Interactive career day CHEMISTRY@ Janssen Pharmaceutica
Cluster
Career management
Target group
Target audience: UGent doctoral candidates (> 1st year) & postdoctoral fellows in one of the following chemistry domains with a link to the pharmaceutical industry: e.g. organic chemistry, process chemistry, fundamental chemistry, theoretical chemistry; pharmaceutical chemistry, medicinal chemistry, bioscience engineering chemistry, chemical engineering or related areas of chemistry relevant to the pharmaceutical industry.
Organizers
Ghent University, KU Leuven, VUB, University of Antwerp, Hasselt University & Janssen Pharmaceutica
Aim
Career perspectives & networking opportunity: obtain first-hand information about career perspectives and R&D activities with an exclusive focus on chemistry at Janssen Pharmaceutica (Beerse). Longer-term intent: building a community of contacts that leads to potential future collaboration (e.g. postdoc)
Programme
The interuniversity interactive career day will be organised online
- 09:00 Virtual doors open
- 09:30 Welcome
- 09:31 Opening Speech -- R&D@Janssen Pharmaceutica (Pieter Peeters)
- 10:00 PhD & Postdoc Community (Eric Pelkmans, chairs of the PhD & Postdoc Community)
- 10:15 Career Development – healthiest careers (Talent Acquisition)
- 10:30 “Discovery Chemistry@Janssen R&D, from Drug Design to Clinical Candidate” (Harrie Gijsen and early career testimonial)
- 11:15 “Transforming molecules to medicines: Chemical R&D in the Pharmaceutical Development of APIs” (Guido Verniest)
- 12:00 Lunch Break – Q&A with Talent Acquisition and PhD & Postdoc Community
- 13:00 – 15:30 2 rounds of project pitches
- 14:00 – 14:30 Talent Fit workshop
- 15:35 Virtual Tour of Janssen Pharmaceutica
- 16:05 Proclamation of the pitch winners
- 16:15 End
Date and venue
29 January 2021 - online event
Registration fee
Free of charge (however, no show fee applies), but registration is compulsory.
Researchers who register, but fail to attend the online career day, will be charged a no show fee of €100 (except for valid reasons, e.g. illness with doctor's certificate).
Registration
Please follow this link for registration: https://webappsx.ugent.be/eventManager/events/ICDb
Deadline for registration is 28 January 2021 - lunchtime.
Doctoral candidates can include this event in their doctoral training programme (full-day attendance is required).
For further questions, please do not hesitate to contact dr. Katrien Daemen-de Gelder.
Language
English
Evaluation criteria (doctoral training programme)
Full-day presence