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There are more than 300 clinical trials at major medical centers using compounds from Celgene. Investigational compounds are being studied for patients with incurable hematological and solid tumor cancers, including multiple myeloma, myelodysplastic syndromes, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL), triple-negative breast cancer and pancreatic cancer. Come hear from PhD level employees who work at Celgene and tour the CAR T-cell facility.

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Join us for a trip to NYC to meet the PhD level employees of McCann Health which is a medical communications and consulting firm that helps pharmaceutical companies and biotech with their science communications materials. McCann is hiring PhDs including some of our recent iJOBS graduates so come to meet those professionals to learn about how they landed their first job and network!

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Ethicon is a division of J&J that manufactures surgical devices. Come hear from PhD level employees who play various roles at the company including R&D, regulatory, medical affairs, and project management. We will also have the opportunity to learn about career options at the company and network.

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Active learning, flipped classrooms, and group exercises are the newest effective teaching techniques for all ages and stages of education. These approaches will help you engage your students and help them retain the information. Come learn from a highly popular educator, Diana Glendinning, PhD, on how to implement effective teaching techniques into your future career and get hands-on practice in creating a lesson.

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Come hear from recent PhD graduates who have successfully navigated the workforce beyond academia. Discover career options you may not have considered besides R&D bench research in industry and how you can transfer the skills you learned in graduate school to non-research jobs as well.

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Experience first hand what it is like to design a research project in the industry in this biotechnology job simulation run by Larry Wennogle, PhD Vice President Drug Discovery at Intra-Cellular Therapies, and Sam Kongsamut, PhD Vice-President of R&D at BryoLogyx Inc. This interactive session will give you insight into the various roles scientists can play in the industry.

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Scientists play an important role in protecting intellectual property and filing patent briefs. Come hear from Elysa Goldberg, PhD, Esq who is a patent attorney at Regeneron about her career path and do a hands-on job simulation on how to protect intellectual property and file a patent.

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Business skills are critical for scientists in order to be successful in non-academic careers whether you plan on staying in R&D or moving into management. We will perform a business case study related to the health care industry led by Rutgers Business School professor Sara Parker Lue whose expertise is regulatory policy and organizational economics of health care.

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iJOBS and the Rutgers biomedical science alumni organization are joining forces with the New Jersey and New York BioPharma Networking Groups (BPNG) to offer an informal and beneficial networking opportunity! There will be many professionals, alumni, and current students/postdocs there to socialize and network with. 

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They are looking for biologists to help test their devices as well as people with PhDs to move into various non-research roles at the companies using their transferrable skills. Come hear from a panel of scientists and engineers who have found rewarding careers in the medical device space and network with these professionals.

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