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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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As concerned careers in academia, we are particularly looking for principle investigators who are greatly appreciated by their PhD students/postdocs for their support. You know your PI best, so we invite you to nominate your PI,
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his/her name with a brief description.
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Regulato ry affairs officer at Sanquin
Marjon Troost-Roos was born on November 6th 1975 in Oosterbeek, the Netherlands. Undergraduate education was received at the Christelijk Lyceum Arnhem and the Thomas a Kempis college in Arnhem in 1996. She studied biology (specialisation: pathology and physiology) at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. During her study she participated in two research projects. One concerned the tracking of CD4- and CD8-cell proliferation and apoptosis after stimulation using CFSE-labelling and flow cytometry. This research was performed at the department of transplantation biology of the University Hospital in Groningen.
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For Nanna combining research and family life was becoming too demanding. Therefore, she decided to change career and applied for a position as research manager at the Netherlands Heart Foundation. The Heart Foundation invests 12-15 million euros per year in grants that are available to the scientific community.
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After working in the private sector for several years, Wietse Mulder PhD, managing director of Genome diagnostics, is now a successful life sciences entrepreneur. "Starting your own business is like writing your own job ad", Wietse says of his experience as an entrepreneur. It's exactly what he did five years ago. "Founding your own company is not for the faint-hearted though, you need to be willing to take risks", Wietse goes on. "But when it works it's just immensely satisfying."
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 Assistant Director Research at Genmab
I may still have a future in academia but I know now that I have other options as well. Tenure isn't the be-all-end-all of a career in the life sciences. When I first realised this I suddenly lost all fear doubt about the future. My career at Genmab has given me peace of mind.
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