Career Development
Yasuhiro Tsume, PhD
Scientist
Merck
Rahway, New Jersey
Michael Callahan (he/him/his)
Principal Scientist III
Charles River Laboratories
Catherine Fromen, PhD (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware
Corinne Jankovsky, PhD
Senior Scientist
Boehringer-Ingelheim
Ridgefield, Connecticut
Regardless of in the academia or industry, young or experienced, there is always a challenge to manage the work-life balance and to unify the diverse group/functions for scientists. This is even bigger problem for young scientists, starting their careers or being graduate students. There are so many questions and so many ways to get where you want to be. However, there are no fixed ways to get how you want to manage the balance and how you want to create the environment you want, which different cultures and styles in academia, industry, big, middle, small size pharma or CMO and CRO. Most of graduate students and early stage of scientists do not know what options they have and what skillsets they should have, moreover, what mindset they should have. In this session, experienced presenters (ideally, one from academia, one from industry and one from CRO) give their experience and the culture the institute promotes, and panelists promotes including their mind-set, and have their short presentation and the panel discussion.