I have four 30-minute informational interviews lined up for the American Society of Heatlh System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting in Anaheim, CA for fellowship positions in the pharmaceutical industry.
Interview 1 with Upsher-Smith: 2-year General Industry Fellowship
with an emphasis in Clinical Research. Clinical research involves a lot of the human testing that is required by the FDA before a drug is approved and even then, many drugs fail to pass this phases I-III.
Interview 2 with Proctor and Gamble: 1-year program that introduces participants to the integrated drug development process, including various medical, regulatory, marketing, and sales components. The P&G Post-Doctoral Fellow is placed in either the Professional & Scientific Relations (P&SR) or Medical & Technical Affairs (M&TA) department of the pharmaceuticals division of The Procter & Gamble Company. Overall, the Fellow's project work will be designed to enhance the scientific understanding of P&G products and disease states of interest among health care providers.
Interview 3 is for the Regulatory Pharmaceutical Fellowship with Purdue University Department of Pharmacy Practice in collaboration with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Eli Lilly and Company and Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical. I'll be interviewing for the promotional/marketing fellowship. The program serves to maintain and enhance a scientific link among the FDa, academia, and the pharmaceutical industry. It provides the fellow with an understanding of the process and practices of the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry in the delivery of drug information and the regulatory oversight of prescription drug marketing practices. It involves 9 months at the FDA with the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, 9 months at Johnson & Johnson, and 6 months at Purdue.
Interview 4 is with Johnson & Johnson for a 1-year fellowship in benefit risk management. I'm not sooo interested in this but it is only 1 year, it's in Jersey (close to home), and there will always be benefit risk management jobs.
I'm really interested in the 2nd and 3rd interviews. They sound really interesting and completely up my alley in terms of interests. The first one is also cool considering my background in research. I worked at the National Institutes of Health right out of school and then moved on to research and development in the protein science group at a pharmaceutical company in NY where I worked with mammalian tissue cultures. I wasinvolved in optimizing protein expression, assessing protein expression and quality of protein, creating plasmids for transfections, analyzing DNA for mutations in lines that made it further up the ladder in the development process, RT-PCR, PCr, Western blotting, etc. It was cool. I loved it. Oh the smells of LB broth and the hours spent working in a ventilation hood manipulating chinese hamster ovary cells. I also did a stint in manufacturing at another company where I had to gown up non-linting suits, hair covers, shoe covers, and double gloves and pass through through two pressurized doors. I enjoyed the fun of packing ion-exchange, gel-filtration, and size-exclusion columns that were almost as tall as myself and that involved high fluid flow rates and high pressures (sort of scary - the tubing burst once). I also got to clarify 30 gallon buckets of supernatant using sartorius cartridges. I didn't really enjoy the manufacturing stuff - lots of paperwork, lots of procedure, really boring.
And today I had the entire day off plus I skipped the gym. Here's the new haircut
I cooked 13 meals each about 400-500 calories so I can eat 3 of these meals per day not counting breakfast and a snack.
The main carb: 1 cup kasah made with a little bit of sesame oil, some red curry, raisins, diced onions and garlic. 4 servings that I split into 8 servings.
5 x 4 oz chicken breasts lovingly hammered into tenderized submission. I cooked this with the brussel sprouts, onions, and diced tofu for additional protein. For flavoring I used Bragg's amino acids and a little bit of siracha hot sauce.
3 tuna steaks cooked with onions, garlic, ginger, and broccoli. I used Amy's Teriyaki sauce for flavoring.
5 x 4 oz chicken breasts also hammered to tenderize them. I marinated them in steak&chop marinade sauce for 2 hours and cooked them with red peppers, diced garlic and broccoli.
For some reason I am on a mission to eat something with good mouthfeel - I enjoy warm chewy yet soft foods sometimes. I suppose it's because I ate rice for years (the whole Asian thing). I love rice. I'm not even hungry but I want to eat.
Tomorrow will be my return to 5 Points Fitness for their Muay Thai classes. Due to school, I hadn't been to class in over a month and I will most likely get my ass pounded. It's funny how your body forgets how to move after an extended absence. I know my balance will be off and my explosive movements will be changed due to the alteration in my workouts to heavy cardio but no plyometric exercises aside from the modified kettlebell workouts and the jump roping. I can definitely expect my shins and insteps to have become deconditioned. Before I left, I had progressed to the point where I could pound on the hardest heavy bags without any pain. I will be looking forward to bruised insteps and shins again. And I know that it's going to hurt like a fucking bitch when I take a kick from the other blue grade fighters tomorrow. Hopefully I'll get back into the rhythm that you get into when you spar and fight. Your body remembers pretty quickly. I need to get motivated and start talking to Kru Steve about training for a fight. Optimally I'd want to fight at Nationals in the summer but I'm not sure if I'll be in NY at that time depending on my fellowship situation. I wish I had started fighting much earlier on in life....I feel a bit past my prime at 30 but I figure better late than never.
Interview 1 with Upsher-Smith: 2-year General Industry Fellowship
with an emphasis in Clinical Research. Clinical research involves a lot of the human testing that is required by the FDA before a drug is approved and even then, many drugs fail to pass this phases I-III.
Interview 2 with Proctor and Gamble: 1-year program that introduces participants to the integrated drug development process, including various medical, regulatory, marketing, and sales components. The P&G Post-Doctoral Fellow is placed in either the Professional & Scientific Relations (P&SR) or Medical & Technical Affairs (M&TA) department of the pharmaceuticals division of The Procter & Gamble Company. Overall, the Fellow's project work will be designed to enhance the scientific understanding of P&G products and disease states of interest among health care providers.
Interview 3 is for the Regulatory Pharmaceutical Fellowship with Purdue University Department of Pharmacy Practice in collaboration with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Eli Lilly and Company and Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical. I'll be interviewing for the promotional/marketing fellowship. The program serves to maintain and enhance a scientific link among the FDa, academia, and the pharmaceutical industry. It provides the fellow with an understanding of the process and practices of the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry in the delivery of drug information and the regulatory oversight of prescription drug marketing practices. It involves 9 months at the FDA with the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, 9 months at Johnson & Johnson, and 6 months at Purdue.
Interview 4 is with Johnson & Johnson for a 1-year fellowship in benefit risk management. I'm not sooo interested in this but it is only 1 year, it's in Jersey (close to home), and there will always be benefit risk management jobs.
I'm really interested in the 2nd and 3rd interviews. They sound really interesting and completely up my alley in terms of interests. The first one is also cool considering my background in research. I worked at the National Institutes of Health right out of school and then moved on to research and development in the protein science group at a pharmaceutical company in NY where I worked with mammalian tissue cultures. I wasinvolved in optimizing protein expression, assessing protein expression and quality of protein, creating plasmids for transfections, analyzing DNA for mutations in lines that made it further up the ladder in the development process, RT-PCR, PCr, Western blotting, etc. It was cool. I loved it. Oh the smells of LB broth and the hours spent working in a ventilation hood manipulating chinese hamster ovary cells. I also did a stint in manufacturing at another company where I had to gown up non-linting suits, hair covers, shoe covers, and double gloves and pass through through two pressurized doors. I enjoyed the fun of packing ion-exchange, gel-filtration, and size-exclusion columns that were almost as tall as myself and that involved high fluid flow rates and high pressures (sort of scary - the tubing burst once). I also got to clarify 30 gallon buckets of supernatant using sartorius cartridges. I didn't really enjoy the manufacturing stuff - lots of paperwork, lots of procedure, really boring.
And today I had the entire day off plus I skipped the gym. Here's the new haircut
I cooked 13 meals each about 400-500 calories so I can eat 3 of these meals per day not counting breakfast and a snack.
The main carb: 1 cup kasah made with a little bit of sesame oil, some red curry, raisins, diced onions and garlic. 4 servings that I split into 8 servings.
5 x 4 oz chicken breasts lovingly hammered into tenderized submission. I cooked this with the brussel sprouts, onions, and diced tofu for additional protein. For flavoring I used Bragg's amino acids and a little bit of siracha hot sauce.
3 tuna steaks cooked with onions, garlic, ginger, and broccoli. I used Amy's Teriyaki sauce for flavoring.
5 x 4 oz chicken breasts also hammered to tenderize them. I marinated them in steak&chop marinade sauce for 2 hours and cooked them with red peppers, diced garlic and broccoli.
For some reason I am on a mission to eat something with good mouthfeel - I enjoy warm chewy yet soft foods sometimes. I suppose it's because I ate rice for years (the whole Asian thing). I love rice. I'm not even hungry but I want to eat.
Tomorrow will be my return to 5 Points Fitness for their Muay Thai classes. Due to school, I hadn't been to class in over a month and I will most likely get my ass pounded. It's funny how your body forgets how to move after an extended absence. I know my balance will be off and my explosive movements will be changed due to the alteration in my workouts to heavy cardio but no plyometric exercises aside from the modified kettlebell workouts and the jump roping. I can definitely expect my shins and insteps to have become deconditioned. Before I left, I had progressed to the point where I could pound on the hardest heavy bags without any pain. I will be looking forward to bruised insteps and shins again. And I know that it's going to hurt like a fucking bitch when I take a kick from the other blue grade fighters tomorrow. Hopefully I'll get back into the rhythm that you get into when you spar and fight. Your body remembers pretty quickly. I need to get motivated and start talking to Kru Steve about training for a fight. Optimally I'd want to fight at Nationals in the summer but I'm not sure if I'll be in NY at that time depending on my fellowship situation. I wish I had started fighting much earlier on in life....I feel a bit past my prime at 30 but I figure better late than never.
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ricksnake:
I know what you're talking about with the cliques too! It's hard to get people to talk to you on here if you aren't in their group!
autumnfade:
I dig JnJ -bought stock in it a few years ago, what do you think of B.M.S. just down the road? they are pumping alot of $$ in that place, Your food looks fantastic! do you know the lowdown when baking chicken ? 