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BRET Career Development

Curious about what biomedical science PhDs do for their career? In the "Beyond the Lab" podcast series, the Vanderbilt BRET Office of Career Development interviews biomedical science PhD and...

Episodes

20 of 126 episodes

Alternative Academic Roles with Patrice Cuff, PhD

Dr. Patrice Cuff has done many things! An industry postdoc, industry business development, and now an alternative academic role at a teachin...

32:24Sep 30, 2025

Market Access and Medical Policy with Jennifer Malinowski, PhD

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

31:33Sep 23, 2025

Drug Discovery in Biopharma with Matt Harlow, PhD

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

23:54Sep 16, 2025

Competitive Intelligence Consulting with Laura Geben, PhD

Dr. Geben shares about her role as a consultant with Anchor Point Consulting, specifically in competitive intelligence. She also shares abou...

37:45Sep 9, 2025

Bioinformatics in Industry with Tim Shaver, PhD

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

24:38Sep 2, 2025

Nonprofit Program Administration with Roslin Thoppil, PhD

Dr. Roslin Thoppil, PhD, shares about her role with the American Association for Cancer Research where she leads the development and executi...

30:09Aug 26, 2025

Competitive Intelligence Consulting with Gabriela Santos, PhD

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...

20:59Aug 19, 2025

Medical Director in Industry with Keely Gilroy, PhD

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

28:59May 29, 2025

Medical Writing with Emily Turner, PhD

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

18:03May 23, 2025

Scientific Publishing with Tony Chen, PhD

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

57:33May 15, 2025

Product Management and Entrepreneurship with Amicia Elliott, PhD

Dr. Amicia Elliott always knew she wanted to be an entrepreneur. But on the path, she collected tools for her entrepreneur toolkit to get he...

36:41Apr 23, 2024

Scientific Communication with Justine Sinnaeve, PhD

Dr. Justine Sinnaeve, PhD, is an Associate Scientific Director at Ashfield MedComms and tells us about her experience graduating during COVI...

35:50Mar 11, 2024

Senior Grants Officer, Consultant with Lindsay Redman Rivera, PhD

After a successful internship with Health Research in Action, Lindsay Redman Rivera used her experience to pivot to a full-time position. Sh...

23:45Mar 5, 2024

Regional Medical Scientific Director with Todd Townsend, PhD

After a fellowship with the FDA in regulatory, Dr. Todd Townsend, PhD, shares his path to his current role as the Regional Medical Scientifi...

25:23Feb 23, 2024

Product Development with Jacob Brown, PhD

A love of food, creative scientist Jake Brown, PhD, found a way to combine his educational background with his long-term interests, now serv...

26:37Feb 13, 2024

Management Consulting with Courtney Copeland, PhD

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

25:51Jan 17, 2024

Business Development in Industry with Jeff Bylund, PhD

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 care...

39:35Jan 10, 2024

BioTherapeutics Scientist with Léolène Jean Carrington, PhD

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...

25:28Jan 2, 2024

Industry Scientist with Bojana Jovanovic, PhD

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! N...

38:07Dec 19, 2023

Co-Founding a Startup with Wyatt McDonnell, PhD

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 maint...

26:51Dec 12, 2023