Job Posting: Postdoc, Human Intracranial Neurophysiology, VUMC, Nashville, TN
Sep. 26, 2025—The Bick Neurophysiology laboratory in the Department of Neurosurgery at Vanderbilt University Medical center seeks applicants for a postdoctoral research position. The lab’s research program focuses on understanding the neural signaling behavioral and cognitive processes, with a long term goal of developing novel neuromodulation applications and approaches. We utilize intracranial recording and stimulation and neuro...
ASPIRE’s Curated Career Resources: Teaching
Sep. 25, 2025—BRET ASPIRE Resources Path to Career blogs: Faculty Search: https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/career-development/path-to-career/faculty-job-search/ Skill Development: Teaching: https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/career-development/skill-development Office of Career Development Blog: https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/career-development/blog Search tags: Career Options: K-12 Teaching/Outreach, Tenure Track Teaching, Academia, Academic Search, Volunteer Opportunity ASPIRE Workshop on Preparing for a Faculty Career and Job Search: https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/career-development/aspire-workshop-on-preparing-for-a-faculty-career-and-job-search/ This ASPIRE workshop is hosted every year in August...
PhD Career Stories: Drug Discovery and Development
Sep. 22, 2025— Laurie VanderVeen, PhD Laurie VanderVeen is Director, HIV Clinical Virology at Gilead Sciences, supporting the development of novel agents for treatment and cure of HIV-1 infection. Currently, she supports preclinical, clinical, and post-approval programs, including the recently approved Sunlenca. Prior to joining Gilead, she held multiple positions within pharmaceutical companies, contributing to the advancement...
ASPIRE’s Curated Career Resources: Business and Entrepreneurship
Sep. 18, 2025—Campus Resources: Wond’ry: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/the-wondry/entrepreneurship/ Wond’ry Programming: Ideator, Builder, Founder programming From early-stage startups to fully-fledged technologies, the Entrepreneurship practice area at the Wond’ry offers resources for all faculty, students, staff, and alumni from Nashville-area colleges and universities who are interested in learning how to grow a venture from the ground up. ASPIRE to Innovate Postdoctoral...
BRET Failure Talk: alumma Molly Seale, PhD
Sep. 17, 2025—Molly Seale earned her PhD in Cell and Cancer Biology at Vanderbilt studying cell adhesion proteins. With over 20 years in Medical and Scientific Affairs, she excels at engaging clinicians, leading teams, launching new therapeutic products, and driving successful clinical trials. In this candid talk, Molly will share the untold story behind her career in...
The Open Notebook Early-Career Fellowship Program
Sep. 17, 2025—The Open Notebook offers a paid, part-time fellowship program for early-career science journalists. During the course of this fellowship, fellows work with a mentor to plan, report, and write articles for publication at The Open Notebook and become part of the TON editorial team. This one-year program offers fellows the opportunity to explore their career interests and passions and to...
Postdoc Buddy Program
Sep. 17, 2025—The VPA is looking for current Vanderbilt Postdocs to serve as mentors for our Postdoc Buddy Program! The goal of this program is to match new, incoming postdocs with current Vandy postdocs based on multiple factors that the buddies deem beneficial for a match, helping to build a supportive and welcoming community. As a current postdoc, your insights about Nashville and Vanderbilt will serve as a...
Shaping science outside the lab: careers in scientific societies and government
Sep. 16, 2025—Shaping Science Outside the Lab: Careers in Scientific Societies and Government Matt Windsor – Senior Manager of Media, Outreach & Communications at the Society for Neuroscience Dr. Matt Windsor is a Senior Manager of Media, Outreach, and Communications at the Society for Neuroscience. Matt has over 10 years of experience working at scientific societies supporting...
ASPIRE Internship Opportunity: Scientific Intern, NashBio (Remote)
Sep. 16, 2025—ASPIRE Internship Opportunity: NashBio Scientific Intern (Remote) November 2025- Mid-February 2026 (appx 12 weeks) About NashBio NashBio provides access to de-identified clinical information from 4 million participants, sourced from real-world clinical care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). Internship Overview NashBio is seeking motivated graduate students and post-docs for a part-time, paid internship with our...
ASPIRE Resume Masterclass Live
Sep. 10, 2025—Join us for a dynamic, interactive session designed to strengthen your resume and enhance your career readiness. In this one-hour event, Vanderbilt alumni Lori Rudolph Owen, PhD and JJ Owen, PhD will provide live feedback on the resumes of four selected trainees. Their insights will highlight what employers in industry look for, how to tailor...
ASPIRE’s Curated Career Resources: Patent Law or Tech Transfer
Sep. 9, 2025—Differences between Patent Agent and Patent Attorney Campus Resources Vanderbilt Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization (CTTC) internship Each Spring, the CTTC offers a paid internship for graduate students interested in learning more about technology transfer. Check out the link for more information and eligibility: https://cttc.co/internship-program Beyond the Lab podcast series This podcast series has...
STPF Application Is Now Open
Sep. 6, 2025—The AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships (STPF) application officially opens September 1 for the 2026–27 fellowship year. This cycle, in addition to placements in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government, we are introducing new opportunities for scientists to make an impact in policy: Pathways to Policy Fellowship (PPF): The new Pathways to...
2025 Healthcare AI Sessions
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2026 St. Baldrick’s Foundation Grants
Sep. 5, 2025—2026 St. Baldrick’s Foundation Grants The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is a nonprofit organization raising funds for childhood cancer research with two grant types. The Scholar (Career Development) Award is meant to help develop the independent research of highly qualified individuals still early in their careers. The Research Grants are for specific two-year research projects which...
St. Jude’s Virtual Research Career, Education, and Training Fair
Sep. 5, 2025—St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is excited to host the third annual Virtual Research Career, Education, and Training Fair on Thursday, September 25, from 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM CDT. This free, online event is open to students, trainees, and professionals in biomedical research and research information technology who are interested in learning more about...
Jill Hruby Fellowship 2026
Sep. 5, 2025—Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs: Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide Extraordinary co-workers...
2025 Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research (IPPCR)
Sep. 5, 2025—Course Information Registration The Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research (IPPCR) course trains participants on how to effectively and safely conduct clinical research. The course focuses on the spectrum of clinical research and the research process by highlighting biostatistical and epidemiologic methods, study design, protocol preparation, patient monitoring, quality assurance, ethical and...
ASPIRE Internship: Scientific Data Curation and Knowledge Management Intern (remote position), CSNK2A1 Foundation
Sep. 3, 2025—ASPIRE Internship Opportunity: CSNK2A1 Foundation Scientific Data Curation and Knowledge Management Intern (remote position) 1929 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94109 October 2025-March 2026 About the CSNK2A1 Foundation The CSNK2A1 Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization focused on finding a cure for Okur-Chung Neurodevelopmental Syndrome (OCNDS) and ensuring affected individuals have the opportunities and...
Navigating mentor-mentee dynamics: A Podcast and Short Course Series for Trainees
Sep. 3, 2025—Working with your advisor can shape your entire training experience. To help you make the most of this mentoring experience, check out this 7-episode podcast series from the Science Communication Lab covering everything from finding the right mentor to handling conflict and building a strong, productive partnership. Check out each podcast episode below: Episode 1:...
Pfizer R&D Rotational Program
Aug. 29, 2025—At Pfizer, we are changing lives by discovering, developing, and delivering breakthrough medicines and vaccines to the world. Our scientists, clinicians, and R&D professionals are among the best in the industry, with the resources and scale to solve some of the world’s most complex health challenges. So, it’s no wonder that they choose to pursue...