We asked Daniel Cohen from Spark Therapeutics and Kassi Stein from Tessera Therapeutics about how their work impacts specific clinical outcomes, key improvements they have seen in the landscape, and how students can get involved right out of graduate school. You can access the full recording by becoming an ACS BIOT member today here!
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Actively Recruiting Inaugural Student Leadership Board
Ignited by the 2023 ACS BIOT annual meeting in San Francisco, the Bay Area Student Chapter is searching for its inaugural student leadership board. Ideal candidates would be early graduate students (1st-3rd year as of Fall 2023) who are especially interested in biotechnology. We are looking to fill out the new Board quickly, so pleaseContinue reading “Actively Recruiting Inaugural Student Leadership Board”
Meet Our Inaugural Leadership Board
We have recruited our initial leadership board for 2023! We’d like to introduce President: Rashmi Sharma Vice President: Anandi Chowdhury Treasurer: Deppika Sarin Webmaster: Naveen G Jesubalan Recruiting Lead: Shubhankar Metya Industry Analyzer: Kunal Krishna Faculty Advisor: Dr. Anurag S. Rathore
Inaugural Recruiting Event
In conjunction with the orientation at the Indian Institute of Technology – Delhi (ITT Delhi), we will be hosting our first membership drive for the ACS BIOT India Student Chapter in August 2023. More details to come on this exciting event!
Dual Poster Session
In March 2023, we hosted an event at Villanova University with consecutive academic and industry poster sessions followed by casual networking. The event featured over 40 people, consisting of Ph.D. students, postdocs, and industry professionals, most of which brought posters that sparked exciting conversations about research on the frontier of biotechnology. The event featured representationContinue reading “Dual Poster Session”
Pushing Boundaries as a Biotech Start-Up Webinar
We aimed to highlight the important role start-ups play in our exploding industry and asked a few speakers currently working on the start-up side of the industry toshare their experiences with their work. The speakers shared their insider perspectives on what makes working in a start-up different than an established industry giant with respect toContinue reading “Pushing Boundaries as a Biotech Start-Up Webinar”
Vaccine Manufacturing & Development Seminar at UPenn
For our first in-person networking event since 2019, we hosted fellow biotech-focused graduate students and local industry professionals at the University of Pennsylvania. We heard from Erin Greene and Randi Saunders of Merck different case studies on “Challenges in Large-Scale Chromatography Tech Transfer” and “Vaccine Commercialization”.