“While I was an undergraduate research assistant I really felt that I was helping the lab progress, and that my contributions were actually doing something”Samina Akbar
Topics Covered
- Applying for a job at Pfizer
- Undergraduate research through the SURF Program
- Working closely with your BSPS peers while at URI
- Using the simulation lab in the BSPS Program
- How the BSPS program prepares you for industry.
Samina Akbar, B.S.P.S. ’18 – Associate Scientist, Pfizer
Samina graduated from URI in Fall 2018. She is currently working at Pfizer in Andover, MA as an Associate Scientist in the mass spectrometry group. They are a non-GMP group that characterizes a diverse set of proteins and submit our data into IND and BLA filings. She is also completing my MS in Biotechnology at Northeastern University.
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