Dore Passport: Graduate Development Network event
Aug. 28, 2023—Dore Passport: Opening Doors to Graduate Students and Postdoc Success! September 15th Save this date for this Graduate Development Network sponsored event giving graduate students and postdocs an opportunity to visit and explore campus resources available to them. The BRET office will serve as a starting point for this journey so please stop by Light...
Fall semester educational offerings from the libraries’ new Digital Lab
Aug. 28, 2023—The DiSC Office, Digital Commons, and Digital Humanities Center have joined forces in the Libraries’ new Digital Lab. This fall, the Digital Lab is sponsoring a variety of events focused on building technical skills. They include lesson series on: Intro to Network Analysis, Bibliometric Networks Intro to R, Intro to Python with an AI assistant,...
Employer Info Session: Guidehouse Life Sciences Consulting
Aug. 25, 2023—The BRET Office of Career Development ASPIRE Program and the Vanderbilt Career Center is excited to welcome Guidehouse Life Sciences Consulting to campus for an Employer Information Session. Employer Info Session: Guidehouse Consulting Wednesday, September 6 4:00pm Light Hall 214 Register to attend. On the morning of Thursday, September 7, Guidehouse will be meeting with...
Job Opportunity: Program Officer, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Aug. 24, 2023—Under the direction of the Program Director, the Program Officer is responsible for strategic decision-making and high-level program planning, management and monitoring of a program portfolio and program activities (e.g., advisory panels, workgroup meetings) that advance PCORI’s patient-centered research agenda. The primary responsibilities include providing scientific oversight for funded research awards, development of funding announcements,...
Pathways to Advanced Scientific Skills through Postdoctoral Research Training (PASSPoRT)
Aug. 24, 2023—The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs at Washington University in St. Louis is excited to host Pathways to Advanced Scientific Skills through Postdoctoral Research Training (PASSPoRT), a 2-day virtual event for prospective postdocs on October 12 and 13, 2023. The event is open to advanced PhD students (post-qualifying exams), recent PhD graduates, and early-stage postdocs. There is...
Bioengineering for Global Health Conference
Aug. 24, 2023—Nature Conferences and Vanderbilt University are partnering together to sponsor a new conference on “Bioengineering for Global Health” from Nov 13-15. There is an exciting line-up of invited speakers from across the globe. Students or trainees may submit an abstract if you work in this important area. The abstract / early registration deadline is Sept...
Incyte Medical Information and Medical Affairs Fellowship Program Information Session
Aug. 24, 2023—Incyte is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on finding solutions for serious unmet medical needs through the discovery, development and commercialization of novel medicines. The company’s portfolio includes Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPNs) and Graft-Versus-Host Disease (GVHD), General Hematology/Oncology, Dermatology and other Inflammation & Autoimmunity (IAI), and Partnered Programs. The Incyte Medical Information and Medical Affairs team...
PhD Career Stories: Industry Postdocs
Aug. 22, 2023—Join us virtually for our December PhDCS featuring a panel of Vanderbilt alumni who have a career path point that includes an industry postdoc. Registration is required to receive the Zoom link Salma Cruz, Ph.D. Dr. Cruz received a B.S. in Chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University. She joined the Delpire Lab at Vanderbilt studying the effect...
Job opportunity: Director, Research Portfolio, Muscular Dystrophy Association
Aug. 22, 2023—MDA is hiring a Portfolio Director to focus on ALS and other neuromuscular diseases of neurological origin in our program (Spinal muscular atrophy, Charcot-Marie-Tooth, Friedreich’s ataxia, myasthenia gravis etc). We are looking for someone at the PhD level with a big picture understanding of the field and with particular knowledge of the ALS space. This...
Guidehouse Life Sciences Virtual Information Session
Aug. 22, 2023—We invite undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral candidates interested in learning more about Guidehouse Life Sciences Consulting to register for an upcoming information session “Careers in Consulting: Spotlight on Life Sciences”. The information session will provide an overview of the Guidehouse Life Science practice, including an inside look at “a day in the life” of a...
Job opportunity: Office of Federal Relations Vanderbilt University
Aug. 21, 2023—The Office of Federal Relations is currently accepting applications for a Fall semester student worker! Position Information Some responsibilities a student worker with OFR could expect: Researching public policy initiatives related to the university’s federal policy priorities. Tracking federal legislation related to the university’s priorities. Watching virtual congressional hearings and other relevant briefings and preparing memo summaries....
Postdoctoral Research Fellow- Quantitative Biosciences
Aug. 17, 2023—The Quantitative Biosciences department is looking for a passionate and talented Postdoctoral Researcher to join the in vivo Quantitative Biosciences team based in West Point, PA. Our company seeks to drive innovation and accelerate pre-clinical research and development by employing data and digital approaches. Towards this goal, the successful candidate will develop a bioinformatics workflow incorporating language and...
Job opportunity: Postdoctoral Associate in Diabetes and Liver Disease Research at UMass Chan Medical School
Aug. 17, 2023—A postdoctoral associate position is available in the laboratory of Prof. Jason Kim, Program in Molecular Medicine, for a highly motivated candidate with a Ph.D. and/or M.D. to conduct NIH-funded research investigating the pathogenesis of metabolic liver disease and type 2 diabetes using physiologic, molecular, and cell-based approaches in transgenic mice. The ideal candidate should...
ORISE Opportunities
Aug. 17, 2023—The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) currently has over 300 opportunities for STEM, policy, and technical research and non-research postdoc fellows at 20+ federal agencies. Check out the opportunities at: https://www.zintellect.com/ORISECatalog Interested in learning more – contact Leslie Fox at leslie.fox@orau.org
Stanford PRISM Baker Fellowship
Aug. 17, 2023—The application for Stanford PRISM’s Baker fellowship is now open! PRISM is a recruitment initiative from the Stanford Office of Postdoctoral Affairs designed to support late-stage graduate students interested in pursuing a postdoc at Stanford. The PRISM Baker fellowships are a fellowship program for postdoctoral candidates that took part in a PRISM recruitment event. For a current list of...
Job opportunity: Assistant professor in biochemistry, Amherst College, Amherst MA
Aug. 16, 2023—The Amherst College Department of Chemistry invites applications for a full-time tenure-track appointment in biochemistry at the rank of assistant professor, beginning July 1, 2024. Applicants with expertise in any sub-discipline of experimental biochemistry are encouraged to apply. Description The position requires a Ph.D. in chemistry, biochemistry, or a related field and calls for teaching...
PhD Career Stories: Medical Writing
Aug. 16, 2023—Please join us for November PhD Career Stories session with Dr. Chastity Bradley and Dr. Emily Woodward *Please note updated location to Light Hall 411 Registration is requested Dr. Bradley is the Lead Medical Writer at BioMed Writers and has over 20 years experience in biomedical research and writing/editing scientific documents. She has a Bachelor...
BRET celebrates Postdocs
Aug. 16, 2023—The BRET Office invites all postdocs to join the celebration!
Application open for Fall 2023 Scipreneur Challenge
Aug. 14, 2023—Applications are officially OPEN for the BioTN Fall 2023 Scipreneur Challenge. The challenge is open to graduate students, Ph.D. candidates and post-doctoral researchers attending a Tennessee-based academic institutions to join the 10-week long entrepreneurship-based program that engages students to develop commercialization plans for untapped intellectual property. Program participants are tasked to develop commercialization plans, a...
Job opportunity: Scientific Communications Manager, Autism and Neuroscience
Aug. 14, 2023—The Simons Foundation is seeking a strategically minded scientific communications manager to develop and manage all website content for its autism and neuroscience programs. The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) is a scientific initiative within the foundation’s suite of programs. SFARI’s mission is to improve the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of autism by funding...