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From Ebola in Africa to biotechnology in Washington DC — with Michelle Rozo

She’s worked across continents, industries, and the government to use the life sciences to improve people’s lives.

Good morning my friends!

Today I get to have an awesome conversation with a good friend of mine, Michelle Rozo, about stretching yourself in your career, taking opportunities when they come up, and always finding a way to fun with what you’re doing.

Michelle has had an amazing career. Her passion for science was built from the ground up as a 7-year old studying bugs at summer camp, and now she’s a biotechnology leader working in Washington, DC. If you would have asked her a few decades ago where she would end up, however, she never could have predicted it.

After finishing her PhD at Johns Hopkins, Michelle took a job as a post-doc for the Navy and eventually founder herself managing a clinical trial in Liberia after the Ebola outbreak in 2014–15. She brought the lessons she learned managing diverse teams to Capitol Hill where she worked as a Staffer in the Senate, focused on Pennsylvania healthcare policy. From there, she found herself at the State Department and eventually the Department of Defense…