{"id":49818,"date":"2021-11-09T08:30:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T13:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/?p=49818"},"modified":"2021-11-09T10:54:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T15:54:46","slug":"dr-stephanie-j-shiffka-b-s-p-s-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/2021\/11\/09\/dr-stephanie-j-shiffka-b-s-p-s-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Stephanie J. Shiffka, B.S.P.S. &#8217;15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EBuSqIUAogc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" 0=\"allowfullscreen\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"cl-tiles halves\">\n<div><section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-quote-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-quote  \"><div class=\"cl-quote-image\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1223\/SShiffka-headshot-7-2021.jpg)\" title=\"SShiffka headshot 7-2021\"><\/div><blockquote>\u201cWithout the BSPS program and the undergraduate research I did there, I would not be where I am today, so I\u2019m super grateful for that.\u201d<\/blockquote><cite>Stephanie Shiffka<\/cite><\/div><\/section><section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-boxout-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-boxout  \"><h1>Topics Covered<\/h1><p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pursuing a PhD after graduation from the BSPS program<\/li>\n<li>Working for the NIH, and what that looks like<\/li>\n<li>How to get started in a COP lab as an undergraduate<\/li>\n<li>Skills learned in a molecular biology lab as an undergraduate<\/li>\n<li>The diversity of research areas we have here in the COP<\/li>\n<li>Deciding on your career path<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/section><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h1>Dr. Stephanie J. Shiffka, B.S.P.S. &#8217;15 &#8211; Biologist, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute<\/h1>\n<p>Stephanie Shiffka graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a Bachelor&#8217;s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2015 and went on to earn her Ph.D. in the same discipline at the University of Maryland, Baltimore in 2021. Dr. Shiffka&#8217;s undergraduate research in Dr. Ruitang Deng&#8217;s lab ignited a passion for science and laboratory work. During her undergraduate research at URI, Stephanie learned valuable techniques while studying hepatic metabolism, a field she continued to study during her thesis work. Throughout her education, Stephanie authored and co-authored numerous publications and received several awards to support her research. Following the successful defense of her doctoral thesis, Stephanie accepted a Biologist position in Dr. David Schrump&#8217;s research laboratory at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, where she continues to support the lab&#8217;s goals of improving patient outcomes in rare forms of lung cancer.<\/p>\n<a class=\"cl-button   prominent\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/academics\/bsps\/careers\/\" title=\"\">More Alumni Interviews<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3>Biologist, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute<\/h3>\n<p><i>\u201cWithout the BSPS program and the undergraduate research I did there, I would not be where I am today, so I\u2019m super grateful for that\u201d<\/I><\/p>\n<h3>Topics Covered<\/h3>\n<ul>Pursuing a PhD after graduation from the BSPS program<\/li>\n<li>Working for the NIH, and what that looks like<\/li>\n<li>How to get started in a COP lab as an undergraduate<\/li>\n<li>Skills learned in a molecular biology lab as an undergraduate<\/li>\n<li>The diversity of research areas we have here in the COP<\/li>\n<li>Deciding on your career path<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":49819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bspsalumni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49818"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49846,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49818\/revisions\/49846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}