My Path to Becoming a Medical Science Liaison: A Journey from Academia to Biotech to Pharma

Dr. Josh Yoder, Sanofi Pasteur

March 25, 2016 @ 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm

w203 Millennium Science Complex (MSC)

Considering a career in industry? _Learn about the career path of Dr. Josh Yoder, _ a Medical Science Liaison at Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccine division of the multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi. _ Dr. Yoder earned his B.S. degree at Penn State (Class of '00) with a major in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He was one of Dr. Craig E. Camerons first undergraduate students. After graduation, Dr. Yoder joined the Ph.D. program in Virology at Harvard, in Steve Harrison and Phil Dormitzers lab, where his work focused on Rotavirus Cell Entry. Then, he worked as a post-doc at Purdue University (Dr. Michael G. Rossman) and Penn State College of Medicine (Dr. Susan Hafenstein), and as a research associate at the University of Pittsburgh (Dr. James F. Conway). _In 2013, he joined Thermalin Diabetes as a Development Scientist, where he worked on the development of next-generation insulin analogs._ _ For more information, visit here. _ This event is co-hosted by_the Huck Graduate Student Advisory Committee (HGSAC) and the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB) Department. _