{"id":49821,"date":"2021-11-09T08:38:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T13:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/?p=49821"},"modified":"2021-11-09T10:54:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T15:54:36","slug":"samina-akbar-b-s-p-s-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/2021\/11\/09\/samina-akbar-b-s-p-s-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Samina Akbar, B.S.P.S. &#8217;18"},"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\/1ReuAqFwICQ?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\/IMG_1456.jpg)\" title=\"IMG_1456\"><\/div><blockquote>\u201cWhile I was an undergraduate research assistant I really felt that I was helping the lab progress, and that my contributions were actually doing something\u201d<\/blockquote><cite>Samina Akbar<\/cite><\/div><\/section><section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-boxout-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-boxout  \"><h1>Topics Covered<\/h1><p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Applying for a job at Pfizer<\/li>\n<li>Undergraduate research through the SURF Program<\/li>\n<li>Working closely with your BSPS peers while at URI<\/li>\n<li>Using the simulation lab in the BSPS Program<\/li>\n<li>How the BSPS program prepares you for industry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/section><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h1>Samina Akbar, B.S.P.S. &#8217;18 &#8211; Associate Scientist, Pfizer<\/h1>\n<p>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.<\/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>Associate Scientist, Pfizer<\/h3>\n<p><i>\u201c\u201cWhile I was an undergraduate research assistant I really felt that I was helping the lab progress, and that my contributions were actually doing something\u201d<\/I><\/p>\n<h3>Topics Covered<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Applying for a job at Pfizer<\/li>\n<li>Undergraduate research through the SURF Program<\/li>\n<li>Working closely with your BSPS peers while at URI<\/li>\n<li>Using the simulation lab in the BSPS Program<\/li>\n<li>How the BSPS program prepares you for industry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":49822,"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-49821","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\/49821","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=49821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49844,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49821\/revisions\/49844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}