Career
Jul 1, 2026
After the Bench: What the BioBusiness Summer School 2026 Taught Me
No two days of my PhD have been the same. One day, I am troubleshooting why a perfectly good assay suddenly won’t repeat; the next I am trying to understand the data that is telling me something I did not expect. I love that unpredictability, and I am good at working within it. Somewhere in the process, another thought started to arise. Academia had shown me how discoveries begin: with curiosity, patience, and careful work at the bench. But I started to wonder about the bigger picture beyond the lab: how a promising discovery leaves the lab and eventually reaches patients.
