Sentences with phrase «company as a research scientist»

After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington, in 1990, Dr. Chen began his work at the Bristol - Myers Squib Company as a research scientist.

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Forward - thinking companies such as Zappos, Google, and Nike have heeded the research of sleep scientists, and now encourage team members to snooze on the job and refresh when they need it.

That same year, Shockley and seven other scientists founded Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, the «first silicon device and research manufacturing company in Silicon Valley,» as a plaque marking the spot in Mountain View reads today.

She has served as a biochemical patent agent and a research scientist for a gene - therapy company.

Across the broad range of life science research under way in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, many companies need scientists with traditional skills, such as pharmacology or biology.

«If the Senate bill in its final form does not allow companies to use international offsets to achieve their targets, then the U.S. as a source of funding for REDD would die,» said Daniel Nepstad, a senior scientist with the Woods Hole Research Center, which is a member of Hurowitz's Tropical Forest and Climate Coalition, meaning other countries might have to fill that gap with their own funding and offset needs.

As a result, plant scientists have researched ways to develop drought - resistant strains of various crops, such as a variety of corn that agriculture giant Monsanto Company and chemical company BASF have submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approvaAs a result, plant scientists have researched ways to develop drought - resistant strains of various crops, such as a variety of corn that agriculture giant Monsanto Company and chemical company BASF have submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approvaas a variety of corn that agriculture giant Monsanto Company and chemical company BASF have submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for apCompany and chemical company BASF have submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for apcompany BASF have submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approval.

The company, which employs more than 100 postdocs, places a premium on basic (as well as translational) research, encouraging its scientists to publish in top journals.

So, I took a job as a research scientist in the analytical lab of a smaller chemistry - driven, discovery - based pharmaceutical company located in Vancouver, B.C. With fewer than 100 employees and no products on the market, it couldn't have been further from the formal corporate work environment I was accustomed to at a multinational company.

Meanwhile, Winter — at the limits of what she could do with her consulting time — needed help at QCT, so she hired Fan as a research scientist and the company's first employee.

Both books also tackle the resulting shift in ethical, aspirational, and legal landscapes in biomedical research as molecular scientists rushed to form industrial ties, universities accelerated patenting and licensing activities, and entrepreneurs created biotechnology companies.

«And if you discover some great new thing and patent it, you can encourage students to spin off a little company on the side, and for sure you can't do that as an industrial research scientist.

While opportunities involving a range of different skill sets are available, in general, companies are seeking research scientists with highly developed technical expertise that possess the ability to think creatively and fix problems, while being able to function as part of a team.

«With the headcount constraints in today's economic climate, industry needs to hire leaders as well as technically excellent scientists,» says Scott Reines, newly retired vice president of pharmaceutical research and development at Johnson & Johnson, a pharmaceutical company based in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

The sudden closure of RIMB makes me doubt that academic scientists of stature who wish to conduct investigator - initiated research will, in the future, be recruitable as salaried employees to a company - sponsored institute.

«I believe that, when scientists look at Novartis as a potential employer, they see a company with a great pipeline and an innovative research organization that is focused on helping patients.»

But maybe there is a solution — there are scientists who stay in touch with the latest and most exciting research by acting as liaisons between researchers and companies.

«The rules of the game are different, and I think you really have to have a sense of who you are and how you like to do things as a scientist,» says molecular biologist Neil Howell, who spent 30 years in a university setting before becoming vice president for research at MitoKor, a San Diego, California, biotech company, in 2001.

Thatcher could support the reforms, Agar argues, because she «had lived the life of the working research scientist, as a final - year chemistry student in Dorothy Hodgkin's x-ray crystallography laboratory, as an investigator of glues for BX [plastics company] and as a food chemist for Lyons & Co.... [I] t was precisely because Thatcher knew what scientific research was like that made her impervious to claims that science was a special case, with special features and incapable of being understood by outsiders, and therefore that science policy should be left in the hands of scientists.

Scientists at Celgene see their work as a vocation, and they also feel supported in taking constructive risks in their research, says Carol Thompson, senior director of human resources at the company.

«Certainly, in industry it is critical to work within teams to accomplish goals that are defined more by the company than by individuals,» he says, «but I see industry and academia as equally exciting and valuable career options for students,» says Gregory E. Amidon, a research professor at the University of Michigan, College of Pharmacy, in Ann Arbor and American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Fellow.

Until recently, there was little love lost between researchers and the E.U. Scientists have long bemoaned Europe's Framework Programmes for their focus on applied research, the forced collaboration between many labs and companies across the continent, the crippling bureaucracy, and what many see as too much meddling by politicians and bureaucrats in Brussels (Science, 8 December 2006).

One of the key skills in BI, as in academic research, is the ability to ask the right question, says Raif Majeed, who leads a quality assurance engineering subteam in Seattle at Tableau, a BI company that was founded by two Stanford University computer scientists.

«One of our vice presidents of research does not have a Ph.D.» Similarly at Abbott, both B.S. and M.S. scientists are members of the company's scientific honorary society, «which is recognized as the very top tier of scientists in the organization,» Summers says.

The research scientist just 4 years into her first industry job with a company that makes diagnostic tests and reagents, who finds as she reenters the job market that she is not a strong candidate for bench - science jobs in the biotech industry because she has been labeled a «diagnostics industry» employee.

These include government or private nonprofit funders of basic research, such as the National Institutes of Health in the United States or the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom; academic scientists; multinational pharmaceutical firms and smaller biotech companies; and, at the end of the line, government regulatory agencies responsible for drug approval.

Other Gladstone scientists will serve as scientific partners (Katherine Pollard, PhD, Todd McDevitt, PhD, Nevan Krogan, PhD) or founding employees of the company, including Kathy Ivey, PhD, former director of the Gladstone Stem Cell Core and the new director of research operations at Tenaya.

I moved to Vancouver, BC, Canada to join the biophysical characterization department of Celator Pharmaceuticals (a spin - off company from the BC Cancer Agency) as a research scientist before my next position took me to York, England.

Based on a real - life story of a tobacco - company research scientist (Russell Crowe) and the ramifications of his decision to disclose industry secrets to the American public on an episode of 60 Minutes, it was a moody, intense affair that many critics touted as one of the year's best films; it netted 7 Oscar nominations in the process.Mann was back in the Academy Award hunt two year's later with Ali, a biopic of the beloved boxer Muhammad Ali that focused on both his athletic accomplishments and his political battles.

Interesting storyline about drug companies and research as well as a rogue scientist and missing, presumed dead researcher.

This is a company that I am very familiar with due to my occupation as a research scientist — Corning Inc. (GLW).

He has also served as Director for Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy for the Donald Monk Cancer Research Foundation; he is a partner at Veterinary Research Associates, LLC, a company focused on development and implementation of diagnostics for veterinary medicine and a founder / scientist at ApopLogic Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a biotechnology company focused on development of cancer therapeutics.

Prior to law practice, Babak worked as a senior staff engineer at Verance Corporation, a leading company in digital watermarking, and as a senior research scientist at Eastman Kodak R&D Laboratories.

Scientific officers, who are also known as natural science managers, generally serve as liaisons between a company's executive administrators and technicians and scientists who comprise a research division.