Early Career Development Day - The UNSW Lowy Cancer Research Centre Tuesday 19th September 2017 - from SCIENCE to PHARMA
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The Australian Society for Medical Research – NSW Committee
Early
Career
Development
Day
Tuesday 19th September 2017
The UNSW Lowy Cancer Research Centre
Major sponsor of ASMR ECDD 2017
Major National Supporter of ASMR MRW® Major Sponsor of ASMR MRW® in NSW
Welcome: Early Career Development Day 2017
We are very excited and proud to welcome you to the ASMR NSW Early
Career Development Day 2017. This event aims to engage PhD students and
early career researchers seeking progression in and out of academia.
We are thrilled to have secured twelve presenters who will be sharing their
journey and tips for success in traversing medical research and academia as
well sharing their tips on how to transform PhD skill-sets into success outside
academia. We would like to thank our speakers for donating their precious
time to this event.
We would also like to acknowledge and thank our generous sponsors Kids
Cancer Alliance and NSW Government Health and our major national
supporter National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
Please consider becoming a member of ASMR. Help support our activities in
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We hope you take this unique opportunity to network and think about the
diversity of career options available to you. Please feel free to share some
highlights using the hashtag #ECDD2017.
On behalf of the ASMR NSW Early Career Development Day Organising
Committee
Dr Fatima El-Assaad
Convenor
Dr Farzaneh Atashrazm
Noman Bakhshi
Gabriella Martyn
Ashleigh Lester
Dr Anisyah Ridiandries
Dr Camelia Quek
Dr Sona Samuel
Sara Sarraf
Committee: Early Career Development Day 2017
Dr Fatima El-Assaad Dr Farzaneh Atash Razm Noman Bakhshi
Senior Research Associate Postdoctoral Scientist Masters student
Faculty of Medicine Brain and Mind Centre Neuroscience Research
UNSW Sydney The University of Sydney Australia (NeuRa)
UNSW Sydney
Dr Anisyah Ridiandries Ashleigh Lester Gabriella Martyn
Postdoctoral Scientist PhD student PhD Student
Kolling Institute of Medical Lowy Cancer Research School of Biotechnology
Research Centre and Biomolecular Sciences
The University of Sydney UNSW Sydney UNSW Sydney
Dr Camelia Quek Dr Sona Samuel Sara Sarraf
Postdoctoral Scientist Postdoctoral Scientist Research Officer
Melanoma Institute Australia Children's Cancer Institute Department of Pain and
Sydney Medical School Lowy Cancer Research Palliative Care Sydney
The University of Sydney Centre Children's Hospital
UNSW Sydney
Program: Early Career Development Day 2017
9 am Registration
9:25 am Welcome
Session 1: Success in Academia and Medical Research
9:30 am Professor Emad El-Omar
How to make it in academia
Professor Judy Black
Where am I and how did I get here?
Dr Andrew Gifford
Making the most of opportunities – A pathologist’s
perspective
Dr Orazio Vittorio
Being a young scientist in Australia: a job or a lifestyle?
11:10 am Morning tea
Session 2: Academia, Recruitment and Patent law
11:40 am Dr Mary Kavurma
Experiences of a post-doc and beyond
Ms Alice Kedie
Non academic career pathways in the Life Sciences
Dr Daniel Sieveking
From the lab to law: becoming a patent attorney
12:55 pm Lunch
Program: Early Career Development Day 2017
Session 3: Alternate Careers for PhD Graduates
1:55 pm Dr Julie Dwyer
From the fountain of youth to promoting with
penguins
Dr Martijn Bijker
Medical science liaison - all you need to know
Dr Amanda Rider
From experiments to editing
Mr Jackson Thomas
My journey as an academic scientist
Dr Christina Lui
The NSW EMCR Network
Session 4: Networking
3:45 pm Afternoon tea and networking
How to make it in academia
Prof Emad El-Omar
Professor of Medicine
Editor in Chief, GUT
St George & Sutherland Clinical School
UNSW Sydney
E: e.el-omar@unsw.edu.au
Prof El-Omar graduated in Medicine from Glasgow University,
Scotland, and trained as a gastroenterologist. He worked as a Visiting
Scholar/Scientist at Vanderbilt University, TN, and National Cancer
Institute, MD, USA, and was Professor of Gastroenterology at
Aberdeen University, Scotland, for 16 years before taking up the
Chair of Medicine at St George & Sutherland Clinical School, UNSW.
He is the Editor in Chief of the journal Gut. His research interests
include the gut microbiome, inflammation driven GI cancer and IBD.
He is the Director of the Microbiome Research Centre at St George
Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
Where am I and how did I get here?
Prof Emerita Judy Black AO
MB BS (Hons) PhD FRACP (Hon) FERS
The University of Sydney
E: judy.black@sydney.edu.au
Prof Judith Black graduated in Medicine at the University of Sydney
where she also completed her PhD. She was an NHMRC Senior
Principal Research Fellow and Professor, Discipline of Pharmacology,
University of Sydney; Head, Cell Biology Group, Woolcock Institute of
Medical Research and Associate Physician, Department of
Respiratory Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Judy led a team
of more than 25 students, postdocs and research assistants who
investigated the cellular and molecular aspects of lung disease. She
had continuous grant funding from the NHMRC since 1980 and
published more than 200 articles. In addition she was appointed, 2
years ago, one of the first fellows of the European Respiratory Society
(FERS).
Recently she has focused on advising and mentoring both young and
established researchers, participated in senior academic promotion,
mentoring and gender equity events and coached applicants in
interview techniques.
Judy observes that there is still a need for academic mentoring
/coaching within Universities and institutes, and it is to this that she
will continue to contribute.
Making the most of opportunities
- A pathologist's perspective
Dr Andrew Gifford
Clinical Research Fellow
Staff Specialist Paediatric Pathologist
Prince of Wales Hospital
Children’s Cancer Institute
E: agifford@ccia.org.au
Dr Andrew Gifford is employed as a Staff Specialist Paediatric
Pathologist serving Sydney Children's Hospital and Prince of Wales
Hospital, Randwick and as a Clinical Research Fellow at the
Children’s Cancer Institute (CCI). In his clinical role, he participates in
the diagnostic histopathology service which includes a broad range of
tumour and non-tumour pathology.
Prior to Anatomical Pathology training, he completed Honours and
PhD degrees at CCI (UNSW) investigating the role of the Reduced
Folate Carrier gene in mediating methotrexate resistance in
Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia. His current role at CCI
includes pathological phenotyping of genetically engineered mice and
assessment of protein expression in tissue microarrays and tumour
xenografts.
Being A young scientist in Australia:
A job or a lifestyle?
Dr Orazio Vittorio
Group Leader
Tumour Biology and Targeting Group
Children’s Cancer Institute
E: vittorio@ccia.unsw.edu.au
Dr Orazio Vittorio received a PhD in Oncology the 21st February 2011
from the University of Pisa, Italy. Subsequently, he was involved in a
European project involving 7 different countries and he worked in
Germany, Scotland, Spain and France.
Dr Vittorio is a cancer biologist with an international emerging
reputation in the development of anti-cancer therapeutics. He has
extensive experience in nanomedicine studying the interaction of
nanoparticles with cancer cells, non-malignant cells and stem cells.
He has been studying the use of different nanoparticles as targeted
delivery systems for anticancer drugs or siRNA/pDNA, in order to
increase anti-cancer activity and limiting side effects.
As a result of his success Dr Vittorio has attracted competitive
research funding (> 1.1M $ in the last 4 years), and established
multidisciplinary national and international collaborations. In 2017 he
was awarded the CINSW Career Development Fellowship (2017-
2019) and he is currently Project Leader at the Children's Cancer
Institute in the Tumour Biology and Targeting program.
Experiences of a post-doc and beyond
Dr Mary Kavurma
Group Leader
Vascular Complications Group
Heart Research Institute
E: Mary.Kavurma@hri.org.au
Dr Mary Kavurma received her PhD (2003) from the Centre for
Vascular Research, UNSW. In 2004, she undertook an NHMRC CJ
Martin Fellowship at the University of Cambridge UK. Here she
developed an interest in the survival actions of tumour necrosis
factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) in atherosclerosis
and CVD. Mary established her team upon returning back to UNSW
in 2007. Recently she relocated to the Heart Research Institute
(2013) where she heads the Vascular Complications Group. Her
current research is addressing critical questions concerning the
impact of TRAIL in obesity, diabetes, CVD and chronic kidney
disease.Non-academic career pathways
in the life sciences
Ms Alice Kedie
Team Manager
Hays Life Sciences
E: alice.kedie@hays.com.au
Alice has been working in recruitment for over 7 years, most recently
with the Hays Life Sciences business in Australia and previously with
the Hays Education business in Sydney and the UK.
Since joining the Life Sciences operation in 2015, Alice has managed
clinical research recruitment Australia-wide and has been
instrumental in the recent set up of the Hays Life Sciences office in
Melbourne.
Alice specialises in recruitment for professional roles within clinical
research. The larger life sciences team cover Life Sciences
opportunities country wide in regulatory affairs, quality, medical
affairs, health economics, clinical research, sales and marketing.
Within Hays, Alice has been commended for her success in managing
the new talent within the Life Sciences business and developing the
team. She has a keen interest in developing staff through coaching
and leadership and is a recent graduate of IGNITES a six month
course for young leaders in Sydney run by the Institute of Executive
Coaching and Leadership (IECL).From the lab to law:
Becoming a patent attorney
Dr Daniel Sieveking
Principal Attorney
Spruson & Ferguson
E: daniel.sieveking@spruson.com
Daniel Sieveking is a Principal in the Chemical and Life Sciences
team of the Intellectual Property firm Spruson & Ferguson. Working
as a patent attorney, Daniel advises and assists clients in obtaining
patent protection for their inventions. Following the completion of his
PhD from University of Sydney, Daniel was a postdoctoral fellow at
Stanford University, where his research focused on stem cells and
their use in regenerative medicine.From the fountain of youth
To promoting with penguins
Dr Julie Dwyer
Technical Specialist
Genesearch
E: julie.dwyer@genesearch.com.au
I completed my PhD in the Molecular Signalling Lab at Monash
University in 2009. My thesis examined the role of the Ets
transcription factors in the regulation of telomerase in cancer. With a
keen interest to further my career in cancer research (and desire to
live in France), I joined the Tumour Microenvironment group as a
postdoc at the Cochin Institute, Paris. My research explored
intercellular signalling between cancer cells and the endothelium, with
a particular focus on how cancer cell-driven endothelial permeability.
While in Paris, I also freelanced as a scientific editor for Edanz, a
Japan-based company, where I helped researchers with English as a
second language increase their publication chances through language
editing and formatting manuscripts to meet journal requirements. At
the end of 2013, I returned to Australia. In mid-2014, I joined the
Pharmacogenomics & Drug Discovery group as a postdoc at the
University of Sydney. In this lab, I worked on uncovering the
molecular mechanisms underlying the anti-cancer actions of a class
of novel drugs. Upon completion of my contract (Dec 2015), I left
academia and joined Genesearch as the technical specialist for NSW
and the ACT.Medical science liaison
All you need to know
Dr Martijn Bijker
Director
“from SCIENCE to PHARMA”
W: www.fromSCIENCEtoPHARMA.com
Martijn is originally from the Netherlands and moved to Sydney ten
years ago to start his postdoc. After close to four years of postdocing
he had enough of it and moved to the “dark” side – the
pharmaceutical industry - and started to work as a Medical Science
Liaison (MSL).
As an MSL you will be discussing high level science and clinical data
with the top clinicians in your field on the latest (pipeline) drugs of the
company that could change the lives of millions of people.
He quickly realised that like him, many other PhD/Postdocs struggled
to find good information to prepare themselves for the transition from
academia into the pharmaceutical industry as an MSL.
With a year of MBA training and 7 weeks of bedrest required after a
back operation, he started to become an entrepreneur and founded
his own MSL career and coaching company and built an online MSL
training platform that has helped hundreds of candidates globally to
maximise their chances to transition into a MSL role.From experiments to editing
Dr Amanda Rider
Senior Editor
Partnership and Custom Media
NatureResearch
E: amanda.rider@nature.com
Amanda Rider is a Senior Editor in the Partnership & Custom Media
team at Springer Nature. She moved to the publishing sector after
completing a PhD in Physics from the University of Sydney and a
postdoctoral fellowship at CSIRO, and has recently completed an
MBA.My journey as an academic scientist
Dr Jackson Thomas
Asst/Prof Pharmacy
Faculty of Health
Health Research Institute
University of Canberra
E: Jackson.Thomas@canberra.edu.au
Dr Jackson Thomas (BPharm, MPharmSc, PhD) is a pharmacist,
senior lecturer and an academic scientist at the University of
Canberra. Jackson is also a consultant for pharmaceutical
manufacturers, biotech companies, and the Therapeutic Goods
Administration (TGA). Jackson has a specific clinical and research
interest in indigenous child health, especially skin infections in
Australian Indigenous children.
Other research interests include (but are not limited to) innovations in
teaching & patient care, discovery of bio-actives from natural
resources, quality use of medicines including drug stability and
counterfeit medications, complementary and alternative medicine
including food science and nutrition, and epidermal parasitic
infectious skin disease in humans and infectious and zoonotic
disease in livestock.
As a result of his research achievements, he was given the 2015 ACT
Tall Poppy of the Year Award. Following on from this, he was selected
into the Early- and Mid-Career Research Forum Executive Committee
affiliated to Australian Academy of Science and a specialist advisor for
Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).The NSW Early-Mid Career Research Network
Dr Christina Lui
Clinical Research Associate
QuintilesIMS
President, NSW EMCR Network
E: christinalui@live.com.au
Dr Lui has a Bachelor of Medical Science and an Honours in
Parkinson’s Disease research. She has studied Prostate Cancer at
the Garvan Institute and has been awarded a PhD in Medicine for her
work on Colorectal Cancer at the Westmead Millennium Institute in
the Gene Expression Group.
Christina decided to diverge into the clinical side of medicine and
joined QuintilesIMS first as a Clinical Trial Assistant and moved into
the Clinical Research Associate role within 5 months. She is now
managing clinical trial sites for Roche with a special focus on cancer
drug trials. Christina now applies the skill-set she acquired during her
PhD in the management of clinical trials, which has been very
fulfilling. She is loving the corporate life!
She also heads the NSW EMCR Network. The mission of this
network is to provide networking opportunities with industry leaders
as well as provide an opportunity for PhD students or Post-Docs that
want to capitalise on their doctorates in alternate fulfilling careers.
Finding connections in fields outside of academia is not always easy,
the EMCR network NSW is a not for profit organisation that enables
people to do exact that! You can even join the committee and
contribute, they are always looking for passionate members.ASMR Membership
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ASMR NSW Convenor Dr. Siva Purushothuman
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