Career profile: Simon Schultze, Medical Director, GSK Austria
In this blog post Simon Schultze, Medical Director at GSK Austria shares how he made the transition from a PhD and postdoc in the life sciences to a career in medical affairs.
Career profile: Veronica Caraffini, Project Adviser, European Research Council Executive Agency
The Blue Book Traineeship offers an excellent opportunity to gain work experience in the European Commission’s operations and pave the way for a potential career at one of their Directorate-Generals or Agencies. Today, we interview a life scientist who, in her thirties and after completing a…
Career profile: Anna Bartosik, Senior Project Manager
In this blog interview, we talk with EMBL alumna Anna Bartosik who applies her scientific background to a career in project management in the biotech sector. Anna kindly talked us through her career path, and her thoughts on the skills required to become a great project manager.
Career Profile: Kinga Bercsenyi, Associate Director Business Development Translational Oncology Solutions at Champions Oncology
For this profile, we talked with Kinga Bercsenyi, Associate Director Business Development Translational Oncology Solutions at Champions Oncology. Kinga told us about her current role and how informational interviews were key for her transition from a postdoc to her first business development role.
Career profile: Dr. Benjamin Anstett – Engagement Manager at Trinity Life Sciences (Management Consulting)
For this career profile , we spoke with Dr Benjamin Anstett about his experience of working both for a large general management consulting company and smaller consulting companies focused on the life sciences industry.
Career profile: Yavé Lozano, Medical Writer, ICON
Yavé Lozano shares his experience of moving into regulatory writing, a specialist medical communications role.
Preparing for an academic interview – a career panel discussion (Part II)
This blog post summarises a career panel discussion with four PIs from France, Spain, Malta and the Netherlands about what search committees expect from candidates at the interview stage.
Skills for a scientific career
This post summarizes the preliminary results from a survey we ran focused on the skills for a scientific career.
Preparing for an academic interview – a survey (Part I)
This post summaries results from a survey we ran with PIs on what search committees are looking for.
Career profile: Camille Terfve, Senior Associate Patent Attorney, Mewburn Ellis
Camille Terfve tells us about her career as a patent attorney, and how scientists can enter roles in patent law.
