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03 Feb 2016 | 19:00 BST

Finding job satisfaction as a scientific project manager

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Career paths, Careers articles, Mobility, People Management, Perspectives

Finding job satisfaction as a scientific project manager

After completing a PhD and postdoc studying disease mechanisms behind epilepsy and autism, Dorothy Jones-Davis found job satisfaction as a scientific project manager working at the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, where she coordinates projects on neuroimaging and Alzheimer’s Disease.  Read more

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20 Jan 2016 | 19:00 BST

Finding job satisfaction as a science strategist

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Ask the expert, Career paths, Careers articles, Industry, Scientists on the move

Finding job satisfaction as a science strategist

After completing his PhD and postdoc at The University of California, Berkeley in the biophysics of cancer cell growth, Gautham Venugopalan completed a science policy fellowship sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He describes how that experience led him to a job as an analyst at Gryphon Scientific, a consultancy focused on public health and national security. Tell me how you planned your career path.  Read more

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13 Jan 2016 | 19:00 BST

Finding job satisfaction in a health nonprofit

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Career paths, Careers articles, Perspectives

Finding job satisfaction in a health nonprofit

Tell me about your academic training.  Read more

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09 Dec 2015 | 17:00 BST

Finding job satisfaction as a venture capitalist

Posted by Julie Gould | Categories: Career paths

Finding job satisfaction as a venture capitalist

Read more about Bali’s career transition here.  Read more

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  • healthcare
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  • Trade Talk
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11 Nov 2015 | 17:00 BST

Finding job satisfaction as a policy analyst

Posted by Julie Gould | Categories: Career paths

Finding job satisfaction as a policy analyst

After completing a PhD at the University of Oxford, trying to find different ways to make biological tools for drug development, Catherine Ball moved into science policy, and in May 2015 she started her current role as Policy Analyst for the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee. Here she describes her transition from academia.  Read more

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23 Sep 2015 | 17:00 BST

Finding job satisfaction as a medical science liaison

Posted by Julie Gould | Categories: Career paths

Finding job satisfaction as a medical science liaison

Contributor Monya Baker  … Read more

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09 Sep 2015 | 17:00 BST

Finding job satisfaction in financial services

Posted by Julie Gould | Categories: Career paths

Finding job satisfaction in financial services

Click here to read about how Peters pursued fund management as a career.  Read more

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26 Aug 2015 | 17:00 BST

Finding job satisfaction in venture philanthropy

Posted by Julie Gould | Categories: Career paths

Finding job satisfaction in venture philanthropy

Contributor Monya Baker  … Read more

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01 Jul 2015 | 17:00 BST

Finding job satisfaction in science outreach

Posted by Julie Gould | Categories: Career paths

Elizabeth Walters

Contributor Monya Baker  … Read more

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24 Jun 2015 | 17:00 BST

Transferable skills: Helping PhDs and postdocs find careers

Posted by Julie Gould | Categories: Career paths

Thomas Magaldi

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