Announcements
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...
ASPIRE Internship: Science Communication Internship, VI4, PMI, VUMC
Dec. 7, 2023—Science Communication Internship, VI4, PMI, VUMC VI4 and PMI at Vanderbilt University Medical Center are looking for Science Communication Interns. This position provides an opportunity to contribute to VI4’s mission of training the next generation of scientists and physicians and making fundamental discoveries in the areas of infection biology, immunology, and inflammation with the...
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...
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...
ASPIRE Internship: Pendant Bioscience, Inc, Business Development Intern
Dec. 4, 2023—ASPIRE Internship Opportunity: Pendant Biosciences, Inc. Business Development Intern Nashville, TN Pendant Biosciences is a small Nashville, TN- based life sciences company focused on developing biocompatible materials and drug delivery technologies through a polymer-based platform. They are focused on advancements on formulations and drug discovery tools. Pendant Biosciences, founded in 2012 by Shawn Glinter, CEO...
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...
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...
Partnership with Decode Health Expands Opportunities for Interns to Impact the Healthcare AI Industry
Nov. 27, 2023—Internships Provide Mutual Benefits to Companies and Students This article was originally published in the 2021- 2022 Annual Report By Dora Obodo, Graduate Student Graduate school internships are a relatively new idea. However, the ASPIRE Program within Vanderbilt University School of Medicine’s BRET Office of Career Development is leading the way in fostering these invaluable opportunities for...
First ASPIRE to Innovate Postdoctoral Scholar Earns NSF I-Corps Award with Hydrogel Technology to Promote Blood Vessel Growth
Nov. 27, 2023—This article was originally published in the 2021- 2022 Annual Report By Jess Roetman, Graduate Student From innovating to funding a novel biotechnology, Karrie Dudek, PhD, has had a terrific year as the inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow of the ASPIRE to Innovate program with the recent announcement of an award from the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps...
On the Road Again
Nov. 27, 2023—This article was originally published in the 2021- 2022 Annual Report By Haley Stubbs, Graduate Student In the spring of 2018, the ASPIRE Program launched an initiative called ASPIRE on the Road to give graduate students and postdoctoral trainees an up-close look at careers in the biopharma industry. Ten trainees traveled to Boston for the...
Apply for the Thomas O. Pyle Fellowship
Nov. 21, 2023—The Department of Population Medicine is accepting applications for the Thomas O. Pyle Fellowship for the academic year July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025. The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation and Harvard University created the Fellowship in honor of Thomas Pyle, who was Chief Executive Officer of Harvard Community Health Plan for many years...
2024 Portal Postdoctoral Fellowship
Nov. 21, 2023—PORTAL is accepting applications for its 2024 Postdoctoral Fellowship The Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology & 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. Applications are invited from researchers with...
Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cancer Microbiome, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Nov. 15, 2023—Apply for the postdoctoral fellowship in the Markham Lab. The project opportunities extend from recent work identifying C. difficile as a component of the human colorectal cancer microenvironment. (Drewes, Chen, Markham, et al. 2022 Cancer Discovery). Investigations examine the role of C. difficile toxins using mouse models of colonic neoplasia and human 3D organoids. Individuals...