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PGWISE Female Leadership Career Panel

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Please join Penn Graduate Women in Science & Engineering (PGWISE), Wharton Healthcare Club, and Wharton Women in Business (WWIB) at a panel discussion exploring leadership and careers in healthcare and biomedical sciences. Students from PGWISE and the Wharton Healthcare Club will moderate a discussion with:

HEATHER STEINMAN, PHD, MBA
The Executive Director of Technology Transfer and the VP of
Business Development at the Wistar Institute

DORA MITCHELL, PHD
The Vice President of Operations at Carisma Therapeutics

LINDA MILLER, PHD
Senior Director of Strategic Planning at CHOP; former Engagement
Manager at McKinsey

When: February 19th, 2019 at 4:30 – 6:00 PM
Where: The Wistar Institute Caplan Auditorium

Please RSVP here!

Age 21+ Reception Prior to Panel Discussion (starting at 4:00 PM in the Wistar atrium)!

PBG Spring 2019 Kickoff

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Interested in gaining real life consulting experience? Want to learn more about consulting and the healthcare industry?

When: Thursday, February 7th at 5:30 pm
Where: The Wharton School, Jon M. Huntsman Hall, (Room TBA)

Join Penn Biotech Group Healthcare Consulting at the Spring Kickoff for:
–An overview of PBG, including what we do and how to apply for projects!
–Come grab food and then drinks at our kickoff happy hour at Landmark Americana (3333 Market St).
–Come network with fellow PBG members and learn about opportunities at Herspiegel Consulting (Pharmaceutical & Biotech Consulting firm). The info session will be about what they do and the type of applicants they are looking for.
–For more information about PBG, visit our website at pbgconsulting.org
–No business/consulting experience necessary! We hope to see you there. Spread the word.

If you cannot make it to the kickoff, please sign up for our email list at
tinyurl.com/PBGnews and we’ll be sure to include you in communications going forward about signing up for project teams.

Become a PBG member: tinyurl.com/PBGmember.

Open Labs at Penn Presents: Sips of Science 2019

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Interested in working on your science communication skills? Visit Open Labs at Penn on February 6th or 7th! Come prepared with your idea for a TED-style talk and get a chance to present your science to high school students in April. Pizza and soft drinks will be provided. See our flier for detail. For more information, email pennopenlabs@gmail.com.

When: Feb. 6th or 7th, 5:30 PM

Where: IRG7, Irvine Auditorium

Deciding Where to Publish: Finding Publication Venues that Align with Your Goals

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“Whether it’s your first-time publishing or you are a publishing veteran, deciding where to publish can be a daunting task that will impact you for years to come.  Not only is finding the right “fit” for your scholarship extremely important, but your publication venue also determines other important factors, like where and how you can share your scholarship after it’s published (your personal website, academia.edu or ResearchGate, etc.) or whether or not you can reuse your work elsewhere (conferences, subsequent publications, etc.).

This presentation will help get you started in establishing your publishing criteria, developing a list of journals/publishers, and evaluating those publication venues based on the criteria you develop. The session will also briefly cover some best practices for submitting, reading/negotiating publishing contracts, and sharing your work after it’s published.” (Via the Graduate Student Center)

When: Tuesday, February 5, 2019, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Where: Room 305 (3rd Fl), Grad Center, 3615 Locust Walk

Register here.

Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation in Biomedical Science – Call for Applications

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The University of Pennsylvania may nominate two graduate students for the Regeneron Prize in biomedicine, broadly defined.  See here for details. 

 Penn coordinates an internal competition.  The deadline for the internal competition is 10 AM, February 5th, 2019. 

 To be considered for Penn nomination, applicants must submit:

  • The Regeneron Application Form, which includes upload of a single pdf containing:
  • Curriculum Vitae, which must include current phone number and mailing address
  • PDF of 2-3 publications
  • 2-page single-spaced description of the applicant’s “dream research idea” in the field of Biomedical Science
  • A Recommendation Request Form that will, upon completion and submission by the applicant, send a recommendation request to your Penn faculty advisor

 Applicants should not submit the application directly to Regeneron. If you have questions, please contact Dr. Aaron Olson at CURF, aolson@upenn.edu