Career Path: “Making the most of your Ph.D. or postdoc”

Description: This webinar will discuss ways to proactively build, develop, and enhance skills during your Ph.D. or postdoc in order to build skills that are valuable for your career. This webinar will provide an overview of skills useful for both research and non-research careers such as consulting, business development, communications, and medical affairs. This seminar will highlight how to build transferable skills such as collaboration and presentation skills as well as hard skills such as budget management, protocol development, and grant writing. Additionally, this webinar will showcase how you highlight these skills on a resume so that organizations looking to hire you, can be aware of these.

Bio: Lauren Celano is the Founder and CEO of Propel Careers, a life science search and career development firm focused on connecting talented individuals with entrepreneurial innovative life sciences companies. Lauren is very passionate about working with individuals with strong scientific backgrounds to find exciting growth opportunities in the life sciences industry. Through Propel, she builds relationships and provides guidance on how individuals can position themselves for their next opportunity. She also actively places individuals into positions with exciting life sciences companies. Prior to Propel Careers, Lauren was a senior account manager for SNBL USA where she worked with emerging biotech companies in Europe, Asia, and the US to help characterize and advance their drug molecules. Prior to SNBL USA, she held business development positions with Aptuit and Quintiles and worked with Absorption Systems as a marketing manager and account manager. She has a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Gettysburg College and an MBA with a focus in the health sector and entrepreneurship from Boston University.