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Faculty Job Search Prep Camp from August 9 – 12, 2021

July 26, 2021 by Rebecca Lopez Leave a Comment

If you’re planning to apply for faculty jobs, either in this upcoming cycle or in the future, join Penn Career Services for this four-day Faculty Job Search Prep Camp to get a head start on planning your job search. Through workshop presentations and faculty and alumni panels, we’ll help you understand how you can best prepare for each step of the process, from assessing your readiness to go on the faculty job market and crafting application materials to preparing for interviews and negotiating offers. Throughout the week of August 9th, Faculty Job Search Prep Camp attendees are encouraged to make a virtual one-on-one appointment via Handshake with a Career Services advisor on Friday, August 13th to discuss a faculty job search document that you’d like feedback on. Check Handshake for all the times available for appointments!

For the full schedule and to register, visit: https://careerservices.upenn.edu/2021-faculty-job-search-prep-camp/

Filed Under: Jobs, Panels, Workshops Tagged With: Alumni Speakers, Career: Research (academic)

April Government Chats with Graduate Alumni! April 9 & 15, 2021

April 8, 2021 by Rebecca Lopez Leave a Comment

Career Services | University of Pennsylvania

Are you a graduate student interested in learning more about careers for graduate students working for the government? Check out Career Services’ upcoming series of online chats with these Penn alumni (click on their name to view their LinkedIn profile):

  • Brent Showalter, PhD, Assistant Director, Division of Spinal Devices, FDA (Bioengineering)
  • Meighan Long, MA, Physical Scientist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Applied Geosciences)

Alumni Q&A – Careers in Government: Brent Showalter PhD, Division of Spinal Services, FDA
Fri, Apr 9 1:00 pm EDT – 2:00 pm EDT
https://upenn.joinhandshake.com/events/717004

Alumni Q&A – Careers in Government: Meighan Long, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Thu, Apr 15 4:00 pm EDT – 5:00 pm EDT
https://upenn.joinhandshake.com/events/717769

Filed Under: Announcements, Jobs Tagged With: Alumni Speakers, Career: Research (government)

April 5th: BGS Alumni Leading at the Scientific Edge

March 10, 2021 by Rebecca Lopez Leave a Comment


Join us for an exclusive virtual career panel for BGS alumni and students.

BGS Alumni Leading at the Scientific Edge
BGS Alumni Leading at the Scientific Edge  
BGS students and alumni are invited to attend this exclusive virtual career panel featuring three accomplished PhD graduates working in the private sector.  

Monday, April 5, 2021
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. EDT  
Zoom Webinar  
Register and submit a question  
Event login details will be provided in your confirmation email.    

Featuring:

  Michelle Kinder   Michelle Kinder, PhD Scientific Director for Immuno-Oncology
in US Medical Affairs, Incyte

  Adam Koppel   Adam M. Koppel, MD, PhD Managing Director,
Bain Capital Life Sciences

  Fiona Mack   Fiona A. Mack, PhD Head of JLabs @ TMC,
Johnson & Johnson Innovation    

Register and submit a question  
Event login details will be provided in your confirmation email.
Inquiries: mcgarryn@upenn.edu

Filed Under: Announcements, Panels Tagged With: Alumni, Alumni Speakers

SACNAS & BGSA Industry Career Panel

February 15, 2021 by Rebecca Lopez Leave a Comment


SACNAS is co-hosting an industry career panel with Penn BGSA this Friday, Feb 19th at 5 PM!

Submit your questions to the panel in advance: https://t.co/zBQijqbiuA?amp=1

Filed Under: Panels, Student Group Event Tagged With: Alumni, Alumni Speakers, Penn SACNAS

Discussion with Leonard Hayflick, PhD, 2020 Distinguished Graduate Award Recipient

February 12, 2021 by Rebecca Lopez Leave a Comment


Date: 03/01/2021
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST
Location: Virtual Event via BlueJeans Events
Registration: www.alumni.upenn.edu/dga2020hayflick

Leonard Hayflick, C’51, G’53, GR’56, a native Philadelphian, is currently Professor of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco. In 1962, as a member of the Wistar Institute and an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, he discovered that cultured normal human cells had a limited ability to divide, overturning a 60-year-old dogma that all cells are potentially immortal. He interpreted his discovery to be aging at the cell level, which launched the modern era of aging research by redirecting its cause to intracellular events.

He also discovered that only cancer cells are immortal, which redirected research to how mortal normal human cells become immortal cancer cells.

Hayflick found that frozen normal human cells “remembered” their doubling level after thawing and discovered that the counting mechanism was located in the cells’ nucleus. The Nobel Prize was awarded to those who found the molecular mechanism for Hayflick’s phenomenological discoveries. Chromosome ends (telomeres) shorten at each cell division until their “Hayflick Limit” is reached, but cancer cell immortality was caused by an enzyme (telomerase) that synthesizes the molecules lost from their telomeres.

Hayflick also discovered that normal human cells replicated every human virus then known and developed the technology that enabled safer vaccines, thus benefiting more than one billion people. He invented an inverted microscope for cell culture work that is the father of all current inverted microscopes. It has been accessioned by the Smithsonian Institution along with packages of polio and rabies vaccines produced in his normal human cell strain WI-38.

Hayflick discovered that the cause of “walking pneumonia” was not a virus, as previously believed, but mycoplasmas, the smallest free living microorganisms known. He named the organism Mycoplasma pneumoniae that he grew on a unique medium and used worldwide.

Among Hayflick’s many honors is the John Scott Award from the City Council of Philadelphia, the oldest scientific award in the United States. It was established in 1816 to honor Benjamin Franklin.

Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: Alumni, Alumni Speakers

Working in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Panel Discussion for Biomedical Graduate Students

August 5, 2020 by Rebecca Lopez Leave a Comment

On July 9, 2020 the Ernest E. Just Biomedical Society hosted a Pharma Industry Panel. Participants included two BGS alumni – Dr. Wenny Lin (CAMB alum and current Epidemiology/Real World Data Scientist at Genentech) and Dr. Michelle Kinder (IGG alum and current Immunologist in Cancer Research at Janssen R&D) – as well as Dr. Dara Reeves of Janssen Pharmaceuticals.

A description and recording of the event are available here.

Advertisement of panel webinar on working in the pharmaceutical industry

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