Professional Development

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Frank Malinoski, MD/PhD has over 30 years of executive experience in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, including work on numerous vaccines and immunotherapy products. He has an extensive background in the fields of vaccines, immunology, oncology, infectious disease and other therapeutic areas. He is Chief Medical Officer for EveliQuere Biotechnologies GmbH, and President of TD Consultancy. He was Senior Vice President at Affinivax and also held positions of Chief Medical Officer at Liquidia, Senior Vice President, Medical & Scientific Affairs at MediImmune, and Vice President, Clinical Affairs and Global Business Development at Wyeth (Pfizer), as well as senior leadership and consulting positions at several other biopharmaceutical companies. Dr. Malinoski began his career as a Clinical Investigator and Chief of Viral Biology at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. He received his BA from Colby College, his PhD in microbiology from Rutgers University, and his MD from Albany Medical College. Come hear his perspective working at various companies and his advice on how to approach your own career.
 

 

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Making your LinkedIn profile highly visible and building your brand is essential for expanding your network and helping you get hired. However, most of us struggle with what and when to post and how to increase our contacts on LinkedIn. Penny Pearl of 2Actify is an expert at helping scientists articulate their unique value and create a brand that we can use for marketing ourselves as researchers who have transferable skills. Attend this workshop to learn best practices in posting and connecting with others to improve your chances of getting noticed by those who matter!

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Scientific and strategic consulting is one of the hottest growing career options for PhDs. Come hear a panel of Lumanity employees who are in life science consulting and review a case study to get a feel for if this is the right career choice for you. Being a consultant allows you to use your technical expertise to help biotech and pharma companies with diverse projects and practicing case studies is critical for getting hired in their field.

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Get advice on everything from how to select an appropriate journal to best practices in exerimental design, manuscript preparation, and submission to help you get your papers published. The speaker will be Andrea Marat, PhD Senior Scientific and Reviews Editor, Journal of Cell Biology. Andrea did her PhD at McGill University and a postdocs in Berlin. Andrea joined the Rockefeller University Press in 2016 as a Scientific Editor at the Journal of Cell Biology. In addition to handling research manuscripts, Andrea is responsible for all Reviews and Perspectives published in the journal.

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This active learning workshop for PhD students, Postdoctoral Fellows and faculty will use techniques and case study discussions in breakout sessions to teach tools and skills to better mentor undergraduate students in a research setting.  Attendees will also reflect upon approaches they would use to mentor trainees and employees when they are running a lab or research group in the future. An opportunity to earn a Microbadge in Mentoring Undergrads will be available for those who wish to follow up with additional activities.

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Note: This is a 2 day in person workshop. You only need to register once, however attendance at both days is required from 9am-5pm. 
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. They will cover metadata organization in spreadsheets, data organization, connecting to and using cloud computing, the command line for sequence quality control and bioinformatics workflows.

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New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) was founded in 2014 and combines the vast resources of NJIT, strong industry and government relationships, and proven methods to drive innovation and deliver transformative products and services. The Entrepreneurship team oversees incubator and accelerator programs at VentureLink. They are a tech venture hub for those who want to bring technology to market. Come to meet the scientist and companies that reside in the incubator that is now led by Rutgers alum Michael Johnson, PhD who founded Visikol while he was still in graduate school and has become wildly successful. We will also get to tour the labs and learn what skill sets they are looking for in new hires for fresh PhD graduates and postdocs.

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Come to visit the New Jersey Bioscience Center, a 300,000 SF, 50 acre research park that includes the Incubator at North Brunswick, with 27 private wet labs and the multi-tenant Step-Out Labs at North Brunswick for growing biotech companies.  Larger life sciences space ranging from 5000 – 32,000 SF are also on site. We will hear from resident companies about their research and what kinds of fresh PhDs and postdocs they are looking to hire. We will also get to tour the labs and network with the scientists who work at these small to mid-size companies. It is a great place to get your foot in the door of industry.

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Hear from Rutgers alum who work at Daiichi Sankyo about their career paths and current roles in Clinical Development/Regulatory, Medical Affairs, Marketing and Diagnostics. Daiichi Sankyo is a global pharmaceutical company with corporate origins in Japan. They provide innovative products and services in 29 countries/regions around the world. With more than 120 years of experience, they have many drugs in the pipeline include several oncololy therapies ranging from biologics to small molecules.

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GenScript Biotech Corporation is the world’s leading technology and service provider of life science R&D and manufacturing. Built upon its solid gene synthesis, they strive to become the most trustworthy biotech company in the world, and to make people and nature healthier through biotechnology. We will visit their US Head Office in Piscataway for an information session to hear more about GenScript and enjoy lunch. They will provide an overview of the company, have a few members from different departments descript they type of work they perform including their Production, Sales and Marketing teams. They will also take us on a tour of the facility and have some networking time.

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20 Kingsbridge Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854

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