PSM-ABS Recent Graduates with Their New Jobs
Nicholas Maksim, Al Stangl, Conor Quinlan, and Bryanne Wadington have different interests in the biotech industry but they all have the same drive and perseverance to excel in their studies and complete their degrees in the Professional Science Masters in Applied Biosciences.
Nicholas Maksim and Al Stangl were both able to find jobs even before their graduation dates.
Nicholas Maksim was a student in the Diagnostics Laboratory Sciences track. By November 2015 a month before the Fall 2015 graduation, he was hired as Project Manager at Eli Lilly and Company(link is external) in Indianopolis, Indiana.
Nick did his internship at the Phoenix, AZ facility of Celgene,(link is external) a major global biopharmaceutical Corporation. He was given the opportunity to participate in various project management tasks and prepare and/or complete associated project deliverables as assigned.
Title of Master Report: “Project Management within the Sterile Drug Manufacturing Industry”
Al (Alfred) J. Stangl was a student in the Molecular & Cellular Biology track. In February 2016 long before the Spring 2016 graduation, he started a job as Bioinformatics Specialist at Personal Genome Diagnostics(link is external) in Baltimore Maryland.
For his internship, Al received an offer from the Bio 5 Industry Research Internship Award. The Internship was at Sanofi’s Tucson Research Center,(link is external) Tucson, AZ. Overall Project Goal: To Perform experiments to examine the interaction of small molecules with a high density protein microarray chip to identify the direct binding partners of small molecules of interest.
Title of Master Report: “Protein Microarray Mediated Target Identification
Conor Quinlan and Byanne Wadington landed their current job positions right after graduation.
Conor Quinlan was a student in the Controlled Environment Track and he graduated in Spring 2016.
Recently, he received a good job offer from STUPPY(link is external) as the lead Controlled Environment Agriculture Engineer. STUPPY(link is external) is a well-known Greenhouse manufacturing company in Kansas City.
Conor was an intern at Grafted Growers LLC(link is external), where he was required to design and implement critical environmental control systems and technologies. The systems and technologies were envisioned to improve the resource-use-efficiency of the closed-type production system of Grafted Growers LLC. Examples of the systems to be retrofitted and designed are: precision irrigation system, precision air flow system, improvement of light uniformity under sole-source light conditions, and precision injection system
Title of Master Report: “Variable Cost and Marketing Survey Analysis of an Aquaponic Green House”
Bryanne Wadington was a student in the Diagnostics Laboratory Sciences track. She graduated in Spring 2016.
On June 17, 2016 Bryanne informed us that she had accepted a position as the Project Coordinator in the clinical sciences division at the Ventana Medical Systems.(link is external)
Bryanne did her internship at the Save the Cord Foundation(link is external) in Tucson, AZ. Bryanne worked on a program called “Share the Science” that involved the cellular research communities from University of Arizona, Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University to bring science oriented middle and high school students together with Arizona research communities to encourage scientific careers.
Title of Master’s Report: “Umbilical Cord Blood Education”
The success of these students in landing good paying jobs prove that the Professional Sciences Master’s degree in Applied Biosciences is generating the needed, adequate highly-trained workforce in the technology-based companies, governmental agencies, and non-profit organization.
Read More about other PSM-ABS graduates and their current jobs at: http://appliedbiosci.arizona.edu/people/alumni