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SUMMARY:ACS Career Consultant Virtual Office Hours - Special Edition: Industry vs. Academia - What to Expect?
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Lori Spangler\, ACS Career consultant\nSponsored by the American Chemical Society\n9am-10am (Pacific Time)\, Online via Zoom\, Free\, Learn more and Register\n\nDuring this FREE virtual career guidance session\, you will gain a better understanding of key differences between working in industry versus academia from ACS’ Certified Career Consultant Lori Spangler. You will also have the chance to get personalized career advice and network in small groups lead by ACS Career Consultants. \nThis event is free and open to ACS members and non-members\, but you must register to save your seat.
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SUMMARY:ACS Webinar: Skydiving into Retirement: How to Actively Manage the Transition
DESCRIPTION:Date: Wednesday\, September 8\, 2021 @ 2-3pm ET\nSpeaker: Bill Carroll\, Carroll Applied Science\nModerator: Tom Halleran\, American Chemical Society\nRegistration required: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/acs-webinars.html\n\n\n\n\nWhat You Will Learn: \n\nHow your persona changes when you retire\nWhy it’s important to actively structure your retirement\nSome useful tools for retirement success\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-produced with: ACS Careers
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SUMMARY:ACS Virtual Career Day - Inspiring Women in Chemistry: Career Conversations Driven by Pfizer
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the American Chemical Society\n8:30am-1:15pm (Pacific Time)\, Online via Zoom\, Free\, Learn more and register\n\nRegister for this FREE half-day career development workshop for undergraduate and graduate students interested in the advancement of women in the chemical sciences. Attendees will interact with notable scientists at Pfizer and ACS Career Consultants during keynote and panel discussions on career planning\, breakthrough science\, and advocating for a healthy work-life balance. \nKeynote Speakers: \n \n\n\n\n\nJennifer Lafontaine\, Ph.D. \nVice President\, Oncology Medicinal Chemistry | Pfizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Planning for a Career in Science: Navigating the Path Ahead” \nJennifer LaFontaine has worked as a medicinal chemist and people leader at Pfizer for over 20 years\, leading drug discovery teams responsible for the delivery of more than 20 Pfizer clinical candidates for cancer\, ophthalmic diseases\, diabetes and obesity.  Jennifer currently serves as the Head of Oncology Medicinal Chemistry\, where her team’s focus is to discover and advance transformational cancer therapies for patients as quickly as possible by leveraging their expertise in small molecule design\, synthesis\, protein sciences\, and structural biology. Jennifer previously led the Oncology Medicinal Chemistry Synthesis and Analytical Sciences group\, Cancer Platform Chemistry\, and the Ophthalmology Therapeutic Area Medicinal Chemistry group. \nJennifer earned her B.A. in chemistry with Distinction from Swarthmore College\, and then received her Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry from the University of California\, Berkeley\, before joining Pfizer in 1993. \nConnect with Jennifer on LinkedIn \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nJoy Yang\, Ph.D.\nAssociate Research Fellow\, Medicinal Sciences | Pfizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Discovery of Oral Inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease for the Treatment of COVID-19” \nJoy Yang received her Ph.D. in biophysics at University of Pennsylvania. In Professor Kim Sharp’s group\, she studied and developed computational methods for macromolecular simulation and modeling. Joy did Postdoctoral research at GSK on discovering broad-spectrum antibacterial agents. From 2010-2015\, Joy worked at Cubist Pharmaceuticals\, continuing the research and discovery in antibiotics. In 2015\, Joy joined Pfizer Neuroscience computation chemistry group where she has been working on many early and late stage programs across different therapeutic areas. \nConnect with Joy on LinkedIn \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPrincipal Scientist\, Process Chemistry | Pfizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Development of a Commercial Manufacturing Process for Ibrance” \nNga Do received her Bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Purdue University\, and her master’s degree under the direction of Scott Rychnovsky at UC Irvine.  Nga has been in Pfizer’s process Chemistry Group for 23 years and has worked on a spectrum of both early to late stage products including the commercial products: Ibrance\, Daurismo\, Steglatro\, as well as the COVID 19 vaccine. \nConnect with Nga on LinkedIn \n\n\n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.siliconvalleyacs.org/event/acs-virtual-career-day-inspiring-women-in-chemistry-career-conversations-driven-by-pfizer/
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