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.

About the Speaker

Kelsey Lynch, Ph.D. is a senior consultant with Brass Tacks Insights, a small but mighty competitive intelligence consulting group based in Seattle. At Brass Tacks, Kelsey assesses evolving clinical data, regulatory and business strategies for new oncology therapies to enable biotech and pharma company clients to efficiently and intelligently reach cancer patients in need.

Prior to joining BTI, Kelsey spent 3 years as a senior scientist developing in vivo-generated CAR T cell therapies at Umoja Biopharma, a Seattle-based startup. Before transitioning to industry, Kelsey trained at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center as a postdoc in virology and as a molecular biology grad student at the University of Washington. Outside of work, Kelsey spends as much time away from a computer screen as possible by skiing, cycling, or hiking with a group of close female friends working in various biomedical fields self-dubbed “The Lady Doctors”.