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  • 4. Transitioning to Data Science

    47:08||Season 1, Ep. 4
    In this episode, we chat with Dr. Ryan Bartelme, who currently works as a data scientist at a diagnostics company. We speak about his current work and also touch upon how he used his postdoc to transition to this area.

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  • 3. From Biophysics to Cancer Diagnostics

    33:45||Season 1, Ep. 3
    In this episode, we discuss Dr. Pahini Pandya's journey towards becoming an entrepreneur in the UK biotech space. Pahini completed her PhD in Biophysics at King's College London followed by a postdoctoral position at the University of Cambridge. Following short programmes with the Cambridge Judge Business School and the Maxwell Centre, she was accepted on to Entrepreneur First in London.
  • 2. Entrepreneurship within Academia

    46:26||Season 1, Ep. 2
    We chat with Dr. Prachee Avasthi who is an Associate Professor at Dartmouth College. She is the Co-Founder and CSO of Arcadia Science, a start-up that champions open science and looks to push the boundaries of R&D through thinking about model biological systems in an innovative manner.
  • 1. Moving from PhD to Product Management

    44:03||Season 1, Ep. 1
    This week, we chat with Dr. Vega Shah who completed her PhD in Environmental Genomics at the University of Washington. She then moved to be an Application Scientist and is currently a Product Manager at an R&D software company. We ask her about her journey and how she navigated the transition to industry from academia.