My Transition from Basic Research to a Career in Technology Transfer

I have always been fascinated by science. It was natural for me to keep pursuing science in school and later genetics at the university level. Even though my parents did not understand my rationale, they continued to be supportive of their only child, while I went further and further with more degrees and my scientific pursuits, seemingly forever, on my way to building a career as a researcher. Then, reality hits. Scarce funding resources and the exclusivity of the ivory tower are becoming more and more apparent. I then searched and found the technology transfer industry, and had to explain to my parents, again, but this time — why I am getting off the path I have built for many years to pursue a new direction.

This is my story: https://link.medium.com/R6dFSHRuKR

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s