Academic basic research vs. big pharma R&D- similarities and differences based on my career transition from postdoc to early drug discovery at GlaxoSmithKline

Speaker: dr Maja Firczuk

Talk: "Academic basic research vs. big pharma R&D- similarities and differences based on my career transition from postdoc to early drug discovery at GlaxoSmithKline" 

Time: 7 may 2021, 9:00 am.

Venue: Online in the "IFB seminars" group of MS Teams. Group password: ypidr3d.  

I have completed all my higher education at MWB in Gdansk. I have gained an extensive expertise in biochemistry during my PhD on Hsp70 protein systems, in the group of prof. Marszalek. In 2007 I have started postdoctoral research in systems biology of eukaryotic mRNA translation pathway, first at University on Manchester then at Warwick University. In 2018 I decided to have a career change and moved to work as a biochemist in early drug discovery at GSK.

In my talk I want to share learnings form my career journey and give you an overview of drug discovery process.