Post written by a guest blogger Lillian Kuo, Postdoc at NCI. It’s time for the 5th Annual NIH Career Symposium on Friday May 18th, 2012! This is an action-packed day of panel speakers and skills blitzes to provide insights into the myriad of professional career options for biomedical scientists. Here are a few tips to help you get the most out of the event. Before the Symposium:
This is the fourteenth in a series of profiles about recent NIH postdocs who have found an array of jobs, from academia to industry to communications and beyond, in the U.S. and abroad. What do they do now, and how did they get there? What challenges did they face, and what advice do they have? Read on to find out.
Name: Michael Abram
Current position: Research scientist, Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Location: Foster City,CA
Time in current position: 11 months
This is the thirteenth in a series of profiles about recent NIH postdocs who have found an array of jobs, from academia to industry to communications and beyond, in the U.S. and abroad. What do they do now, and how did they get there? What challenges did they face, and what advice do they have? Read on to find out.
Name: Mary Litzinger
Current position: Manager of educational and career development programs, The American Association of Immunologists
Location: Bethesda, MD
This is the twelfth in a series of profiles about recent NIH postdocs who have found an array of jobs, from academia to industry to communications and beyond, in the U.S. and abroad. What do they do now, and how did they get there? What challenges did they face, and what advice do they have? Read on to find out.
Name: Brian Berman
Current position: Assistant professor of neurology, University of Colorado Denver
Location: Denver, CO
Time in current position: 15 months
This is the eleventh in a series of profiles about recent NIH postdocs who have found an array of jobs, from academia to industry to communications and beyond, in the U.S. and abroad. What do they do now, and how did they get there? What challenges did they face, and what advice do they have? Read on to find out.
Name: Rebecca Dunfee
Current position: Senior consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton
Location: Arlington, VA
Time in current position: 2 months