Congratulations to the 2024 Aaron Shatkin Scholarship Award winners who received their plaques at the symposium! The award recognizes outstanding current graduate students who have excelled in their research and coursework with $3000.
The Molecular Biosciences Graduate Student Organization hosted their 2025 Annual Symposium. It was a huge success!
Congratulations to the presenter winners!
By E. Beyza Guven
By Matthew Brown
By E. Beyza Guven
675 Hoes Lane West
Deans Conference Room, R123
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Many graduate students and postdoc struggle with how to be as efficient as possible while juggling lab work, writing manuscripts or thesis, meetings, courses and their personal lives. Wilson Ng, PhD is the Senior Program Coordinator for Graduate Student Services at Rutgers and will lead this in-person hands-on workshop that will give grad students and postdocs tips and tricks to maximize your potential which will help you now as well as in your future careerl. Topics covered will include.
IN PERSON only
Lunch will be served
Join us for a presentation by Daniel Gordin, PhD, retired pharmaceutical executive and current regulatory affairs consultant, as he discusses the development pathway of an investigational drug from the bench-top to FDA review, including key considerations during the FDA review process. Dr. Gordin will also present a case study on the Bridging Strategy, which addresses changes in the formulation of an experimental drug during its development. This seminar will give you invaluable first-hand insight to the pharmaceutical drug development process.
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Come meet PhD level employees at Amgen in various job areas both on and off the bench and hear what it is like to work at this well-known company plus how these scientists transitioned from academia to industry. Amgen is a worldwide pioneer in biotechnology with a mission to serve patients. They focus on four therapeutic areas, general medicine, rare disease, inflammation, and oncology, They pursue new ways to do science using tools like AI, generative biology and human data to discover what is not yet known and develop new precision medicines.
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Scientists play an important role in protecting intellectual property and filing patent briefs. A patent agent is a licensed professional who helps inventors with patent applications. They can write and prosecute patent applications, and represent inventors before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Come hear from several panelists who have chosen this exciting career path and learn about the role of IP in the fields of life sciences and biomedical engineering.
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Pfizer is a world-wide pharmaceutical company that designs revolutionary medicines for people living with all types of diseases. Their pipeline includes drugs in oncology, vaccines, rare diseases, inflammation and immunity among others. Come hear about the company as well as from a panel of PhD level employees in different roles at Pfizer both on and off the bench. You can also learn how to transition into a role at Pfizer straight from academia.
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