Life Science Careers

Chapter 1. The Changing Employment Distribution of Life Science Doctorates.- Part I. Science and Education Policy.- Chapter 2. A Long and Winding Road: Reflections on a Career in Science Policy.- Chapter 3. From the Lab Bench to the Capital: My Career Evolution from Biologist to Government Relations Professional.- Chapter 4. Don't Do what I Did: A Circuitous Career from Science to Science Policy and Beyond.- Chapter 5. STEM Society Education Director: Finding the Job I Never Knew Existed.- Chapter 6. A Career Detour: Transforming Institutions and Organizations to Support an Inclusive STEMM Ecosystem.- Chapter 7. Leadership in Inclusive Science Education and Training:  Who Are We, and How Did We Get Here?.- Chapter 8. Scientific Societies: Working for Science, but Not on Science.- Part II. Tech Transfer and Commercialization.- Chapter 9. My Path to Technology Transfer.- Chapter 10. From Academic Bioscience to Patent Law.- Chapter 11. My Journey into Academic Tech Transfer.- Chapter 12. A Biologist's Path to a Career in Finance.- Part III. Research Administration.- Chapter 13. Beyond the Bench:  A Career in Scientific Research Administration.- Chapter 14. My Career in Science Administration.- Chapter 15. The Unplanned Journey: From the Bench to University Leadership to Biotech Company CEO.- Chapter 16. Leaving the Lab, Staying in Academia: University Research Administration.- Chapter 17. The Critical Role of Grants Facilitation for Supporting Individual and Team Science.- Part IV. Teaching.- Chapter 18. Finding my Dream Job with Undergrads after Only Three Decades of Searching: The Art of Changing Careers in Science.- Chapter 19. A Compass to Academic Success: Charting an Educational Career Path at a Large Research University.- Chapter 20. Why I Left a PhD Program in Wildlife Biology and Became a Teacher.- Chapter 21. My Career Path to Teaching High School Biology.- Chapter 22. Driving without a License - Career Advice from a

Dr. Jasna Markovac comes from a family of scientists; both her parents were scientists themselves. She earned her doctorate in human genetics at the University of Michigan and pursued postdoctoral training in molecular biology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Following her training, she held faculty positions at the University of Michigan and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. For 20 years, she served as an editor, journals director, and vice president at major scientific publishing firms before returning to academia as a manager of a learning design and publishing team that provides editorial and consulting services to faculty, staff, and students. Today, she continues her work in academia while maintaining her own consulting firm where her clients include the University of Michigan and Yale University. Markovac has been an active contributor to several professional societies, including the American Physiological Society (APS), Society for Developmental Biology, the Societyfor Neuroscience, and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). She is the Founding Editor of FASEB BioAdvances, and guest editor of several journal special issues on topics related to careers beyond the bench, as well as biomedical and medical education.


Dr. Kim E. Barrett is originally from the United Kingdom, and earned both her B.Sc. (Medicinal Chemistry) and her Ph.D. (Biological Chemistry) from University College London, England as the first in her family to pursue post-secondary education. She continued her training with a postdoc at the U.S. National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases and then held a faculty position at the University of California San Diego, where she rose to the rank of Distinguished Professor of Medicine and also served as Dean of the Graduate Division. She is currently Vice Dean for Research and Distinguished Professor of Physiology and Membrane Biology in the School of Medicine at the University of