Excursion to Merck, Darmstadt
17.10.2024 | Registration deadline: 22.9.2024
(details to follow)
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2. June 2024 | 9:00 – 17:00 | in person | with Dr. Jean-Simon Fortin
GRADE BioMed FIRST Career Talk: Dr. Ivan Krstic, Director of Marketing at Elsevier Life Sciences, on development of software for chemists in pharma and academia & the transition from academia to a non-academic career
April 24, 2024 | 16:30 | online
Dr. Ivan Krstic studied chemistry in Belgrade and earned his PhD at Goethe-University in the Prisner lab. He stayed on as a postdoc for two years before deciding to join Elsevier as a Customer Support Specialist. Ten years later, he now serves as Senior Director of Marketing in Elsevier Life Sciences, leading a team of ten product marketers responsible for understanding the needs of researchers in pharma, developing global marketing strategy and plans, creating value propositions, product positioning, messaging content, and enabling sales and other teams to tell the story. His previous role was Director of Product Management and Head of Chemistry Solutions, where he was responsible for business growth, strategy development, roadmap execution, and overall product management of Reaxys. Ivan and his team work closely with pharma customers to help them solve challenges in early drug discovery and lead optimization, as well as pharmacovigilance, using Elsevier's chemistry software Reaxys, biomedical solution Embase, and others.
What he enjoys a lot is being in constant contact with researchers at different stages of their careers and helping them solve their scientific and career problems. The transition from PhD/postdoc to a non-academic career has piqued his interest, and he has given several presentations and workshops on this topic, including at his former research group and universities worldwide. He is happy to share his knowledge and experience at Elsevier and address some of the challenges and fears he has noticed, even among successful senior scientists at large companies or universities.
This Career Talk will focus on chemists, biologists, and pharmacists, as these are the areas covered by his life science unit, but others are also very welcome.
PhD School "Inflammation and Lipid Signaling in Disease Pathogenesis"
25.-28.3.2024
The GRADE Center BioMed FIRST together with the GRK 2336 AVE and the International School of Pharmacology Giampaolo Velo offers the course "Inflammation and Lipid Signaling in Disease Pathogenesis" (Course directors: Pietro Minuz, Paola Patrignani, Bernhard Brüne, Angelo Sala, Dieter Steinhilber) which is co-funded by the ETTORE MAJORANA FOUNDATION AND CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE.
The focus of this course is inflammation, lipid signaling, and the molecular mechanisms underlying various diseases like cancer and heart failure.
High-quality speakers offer young researchers in these advanced topics an updated overview of the recent results of epidemiological, clinical, and pharmacological research. In the tradition of the School, young researchers are encouraged to actively participate in discussions and present their scientific work results during the poster session or with short oral communications.
The course will be held from March 25 to March 28 in Erice, Italy. The foundation will cover costs for accommodation and meals for the speakers, traveling costs have to be covered by the participants. The registration fee for the PhD students will be 450 €, which covers the accommodation and meals.
Please contact Dr. Brigitte Held (held@grade.uni-frankfurt.de) for more information, if you wish to participate.
