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Spectroscopist With Specific Advice for Women

Name: Phoebe Askelson (she/her) PhD: Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 2023 What was your main area of research? During my PhD, I...

Sep 6, 20244 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 5, 20244 min read

A Cell Biologist Working in Patent Law

Name: Percy Griffin (he/him) PhD: Molecular Cell Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, 2020 What was your main area of research?...

Sep 5, 20242 min read

CSO Says There Is No Substitute for Experience

Name: Joe Arron (he/him) PhD: Immunology, Rockefeller University, 2002 (+MD from Cornell University, 2003) What was your main area of...

Sep 5, 20243 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

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...

Sep 3, 20242 min read

Director of Open Science Gets Paid to Make Science Better

Name: Monica Granados (she/her) PhD: Ecology, McGill University, 2016 What was your main area of research? I studied the effect...

Sep 3, 20241 min read

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...

Sep 3, 20243 min read

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...

Sep 3, 20241 min read

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, 20242 min read

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, 20243 min read

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...