Career Night Speaker: Dr. Sandra Engle

Career Night Speaker: Dr. Sandra Engle

Career Services Center, Horizon Room 

May 30, 2017

5-7pm

Join us at the lecture. Get a chance to network and eat some great appetizers, buffet dinner, plus beer and wine.

About the Speaker: Sandra Engle is the Associate Director of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, where she is responsible for developing human cell based models to enable drug discovery.

Sandra received her Bachelors of Art Degree in biology from Ball State University and her PhD in Medical and Molecular Genetics from Indiana University School of Medicine. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Sandra moved to pharmaceutical research in 2001 with a position in the Genetically Engineered Mouse Models Group in Aventis (now Sanofi) where she applied her skills to generating in vivo mouse knock-out models and in vitro mouse stem cell derived models. In 2004, she joined the Genetically Modified Models Research Center of Emphasis with Pfizer where she continued to generate in vivo and in vitro models. Sandra rose to the position of Associate Research Fellow at Pfizer where she lead the Pluripotent Stem Cell Biology, Genomic Editing and Molecular Biology Laboratory which focused on the generation of human induced pluripotent stem cells, in vitro differentiation of stem cells to terminally differentiated cell types including neurons, cardiomyocytes, macrophage, and endothelial cells and the genetic modification of human stem cells. In 2016, Sandra joined Vertex Pharmaceuticals as an Associate Director.

GrAdvantage Career Nights expose graduate students to individuals who have transitioned to careers outside academia after receiving a graduate degree. The speakers will describe their career paths while offering “pearls of wisdom” to those in the audience that may be considering careers outside of academia.

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