How we built the Hopkins Biotech Podcast — based out of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine — and grew it from a simple idea to a program with >23,000 lifetime downloads, >5,600 pageviews, and >850 aggregate followers in less than 2 years. Part 1: Conceiving the Idea “If you are working on something exciting that…

A data-driven profile on the types of work that STEM PhDs pursue and their pay scales, based on employment statistics from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.S. Department of Labor. View graphs only here. Part 1: Labor Supply & Demand PhDs Contribute to Strong Labor Supply in Technical Professions The labor force participation rate is the percentage of the U.S. population who are either…

In honor of the last trading day of 2020, let’s review this year in biotech investing. On March 5, six days before the WHO officially recognized COVID-19 as a global pandemic, the United States recorded 174 total confirmed cases within its borders. On that same day, the investment team at…

Originally published on December 2, 2020 in Johns Hopkins’ blog Biomedical Odyssey (link) Since the emergence of “modern medicine” in the 19th century, biomedical researchers have uncovered insights that drastically improved the way we treat cancer. Surgical procedures for removing tumor-bearing organs, as well as radiation therapies, started to become…

Originally published on October 5, 2020 in Johns Hopkins’ blog Biomedical Odyssey (link) On April 15, 2003, the Human Genome Project was officially declared “complete” after generating a reference sequence for approximately 92.1% of the more than 3.1 billion base pairs that comprise the human genome1. By meticulously cataloging the…

Originally published on August 3, 2020 in Johns Hopkins’ blog Biomedical Odyssey (link) In a 2016 interview, Mark Zuckerberg — the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Facebook — reflected on a particularly impactful piece of advice that he had received from a mentor: “In a world that’s changing so quickly…

Originally published on June 24, 2020 in Johns Hopkins’ blog Biomedical Odyssey (link) to promote the Hopkins Biotech Podcast, which we had launched ~1 month previously on May 25, 2020 (Memorial Day) “Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause & effect” Ralph Waldo Emerson Which career is…

Originally published on April 21, 2020 in Johns Hopkins’ blog Biomedical Odyssey (link) In my experience, the term “smooth sailing” is an expression used to describe those rare moments that occur shortly before being bombarded by the next big wave. Challenges are inevitable, particularly for those working in STEM fields…

Originally published on April 11, 2020 in Hopkins Biotech Network’s newsletter The Transcript (link) Memories have a curious way of rising to the surface. Some memories are so salient that even the most subtle sensations — the aroma of freshly baked bread, a wafting perfume, a chorus of light rain…