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Dr. Pissadaki is a deep insight visionary interdisciplinary neuroscientist and a multirole research manager, leading research and innovation activities in the fields of neuroscience, complex data analysis, digital medicine and blockchain technology. Experience gained through appointments in world class universities, IT and pharmaceutical companies fuse into skills and profile structured for pushing science and innovation challenges beyond limits and expectations. She is current Manager, Systems Neuroscientist at Biogen Digital Health and has worked at IBM in the past.

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Scientists play an important role in protecting intellectual property and filing patent briefs. Technical specialists are scientists who work with lawyers to advise on patent applications. Patent lawyers are often scientists who have gone on to attend law school. Come hear from several panelists who have chosen this exciting career path.

Victor Ghidu, PhD, JD, Associate at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Peter McEwan, PhD, Patent Agent at Troutman Pepper
Matt Stuber, PhD, Patent Specialist at Mayer Brown

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Learn how you can transition from a traditional biology PhD to a career in bioinformatics and data science. Zhenru Zhou, who got a Masters in Computer Science and PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology from Rutgers, participated in the Insight Health Data Science program and is now a Bioinformatics Software Engineer at Genentech. She will share her advice and perspective as well as describe her current job function in this seminar. 

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A career as an editor or publisher of a scientific journal allows you to use your training in the scientific method and critical review of literature across a wide variety of subject matters to helps propel the research field forward. We will meet with people with editing and publisher roles at Wiley, one of the oldest publishing firms in the country that is responsible for journals including PLOS One. FEBS, EMBO and Current Protocols. Hear from PhD level scientists who have successfully made the transition to the world of publishing. 

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A life science PhD can lead to a productive career making a difference in people’s lives through agriculture and plant science industry research. Come hear from scientists who have carved a path for themselves in this important area and about learn about their current job function.

Csanad Gurdon, PhD, Senior Scientist at AeroFarms
Kasi Azhakandam, PhD, Principal Scientist at Syngenta
James Hempfling, PhD, Field Development Scientist at Bayer Crop Science
Karen Ambrose, PhD, Director of Plant-Soil-Microbe Interactions at Kula Bio
Paul Fourounjian, PhD, Scientist at Plantible Foods

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Matthew joined Nationwide Children’s as director of the Office of Technology Commercialization in the spring of 2012. As Vice President of Commercialization and Industry Relations, he works closely with Nationwide Children’s faculty and staff to identify intellectual property with commercial potential and to facilitate the transfer of new technologies to outside partners, ultimately for the benefit and enhancement of pediatric care. He has a diverse background in technology transfer, technology valuation and licensing, academic research and pharmacy practice. Come learn how Matthew transitioned from bench research to tech transfer.

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Learn how you can apply your life science and chemistry education to careers in the nutrition and fragrance industry to broaden your job prospects. This area is an excellent option in addition to pharmaceuticals that not many people consider. Hear from iJOBS alum about their path in this field including:

Ratna Mukherjea, PhD, Senior Director Food Innovation, Technology Leadership Team at Benson Hill
Julia Olayanju, PhD, Founder and Director of the Global Food Health Institute and Founder of FoodNiche
Dushyant Kshatriya, PhD, Project Manager/Scientist at Research Diets, Inc.
Bo Li, PhD, Research Investigator at International Flavors & Fragrances
Rob Assini, PhD, Research Investigator at International Flavors & Fragrances

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This workshop will provide an overview of the Drug Discovery process, focusing on the stages of drug target selection, high throughput screening to identify lead chemical series, the hit-to-lead process, lead optimization and preclinical development. The types of assays that are required at each stage will be discussed with an emphasis on the criteria that need to be met at each stage in order to advance a compound into clinical development. Students who attend the workshop will gain a basic understanding of processes and requirements needed to bring a compound to the clinic. The workshop will be taught by Matt Sills, PhD formerly of Merck, Pharmacopeia, Novartis, and Ciba-Geigy. To see Dr. Sills click here. To see Dr. Murphy slides click here.

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Learn how you can take your science background and contribute to creation of policy at the state and federal level in a rewarding career. Hear from PhDs who have successfully transitioned off the bench to a fulfilling career in policy. Panelists will include:Brian Canter, PhD Senior Policy Analyst at Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy Joseph Keller, PhD Senior Director, congressional and Federal Relations at the American Psychological Association and former AAAS Science and Technology Policy FellowMegan Anderson Brooks, PhD principal at Innovation Policy Solutions LLCTrisha Chakraborty, PhD Health Science Policy Analyst and former AAAS Science and Technology Policy FellowMike Fisher, PhD Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientist. Click here to see the speaker's information.

 

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This is a multi-day (32 hr) workshop. You only need to register once, however, all sessions are required.

SciPhD is run by Human Workflows, LLC (http://sciphd.com/) and helps trainees assess their current skill set, express it in business-friendly language as well as recognize/fill skill gaps in areas such as communication, leadership, team building, negotiation and project management. 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. These transition business competencies can also be applied by academic and government scientists in running their laboratories. SciPhD is a very interactive and hands-on exposure to these concepts with real action items to take away from the workshop. Throughout the program, students and postdocs will experience at least four behavioral-based interview experiences in which they will play the role of the candidate and the interviewer.

Topics include:

The Business of Science
Successful Communications as a Scientist
Six Leadership Styles
Developing Your People
Negotiation and Finance
Building Effective Teams
Strategic Project Management for Scientists
Applying What You've Learned

Dates and Times – ALL OF THE SESSIONS ARE REQUIRED

January 5 by Zoom (1-5 PM)
January 7 by Zoom (1-5 PM)
January 10 by Zoom (1-5 PM)
January 13 by Zoom (1-5 PM)
January 14 by Zoom (1-5 PM)
January 18 by Zoom (4-6 PM)