Career Exploration

ASPIRE on the Road will be taking trainees to visit Boston, MA. Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows will spend time with area biotechnology and pharma companies learning about career paths, hearing from key leadership, touring the facilities, and meeting with alumni.  A maximum of 8 trainees will be selected to participate. Travel costs and accommodations will be covered… Read More

The BRET Office of Career Development is excited to announce the podcast series, “Beyond the Lab.” Thanks to the current YouTube series featuring BRET PhD student and postdoctoral alumni, this series is now available for your listening as well as watching! Tune in on iTunes or wherever you listen to your… Read More

Last month, eI2 was introduced, a new program launched by Rob Carnahan, Chuck Sanders, and Alan Bentley to promote a culture of innovation and the dissemination of new knowledge and discoveries through entrepreneurial pathways. You can now learn more about eI2 from its new website. There, among other things, you’ll… Read More

The eI2 (Enabling Innovation Initiative) program is being launched by Basic Sciences at Vanderbilt School of Medicine to lower barriers to commercializing basic science discoveries. The initiative will feature a new speaker seminar series. The first in this series features Dr. Chase Spurlock (CEO of iQuity) and Dr. Thomas Aune… Read More

The December issue of the Vanderbilt Basic Sciences Newsletter, Basically Speaking, features Elizabeth Hibler's career story, used her postdoctoral training at Vanderbilt to launch her academic career in public health. Check out her story here!… Read More

Business principles affect all organizations. In today’s highly competitive and highly complicated working environments, understanding these principles gives leaders and managers a strategic advantage, enabling them to handle situations more effectively and make decisions more effectively. In spring semester 2018, the BRET Office of Career Development is offering a module… Read More

An Overview of the Army Research Lab and the  Role  of  Intelligent  Things  on the Future Battlefield Featuring Dr. Alexander Kott, Chief Scientist, Army Research Labs November 2, 2017, 4:00 – 5:00 pm Engineering & Science Building, Room 044 Dr. Kott serves as the ARL’s Chief Scientist. In this role he… Read More

PhD Career Connections presents:  Laboratory Medicine Thursday October 19th 10-11am Light Hall 202 featuring Jonathan Schmitz, MD, PhD, Jennifer Colby, Phd, and Ferrin Wheeler, PhD Registration is requested Explore exciting careers in clinical laboratory medicine which bridge bench research and… Read More

Join us for the Virtual Case Experiences Session from 8:00 to 9:00 pm ET on Wednesday, October 25, 2017 with two BCG consulting team members who will discuss their case experiences and transition to consulting. Speakers to include Jenna Campbell Price, our Duke ADC recruiting specialist. Jenna is a… Read More

The October issue of the Vanderbilt Basic Sciences Newsletter, Basically Speaking, features BRET Office of Career Development's very own Kim Petrie, PhD and her career story. Check out her story here!… Read More