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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. March 13 and 14 from 9am-5pm

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675 Hoes Lane West, Rutgers RWJMS Research Tower Room V12, Piscataway, NJ

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Whether you have a background in engineering or biology, you can work at a medical device company and contribute to getting new devices developed, approved and to patients. Come hear from PhD level employees at Medtronics, Glaukos, 3D Bio Therapeutics, Collagen Matrix, and Texas Medical Center to learn how they transitioned to their role and what their company does.

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Come hear from Rutgers alum Alex Izaguirre, PhD who has transitioned from a degree in Immunology to now being the Chief Data Officer at the NYC Health and Hospitals. There he supports strategic and operational needs for hospitals, academic medical centers, provider systems, payers, pharmaceuticals, device companies and biotech. Learn how Alex made the transition to IT and data science.

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Ambit Consulting Services is a consulting firm focused on the future of biopharma. Let by entrepreneurs with decades of industry experience, they focus on helping clients navigate the changing pharma landscape by using cutting-edge approaches to pharmaceutical strategy with a focus on rare diseases.  They are actively looking for PhD level hires to work as consultants so learn about the company and how you can become part of this exciting company.  Consulting is a great way to stay conneted to the science and help many drugs get to market.

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Business development is the act of pursuing strategic opportunities for a particular business or organization.  For example, you could cultivate partnerships or identify new markets for products or services. Many PhD level scientists enjoy this area on the crossroads of research and business.  Our guest speaker, Evelyn Chang, who has a science as well as business background will lead us in a business development case study so attendees can learn what is involved in this career. 

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Join us to hear from Rutgers alum James Cappola, MD/PhD. We will hear about vaccine development and cancer "vaccine" progress as well as an important focus on the US to support new treatments for PTSD. Dr. Cappola has 25+ years’ experience as Director Clinical Development as well as Clinical Safety; Medical Affairs/ Clinical Research for Hematological, Oncological, Neurological, anti-Infective, Pulmonary, Cardiovascular Drug Development.  He is also a Medical Monitor- Pharmacovigilance for Phase I, II, III, IV Clinical Studies in both adults and children.

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