The Postdoc Executive Committee co-chairs Delaine Ceholski, PhD, far left, and Alison Sanders, PhD, far right, both Postdoctoral Fellows at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, are joined by panelists, from left: Robert DeVita, PhD; Nina Tandon, PhD, MBA; Vesna Todorovic, PhD; and Erin Girard, PhD.
More than 275 postdocs, graduate students, and other members of the New York City scientific community recently participated in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s 7th Annual Postdoc Symposium, making this year’s full-day career symposium the most highly attended event yet. The event theme, “Industry Beyond the Bench,” explored the breadth of careers available to PhDs and featured speakers Lana Skirboll, PhD, Vice President of Academic and Scientific Affairs at Sanofi; and Joanne Kamens, PhD, Executive Director of Addgene. Panelists included Nina Tandon, PhD, MBA, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of EpiBone; Robert DeVita, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, and Structural and Chemical Biology, at the Icahn School of Medicine; Vesna Todorovic, PhD, Senior Editor at Nature Communications; and Erin Girard, PhD, Director of Engineering for Robotic Imaging and Therapy at Siemens Healthcare. The Icahn School of Medicine’s Postdoc Executive Committee organized the event in collaboration with the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs.