Sentences with phrase «company as a postdoc»

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How does the experience of doing a postdoc at a company such as MedImmune compare to doing one at a university?

As I reported in April, I had the opportunity to meet some industry postdocs at the Leaders of Tomorrow (LOT) Summit, held at the Gaithersburg, Maryland, headquarters of MedImmune, the biologics R&D arm of the international biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.

Science does not let go, and I start as a senior postdoc in this new company.

He advises prospective industry postdocs to look closely at the conditions of their contracts, as well as the publishing record of the company, before signing on, because it could have serious implications downstream.

After completing his postdoc, Sören Dürr worked as a consultant for an oil company in Norway, but then he left research science to become a grant administrator at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

Danielle Salha says that the ability to publish her vaccine research was a priority for her when she joined the multinational company Aventis Pasteur as a postdoc a year ago.

In response to this challenge, Löffler and her team (as well as other institutions and their TTOs) have come up with creative funding mechanisms, including fellowships supported by private companies and philanthropies, which provide postdocs the freedom to chase entrepreneurial ambitions.

On the contrary, large companies in Canada do not view their postdoctoral programs as recruitment tools and in many cases actively discourage the notion in their potential postdoc recruits.

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.

She ended up being offered a consulting job by a company whose software she'd been using as a postdoc.

As at Lilly, Roche's postdocs have an academic mentor in addition to one from the company, so every postdoc award seeds an academic - industrial partnership.

According to Spohrer, postdocs are more likely than doctoral students to match the company's ideal employee hiring profile: a so - called «T - shaped» professional, with both depth of training in one area and a breadth of experience, such as having worked in different countries or having both scientific and business skills.

You need to be in a position where you can talk freely about the scientific merits of your previous project, the skills you can bring to the next company, and what you gained from your postdoc (as well as some documentation to back this all up).

It hits many desirable highlights: postdoc experiences as a Fullbright scholar and a visiting scientist at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), many dozens of published papers and patents, and a long list of impressive job titles from drug companies to law and venture capital firms to state economic development organizations.

Recruiting companies to participate in your career fair is a great deal of work, especially as you and other postdocs begin to make follow - up phone calls.

After a successful postdoc at the Ontario Cancer Institute, where he developed a proprietary platform for the discovery of novel cancer therapeutic agents, Bray was asked to join the former Amgen Research Institute in Toronto (now called the Advanced Medical Discovery Institute and no longer part of the parent company) as the head of their quantitative biology group and act as liaison to Amgen Inc. in California.

There are so many spectacular examples of individuals moving on to industry, government, teaching, start - up companies, the media, and elsewhere after a 2 - or 3 - year postdoc «leavening» following their Ph.D. that it is surprising that others do not see this as a most attractive route for career enrichment.

Companies in the consortium locate postdocs at universities and offer them funding to work on industry projects in such areas as nanobiotechnology, marine biotechnology, and vaccine development.

While a postdoc at INSERM in Paris, Jonathan Dando applied for 134 jobs outside of academic research before landing a job on his doorstep, as a European project manager for INSERM Transfert, INSERM's technology - transfer company.

Only a few months prior, he stunned his postdoc supervisor at Université de Montreal by announcing his decision to trade his fellowship for a job as a patent consultant at a start - up biotech company in Calgary.

He says a researcher should then follow up this postdoc with a one - year placement in a company, whether it's by «sweat equity» — working for free at an internship — or as a hired hand.

After his Ph.D. in geophysics and an unsatisfying stint with a petroleum company, he returned to academe in 1981 as a postdoc at his alma mater, the University of British Columbia (UBC).

His experiences as a doctoral student, postdoc, and hiring manager for a consulting company have provided Henkin with unique insight into the career goals and challenges that current postdocs face.

After working on innate immune signaling at a Biotech startup company she studied mechanisms of signaling specificity as a postdoc in Dr. Alexander Hoffmann's laboratory at the University of California, San Diego before joining the Molecular Cell editorial team in 2013.

She joined the company a year ago, after completing her Ph.D. in pharmacology and spending one year as a postdoc, both at the University of Pennsylvania.