Northeastern University PhD Network

In our latest Q&A, Professor or Pharmaceutical Sciences Stephen Hatfield talks about the strength of Northeastern's Industry PhD program, which allows working professionals to earn their PhD without leaving their full-time job. Through the program, Hatfield worked with Ryan Murray, PhD and biotech company Beam Therapeutics to advance the next wave of gene-edited CAR-T cell therapy to fight solid tumors. Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/dgzug2vf Northeastern University. KiraGen Bio. The LEADERs Program at Northeastern University. Northeastern University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Michail Sitkovsky. Jason Sidman. #genetherapy

Ryan Murray, PhD’24, cut his own path to developing an emerging gene-edited cell therapy that could one day personalize treatment for disease. After completing his Industry PhD in Stephen Hatfield's lab, he co-founded KiraGen Bio. “I never thought I’d be an entrepreneur. I wanted to be in early science discovery, but through the LEADERs program I learned there’s other things you can do with your PhD that are still very scientifically focused in early-stage research,” says Murray, who worked at Northeastern University Center for Research Innovation (CRI). “You don’t have to be the one sitting there pipetting.” Click to read the full article. https://lnkd.in/eZRFFSEK Murray started KiraGen Bio with Aaron Edwards, who recently earned a dual degree from Harvard Business School and Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Northeastern University. The LEADERs Program at Northeastern University. Fifty Years. #biotech #startup #entrepreneurship #industryphd #phdeducation #geneediting Northeastern University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

We’re thrilled to introduce four of Northeastern’s new PhD students! Good luck to the entire class of over 430 students—the largest in history! Prathamesh Mane is looking at the use of biomaterials within bioengineering. Bryn Anderson is focused on marine and environmental science. Allen Zhang is researching photonics applications within mechanical engineering. Tiffany Cruz, M.A. is studying people of color in 19th century British literature. Northeastern University. Northeastern University College of Science. Northeastern University College of Engineering. Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Northeastern University College of Social Sciences and Humanities. The LEADERs Program at Northeastern University. #research #phdeducation #learningandteaching #innovation

An article worth a read: This piece by UIDP calls out our Northeastern University Industry PhD as one in a growing number of programs enabling doctoral candidates to earn credit while working for leading companies. As an institution built on a long history of experiential education, we are proud to be part of this movement to equip PhD students with real-world knowledge--whether they end up in industry or academia. UIDP is a nationally recognized organization identifying ways for university and industry to work together. The LEADERs Program at Northeastern University. The Gordon Institute of Engineering Leadership at Northeastern University. #industryphd #research #innovation #academia #phd

Congratulations Stephen!

Amgen Principal Scientist Dylan Riggs hired LEADERs fellow Nicole Langlois, PhD'23, to make sure potential new cancer and rare disease drug proteins were safe. He was so impressed that he helped find her a full-time job after graduation as senior scientist at Amgen. His third Amgen fellow starts this fall. We sat down with Riggs to learn about his formative experience working with Langlois and what he calls “really good synergy” between Amgen and The LEADERs Program at Northeastern University. Check out the full story... #phdeducation #biotech #drugdevelopment #pharma #fellowship #research Northeastern University. https://lnkd.in/eyAQJiUZ

Khoury College of Computer Sciences PhD Max von Hippel and MIT Sloan School of Management graduate Juan Castaño built Benchify to find hidden software bugs. Check out Milton Posner's article to learn more about how this innovation allows coders maximize their time. https://lnkd.in/dHUk--vv #phdeducation #coding #softwaredevleopment #startup #innovation Northeastern University

For many PhD students, figuring out which career path to take is like a science experiment. It’s a good thing Nicole Langlois PhD’23, chemistry, specializes in problem solving. She came to Northeastern’s PhD program with a double undergrad degree in chemistry and forensic science and her reasoning skills led her from analytical chemistry into a The LEADERs Program at Northeastern University fellowship at biotech company Amgen. Her unique skill set didn’t go unnoticed by her Amgen supervisor Dylan Riggs. “Nicole blew us away from day one. Right off the bat, she was coming back to us—no exaggeration—with some of the most well-prepared presentations I’ve ever seen,” says Riggs, process development principal scientist. Read our latest story exploring how Nicole's LEADERs research fellowship at Amgen led to a full-time job... Northeastern University. Heather Clark. #phdeducation #chemicalengineering #biotech #chromatography #massspectrometry #phdresearch #drugdevelopment #mentorship https://lnkd.in/ezAbsZxV

Burcu Özek, PhD’24, was one of the lucky ones with job offers before she’d even graduated—from an industry startup, a hospital-university research collaborative, and academia in a coveted full-time faculty position. The LEADERs Program at Northeastern University helped her whittle it down to the best fit. Read our latest feature to find out where she ended up... and more on how her LEADERs course and Merck fellowship taught her to translate the value of her discoveries, including her research in the lab of Professor Sagar Kamarthi. "We’re trying to develop machine learning models to objectively understand the level of pain of a patient, which would be especially useful for babies or patients in paralysis who can’t tell us how they feel," says Özek. "Whenever any one of us goes to a hospital’s emergency room, doctors will ask us to self-report our pain level based on a chart with sad and happy faces, but that’s subjective to individuals with different pain levels." Northeastern University, Northeastern University College of Engineering, @, #AI, #machinelearning, #biotech, #industrialengineering Northeastern University Department of Chemical Engineering. https://lnkd.in/eBemswYW

For our latest story, we sat down with Professor Craig Ferris to get a faculty perspective on The LEADERs Program at Northeastern University. He says LEADERs prepares students for a future—in industry or academia—and that's why he believes every Northeastern University PhD should enroll in its flagship course “Leading Self and Others.” Hear more from the director of the Center for Translational Neuroimaging about PhD education and working with Xuezhu Cai and others... Northeastern University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Northeastern University College of Science. Northeastern University College of Engineering. #industry #academia #phd #neuroimaging https://lnkd.in/g2WXeycn