Project Scientist Drawn to a Role That Extends Beyond the Lab
Name: Derin Mary Thomas (she/her) PhD: Radiation Biology, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT University),Vellore, India What was your...
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From PhD to Career Success
Explore how PhDs from a variety of different
fields navigated the decision to leave academia.
- Sep 3
- 1 min
From Designing Biosensors to Designing Patient Screenings
Name: Katarina Nemec (she/her) PhD: Biomedicine, University of Wuerzburg, 2022 What was your main area of research? By using molecular...
- Aug 30
- 2 min
Program Coordinator Also Advocates for Change
Name: Gracielle Higino (she/her) PhD: Ecology and Evolution, Universidade Federal de Goiás - Brazil, 2021 What was your main area of...
- Aug 30
- 3 min
Medical Director Improving Treatment for Cancer Patients
Name: Jill Daigneault (she/her) PhD: Cancer Biology, University of Michigan, 2017 What was your main area of research? In my PhD, I...
- Aug 30
- 2 min
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 29
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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 28
- 4 min
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 27
- 2 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 2 min
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 26
- 2 min
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 25
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 1 min
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 24
- 1 min
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 23
- 2 min
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...
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