learning – Natalie Jing Ma, PhD

The Value of a PhD

A few weeks ago I was at a post-workshop happy hour catching up with friend and acquaintances. I was chatting with some more senior colleagues, two guys who I would consider as having ‘made it’–meaning that they took a set of disparate skills and wove them into a career where they do fun, cool, andContinue reading “The Value of a PhD”

First four months

Where did October go? Between SynBioBeta, customer discovery interviews, pitch decks, regulatory documents, Associate onboarding, and the occasional mushroom foray, there wasn’t much time for writing. The first four months of the Blavatnik Fellowship are just about up, and I’ve got a backlog of blog posts about what I’ve learned to share in scattered notesContinue reading “First four months”