By Vinam Puri The following is a summarization of the lessons I’ve learned from the Mini MBA in BioPharma Innovation course offered by the Rutgers Business School Executive Education.

by Vicky Kanta   One of the most rewarding aspects of being a scientist is inventing new things. Indeed, often enough scientific inventions are so important that the inventor’s rights need to be protected. But how exactly does that process take place? This is where a recent iJOBS workshop comes in, which provided key knowledge on intellectual property and patent law. The invited experts were Elysa Goldberg, PhD, JD and Brian Cocca, PhD, JD. They are both part of a team practicing patent law for the pharmaceutical company Regeneron.

By Abla Tannous While networking may come as second nature to some, many cringe at the thought of it. Yet, it does not have to be that way. Networking is all about building relationships.

By: Deepshikha Mishra Junior Editor: Shekerah Primus Senior Editor: Helena Mello Fatu Badiane Markey graduated from Rutgers University in 2018 with a PhD in Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Genetics. The focus of her thesis was to study the molecular interactions of a fusion protein in pediatric Ewing’s sarcoma, a type of cancer affecting the bones and surrounding tissue. Additionally, she was a lead blogger for the iJOBS blog and actively participated in the program as well.

By Brian Canter Scientists have recently felt pressure from partisan attacks on government science funding agencies. Yet many of these same agencies have received funding boosts in the past two years. The public is supportive of basic research, but sometimes questions the motivations and interests of scientists, due to a general disconnect between the two communities.

  On March 6, 2019, I had the opportunity to visit the Ethicon campus in Somerville, NJ, which was built in 1956. Our visit began with a warm welcome from Denise Fuzak, Senior Director of Strategy Development and Deployment, who is also a Rutgers engineering graduate! Ethicon is a subdivision of the Johnson & Johnson company that was incorporated in 1949.

By: Shekerah Primus To teach effectively, you must use Active Learning techniques. This was the main point I learned during the iJOBS sponsored Effective Teaching Techniques workshop, which was conducted by Dr. Diana Glendinning, a highly popular professor in the Neuroscience and Cell Biology department here at Rutgers. Active learning flips the traditional style of learning. In traditional classrooms, learning is passive; the professor uses the majority of classroom time to teach information by lecturing.

By Brianna Alexander, 3/26/19 Small, delicate and intentional- this is what I remember from the first time I saw a living cell through the lens of a microscope. It was in a dish with a pinkish liquid that I later learned was its culture medium. There were protrusions, matrix proteins, adhesion molecules—all things which I had never heard of before but would later learn about. What are these things? How do they support the function of this cell type? I was in my junior year of college, a new research apprentice becoming quickly captured in the winds of scientific thought.