Researcher Checks Test Tubes. An African American male researcher checks test tubes as an AfricanAmerican female cancer researcher looks on. | National Cancer Institute | Unsplash
Researcher Checks Test Tubes. An African American male researcher checks test tubes as an AfricanAmerican female cancer researcher looks on. | National Cancer Institute | Unsplash
Thursday, March 23, 2023
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM (ET)
Science Center, Cutrona Lobby
1650 Palm Street
Reading PA 19604
Pam Artz
7720
After earning an Albright degree in Biochemistry, a common career path, at least in 1992, was to pursue scientific research in either academia or industry, with or without first earning an advanced degree. In this presentation, I will discuss how my Albright education prepared me for graduate school and a career in Vaccines Research and Development at Pfizer. As in any career path, there are pros and cons to pharmaceutical R&D, particularly related to job satisfaction, salary and benefits, career advancement opportunity, and job security. Furthermore, vaccine R&D differs from other therapeutic or disease areas in that the targeted patient population is usually healthy individuals. As a result, there is a high safety hurdle for vaccines to be successful, and this presentation will cover projects in which creative or novel scientific strategies were needed to improve vaccine candidates that had failed to meet early-stage safety or efficacy targets. Finally, as someone who chose to eventually leave the lab, I will also discuss some of the non-R&D roles in pharma that are available to individuals with scientific degrees.
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