Following upon the success of the ELSO 2005 Open Floor Debate on careers outside academia and the interest ELSO participants showed in the table on this topic at the Career Mentoring Lunches, the Career Development Committee has created a session devoted to this subject. In these sessions, former researchers describe what their current jobs entail and the career routes they took to get to where they are today.

You can read their PowerPoint presentations:

Julie Morgan
Science Programme Officer for the Physiological Sciences Funding Stream of The Wellcome Trust (London, UK)
www.wellcome.ac.uk

Alastair Philp
Science Policy Advisor Centre for Exploitation of Science and Technology (CEST) for Life Sciences (London, UK)
www.cest.org.uk

Britta Maedge
Editor of Cell (Cambridge, MA, USA)
www.cell.com

Christophe J. Echeverri
CEO/CSO of a Biotech Start-up Company Cenix BioScience (Dresden, Germany)
www.cenix-bioscience.com

Sebastian Wiesner
Application Specialist Carl Zeiss Microimaging (Jena, Germany)
www.zeiss.de

Sue Kenwrick
Genetic Counsellor Addenbrookes’s Hospital (Cambridge, UK)
www.addenbrookes.org.uk

Barbara Tigar
Manager of SETPOINT Lancashire (Lancashire Education Business Partnership) (Lancashire, UK)
www.setpointlancashire.co.uk

Anne Forde
Careers Adviser for Life Science Postdocs Cambridge University Careers Service (Cambridge, UK)
www.careers.cam.ac.uk/students/PdocLSPortal.asp

Other links to careers outside academia