An Interview with a Medical Communications Leader

  • November 27, 2018
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Written by Vinam Puri Vishal SoniPh.D., is the Principal and CEO of Viridbio Solutions, a service-providing company focused on medical writing, med­ical communications and information technology.

Why you should listen to podcasts if you are a STEM PhD student

  • November 20, 2018
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by Helena Mello If you could sum up the time you spend per day doing the following: commuting, eating, working on tissue culture, pipetting… how many minutes would that be? How about using that seemingly wasted time to further your scientific knowledge? This article will (hopefully) convince you to listen to podcasts while performing all those activities. From quick tasks such as cell splitting to hour-long microscope analyses, you will find episodes that fit your interest and your available time!

An Interview with a Pharmaceutical Leader

  • November 15, 2018
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Written by Vinam Puri Dr. Navneet Puri is the Founder and CEO of Nevakar, Inc. in Bridgewater, NJ. He started this company in 2015, with a vision of creating a fully integrated specialty pharmaceutical company focusing on hospital injectables and ophthalmic products. As Chief Executive Officer, he sets the strategic and operational direction of the organization. Prior to this, he was the Founder and CEO of Innopharma, LLC (now a Pfizer company). A Rutgers Alumnus, he received his Ph.D.

Choose Your Adventure: Non-Traditional Careers in the Pharma Agency Space

  • November 14, 2018
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Written by Vinam Puri Are you studying for (or already are) a Ph.D. in Life Science/Pharma/Biotech? Are you of a creative mind interested in the communication space but not sure if there is a career for you in it? Are you interested in going on an adventure and exploring an area you may not have known? Read right ahead and be just as amazed as I was when I learned about this. Alli Aber, Ph.D. and, with the help of a workshop introduced me to a world of opportunities that immediately felt like my niche.

Being Assertive: Asking What You Need in the Laboratory and in Life

  • November 6, 2018
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By Jennifer Casiano-Matos On September 18th, 2018, I had an opportunity to participate in a talk about assertiveness at the Office of Intramural Training and Education in NIH. It was conducted by Anne Kirchgessner, one of our career counselors. At the meeting, she talked about how being assertive can help you attain what you need and want.

Internship Prep for Graduate Students

  • November 1, 2018
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On October 17th, I attended a seminar where 5 Rutgers students shared their internship experience with the audience. The student panelists were:

Emotional Intelligence: Knowing your feelings and the path to success

  • October 23, 2018
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By Vicky Kanta On October 4th, I attended an iJOBS workshop on the topic of emotional intelligence. The presenter was Juliet Hart, the founder of Hart & Chin Associates, LLC., a start-up offering workshops for science professionals. Juliet started out as a bench scientist working for biotech and pharma companies such as Johnson & Johnson. However, she soon realized that she particularly enjoyed the human collaborative aspect of science.

Where Are They Now?

  • October 18, 2018
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By Paulina Krzyszczyk Chris Lowe recently defended his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in July 2018. He was a founding member of the iJOBS blog and participated in many iJOBS events, including SciPhD and several industry site visits. He currently works at Shire as a Senior Upstream Development Engineer in Massachusetts.

How States Voted on Science

  • October 16, 2018
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The November elections of 2016 swept a republican-led government into a comfortable position, with both congressional bodies and the presidential office placed firmly in the hands of the Grand Old Party, a more conservative sentiment took hold in Washington. The relationship that the right has had with science has been rather strained, and the two years since the election have been no different.

Meet the Blogger: Deepshikha Mishra

  • October 11, 2018
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Hello iJOBS community, My name is Deepshikha Mishra. I recently joined iJOBS blog as a writer and I am very excited to be a part of it. I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pharmacology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. After completing my Ph.D. in India, I moved to US to pursue my postdoctoral research. Biology has always fascinated me since my school days.