BGS Career Development

Making It Count!

Career: Research (industry)

iBiology Share Your Research Self-Paced Course

by

Share Your Research Self-Paced Course

iBiology is now offering a free, self-paced version of their 5-week, “Share Your Research” course, which guides participants through the steps of creating and delivering a good research talk.

By the end of this course, you will have:

  • A detailed outline plan for your research talk.
  • Techniques and strategies for delivering an engaging and effective talk.
  • Approaches for finding and refining your preferred speaking style.
  • Strategies for practicing and receiving feedback on your talk.

Learn more and sign up here!

Penn I-Corps Program

by


The Penn I-Corps Program teaches entrepreneurs how to test and validate their startup ideas by performing customer interviews; participants walk away with feedback from at least 20 potential customers. As such, it helps you develop a product/market fit strategy for your ideas. I-Corps is free to participants, and accepted teams receive grants of up to $2,000 for their startup. This short course meets five times over six weeks, starting on March 19. The program is restricted to Penn affiliated students, staff, researchers, or faculty with Penn-generated ideas and technologies originating in academic research.

Why Participate in I-Corps:

● Penn I-Corps can qualify you for participation in National NSF I-corps ($50k), which in turn entitles you to apply for an NSF PFI-TT (Partnerships for Innovation- Technology Translation) grant ($250k) and correlates with a high ratio of success in SBIR grant applications (~$1M)

● Participants do not need to have a full team upon signing up. We can help pair those with startup ideas with those who want to join a team, so you are not going through the process alone.

● By de-risking your idea, Penn I-Corps improves your chances for selection to the Penn Health-Tech Medical Devices and Health Technology Development programs.

● For Penn Faculty: Penn I-Corps enables you to pursue your technology development through your graduate students and post-docs. They can form a team with your backing. You can allocate $499 of the $2000 grant toward stipends for lab-personnel.

Apply Now: Space is limited; Penn I-corps evaluates teams on a first-come-first-serve basis. Applications are rolling, and we are currently accepting them. The final application deadline for the Spring is February 24, 2021.

If you are interested in learning more about I-Corps, come to one of our upcoming information sessions. Register here!

To date, Penn I-Corps trained 148 teams comprised of 373 individuals. The courses enabled teams to participate in valuable programs, such as YCombinator, DreamIt, Wharton Venture Initiation, and HAX hardware accelerator. Thus far, six companies are generating revenue and creating jobs. Thirty-four received $25 million in external funding and created 47 jobs in the Philadelphia area. The Penn President’s Innovation Prize was awarded for the past three years to I-Corps teams. Seven teams have participated in the National I-Corps program, and eight teams received SBIR/STTR grants.

Penn Bio Launch: Biotech Fellow Information Sessions

by


Are you interested in being part of a team that helps translate research in a lab to biotechnology that can impact patients?  Do you want to learn about how to create a biotech startup with exclusive access to talks and personal mentorship from investors, founders, and other leaders in biotech?

Penn Bio Launch (PBL), (http://www.bio-launch.com/) beginning in Spring 2021, will create Penn’s first community for biotech entrepreneurship. Our educational program will match high impact biotechnologies from Penn with multidisciplinary venture teams composed of Penn PhD, MD, MBA, and Masters students interested in biotech entrepreneurship. These newly formed teams then attend a 10-week workshop series on business strategy, development, and execution taught by biotech venture capitalists, attorneys, and founders.

We are now recruiting Biotech Fellows for our venture exploration teams. Each venture team will consist of a Tech Lead(who will bring in a specific biotechnology that their lab is working on) and 4-5 Biotech Fellows (multi-disciplinary team members who may or may not have venture capital/entrepreneurial experiences and are interested in learning/developing a venture based off the piece of technology). Please apply via the link below. Admissions will occur on a rolling basis until February 1st.

If you’re interested in learning more about PBL’s mission, what it offers, and how you can get involved, please join our first fellow info session/coffee chat on January 26 @7-8PM EST. Please register using the link below to receive the Zoom link. If you can’t make it on the 26th, there will be another info session on January 28th@7-8 PM EST.

Biotech Fellow Info Session Registration

Tuesday, January 26th, 7-8 PM EST: Register Here

Thursday, January 28th, 7-8 PM EST: Register Here

Biotech Fellow Application 

Graduate students of ALL backgrounds welcome to apply! Apply Here

Hope to see you at the info session! And check us out at http://www.bio-launch.com/

Flagship Pioneering Fellows Program – Applications Open! Info Session on January 21, 2021

by

Flagship Pioneering Completes Raising a New $1.1 Billion Capital Pool

Flagship Pioneering is recruiting for their 2021 Fellows Program (description here).  It’s a 12 week paid fellowship sponsored over the summer at Flagship’s offices in Cambridge, conditions permitting. Last year the program transitioned into a remote experience with great success. The fellowship is designed to be a unique opportunity to be exposed to our unique approach to basic science, innovation, and venture creation and learn from our talented team to apply this approach first-hand. Who knows, you could come up with the next Moderna!

You can find a job description here and the application is available at this link.

There will be a virtual information session on Thursday January 21st from 1-2pm about Flagship Pioneering and its Fellows Program.

Interested candidates can find more information about the event here: https://app.joinhandshake.com/events/649978.

Meeting link is here: https://flagshippioneering.zoom.us/j/95675996614?pwd=RU5WY2RDMTBVOXpKYkxlK0tOU3lJZz09&from=addon

PennGGHE and Genetics Symposium on February 24 and 25, 2021

by


Register: https://globalgenomics.med.upenn.edu/symposium.html

On behalf of Drs. Daniel Rader and Sarah Tishkoff, the Center for Global Genomics & Health Equity and the Department of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine are jointly hosting a virtual symposium entitled, “Importance and Challenges of Increasing Ethnic Diversity in Human Genomics Research”. 

The two-day virtual symposium includes invited speakers of diverse backgrounds discussing their research and experiences in increasing diversity in human genomics and the ethical issues to be considered.  The symposium will be held on Wednesday, February 24 and Thursday, February 25, 2021 from 12:00PM to 4:00PM(EST). The topics of discussion for the two-day virtual symposium are:

Day 1: “Importance and Value of Increasing Ethnic Diversity in Human Genomics Research”

Day 2: “Challenges with Conducting Genomic Studies in Minority Populations”

The symposium is free and faculty, postdocs, students, and staff are all welcome to attend. 

Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation

by

Regeneron (@Regeneron) | Twitter

The University of Pennsylvania has been invited to nominate two PhD students for the Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation in biomedicine, broadly defined.  See the attachment for details.  

Penn coordinates an internal competition.  The deadline for the internal competition is 12 noon Eastern Time, February 3rd, 2021. 

To be considered for Penn nomination, applicants must complete the Penn Regeneron Prize application (http://apply.interfolio.com/81904), consisting of :

  • Curriculum Vitae
  • 2-page single-spaced description of the applicant’s “dream research idea” in the field of Biomedical Science
  • A letter of recommendation from your Penn faculty advisor, requested through the above process

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

Note: The University can also nominate two Postdoctoral Fellows. Contact Josie Rook at rookj@upenn.edu in the Office of the Vice Provost for Research for details on the postdoc competition.