Career Day

Career Events

Register for our next career event on June 27, 2025!!!

The purpose of our career events is to introduce students to the biostatistics/statistics field or provide early-career statisticians helpful tips for career development. Statisticians from pharmaceutical companies, consulting firms, and academic institutions including colleges and universities will talk about their career pathways, describe their daily work, and answer questions about their experiences working in their fields and positions. Additional events may include recruitment activities from local universities to introduce their graduate programs. These career-related events provide valuable information for students who are interested in pursuing a statistics career or early-career statisticians who looks for ways to advance their career in the fields of biostatistics or statistics. 

Most of our career events are held virtually and free ~~~

June 2025 Career for pharmaceutical statisticians (Registration)

Date and Time: Friday, June 27, 2025, 10am – 11pm EST 

Moderator:      Arinjita Bhattacharyya (Merck)

Panelists:       Sourav Santra  (Sarepta Therapeutics), Amit Bhattacharyya (Alexion Pharmaceutical), Satrajit Roychowdhury (Pfizer), Charu Gupta (Astra Zeneca)

December 2024 Career for Master's Degree Students in Statistics, Biostatistics and Data science (Event info)

Date and Time: Sunday, December 8, 2024, 6:30pm – 8pm EST 

Panelists:       Meghan Buckley (Ursinus College), Faith Platz (USAA Federal Savings Bank), Jonathan Heintz (University of Pennsylvania), Amos Odeleye-Ajakaye (Merck), Arpita Deb (University of Colorado)

June 2024 Early Career pharmaceutical statisticians (Event info)

Date and Time: Wednesday, June 5, 2024, 11 am – 12 noon EST 

Panelists:       Arinjita Bhattacharyya (Merck), Hao Li (Boehringer Ingelheim)

 February 2024 Career in statistics and data science (Event info)

Date and Time: Sunday, February 18, 2024, 2pm – 3pm EST 

Panelists:       Francis Abreu (Genentech), Thomas Jemielita (Merck & Co), Thinh Pham (Vanguard), Nadea Leavitt (IQVIA)

January 2024 Career Development for Early to Mid-career Pharmaceutical Statisticians (Event info)

Date and Time: Thursday, January 10, 2024, 1pm – 2pm EST 

Panelists:       Charlotte Baidoo (Bristol Myers Squibb), Jason Liao (Incyte), Devan Mehrotra (Merck), Hong Tian (BeiGene)

Stay tuned for our next career event!