalena Sandoval Donahue (she/her) PhD: Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, 2016 What was your main area of...
Sep 273 min read
Science Writer Loves the Intellectual Stimulation
Name: Kristel Tjandra (she/her) PhD: Chemistry, University of New South Wales, 2018 What was your main area of research? My PhD area of...
Sep 244 min read
Writer Discusses the Internal Struggle of Leaving Academia
Name: Calyn Maske (she/her) PhD: Neuroscience, Florida State University, 2020 What was your main area of research? I studied the...
Sep 243 min read
Technical Writer Encourages You to Picture Your Dream Job
Name: Cyrielle Tonneau (she/her) PhD: Biosciences (microbiology/human genetics), University of Exeter, 2019 What was your main area of...
Sep 213 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 162 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 161 min read
Assistant Professor Now Managing Editor
Name: Clare Wilhelm (he/him) PhD: Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon Health and Science University, 2006 What was your main area of...
Sep 123 min read
Medical Writer Helps Clinicians Make Decisions
Name: Sean Ogden (he/him) PhD: Neuroscience, Florida State University, 2019 What was your main area of research? As a grad student, I...
Sep 121 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 104 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 102 min read
Editor-in-Chief of AMWA Journal Working His Dream Job
Name: Michael Baker (he/him) PhD: Behavioral Neuroscience, University of California - Berkeley, 1993 What was your main area of...
Sep 102 min read
Retired Writer Now Runs a Farm
Name: Kathy Spiegel (she/her) PhD: Pharmacology, Cornell University Medical College, 1984 What was your main area of research? For my...
Sep 62 min read
Director for Global Scientific Publications Prioritizes Family
Name: Dipanwita Ghose (she/her) PhD: Psychology/Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University, 2013 What was your main area of research? For my...
Sep 54 min read
Write Full-Time for a Living AND Stay Involved in Science
Name: Jenny Hsu (she/her) PhD: Genetics, Stanford University, 2018 What was your main area of research? In my graduate research, I...
Sep 35 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 32 min read
Specialist Leverages New Tech in Publication Development
Name: Marianna Johnson (she/her) PhD: Molecular Metabolism and Cancer Biology, University of Chicago, 2017 What was your main area of...
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