Vanderbilt Beyond The Lab Podcast

Dr. Patrice Cuff has done many things! An industry postdoc, industry business development, and now an alternative academic role at a teaching institution. Learn more from Dr. Cuff about how she has pivoted and found job satisfaction on a unique journey to find the right fit. 

Dr. Jennifer Malinowski shares her role with Lab Corp and the work she does in Market Access. 

Dr. Matt Harlow, PhD, Senior Scientist at TRIANA Biomedicines, shares his path since Vanderbilt and his daily work life in drug discovery. 

Dr. Geben shares about her role as a consultant with Anchor Point Consulting, specifically in competitive intelligence. She also shares about her time working abroad, being 100% remote, and the opportunities she purused in grad school to land her current role. 

Dr. Shaver shares about his role at Natera as their Associate Director of Bioinformatics.

Dr. Roslin Thoppil, PhD, shares about her role with the American Association for Cancer Research where she leads the development and execution of national and international scientific conferences and educational initiatives. Her role involves close collaboration with top cancer scientists and clinicians from across the globe, ensuring the delivery of high-quality programs that drive meaningful progress in cancer research.

Dr. Santos tells us about her role as a consulting with a firm that focuses on competitive intelligence. She shares about her post-PhD path in industry while maintaining her love for science. 

Dr. Keely Solomon Gilroy, PhD, shares her path from Medical Science Liaison to Science Communication to now a Medical Director in Industry. 

Dr. Emily Turner shares her career projection on the road to medical writing. 

We kick off Season 8 with Vanderbilt alumnus Dr. Tony Chen, PhD, who will share about his role in publishing at Springer Nature. 

Dr. Amicia Elliott always knew she wanted to be an entrepreneur. But on the path, she collected tools for her entrepreneur toolkit to get her to where she is today: PhD training, tech transfer, government research, postdoc fellowship. Now she is the Product Director with Form Bio. Hear about all the steps in her path on the last episode of Season 7. 

Dr. Justine Sinnaeve, PhD, is an Associate Scientific Director at Ashfield MedComms and tells us about her experience graduating during COVID and how she utilized that time to work freelance before launching into her SciComm/Medical Writing role. 

After a successful internship with Health Research in Action, Lindsay Redman Rivera used her experience to pivot to a full-time position. She discusses what she learned during her PhD training as well as shares her approach to the two-body-opportunity.

After a fellowship with the FDA in regulatory, Dr. Todd Townsend, PhD, shares his path to his current role as the Regional Medical Scientific Director, Cardiovascular & Metabolism at Merck. 

A love of food, creative scientist Jake Brown, PhD, found a way to combine his educational background with his long-term interests, now serving as a Product Development Scientist with Mars Petcare. 

Is management consulting right for you? Dr. Courtney Copeland, PhD, tells her story about the pivot from biomedical science PhD to a management consultant!

Dr. Jeff Bylund, PhD, knew he enjoyed talking about science but he didn't want to continue at the bench. Join us for a laugh and a good career exploration discussion about Dr. Bylund's career ventures after his time training at Vanderbilt.

Going the "industry" route doesn't always mean Big Pharma! Learn from alumna Léolène Carrington, PhD, what it is like to work for a smaller company and how your love of science and learning can dictate your career.   

Dr. Bojana Jovanovic is quite familiar with the Beyond the Lab series. She stepped in for the intro and logo at the launch of this series! Now, she is the Senior Scientific Lead, Clinical Biomarker Development at Eli Lilly|Loxo Oncology. We catch up about her path and current role, as well as how important the Molecular Medicine program was to her time at Vanderbilt. 

There is no typical day for co-founder and CEO of Infinimmune Wyatt McDonnell, PhD. Dive in to the whatnots and to-dos of starting and maintaining a company in this episode.