This activity provides Trainees and other graduate students early exposure to diverse career options and opportunities in the national biomedical workforce beyond academia. We invite speakers from a diverse array of careers to expose our students to the range of career opportunities available with a PhD in the biomedical sciences. During a public presentation, speakers talk about their current positions, how they got there, aspects of their job they enjoy and dislike, and how one goes about exploring career opportunities in these and related careers. This allows our students  to get a realistic perspective of the diverse career opportunities in the biomedical workforce. After a public presentation, students with a particular interest in that career interact with the speaker over lunch. These informal discussions provide an excellent platform for networking and are well attended and utilized.

Invited Speakers

July 19, 2022
Dr. Kathryn Juchem
Senior Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim

July 5, 2022
Dr. Monica Montano
Regulatory and Legislative Advocate, California Dental Association

June 21, 2022
Dr. Suzy Renn
Professor of Biology, Reed College

June 7, 2022
Dr. Pavel Aronov
Consultant, Alternative Meat Industry

May 24, 2022
Dr. Charles Mordaunt
Computational Biologist, GlaxoSmithKline

May 10, 2022
Dr. Kate Waimey Timmerman
Executive Director, Chicago Quantum Exchange

April 19, 2022
Dr. Marissa Kraynak
Director of Health Policy, Insure the Uninsured Project

April 5, 2022
Dr. Seema Bhatt
President, JJ SciMed Communication

March 22, 2022
Dr. Brandon Zipp
Chief Science Officer and Co-founder, Vitality Biopharma

March 8, 2022
Dr. Aimee Jaramillo Lambert
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware

February 22, 2022
Dr. Eric Abbate
Director, Analytical Biochemistry, Inscripta

February 15, 2022
Dr. Alpana Gupta
Project Leader and Senior Associate Director, Boehringer Ingelheim