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**TWO-PART SERIES — Part 1: Job Overview**
Name: Veronica Irvin
Job Title & Organization: Assistant Professor; Oregon State University, College of Public Health
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
How long you’ve been in your current job: Started in September 2014, so I’m in my second term.
Name: Becky Roof, PhD
Job Title & Organization: Program Specialist, NINDS
Postdoc Advisor, IC: Dr. David Sibley, NINDS (from 2008-2012)
How long you’ve been in your current job: I’ve been in my current position a little over two years; however, I also spent six months here on a detail. I was in the same office but working for a different program.
Name: Kristin Fabre
Job Title & Organization: Scientific Program Manager, NCATS
Location: NIH – Bethesda, Maryland
How long you’ve been in your current job: Two years
Postdoc Advisor, IC: Dr. Jim Mitchell; Radiation Biology Branch, NCI
Name: Amir Zeituni, PhD
Job Title & Organization: Senior Scientist, Global Science & Technology
Location: NASA HQ
How long you’ve been in your current job: Since July 2013
Postdoc Advisor, IC (when at NIH): Dr. Carole Long
Name: Lillian Kuo, PhD
Job Title & Company: Scientific Program Analyst, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
Location: Bethesda, MD
How long you’ve been in your current job: A little over a year.
Postdoc Advisor, IC: Eric O. Freed, NCI
Name: Danielle Daee
Job Title & Organization: Health Science Analyst, Office of Science Planning and Assessment, NCI
Location: Bethesda, MD
How long you’ve been in your current job: Since August 2012, so not quite two years.
Postdoc Advisor, IC (when at NIH): Kyungjae Myung, NHGRI
Name: Julien Debbache, PhD
Job Title & Organization: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Zurich
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
How long you’ve been in your current job: Two years
PHD Advisor, IC: Heinz Arnheiter, NINDS (Now NIH Emeritus); Individual Partnership Program (Rennes 1 University, France)
Name: Omari Bandele, Ph.D.
Job Title & Company: Review Toxicologist, FDA, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), Office of Food Additive Safety (OFAS), Division of Food Contact Notifications (DFCN)
Location: College Park, MD
How long in current position? 10 months
Postdoc Advisor, IC: Douglas Bell, Ph.D., National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, we decided to take another look at what luck really looks like. If you search the word “luck” on this very career blog, many of the results include interviews with NIH alumni who have attributed some part of their career to luck. This is a small example which reflects a larger sentiment. Many individuals feel that their career path has unfolded by chance and they somehow just got lucky.
Name: Anna Burkart Sadusky, PhD
Job Title & Company: Staff Scientist, Omeros Corporation
Location: Seattle, WA
How long you’ve been in your current job: Over two years
Postdoc Advisor, IC: Jurrien Dean, MD; NIDDK, Development Biology Lab
