Career Outcomes

NIH trainees - Summary

  • Average time to degree                                             5.7 years
  • Percentage of past trainees graduated with PhD          87%
  • Percentage of past trainees graduated with MS            13%
  • Percentage of past trainees left with no degree              0%
  • Percentage of past trainees in science-related careers   98%

Past NIH trainees - Representative outcomes

Principal Investigator & Group Leader, University of Edinburgh, Welcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow, 2012, Edinburgh, Scotland

Scientist at FDA, Division of Therapeutic Proteins; Excellence in Mentoring Award 2014, Silver Spring, MD

Postdoctoral Researcher, Computational Biology Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA

Assistant Professor, Institute of Science and Technology, Klosterneuberg, Austria

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Senior Researcher, Regenerative Medicine and Genome Editing, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO

Postdoctoral Scholar, Lab of Hermann Gaub, Ludwig-Maximilans-Universitat, Munich, Germany

Research Scientist, NIAID, Lab of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology, Bethesda, MD

Assistant Professor, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

Technical Manager, Nanosys, San Francisco, CA

Associate Professor, Dept. of  Physics and BioFrontier Institute, U. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Director of Proteomic Analysis, Biodesix, Steamboat Springs, CO

Senior Bioinformatics Developer, AbSci, Vancouver, Canada

Associate Professor, Joint Bioengineering and Weyerhaeuser Endowed Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle, WA

Bioinformatician, Invitae, San Francisco, CA

Senior Research Scientist, Biological Technologies, Genentech, San Francisco, CA

Indpendent Science Writer, Salt Lake City, UT

Research Scientist, Gillead, Mililani, HI

Postdoctoral Researcher, Lab of Peter Kim, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Senior Research Scientist, FEI Co; Adjunct Professor, Oregon Health Sciences Center, OR

Postdoctoral Researcher, Kruglyak Lab, UCLA, HHMI Gilliam Fellowship, 2017, Los Angeles, CA

Director of Technology & Founding Partner, Quantitative Scientific Solutions, Washington, DC

Postdoctoral Researcher, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

Process Engineer, Intel Corporation, Portland, OR

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, CO

Chief Innovation Officer, Infinome Biosciences, Boulder, CO

Director of Process Development, Beyond Meat, El Segundo, CA

Postdoctoral Researcher, National Renewal Energy Lab, Golden, CO

Senior Professional Staff, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD

Research Scientist, Eli Lilly Corp., Indianapolis, IN

Scientist, Infinome Biosciences, Boulder, CO

Biophysicist with Nanosys, Inc., Milpitas, CA

Postdoctoral Researcher, Boise State University, Human Frontier Science Program, Boise, ID

Product Engineer, Nike, Inc., Portland, OR

Associate Research Scientist, Engelman Lab, Yale School of Medicine; Founder Cytosolix, Inc., New Haven, CT

Medical Writer, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain

Senior Engineer, Materials and Processes, Ball Aerospace, Boulder, CO

Software Engineer, Markit, Boulder, CO

Assistant Professor, Director of Microscopy Innovation Lab, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX

Freelance Medical Writer, Guildford, United Kingdom

Scientist, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Boston, MA

Staff Scientist, Virocyt, Inc., Boulder, CO 

Computational Scientist, Mass Spec, Intellia Therapeutics, Boston, MA

Research Analyst, Biodesix, Boulder, CO

Postdoctoral Researcher with Patrick Cramer, Ludwig Maximillian University,  Munich

Research and Development Scientist, Lab 79 Technologies and SomaLogic, Boulder, CO

Scientist, Bioprocess Development, Codexis, Inc., Redwood City, CA

Owner, Process Design Engineer, Foremother Foods, LLC, Boulder, CO

Research and Development Scientist, PRAAN Biosciences, Boulder, CO

Medical Writer, Envision Pharma, Guildford, United Kingdom

Principal Scientist with Heprotech Biotech, Cambridge, MA

Research Scientist, Early Discovery Immunology Division, AbbVie Corp., Worcester, MA

Consultant with GlobeImmune Targeted Moleculary Therapy, Louisville, CO

Postdoctoral Researcher, Lab of Titia de Lange, Rockefeller University, New York, NY

Scientist, KBI Biopharma, Boulder, CO

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ trainees - Summary

  • Average time to degree                                             5.7 years
  • Percentage of past trainees graduated with PhD          87%
  • Percentage of past trainees graduated with MS            13%
  • Percentage of past trainees left with no degree              0%
  • Percentage of past trainees in science-related careers   100%

Past ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ trainees - Representative outcomes

Senior Scientist - Computational Biology at Muse Biotechnology Inc., Boulder, CO

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Manifold, Oakland, CA

Associate Director, Moderna Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA

Medical Clinical Fellow, Rheumatology; Postdoctoral Researcher in lab of Joel Ernst, UCSF, San Francisco, CA

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Senior Development Scientist, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, Loveland, CO

Associate Teaching Professor and  Director of Chemistry Center, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

Senior Director Business Development, BeiGene, Cambridge, MA

Senior Scientist, Genentech, Dublin, CA

Senior Research Scientist, Ely Lilly, Indianapis, ID

Postdoctoral Fellow, Endocrinology, University of Colorado School Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO

Cofounder and Chieft Technology Officer, Umoja Biopharma, Seattle, WA

Biotech Development Scientist, BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Lovato, CA

Technology Director and Founding Partner, Quantitative Scientific Solutions, Arlington, VA

Senior Scientist, Reflexion Pharmaceuticals, San Francisco, CA

Associate Professor, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Senior Scientist, SomaLogic, Boulder, BO

Software Engineer, Microsoft, Redmond, WA

Scientist, Structural Biologist, Loxo Oncology at Lily, Boulder, CO

Senior Scientist at AvidBiotics, San Francisco

Research Scientist, Genentech, Dir. Of Protein Chemistry & Manufacturing, The Charles Gates Biomanufacturing Facility

Scientist, Materials Research Engineer, Nanoscale Reliability Group, NIST, Boulder, CO

Associate Director Business Development, X-Chem, Inc. Boston, MA

Athletic career - Ultramarathoner

Executive Director of Protein Chemistry, Charles Gates Biomanufacturing, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Anschutz, Aurora, CO

Scientific Editor, Study Abroad Consultant at Bridge Bright Future Consulting, Inc., Austin, TX

Scientist, Bioinformatician, SomaLogic, Boulder, CO

Study Director, WuXi AppTec, St. Paul, MN

Research and Development, Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA

Research & Development Scientist at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Eugene, OR

Senior Researcher, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Deajeon, Korea

Research Associate, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Senior Process Engineer, Athersys, Cleveland, OH

Postdoctoral Researcher, Erlangen-Nuremburg, Germany

Research and Development Scientist, Dragon Herbs, Los Angeles, CA

Research Scientist, Kredenweiss and DeMott labs, CSU, Ft. Collins, CO

Founder, Scientist, RIGID Biotech, Boulder, CO

Senior Medical Communications Consultant, Boston Strategic Partners, Boulder, CO

Scientist, Biologics Formulation Development, EMD, Billerica, MA

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Senior Associate Manager, Scientific Communications, Loxo Oncology, Pittsburgh, PA

Senior Design Engineer at Magswitch Technology, Denver, CO