September 29, 2022 at 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. PDT Amgen Information Session (In-Person) KGI 517 Building - Room 165 (Founder's Room) Hello students! Please join us for this company info session with Amgen and learn more about the company, culture, current opportunities, and more! You don't want to miss this event! For more information on the company, please visit their website: https://www.amgen.com/. Amgen's fall recruiting focus is specifically on students interested in Process Development & Operations. […]
October 6, 2022 at 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. PDT SciVida Information Session (In-Person) KGI 517 Building - Room 165 (Founder's Room) Hello students! Please join us for this company info session with SciVida and learn more about the company, culture, current opportunities, and more! You don't want to miss this event! For more information on the company, please visit their website: https://scivida.com/. ATTIRE: Business Professional Professional Courtesy: If an unforeseen circumstance arises that prevents you from […]
October 10, 2022 at 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. PDT BlueMatter Information Session (In-Person) Hello students! Please join us for a Blue Matter info session and learn more about the company, culture, current opportunities, and more! You don't want to miss this event! For more information on the company, please click here. Students RSVP on Handshake
October 11, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. PDT NIIMBL Virtual Career Fair and Graduate Program & Education Fair (Early Registration Required) ***REGISTRATION OPENS SEPTEMBER 9*** REGISTERING ON HANDSHAKE DOES NOT COUNT AS REGISTRATION FOR THE EVENT October 11, 2022: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. October 12, 2022: 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. October 13, 2022: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. NIIMBL is excited to host a virtual career and grad school fair on October 11 - 13, […]
October 11, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PDT Cytokinetics Information Session (Virtual) Hello students! Please join us for a company info session with Cytokinetics on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, from 12:00 pm - 1:00 p.m. to learn more about the company, culture, current opportunities, and more! You don't want to miss this event! For more information on the company, please visit their website. Students RSVP on Handshake […]
October 13, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PDT Industry Speaker Series: Dr. Carol A. Nacy, Scientist to Science Business Exec Zoom (log-in information will be sent to those who register) CA, United States Join us for a virtual Industry Talk Dr. Carol A. Nacy is a founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Sequella, Inc., a privately-held pharmaceutical company that discovers and develops treatments for life-threatening infectious diseases. Prior to Sequella, Dr. Nacy was EVP and Chief Scientific Officer at EntreMed, Inc. She left EntreMed to establish Sequella, […]
October 19, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. PDT Takeda Information Session (In-Person) KGI 517 Building - Room 165 (Founder's Room) Hello students! Please join us for the Takeda info session (in-person) on Wednesday, October 19 2022 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. and learn more about the company, culture, current opportunities, and more! You don't want to miss this event! For more information, please visit their website. Students: register on Handshake.
October 21, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PDT Research Seminar Speaker Series – Dr. Jim Sterling – “Biocondensates: Membraneless Organelles that Organize Cellular Biochemistry” Please join us for this presentation by our own KGI faculty member, Dr. Jim Sterling, Professor and PhD Program Director, Henry E. Riggs School of Applied Life Sciences Many macromolecular biocondensates have been observed as so-called intracellular membraneless organelles since their discovery in 2009 in the Hyman lab in Dresden Germany. Commercialization of drug discovery […] Free
October 27, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PDT KGI Consulting Club: Case Prep Workshop KGI 121 Building - Room 1113 121 Bucknell Ave, Claremont, United States Join us for our 1st Consulting Case Prep Workshop on Thursday, October 27, from 12 -1:00 p.m. in classroom 1113, building 121. We will go over the basics of building a case framework and walk students through an example interview case study. This is a great way to prepare for upcoming consulting and operations internship […] Free
October 28, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PDT Research Seminar Speaker Series – Dr. Subhrajit Bhattacharya – “Role of NMDARs in Various Diseases of the Brain and Targeted Drug Discovery” Please join us for this presentation by our own KGI Faculty member, Dr. Subhrajit Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical and Applied Life Sciences NMDARs (N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptors) are an essential component of the excitation/inhibition complex in the brain that regulates precipitation of different neurodegenerative diseases. Dysregulated spatial and temporal expression of these receptors and their interactions with […] Free
November 4, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PDT PhD Literature Mastery Presentation – Kent Young, PhD Student – “Manufacturing CAR-T Cell Therapy: Where do we go from here?” Please join us for PhD Student, Kent Young, Senior Manager, Process Engineering, Kite Pharma PhD Dissertation Literature Mastery Presentation. There are patients alive today because chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy exists. CAR-T cell therapy is a unique treatment that utilizes a patient’s own cells as the starting material for their disease. After undergoing […] Free
November 9, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. PST OCRA (Orange County Regulatory Affairs) Career Panel KGI 517 Building - Room 165 (Founder's Room) OCRA welcomes KGI students to attend a Young Professionals in Regulatory Affairs panel, followed by round table discussions with our panelists and OCRA Board Members. Panelists have experience in medical devices, clinical trials, research, and consulting. Please come learn about how to get started with a career in Regulatory Affairs, what to expect on a […]
November 10, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PST Industry Speaker Series: Transitioning from a Student to Industry and Fellowship – Gurkirat Singh, Edwards Lifesciences KGI 517 Building - Room 165 (Founder's Room) Join us for our next in-person Industry Talk of the semester, sponsored by Wilson Sonsini. You can register here. Gurkirat Singh is a Clinical Science Fellow in Medical Affairs at Edwards Lifesciences. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy from Regis University School of Pharmacy in Denver, Colorado and his Bachelor of Science in General Biology […]
November 10, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. PST ABCAB Board Meeting – Student Poster Presentations – Industry : Student Networking Reception Registration to attend the ABCAB Student Poster Presentations and Industry-Student Networking Reception. Please take a few moments to choose your RSVP option to attend this event. Thursday, November 10, 2022 2:00 - 8:00 p.m. 555 Bldg. - Room 640 Debrief Room & Hallway Area (KGI entrance next to the outdoor patio area - look for […] Free
November 11, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PST Research Seminar Speaker Series-Dr. Animesh Ray-“The Noncoding RNA SPRIGHTLY Drives a Frequent Childhood Brain Cancer by Forcing Exon-Skipping” Please join us for this presentation by our own KGI Faculty member, Dr. Animesh Ray, Professor of Systems Biology and Genomics Noncoding RNA (ncRNA) genes are even more conserved in evolution than are protein coding genes, suggesting that ncRNAs play important biological functions. One such ncRNA is SPRIGHTLY, which we had previously shown to be […] Free
November 17, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PST Lunch with a CEO, Eric Sanchez, Splendo Health Join us for lunch with Eric Sanchez, CEO of SplendoHealth, in the Chan Family Cafe. Lunch will be provided for the first 40 students. You can register here. Splendo Health is a privately owned digital health company based in The Netherlands and USA. We specialize in assessment and improvement of Cardio Respiratory Function through the […]
November 18, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PST PhD Literature Mastery Presentation – Ana Mena Amores, PhD Student – “Development of a Transient AAV Manufacturing Platform” Please join us for PhD Student, Ana Mena Amores' PhD Literature Mastery Presentation. Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors are the leading platform for gene delivery for many diseases like retinal disorders and spinal muscular atrophy. Recent developments on the production of AAV capsids, vector design optimization, and cell culture techniques have contributed substantially to the growth […] Free
November 22, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. PST PhD Dissertation Literature Mastery Presentation – Yi-Chun Lin, PhD Student – “Investigating Voltage-Gated Potassium Channel by Computational Approach” Please join us for PhD Student Yi-Chun Lin, Research Assistant, Western University give her PhD Literature Mastery presentation. The voltage gated channel family is the third largest class of signal transduction proteins following GPCR and protein kinases. The activation of the voltage gated channel is by the change of the membrane potential. There are two […] Free
November 29, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PST Industry Speaker Series: Dynamic Navigation of Failures and Driving Scientific Value, Brian Hogan, MEng, Emergent Biosolutions KGI 517 Building - Room 165 (Founder's Room) Join us for our next in-person Industry Talk of the semester, sponsored by Wilson Sonsini. You can register here. KGI is where Brian Hogan, MEng '20, entered his biopharmaceutical career—graduating through the MEng track. Hogan has been a critical member of startups with high hopes and varied results. Brian Hogan now works for Emergent Biosolutions […]
November 30, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. PST Kite Information Session (In-Person) Please join us to learn about opportunities within Kite and Gilead. Alums will share their journey and reasons why they decided to join the company. We will also provide information about our competitive paid internships, early talent full-time roles, fellowships, and rotational programs. Students RSVP on Handshake.