Thi Nguyen is the career development programme director for graduate students and postdocs at the University of California, San Francisco.

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What is your scientific background?

I have a PhD in Neuroscience and my area of research was neuroscience and inflammation using animal models of neurodegenerative disease. Most recently I studied the intersection of inflammation, metabolic disease and neurodegeneration during my postdoctoral appointment at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

Why did you decide to leave the bench?

This new career within academia was a natural transition for me. As a postdoc, I started organizing career panels and events to help the people I was doing science with. Now as a PhD career advisor and programme director for career development at UCSF, I design, conduct and evaluate programmes specifically for scientists. I collaborate with researchers and counselors, and support scientists at a research-intensive institution everyday, and find that incredibly rewarding. Continue reading →