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What to do after your postdoc? What career options are there? What motivated other postdocs to choose for a particular career path? How do they like it and what skills do they consider important? We have lined up some role-models to inspire you. We are continuously extending this selection for careers in the life sciences, whether it is academia, industry, government, non-profit etc.
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his/her name with a brief description.
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 Scientist at Merus
Maarten Janmaat studied Biology at the University of Utrecht, during which he performed an internship in Dundee, Scotland. In 2001 he started as PhD student at the VUmc, working on ErbB receptors as target for anticancer therapy. During his postdoc projects in the same department at the VUmc and subsequently in the AMC, he actively worked on his career development. In 2006 he did a career development project with a personal coach, and in 2008 he joined the PCDI retreat and the BioBusiness Summerschool. In 2009 he joined Merus, a small biotechnology company working on mixtures of monoclonal antibodies.
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 Programme manager at TI Pharma
Dr. Verheij has extensive experience in Early Drug Discovery. After finishing his PhD in Amsterdam in 1997, and holding a post-doc position for two years in Wageningen, he joined Specs, one of the world’s leading suppliers of screening chemistry, as Manager of the “Cheminformatics and Screening Collaborations” department.
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Anke Klerkx graduates in Molecular Sciences in Wageningen in 1997. After obtaining her PhD in developmental biology at the University of Utrecht, Anke Klerkx switches research fields and performes both basic and clinical research on cholesterol metabolism as a postdoc at the AMC for a total of seven years. During this period she obtains two grants from the Dutch Heart Foundation and becomes active in the Postdoc Career Development Initiative. At this time, she also becomes aware of her organizational skills and drive to help other people, and decides on a career switch towards supporting scientists.
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After obtaining his Bachelor in clinical-chemistry (1981) and Immunochemistry (1983), he started his Masters at the UvA (1984), besides his full-time position as technician at the Central Laboratory for Clinical Chemistry at the VUMC. Following his graduation in 1991 in Analytical Sciences with Prof H. Poppe, he performed his PhD focused on Analytical MS at the CSIC Research Institute in Barcelona (Spain), in collaboration with the VU.
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