Join LTBGS+ in welcoming Dr. Cho and Dr. Sheppard to share their experiences as LGBTQ+ scientists and a general discussion around being out in industry.
April 21st, 2021 at 5 PM EST
Meeting link: https://pennmedicine.zoom.us/j/6115386325
Archive for Alumni
Join us for an exclusive virtual career panel for BGS alumni and students.
 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, PhD Scientific Director for Immuno-Oncologyin US Medical Affairs, Incyte  Adam M. Koppel, MD, PhD Managing Director,Bain Capital Life Sciences  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 |
BGSA & IGA are co-hosting Science Communication and Activism Career Panel. Panelists will include Wei Ji Ma PhD (professor and science activist), Evguenia Alechine PhD (medical and science writer), and Kevin Alicea PhD (associate director of PROUD and science activist) who are involved in careers focusing on science communication and activism. The virtual event will be hosted on Monday, March 1st, 12-1pm.
Please submit any questions you may want to ask the panelists using the google form and sign up to be entered in a raffle for the BGSA sweatshirt: https://forms.gle/ozTYKP5SWggQHs2b9
Panelist bios attached!
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
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.
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.
A panel of recent IGG program graduates will provide advice and insight into preparing for your defense and searching for jobs in the current market. Additional information about the recent alumni are included in the flyer that is attached. If you are interested in attending, please fill out the attached registration form.
Date: Tuesday, July 28th 5-6pm
Registration: https://forms.gle/CNWRbaoR5YdKEGsz7
Wednesday, June 24th 2020
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Join Career Services for this informational online Q&A session with Julie Horowitz, Ph.D. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-horowitz-a93ab270/), a former postdoc and current manager at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Horowitz will answer questions that you may have about how to identify and apply for postdoc opportunities in industry. She will provide advice on what you can do when you start your search, and answer any questions you have on where and how you can seek out postdoc opportunities in industry. This discussion will be a valuable resource for anyone considering a postdoc once they have finished with their PhD – even if you are still several years from finishing up right now.
Please register to receive the online video link. If you have questions you would like the moderator to pose to Dr. Horowitz, please send them to Dianne Hull (dhull@upenn.edu) in Career Services.
To receive a discounted registration fee for this upcoming NYAS webinar featuring Penn alum Dr. Mahlet Mesfin, sign up for a complimentary 1-year membership to NYAS through PSOM: NYAS.ORG/PERELMAN
Webinar Details: Wednesday, May 27, 2020, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Register here.
As we come to grips with the COVID-19 pandemic that is currently dominating our lives, the conversation must shift to the imperative role of science diplomacy—the essential need for scientists to work together to solve global problems in spite of differences in our own political ideology or that of the nations from which we hail.
via NYAS Website
Join us for a one-on-one conversation with Mahlet Mesfin, PhD, Visiting Scholar at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and author of the recently published article in Foreign Affairs magazine, “It Takes a World to End a Pandemic.” Mesfin will discuss the importance of international science engagement, scientific collaborations, and partnerships in finding solutions to global issue and how she navigated a career in Science Diplomacy after receiving a PhD in bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
Join Penn Bioengineering for a virtual Q&A session with Jamie Ifkovitz, PhD on Tuesday, May 26th at 2-3PM EST.
Link here: https://bluejeans.com/7968127300/
Dr. Ifkovitz earned her PhD in BE at Penn with Professor Jason Burdick. Following this, she conducted a Postdoc at Penn with Professor John Gearhart before starting a Research Scientist position at GSK, where she now serves as a Scientific Leader. Come to learn about how Dr. Ifkovitz found success in the transition from academia to industry!