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Making Informed Career Decisions

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Content Inside: Making Informed Career Decisions Science is not what it was a decade agoand neither are the career directions that scientists are taking. At the November 2001 meeting of predoctoral and physi- cian postdoctoral fellows HHMI convened a panel of speakers who have taken three very different career paths since receiving their Ph.D. degrees. The focus of the discussion was on flexibility and remaining open to all options. Panelist Darrel P. Cohen M.D. Ph.D. associate director clinical research oncology Pharmacia Corporation was one of HHMIs first predoctoral fel- lows. His transition from predoctoral laboratory research in an academic setting to clinical research with a pharmaceutical company was facilitated by the experience he gained each step of the way. After com- pletion of a seven-year M.D./Ph.D. program including laboratory research that focused on signal transduction (basic science research) in murine B lymphocytes he spent the next six years in clinical training programs in internal medicine and hematology/oncology. As a fel- low in hematology/oncology he returned to laboratory research applying experience gained during predoc- toral research to conduct in vitro cytotoxicity analyses of novel camptothecin analogs (translational research) in chronic B-lymphocytic leukemia. During the past three years Dr. Cohen has expanded his research interest to include clinical aspects conducting phase I and II clinical trials of novel anticancer drugs and drug com- binations in cancer patients. In his current position with Pharmacia he is involved in all phases of cancer drug development including interacting with laboratory scientists and clinical investigators worldwide. Dr. Cohen explained that working for a biotechnol- ogy or pharmaceutical company should not be viewed as a second-rate alternative to the traditional career path of the academic or clinical researcher. Rather it repre- sents an extension of laboratory and medical science into the ap ...

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