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\nbegan a new position as associate director on the research programs team at The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson\u2019s Research this fall.<\/p>\n
\nis currently a clinical research associate at Biomotivate, a health technology start-up working towards creating a digital therapeutics platform for people with substance abuse disorders to predict and prevent problem behaviors.<\/p>\n
\nis currently a scientific consultant at Diamond Age Data Science, which does custom bioinformatics work for biotech and pharmaceutical companies.<\/p>\n
\nis now a consultant for research and development at Bayer Strategy & Business Consulting.<\/p>\n
\nwelcomed Zachary Alexander to their family in April 2019.<\/p>\n
\nbegan his position as assistant professor of biochemistry this fall at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. Andrew and Jackie (and daughter Elna) also welcomed their second daughter, Ada, this year.<\/p>\n
\nand her startup company, Impact Proteomics, which she co-founded with Biological Sciences Professor Jonathan Minden, received a National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Award for further development of their universal proteome sample preparation technology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\nbecame a UC President\u2019s Fellow at the University of California, San Diego, where her work in the Trejo lab is focused on delineating cell signals that control endothelial barrier stabilization and cytoprotection.<\/p>\n
\nbegan his medical school training at the University of Maryland, Baltimore in 2018 after working as a staff scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany.<\/p>\n
\nwas promoted to associate professor with tenure in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.<\/p>\n
\nbegan her role as senior scientist at Essen BioScience, Inc. (a Sartorius Brand) in 2019.<\/p>\n
\nis currently an associate at McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm.<\/p>\n
\nis starting as an assistant professor of molecular and cellular medicine at Texas A&M University.<\/p>\n
\nis currently a portfolio analytics and strategy manager in the retail lending department within PNC Financial Services Group.<\/p>\n
\nis enjoying his fourth year as a fiduciary financial advisor with MassMutual Financial Group and assists in research part-time in a lab at Stanford School of Medicine.<\/p>\n