Quick profiles: Emma Hilton

Emma Hilton worked as a doctor for nine years, including four in clinical research.  After that, she shifted to pharma. Here she shares her story.

Emma is now Global Medical Affairs Leader for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in GSK’s Respiratory Division.

As a child, I was fascinated by how things work, especially the human body, and I decided I wanted some kind of career in science. Medicine seemed like the ideal avenue and offered a reassuringly clear path including training and employment prospects.

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Away from home: Industry or academia?

We’re bringing you the best stories in lab mobility from Nature India

The ‘Away from home‘ blogging series features Indian postdocs working in foreign labs recounting their experience of working there, the triumphs and challenges, the cultural differences and what they miss about India. They also offer useful tips for their Indian postdocs headed abroad. You can join in the online conversation using the #postdochat hashtag.

In our first entry from Italy, Arun Kumar, an alumnus of Bareilly College and a postdoc at Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, Siena tells us the good and bad of being a researcher in an industrial set-up. He also gives some very practical tips for researchers looking at postdoc positions in Italy.

Arun Kumar at the Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics in Siena, Italy.

Arun Kumar at the Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics in Siena, Italy.

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Careers in industry: Medicine maker

Pauline Williams shares her thoughts on her career outside of academia.

As a junior doctor working in geriatrics, I could never have imagined that in 20 years time I would have led the development of a medicine which has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of babies’ lives.

 

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Pauline Williams

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