BGS Career Development

Making It Count!

Rebecca Lopez

CareerMail Communications

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Penn Career Services offers a number of CareerMail newsletters through Handshake. These are a great resource to hear about internships, jobs, postdoctoral opportunities, networking events, workshops, career fairs, employer info sessions, career development tools/resources, and more.

For step-by-step instructions on how to sign up, click here.

Biopharma Innovation Cup 2019

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Merck KGaA is accepting applications to participate in the Biopharma Innovation Cup 2019:

“As part of the Innovation Cup, 30 students will be selected and invited to join a week-long summer camp, to work together in a highly stimulating environment.

  • Work as part of a team to generate new ideas in the fields: oncology, immuno-oncology, autoimmunity, small molecules drug discovery, protein engineering and screening, digitalization.
  • Evaluate your ideas from a technical and business perspective and build a convincing business plan.
  • Learn the essentials about R&D within the pharmaceutical and chemical industry.
  • Network with the brightest students from all over the world.
  • Understand how products can be successfully discovered, developed, and brought to market.
  • Get to know us and learn about career options.
  • A jury, consisting of top scientists and entrepreneurs, our senior managers and external experts will pick the winning business plans for first and second place.

On the last day of the summer camp, a conference with alumni of previous Innovation Cup editions will be organized. Learn what alumni are doing today and expand your network of top innovators.

Following the innovation cup, options to implement the best business plans will be evaluated. We will keep you posted.

Travel, accommodation and food expenses paid by Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.” (Via Merck KGaA)

Applicants accepted to participate will attend the Innovation Cup 2019 summer camp near Frankfurt, Germany the week of June 23-29, 2019. The winning team will share a prize of 20,000 Euros.

For more information and to apply, read here.

International Careers

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Intramural Training and Education (OITE) provides an informative blog post about the challenges and rewards of an international career. Though the challenges of a domestic job search – networking, negotiating, and more – can be multiplied when navigating the norms of an unfamiliar culture, the advantages of an expanded world-view are not to be discounted. The author provides links to helpful resources, such as questions to ask before accepting an international job offer and tips for negotiating across cultures.

Read more here.

Workshop: Preparing for Academic Screening, Conference, and On-Campus Interviews

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Penn Career Services continues their Academic Job Search Series with a workshop on, “Preparing for Academic Screening, Conference, and On-Campus Interviews.” The workshop is designed for doctoral students and postdocs. It will cover preparation strategies as well as typical questions you might encounter during the academic screening process.

When: Thursday, November 29, 2018, 12-1:30 PM

Where: Graduate Education Building 007

RSVP here.

NIH: Strategies for Enhancing Postdoctoral Career Transitions to Promote Faculty Diversity

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The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) recently sought input from the scientific community about strategies to enhance successful postdoctoral career transitions, in order to promote faculty diversity. 89 responses were recorded, from stakeholders including postdoctoral scientists, faculty members, and professional societies.

Read about the most frequently mentioned barriers as well as potential solutions here.