Industry Perspective

iJobs Virtual Career Panel: Science Writing and Medical Communication at McCann Health

  • July 28, 2020
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By: Gina Sanchez   On July 14th, the iJobs program hosted a virtual career panel with McCann Health, a prominent international healthcare communications company. Representatives from various agencies within the company gave presentations about different aspects of their jobs. Drug discovery is a costly industry, making it essential that there are people able to help throughout this process in order to communicate findings to a specialized audience.

iJobs Event: Merck Virtual Career Panel

  • April 28, 2020
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Medical Communication and Science Writing Virtual Career Panel

  • April 14, 2020
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By: Gina Sanchez On March 31st, the iJobs program hosted a career panel in Medical Writing and Science Communication. In this program, we were able to hear from three Rutgers Ph.D. graduates and one more individual at various stages of their careers. Attendees were able to get the points of view of the panelists regarding how they learned about Medical Writing, what Chateau Gonflable their job activities include, the application process, and their favorite aspects of the field.

iJOBS Career Panel: GlaxoSmithKline

  • November 26, 2019
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By Janaina Pereira On November 11th, the iJOBS program hosted an event focused on the global company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). With this panel, we had the opportunity to hear from panelists holding different positions in the Human Genetics and Functional Genomics Departments about their projects and career paths in computational biology, genomic statistics, and genetics at GSK.

iJOBS Site Visit: McCann Health explains the role of Medical Communication agencies

  • October 31, 2019
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by Helena Mello If you are a recurrent reader of this blog you probably have heard of Medical Communications (Med Comm). We cover this topic frequently not just because we think Med Comm can be a great career for those with a science background, but also because it is a rapidly growing field in the healthcare industry. With that in mind, the Rutgers iJOBS program organized a site visit to Med Comm giant McCann Health.