The roles for people with science PhDs include senior scientist, medical-science liaison, project manager and product manager.Īn analysis of the US National Science Foundation’s 2019 Survey of Doctorate Recipients found that, since 2015, more US-trained PhD graduates in science, engineering and health subjects now work in industry than in higher education across the United States.Ī report published in 2010 by the Royal Society, which forecast how UK science might further develop over the remainder of the twenty-first century, said: “The majority of people undertaking a PhD will end up in careers outside scientific research … only a tiny proportion can expect to end up as university professors.” Scientists who talk about working in industry are commonly referring to start-up, manufacturing and consulting businesses. For those younger scientists, the career path from academia to industry can be a rocky one. Many who set their sights on a career in the for-profit sector meet resistance from PIs with a bias towards academic science. Other junior researchers are not so lucky. “If you want your folks to succeed, you’ve got to get involved,” he says. Shenolikar, whose career includes six years working as a senior scientist for global pharmaceutical company Pfizer, helped Goh to secure a postdoctoral research position at siTOOLs Biotech in Munich by inviting her prospective employer to call him to discuss her strengths.
He had also worked in industry and understood what’s involved,” says Goh, who is now an associate product specialist based in Munich, Germany, at PerkinElmer, a biotechnology company specializing in diagnostic and life-science products. “There was no problem with my principal investigator (PI). Fortunately, Shirish Shenolikar, her supervisor at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, supported her plans.
When Catherine Goh started her PhD in 2010, she knew from the outset that her career ambitions lay in commercial science, rather than in academia. Catherine Goh (left) was encouraged to move to industry by supervisor Shirish Shenolikar (right) at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
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