‘Career Options: Clinical Research’
PhD Career Connections: Health Outcomes Research
Dec. 4, 2014—Join us as Elizabeth Rula, PhD, discusses her role as a Health Outcomes Researcher at January’s PhD Career Connections seminar. Friday, January 16, 20159:15-10:15am **NOTE ADJUSTED TIMELight Hall 208 Registration is requested. Elizabeth Rula, Ph.D., is an Executive Director and Principal Investigator at the Healthways Center for Health Research. In this role, she leads a team of...
Job Posting: Clinical Operations Manager, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Nov. 7, 2014—The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) is seeking a full-time Clinical Operations Manager to help manage a large, multidrug Phase II-III oncology trial under a public-private partnership managed by FNIH that includes participation by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and its Cooperative trials management group, the Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG); the Food...
Job Opportunity: Clinical Research Scientist, Omada Health, San Francisco CA
Sep. 24, 2014—COMPANY:Omada Health is leading the field of digital therapeutics by creating innovative, scalable, and cost-effective online behavior change programs that address the growing epidemic of chronic disease. Our flagship product Prevent is based on the landmark Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), and has been shown in a clinical trial to help people lose weight and positively...
Job Posting: Scientist/Senior Scientist, Immune Design, Seattle
Sep. 9, 2014—Immune Design seeks a highly motivated and creative scientist with a strong background in molecular biology and molecular virology, to join our Seattle, Washington Research Team in the development of innovative novel treatments for cancer and infectious diseases. The successful candidate will be responsible for team and departmental functions as they relate to our lentiviral...
Job Posting; Bioinformatics Scientist, Intermountain Cancer Genomics, Utah
Sep. 9, 2014—About UsWhat does it mean to be a part of Intermountain Healthcare? It means that the quest for clinical excellence is not just a goal, but a given. It means building an environment where physicians and employees can deliver the best in medicine. And it’s realizing each employee or volunteer is vital to the healing...
Job Posting: Applied Research Scientist, Molecular Sensing, Inc
May. 14, 2014—Molecular Sensing, Inc. (MSI), located in Nashville, Tennessee, is a commercial stage, drug discovery & life sciences research instrumentation company. MSI is commercializing the world’s first label-free, free solution, molecular interaction assay system based on Back-Scattering Interferometry (BSI). BSI is a proprietary, microchip assay technology first published in Science. It enables characterization of biomolecular interactions...
Job Posting: positions with DuPont Pioneer
Apr. 28, 2014—DuPont Pioneer is looking for qualified candidates (Ph.D. and M.S.) in the areas of quantitative genetics, molecular genetics, biostatistics, computational biology, etc. While DuPont Pioneer is a company vested in agriculture (mainly plant sciences), they are one that needs individuals in the areas mentioned above to increase innovation and remain a leader in the agriculture field. Most...
Clinical and Translational Research Course for PhD Students
Mar. 25, 2014—The NIH Clinical Center invites you to learn the process of clinical and translational research from concept to implementation in the annual two-week intensive traning course: July 7-18, 201410 Sessions9am-5pm dailyNational Institutes of Health, Main Campus, Bethesda, MD Deadline is April 1, 2014.http://cc.nih.gov/training/phdcourse The course is offered by the Clinical Center at no cost. Participants...
“Clinical Trial Opportunities at Vanderbilt” event by Life Science Tennessee
Mar. 20, 2014—“Clinical Trial Opportunities at Vanderbilt”featuring Dr. Gordon BernardAssociate Vice ChancellorClinical and Translational Research, Vanderbilt University Life Science Tennessee is pleased to host Dr. Gordon Bernard for a discussion about Vanderbilt’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CSTA) and the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR). Both CTSA and VICTR provide opportunities for emerging technologies, both in and out of...
Job Opportunity: Tenure-Track Investigator, NIAA
Mar. 3, 2014—The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), a major research component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), is recruiting for a tenure-track investigator to establish and direct an independent research program in the area of human brain imaging in the Laboratory of Clinical...
Job Opportunity: Program DIrector, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Branch, NCI
Feb. 21, 2014—CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY BRANCH SEEKS PROGRAM DIRECTORPosition Description:The successful candidate will have opportunities to conduct collaborative epidemiologic research, present findings at scientific meetings, and publish results in peer-reviewed journals. In addition to scientific management of grants and influencing the trajectory of research in cancer epidemiology, the successful candidate will have significant collaboration and leadership...
Beyond the Lab: Karissa Culbreath
Jan. 17, 2014—Check out the next installment of Beyond the Lab, featuring Karissa Culbreath, Scientific Director at Tricore Laboratories. If you are interested in Karissa’s role, be sure to check on the information on the ACMG national meeting held in Nashville this March on clinical genetics.
2013 Career Symposium presentations are now posted online
Oct. 23, 2013—If you missed the 2013 BRET Career Symposium, Influencing Human Health with Your PhD Degree, the presentations are now available to view online at https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/career-symposium2013/agenda. You can view the presentations by clicking on the speaker name. The Symposium speakers addressed careers ranging from global health to drug development, and they included: Linda Distlerath, Senior Counselor, Worldwide...