"Meet the Industry Workshop – Career Pathways for Medical Scientists"
… were given today on September, 10 at our joint “Meet the Industry Workshop” as part of the workshop series "Career Pathways for Medical Scientists" together with the RTG 2978 Understanding and Exploiting Adaptation to Therapy in Gastrointestinal Cancer.
Our guests today were
- Dr. Timo Reisländer, PhD, University of Oxford, 2020; Medical Science Liaison Manager at AstraZeneca & Co-Founder at Kana. Discover more on “Kana”: Create an account to see posts and follow researchers
- Dr. Sabine Maamari, PhD, University of Göttingen, 2022; Chief Operating Officer at Avocet Bio GmbH
- Dr. Iswarya Ramu, PhD, University of Göttingen, 2018; Product Specialist & Buisness Development Manager at innoME
Dr. Ömer Copur, Scientific Coordinator at DKFZ couldn't be with us today. We are very grateful for his willingness to participate and hope to welcome him on another occasion.
We listened to the impressive CVs of former PhD doctoral candidates in the Life Sciences. All three speakers look back on outstanding post-doctoral career paths and were able to outline various career opportunities for PhD holders in the industry. In addition, we gained insight into their areas of responsibility and day-to-day work as well as barriers and difficulties in the fields of Entrepreneurship and Start-up.
You can get an impression of the content from the images. However, the following points can be noted as key pieces of advice:
- Follow your interests
- Internship advicable after PhD at the beginning
- Continuing education (courses, workshops)
- Communication and Attention to detail
- Learning by doing
- Teambuilding
- Go out of comfort zone
- Meet people directly
- Update your LinkedIn profile
- Translate soft skills in industry language: clear, professional business competencies that employers value
- Most essential: N E T W O R K I N G with clear idea!
Finally, during the breakout sessions with the speakers, our students had the opportunity for further discussion. Overall, the speakers were motivating, encouraging, and affirming.
Many thanks to Dr. Timo Reisländer, Dr. Sabine Maamari and Dr. Iswarya Ramu for taking time, for their effort and valuable advice!
We also thank
the RTG 2978 with Prof. Elisabeth Heßmann/Spokesperson and Alexander Müller/Coordination for organizing and realizing this meeting,
the student representatives for their support and moderation: Bipasa Dey and Parham Pourabbas Tavhildari from RTG 2978; Anika Göpel and Aylin Seedorf from RTG 2824 - Well done!
and each PhD who have joined (in any case we were much more than could be shown in the photo gallery 😊).
RTG 2824
Photo gallery by RTG 2824