PhD Career Stories: From Consultancy to business strategies in pharmaceutical product development
Join us to learn about alumni Dr. Mallori Upshaw and Dr. Marissa Jones and their journey to careers leveraging their scientific backgrounds to provide business insights in pharmaceutical product development. This virtual session will be held on Friday, February 21, at 10 a.m., over Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed on 2/20.
PhD Career Stories: From consultancy to business strategies in pharmaceutical product development
February 21, 2025
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Dr. Mallori Upshaw currently leads Business Insights and Strategy for the Vaccines and Immunotherapies business unit at AstraZeneca. Prior to this, she held a similar role in Global Analytics, Insights and Forecasting in the Oncology Business Unit. Before moving to a business insights role, Mallori was a Life Science Consultant at Putnam Associates and led consulting teams providing recommendations to pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients in key strategic areas in the product life cycle. Mallori completed her PhD in 2017 at Vanderbilt University in Dr. Chris Aiken’s lab. During her time as a graduate student, she served as a Licensing and Marketing Intern at the Vanderbilt Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization, as planning committee member for PhD Career Connections, and as an executive committee member for the Academic Alliance of Life Science Tennessee. Mallori lives in Atlanta, GA with her husband and 2 children and enjoys cooking and gardening on the weekends.
Dr. Marissa Jones is a Business Development Manager at Biocrates Life Sciences. After studying chemistry and chemistry education at Southwest Baptist University, she earned her PhD in Analytical Chemistry at Vanderbilt under Dr. Richard Caprioli, where her research focused on MALDI imaging and mass spectrometry applications in lipidomics and metabolomics for immunology research. She now leverages her scientific background and business expertise to connect researchers with technologies to help them succeed. As a former NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Dr. Jones remains dedicated to supporting early-career scientists through her active mentorship roles with Females in Mass Spectrometry and Women in Metabolomics and was nominated for the WomiX Mentorship award in 2024.