The Bioscience Careers Seminar Series is back by popular demand! Now led by the PhD Ambassadors in collaboration with the Office of Research and Graduate Education and Life Science Washington, the series will allow graduate students to explore careers and build professional connections with biotech and pharmaceutical companies within Washington state. PhD training prepares you for many different jobs, both inside and outside the academy. During this year’s Bioscience Careers Seminar Series, we’ll highlight experiences of scientists who’ve transitioned from their PhD to various careers in one of our local companies.

* To encourage networking and community building, all sessions will be held in person at the UW SLU campus; recordings will be posted, at a later date, on the RGE website.

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Divya Varun is an Associate Director for Cell Therapy CMC at Bristol Myers Squibb in Seattle, WA. She leads a process development team focusing on both early and late stage autologous lentiviral based cell therapy assets. Her team is currently leading Multiple myeloma and Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) targeting indications. The key focus being at the forefront of autologous cell therapy accelerated manufacturing to improve metrics such as reduced COGm, faster turn-around times, improved quality and automation enabling capabilities.

Divya holds a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Arizona State University and B.S. in Biotechnology from University School of Biotechnology, GGSIPU, India. Her academic research work focused on identifying synthetic peptide-based substrates for human neural progenitor stem cell differentiation.