Are you interested in exploring careers outside of academia that leverage your scientific communication skills?
Join the Biotech Career Development Program for a Science Communication career panel. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Isha Verma, a postdoc in Neurology and an alum of the Biotech Career Development Program.
Speaker Bios:
Jory Weintraub is the Science Communication Director and a faculty member with the Duke Initiative for Science & Society at Duke University. He teaches science communication courses for undergrads and graduate students, and runs science communication training for faculty and postdocs. He received a PhD in Immunology from UNC Chapel Hill and then transitioned to focusing on science outreach and science communication full time after being awarded an NSF postdoctoral fellowship in STEM Education. He has 25 years of experience focusing on STEM outreach, STEM communication, faculty development and DEI efforts.
Callie Corsa is a Scientific Writer at JB Ashtin, where she started working in May 2020 after completing a postdoc in the Physiology department at the University of Michigan. During her postdoc, she participated in the first cohort of the Biotech Career Development Program and developed a passion for communicating medical and scientific advances to improve patient care. Prior to that, she received a PhD in Molecular Cell Biology from Washington University in St. Louis in 2015, and a BS degree from the University of Michigan in 2006.
