<p>The podcast’s inaugural episode features Dr. Caitlin Czajka, Senior Editor at Science Translational Medicine. The conversation follows her career’s trajectory ending in a not-so-expected career as an editor at a scientific journal. From childhood inspirations and STEM-related summer camps to graduate school and a pandemic, Dr. Czajka describes her journey to the field of scientific communications. Along the way, she provides some cautionary tales and advice for someone navigating the transition from bench work to overseeing high impact manuscripts at the forefront of medicine.</p>

Ep. 2 Tissue Engineering Career Conversations featuring Dr. Šeila Selimović, Program Manager at the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)

Interested in a biomedical career in academia, entrepreneurship, science communication, or everything in between? The Tissue Engineering Resource Center (TERC), located at Columbia and Tufts Universities, is launching a new series, the “Career Conversations” podcast, which welcomes a new guest each episode to discuss their career choices, day-to-day tasks, and the challenges involved. We will talk to some of the most inspiring leaders in bioengineering and begin to understand the many career options available to early-stage scientists. Our goal in this podcast is to help shed light on a wide range of career trajectories, academic and non-academic, that have emerged from the bioengineering community. The podcast is hosted by early career bioengineers and funded by support from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the NIH (grant number P41EB027062). For more information on the Tissue Engineering Resource Center, check out our website, nextgenterc.com&nbsp;