ACADEMIA
It’s 2020 and the ideological divide between the Biotech industry and academic research is closing fast.
When I interviewed for Ph.D. programs in the spring of 2020, instead of glossing over my industry experience, I proudly highlighted it. A couple of decades ago, my interviewers might have seen this as a sign that I wasn’t fit for Academia; instead, they were only impressed in the diversity of experience and skills that I had gained in Biotech.
It also used to be that Academia and Biotech served different purposes; the former produced research and the latter used that research to make products. …
Computational biology is becoming a popular buzzword in tech-media and on LinkedIn. There are dozens of articles about how to become a computational biologist and the benefits thereof. But often these articles don’t really make clear what a computational biologist actually does.
When I started looking for my first job around the end of college, I didn’t have a good idea of this either. So I looked for a job that would expose me to a lot of different types of comp bio work. I ended up joining a company that had a chemical biology-based platform with a small comp…
Steffan Paul
PhD Student in Bioinformatics at Harvard Medical school | Biotech Enthusiast | Computational Biologist
