Posted by Eva Amsen, on 27 February 2014
It’s been a while since I last wrote on the Node, but I have something to share that ties in to a project I started while I was still the ...Posted by kara_cerveny, on 26 June 2013
We’ve all heard the aphorism that once you leave academia, you can’t go back. A little over two years ago, I wrote about my transition from academic research to scientific ...Posted by Natascha Bushati, on 13 February 2012
Last June, Eva summarised the Node’s alternative careers stories, personal accounts of how scientists made their transitions from research into various alternative career paths. As a friend of Andrea Hutterer, ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 6 September 2011
Over the past months, we’ve heard from several people who left research for a career away from the bench. Now, a summary of all these posts appears in Development, followed ...Posted by Deleted user, on 12 July 2011
I am the founder and CEO of DataGiving. I founded DataGiving whilst completing my Ph.D. in Genetics at the University of Cambridge. I have always been passionate about helping people. ...Posted by Claire Ainsworth, on 21 June 2011
If I shut my eyes, I can still picture the young boy dressed as a gravedigger. He’s taking centre-stage, flourishing a spade and cheerily telling his audience that if they ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 8 June 2011
In December we asked people to share how they moved from research to a career away from the lab bench. Since then, we’ve heard from a number of people, and ...Posted by Michael Szego, on 1 June 2011
Four and a half years ago I was introduced to the field of clinical ethics while nearing the end of my Doctorate in Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto. ...Posted by kara_cerveny, on 24 May 2011
Although I’m no longer working at the bench, I still think of myself as a scientist. During grad school and much of my post-doc, I assumed that I would follow ...Posted by Michael Belliveau, on 22 May 2011
I am now a Patent Attorney at Clark & Elbing, a Boston boutique patent law firm specializing in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. I have been at Clark & Elbing since 1998, ...