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Bayer is one of the world's leading, innovative companies in the healthcare and medical products industry. In the United States, their pharmaceuticals business is comprised of Women’s Healthcare, Diagnostic Imaging, General Medicine, Hematology/Neurology and Oncology. Come meet with PhDs who work at Bayer to learn their roles in the company and how you can join the team.

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Data Carpentry workshops are for any researcher who has data they want to analyze, and no prior computational experience is required. This hands-on workshop teaches basic concepts, skills and tools for working more effectively with data. The focuses of this workshop will be working with genomics data, and data management & analysis for genomics research. 

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This workshop focuses on 24 essential core competencies valued by industry and business, relates those competencies to activities and behaviors commonly experienced by academic scientists through the scientific method, and demonstrates how those competencies work together to form the operational competencies that are essential in business.

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A Contract Research Organization (CRO) is a great place for a fresh PhD to land their first job. More and more pharmaceutical companies are outsourcing parts of their projects to these CROs so it is a growing industry. Come meet PhD-level panelists from Covance, Charles River, Champions Oncology, and Envigo.

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Come and work with fellow grad students and postdocs on a case study related to life science consulting organized by Sidnee Pinho from Prescient Healthcare Group. After this event, you will appreciate what a consulting career is like. Prescient is a consulting company specializing in product strategy and decision support for the biopharmaceutical industry.

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Regeneron is a leading science and technology company delivering life-transforming medicines for serious diseases. Founded by physician-scientists nearly 30 years ago, their science-driven approach has resulted in four FDA-approved medicines and numerous product candidates in a range of diseases, including ophthalmology, rheumatoid arthritis, atopic dermatitis, asthma, pain, cancer and infectious diseases.

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International PhD students and postdocs face challenges applying for non-academic jobs due to visa issues. Come hear from fellow grad students and postdocs who have successfully navigated the visa, Curricular Practical Training (CPT), Optional Practical Training (OPT), and Green Card processes to get advice and share experiences.

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Anson Abraham, PhD Associate Principal Scientist at Merck will give an overview and hands-on workshop of this topic so when you are interviewing with a company, you can tell them that you are familiar with PK/PD.

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