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National Biosafety and Biocontainment Training Program Intramural Research Training Award (NBBTP/IRTA)
Dec. 8, 2023—The National Biosafety and Biocontainment Training Program (NBBTP)/Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) Fellowship is a two-year program designed to train Fellows specifically to support high containment research environments by acquiring knowledge and skills necessary to meet the scientific, regulatory, biocontainment, biosafety, engineering, communications, management, and public relations challenges associated with the conduct of research in...
IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Course
Dec. 8, 2023—Are you eager to revolutionize your problem-solving skills and drive better business outcomes? Do you want to get hands-on experience with Design Thinking practices and boost your professional toolkit? Apply to the Spring 2024 cohort of IBM Enterprise Design Thinking today! This 10-week program follows a hands-on learning approach with 30% lectures and 70% group...
Compass Recruitment for the Spring 2024 Cohort
Dec. 8, 2023—This January, the Washington University School of Medicine will be hosting the fourth cohort of Compass – a new online training and mentoring program to develop leadership and management skills for early-career biomedical researchers. Compass is open to all biomedical junior faculty and late-stage postdocs at U.S. academic institutions who lead or plan to lead a lab...
Job Opportunity: Program Manager, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Dec. 8, 2023—The program manager supports the Aspirnaut™ program, a K-20 STEM pipeline program to increase the numbers and diversity of the STEM workforce and reports directly to the Associate Director. The program manager works with the Executive Director and Associate Director to plan, coordinate, and execute the summer research internship program and all other activities associated...
Propel Postdoctoral Application open!
Dec. 6, 2023—Launched in 2021, the Stanford School of Medicine’s Propel Postdoctoral Scholars Program is a program for incoming and early postdoctoral scholars who come from backgrounds historically underrepresented in academia, and who have a strong desire to become faculty in the biological, biomedical, or population-based sciences. Propel postdoctoral scholars demonstrate previous research excellence, a commitment to...
Apply for the California Council on Science and Technology Fellows Program
Dec. 6, 2023—Every year, California decision makers must make critical decisions on a number of complex and dynamic issues facing our state, such as the state’s water supply, energy grid, and public health. To help address this, the CCST Science & Technology Policy Fellows program annually recruits and trains a cohort of fifteen PhD scientists and engineers...
Call for Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications
Dec. 6, 2023—The Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School invites its 2024 round of applications for postdoctoral fellows in pharmaceutical law and health services research. Current and past fellows have studied FDA regulation, patents, drug access and costs, and competition...
Apply to the 2024-2025 White House Fellows Application
Dec. 5, 2023—Founded in 1964 by Lyndon B. Johnson, the White House Fellows program is one of America’s most prestigious programs for leadership and public service. White House Fellowships offer exceptional emerging leaders first-hand experience working at the highest levels of the Federal government. Selected individuals typically spend a year working as a full-time, paid Fellow to...
Apply for the L’ Oreal USA for Women in Science Fellowship Program
Dec. 5, 2023—L’Oréal USA partners with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to manage the program’s application and peer-review process. Each year, the program attracts talented applicants from diverse STEM fields, representing some of the nation’s leading academic institutions and laboratories. Celebrating its sixteenth year in the U.S., the For Women in Science program...
Translational Science Interagency Fellowship
Dec. 5, 2023—Our common goal with the FDA is to bring safe and effective drugs, regimens and devices from the bench to the bedside as quickly and efficiently as possible. Scientists who are knowledgeable about both preclinical translational science and regulatory science can help to achieve this goal. To develop scientists with these essential skills, we created...
Advancing Science & Entrepreneurship: Catherine Leasure, PhD, Awarded the Second ASPIRE to Innovate Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dec. 5, 2023—This article was originally published in the 2022 – 2023 Annual Report By Ashley Brady Catherine Leasure, PhD, has been awarded the prestigious ASPIRE to Innovate Postdoctoral Fellowship. In her new role, which began on July 1, 2023, she will focus on forming a start-up company based on technology developed at Vanderbilt University by Gregor Neuert,...
Becoming Citizen Scientists: A Trip to Explore Science Policy and Technology
Dec. 5, 2023—This article was originally published in the 2022 – 2023 Annual Report By Mandy Truelock In October 2022, a group of Vanderbilt PhD graduate students and postdoctoral fellows (all pictured below) had the unique experience to travel to DC to dive headfirst into two intensive days of science policy immersion. With such a wide range of...
California Aspiring
Dec. 5, 2023—This article was originally published in the 2022 – 2023 Annual Report By Sam Lisy In May 2023, a select group of PhD and postdoctoral trainees packed their bags and headed to the birthplace of biotechnology. The ASPIRE Program’s 4th installment of ASPIRE on the Road took twelve trainees to San Francisco, California, for a jam-packed...
Research Scientist II, Health Research Incorporated, New York
Nov. 30, 2023—Responsibilities The Research Scientist II will work within the Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology (BEOE) in the Center for Environmental Health. The incumbent will support environmental, occupational, and biomonitoring projects to identify health risks and reduce exposure. The incumbent will collaborate with a team of public health professionals in epidemiological investigations that monitor and...
Upcoming event: What we learned about job searching in 2023
Nov. 30, 2023—Everything about today’s job market feels like it’s in flux — layoffs, rebounds, AI, a near recession. So how have the events of 2023 impacted job options for PhDs? Join the Beyond Prof team as we reflect on job searching in 2023 and how PhDs should approach their job search going into 2024. This virtual...
AIM- AHEAD and NCATS Training Program – Applications Now Open
Nov. 29, 2023—The AIM-AHEAD Consortium (Data Science Training Core and Communications Hub) is partnering with the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) to offer AIM-AHEAD stakeholders, trainees, mentees, and consortium partners a training opportunity designed to increase researcher diversity in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) by leveraging the NCATS N3C Data Enclave. The N3C Data...
Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Nov. 28, 2023—The Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, has an opening for a post- doctoral research associate to join the Belloy lab in the NeuroGenomics and Informatics Center (NGI). The successful candidate will be involved in projects to perform big-data research, bundling genetics, multi-omics, biomarker, clinical, and histopathological data, to harness the full range...
Crafting the Next Step: ASPIRE’s Career Architect Program
Nov. 27, 2023—This article was originally published in the 2022 – 2023 Annual Report By ASPIRE Staff The BRET Office of Career Development ASPIRE Program aims to equip PhD student and postdoctoral scientists for the next professional step. For this particular initiative, ASPIRE wanted to encourage trainees to adopt the mindset of an architect, designing a career...
Turning the Kaleidoscope of Careers at the 2023 ASPIRE Symposium
Nov. 27, 2023—This article was originally published in the 2022 – 2023 Annual Report By ASPIRE Staff The 2023 BRET Annual Career Symposium with this year’s theme, “A Kaleidoscope of Biomedical Science Careers,” was held on June 2nd at Vanderbilt University’s Student Life Center. The symposium, sponsored by the BRET Office of Career Development ASPIRE Program and...
You Never Know Who You Will Meet: A Graduate Student’s Perspective of the 2023 ASPIRE Career Symposium
Nov. 27, 2023—This article was originally published in the 2022- 2023 Annual Report By Cherie Scurrah, Graduate Student Each year, the ASPIRE Program hosts a day-long career exploration event, and this year’s theme was “A Kaleidoscope of Biomedical Science Careers.” I am a third year PhD student (almost 4th year, thank you very much), and I am ready to...