SQZ Biotechnologies is seeking a current PhD student as a part-time market intelligence immunology intern to join our corporate development team reporting directly to the Associate Director of Business Development (BD).

They will collaborate with science and BD leadership to evaluate competitive programs, commercial landscapes, and identify key areas of differentiation possible with the SQZ platform. This role will involve organizing, analyzing, and comparing immunology data presented by competing vaccine and tolerance platforms and synthesizing them down ...

MSK has a rich history in chemical research spanning over 70 years, and we are continuing our recent expansion in this area. We provide a unique and collaborative scientific environment, exceptional research facilities and resources, and generous startup packages. Faculty are eligible to hold appointments in and to recruit students from multiple outstanding graduate programs, including the Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Chemical Biology, Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program, Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical...

The UCI Education Research Initiative is looking to hire an Academic Administrator to help guide and implement its mission. Under the direction of the Initiative Director, the incumbent is responsible for the management and administration of the Education Research Initiative (ERI), a multidisciplinary community of educators and researchers who care about improving the educational experience of our undergraduates, particularly for traditionally minoritized students. Responsibilities include: coordinating all ERI activities including the seminar series, ERI-related research projects,...

If I’ve learned anything over the decades, it’s that self-care needs to be part of the agenda as higher education recalibrates itself to educate and develop students in a post-COVID environment. I’ll share some of the insights I’ve gained -- especially for graduate students and doubly so for graduate students who are first generation or from communities of color.

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While there is a growing body of literature on the development of research skills among science, technology, engineering, and mathematics doctoral students, very little is specific to biosciences. We seek to address this gap by characterizing aptitude and self-perceived facility with research skills among incoming bioscience doctoral students, as well as how and why they change over the first semester of doctoral training.

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HMS is excited to announce a full-time curriculum fellowship opening within Research Rigor and Reproducibility. See attached PDF for full details.

When I became an associate professor at a relatively unknown university in China last year, I knew the odds were against me in the networking game. I felt I would be invited to fewer conferences and have less appeal as a networking prospect at those I did attend.

So I resorted to alternative networking strategies, and through these have taken part in at least 5 projects with collaborators in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Pakistan and China, conducted guest lectures at 3 Chinese universities and published around 12 research papers with my collaborators. Here are the four strategies I...

Please see attached PDF for position details and how to apply.