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Upcoming Events
Hopkins Biotech Podcast: “Academia or Industry?” Curious about career opportunities for life science students in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, consulting, venture capital, and other private sector industries? Want to find the find the…
Business, Finance, and Consulting Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2020 Time: 4:00-5:30pm Location: Zoom Virtual Webinar Panelists: Holly Cymet, PhD Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton Brian C. Gibbs, PhD Technical Licensing…
Bio-Trac is pleased announce its “Thursday Seminar Series: Special Topics in Biotechnology” starting on April 30 from 12:15-12:45. These twenty-five minute live webinars will feature experts, active research scientists who participate in the…
Johns Hopkins will offer a free online course about the coronavirus pandemic and how it can be combated through epidemiology. Offered publicly on the e-learning platform Coursera, available March 31 through…
News & Featured Newsletter Articles
For a second time, the Entrepreneurship Mentoring Program (EMP) at HBN is partnering with FastForwardU and the Carey Business School to host the BioPitch Business Competition at Johns Hopkins University…
By Lawrence Jones, Ph.D. Editor I last saw Representative Cummings at Hopkins on the Hill, last June. JHU (2019) “Hopkins on the Hill is a biennial showcase of the range,…
By: Danielle Bouchard, Eva Shrestha, Jessica Joseph and Lawrence Jones On Friday, March 8, 2019, from a 24th floor sky view, Springboard Enterprises(represented by Marissa Jennings), Hopkins Biotech Network (represented…
For a second time, the Entrepreneurship Mentoring Program (EMP) at HBN is partnering with Springboard Enterprises – a highly-vetted expert network of innovators, investors and influencers who are dedicated to…
Do you have a healthcare or biotech business idea? For a second time, the Entrepreneurship Mentoring Program (EMP) at HBN is partnering with Springboard Enterprises – a highly-vetted expert network…
by Yazmin Rovira Gonzalez Ph.D. Candidate at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Cellular and Molecular Medicine Drug manufacturing facility of Emergent BioSolutions at Bayview campus located in Baltimore, Maryland. Image…
Interview by Devika Nair Johns Hopkins Masters in Biotechnology Student and San Francisco Bay Area Scientist Abstract: Dr. Jennifer R. Cohen (photo below) is a vibrant visionary leader with a…
Written by JHU Alumnus Drew Bennett As covered previously in part 1 and part 2 of this “hypothetical yet educational” intellectual property story, Jack and Jill have several criteria to…
by Johns Hopkins Alumnus Dr. Jeff Oster, Ph.D., J.D. This is an article for the Hopkins Bio Network to share experiences with fellow alumni who are considering taking the plunge…
By Nate Hughes Johns Hopkins Alumnus MPH ‘12 As Director of Strategic Partnerships in North America for a bio engineering software firm called Bio-G based in Berkeley, CA, I am writing…
Authored by Veta Obazenu Johns Hopkins Graduate Student Biofilm is a familiar topic in dentistry and internal medicine. The bacteria containing biofilm can be found commonly in the mouth in…
Written by Gwynneth Borges, Graduate Student Anyone who has ever listened to music knows the effect that music can have on the mind and body. It can calm you after…
Written by Drew Bennett In part 1, we learned that Jack, with the assistance of Jill, developed a small sequencing device that allows for the identification of unique cancer targets in…
Written by Gwynneth Borges, Graduate Student With global warming steadily becoming a more pressing issue, a new-found discovery has come to light in that cows could help reduce greenhouse emissions…
Written by Jessica Joseph, Ph.D. Candidate As mentioned in our previous article, the biotechnology industry can be broken down into color categories based on the techniques or products involved…
Author: MBA Student and HBN Board Member- Nariman Ziaee On December 1st of 2017, United States Chamber of Commerce hosted its second annual case competition. At this competition, The Chamber…
Author: Alumnus-Lawrence Jones Photo Courtesy: Environmental Biotechnology Kück and Dinkel (2015) posit that biotechnology has a broad reach and thus there must exist color coded classifications to provide a categorical…
Digital Medicine and FDA Approval Author: Thuy Ong Photo: Courtesy of Proteus November 14, 2017 Ong (2017) reports that The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first digital…
Photo: Courtesy of Lawrence Jones Author Alumnus-Jonathon Drew Bennett Jack, Jill, and Steve are three employees at a start-up biotechnology company in California called BioBank Therapeutics, which specializes in…
Author: Katharina Schmidt Co-President of HBN/Ph.D. Candidate in Cellular & Molecular Physiology Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Pharmaceutical drug pricing is a very sensible topic in the United States especially…
The panel discussion shed light on the many diverse careers in science and industry. There will be more discussions in the 2018 calendar year.
Introduction to Drug Discovery Research (ME:200.704) Spring 2018 Course Director: Takashi Tsukamoto (ttsukamoto@jhmi.edu) Location: Rangos Building Room 590 Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Dates: Every Friday 1/12/2018-4/27/2018 Course…
Bio-Engineering/Business By Nariman Ziaee I have always been obsessed with science since early childhood, and when I entered college, I became fascinated by the field of bio-engineering and decided to…
The Ph.D. Scientist Beyond Academia: A Perspective on Why Young Scientists are Excited About Industry and Entrepreneurship By Jessica Joseph 10/16/17 For those whose careers have been entirely in academia,…
Photo courtesy of Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun Meridith Cohn reports from the Baltimore Sun that the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command is funding an organ transplantation project through a…
Last December, Dr. Singh’s lab at Cornell University produced a paper detailing the use of a 3-D, biomaterials-based organoid that mimicked the early stages of a germinal center, where B…
Alumni Spotlight Interview Margia Argüello Associate, Johns Hopkins Medicine International Interview by Lawrence Jones, Johns Hopkins Alumnus Please describe your current position. Has your career trajectory followed the path…
Biomedical PhD Career Fair 2017 By Leire Abalde-Atristain Led by the Professional Development Career Office and the Biomedical Careers Initiative, and with the help of several organizations including HBN, the…
Dr. Takashi Tsukamoto, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University and the Director of Medicinal Chemistry at Johns Hopkins Drug Discovery. He received his Ph.D. degree in…
The Bioentrepreneur (Biotechnology Entrepreneur) by Lawrence Jones The HBN team just recently participated in the Biomedical Ph.D. Career Fair August 29, 2017. There were several visitors that asked me the…
Hopkins Biotech Network is proud to announce that its President Emeritus Amy Anderson defended her thesis dissertation on August 15th. Congratulations Dr. Anderson! Amy did an outstanding job defending her…
Alumni Spotlight interview David Gertler CEO, Treble Which division of the university did you graduate from? The Whiting School Please describe your current position(s) and your roles in the…
Welcome new and returning students! By Leire Abalde-Atristain On August 17th Hopkins Biotech Network participated in the Activities’ Fair organized by the Graduate Student Association at the School of Medicine….
Carey Business School presents its INNOVATION SUMMIT 2017. Students will pitch their start ups to a room of fellow students and top investors at this event on SATURDAY MARCH 25, 2017 9AM….
We are excited to invite you to this event co-sponsored by BCI. We will have a panel of 5 Hopkins Bio alumni who have successfully transitioned to the Biotech field….
Researchers from Columbia University and the New York Genome Center (NYGC) have been able to store large amounts of data on a DNA sequence. Six types of files were stored…
We received a notice that the program fees for the JHU Italy Trek has dropped. See below: This is a friendly reminder that registration deadline for the Italy Trek is…
Event Recap by Alina Predescu A few months ago, Katharina Schmidt and Alina Predescu brought an idea to the JHU Alumni office, “Let’s have a movie and discussion with a…
On November 3rd, 2016, we had an introductory showcase with the Carey Business School. Below is an official report from Asniya Iqbal, with pictures. Firstly, thank you to the entire e-board for…
A Quick Glance at Rethinking and Refining Business Thinking by Lawrence Jones In 2004, Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto published the…
At the intersection of research and medicine is the need for ventures that can develop and commercialize technologies for the Biotech Sphere. Start-ups are a major buzz now and even more so,…
By Ankita Das & Amy Anderson This April, the Hopkins Biotech Network (HBN) hosted their 2nd Annual Entrepreneurship Information Session and Panel Discussion to educate the Johns Hopkins community and…
Gina Devasahayam, Ph.D. is the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of GenetikSIGNAL, Inc. Interview by Lawrence Jones Which division of the University did you all graduate from? Please describe…
… Join HBN and the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association on April 20th for Speed Networking & FastForward Incubator Tours Pack your business cards, bring a friend! Perfect your “elevator pitch” Enjoy Atwater’s…
Want to Explore a Career in Private Equity or Venture Capital? Join the Hopkins Biotech Network on April 13th for the 2nd Annual Entrepreneurship Information Session and Panel Discussion We are hosting rapid-fire presentations from…
Pratik Patel, Michael Parlato, and Kevin Colbert are the co-founders of Glyscend. Interview by Lawrence Jones Which division of the University did you all graduate from? Whiting School of…
Lauren Nelson is the Regional Account Director, Market Access at Genzyme Interview by Lawrence Jones Please describe your current position. Has your career trajectory followed the path…
Johns Hopkins Technology Venture’s FastForward is hosting Y Combinator for a special event on February 5th. Headquartered in the Silicon Valley, Y Combinator has funded more than 1000 successful startups…
Andrew Bergen is Associate – Genetic Epidemiology for BioRealm, LLC. Interview by Lawrence Jones Please describe your current position. Has your career trajectory followed the path you had…
by Amy Anderson Mankind has sought ways to circumvent its own mortality throughout the course of our history, but disease prevention is a tricky business. In the modern age, the…
by Supriya Verma Have you ever witnessed freefall? No, I’m not talking about people falling off cliffs in movies. I’m talking about real life – the REAL world. Have you?…
by Aanishaa Jhaldiyal “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science”. -Dr. Albert Einstein In…
by Mark Verdecia The development of agriculture is arguably the most important milestone in our shared human history. Our ancestors’ transition from a nomadic life to an agrarian society…
by Dinesh Puppala Glossary CRISPR Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat Cas9 CRISPR-associated nuclease 9 CRISPR-Cas9 is a new genetic modification technique that is generating extraordinary buzz among life…
For the third year in a row, students from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Carey School of Business won the $10,000 first prize at the Wake Forest University Healthcare…
By Neil Rens Dr. Kilpatrick is the Chief Executive Officer of Evidation Health, a new company that is focused on demonstrating value in digital health. Among her many accolades, Dr….
By Basil Hussain The Hopkins Graduate Student Consulting Club (JHGCC) hosted their fifth annual Johns Hopkins Biotech & Healthcare Case Competition on April 10th at the Homewood Campus. This year’s…
EMP Team Members and Roles Ankita Das, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral fellow, Carnegie Department of Embryology) Ankita is the Director of the Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program (EMP) will be overseeing all activities…
Summary of Events In November 2014, we launched our program by hosting presentations from our local incubator partners, including the Innovation Factory, Social Innovation Lab, and the Business Case Competition…
The Hopkins Biotech Network (HBN) is spearheading a new multi-campus, multi-disciplinary program that aims to connect innovative Hopkins students and post-docs with entrepreneurial peers and experienced mentors from the local…
by: Negin Vatanian One of my own challenges of interviews and job searching is determining whether the company prefers hiring internal or external candidates. I have had external interviews where…
by: Mark Verdecia The Stieff Silver building, located between the Wyman Park and Hampden neighborhoods, is a remnant from a bygone era when Baltimore was a bustling hub for manufacturing….
by: Neil Rens In January, Halliburton and Baker Hughes announced plans to layoff workers to meet revenue targets. The companies provide oilfield services and are in the process of…
by: Masooda Omari From the very beginning, my interests were mainly medicine and pharma, however, going to pharmacy or medical school wasn’t on my list as I was looking…
by: Astha Jaiswal The start of the New Year has been marked with a countrywide debate over the issue of childhood vaccination. The Disneyland outbreak of measles, followed by the…
by: Dinesh Puppala 3D printing was originally used to quickly make prototypes in the manufacturing industry, including the medical device industry. 3D printing has gained momentum as a manufacturing procedure…
by: Astha Jaiswal Until recently, there were three widely accepted cornerstones of cancer treatment- surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. A combination of one or more of these approaches were used for…
by: Elizabeth Kolar Even though the United States has been declared “Ebola-free”, the effort to contain and eradicate Ebola hemorrhagic fever from the affected African countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia,…
by: Dinesh Puppala Wearables have raised up as the next big thing in the medical field. A number of tech giants are pouring into this segment, wearables have already shown…
by: Astha Jaiswal Astha Jaiswal spoke with Orit Scharf, Associate Director, R&D Science Submission Management at MedImmune. Orit carries years of experience in scientific and medical writing. We asked her…
by: Negin Vatanian Magnetic Resonance Imaging, genomic information, gene sequencing, microarrays, ultrasound and radioisotopes are all part of routine clinical and medial procedures. They are also being used in research…
by: Elizabeth Kolar To start, let me introduce myself as I am a new writer for HBN! I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Biochemistry, Cell, and Molecular Biology…
by: Jeffrey D. Bears Greetings fellow members of the Hopkins Biotechnology Network! My name is Jeff Bears, and this is my first time writing for HBN. I am currently in…
by: Monique Carter As an American Chemical Society scholarship recipient, my college extracurricular activity schedule typically revolved around the availability of the department mass spectrometer and my lab mentor. Following…
by: Mark Ediger In the midst of consistent debate regarding the ‘pace’ of innovation in drug discovery, a new monster has emerged: the ever-increasing cost of new drugs, especially those…
by: Astha Jaiswal My name is Astha Jaiswal and I am pursuing Masters in Biotechnology (concentration in Regulatory Affairs) from Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. I completed…
by: Negin Vatanian Biotech industry is taking advantage of outsourcing and delegating some aspects of the operation to other CMO and CRO companies rather than having proper and qualified staff…
by: Neil Rens “You’re going where?” groaned my parents, and just about everyone else that heard I was going to Rwanda for the summer. But nine weeks of taking classes…
HBN is looking for enthusiastic and dedicated individuals to join our Executive Board for the 2014-2015 academic year! The following open positions are available for any Johns Hopkins affiliated graduate…
by: Elizabeth Petro When being offered a job in industry, you may be asked to sign a non-competition agreement, or non-compete. In the non-compete, you agree not to work for…
by: Mark D. Ediger The process of drug development is nothing if not arduous. The most recent analyses place a greater than $1 billion dollar price tag on a nearly…
by: Elaine To *This article was originally published on the Scizzle blog http://www.myscizzle.com/blog/industry-postdoc-job-search/ In recent years, postdoctoral opportunities in industry have been on the rise. Notorious for higher pay, access…
by: Neil Rens Background: This summer I traveled to Rwanda with a program called Engineering World Health. Along with eighteen other students, I am spending 9 weeks in Rwanda—4 taking…
By Annie Cieniewicz and Amy Anderson Dear HBN members, We are delighted and excited to be assuming the roles of HBN’s new Co-Presidents for the upcoming year! With the exemplary…
Dear HBN Community, As outgoing Co-President, I would like to thank you for your continued support of HBN. Our engaged community is the lifeblood of our student group and our…
by: Monique Carter Intellectual property is at the core of novel biotechnology product development and commercialization. Effective use of the legal protection afforded by the branch of law encourages risk…
