These days I’ve been prepping for “the hunt.”

No, I’m not donning camouflage and fluorescent orange caps like the mid-Michigander in me might. I’m referring to the job hunt I’ll be on in the next half of a year. I’ve been going to resumé workshops so I can look good on paper, and doing some popular literature searches so I can look good in pin stripes.

Also, this week I attended HIV / AIDS on the Frontline, a conference focused primarily on HIV+ patient issues for caregivers. I would not have consider myself part of that cohort just a few weeks ago, but my work with ACTION has certainly changed that lately. An added bonus for me was the number of pharma corps. there talking about their latest drugs. Even though I consider my thesis to be more cancer focused, I sometimes forget that our retroviral work extensively overlaps with HIV research. I was able to talk to a number of scientists about potential job opportunities working in the HIV focused areas of these companies.

I learned there a number of exciting, new anti-HIV drugs coming out in the next few months. These are getting a lot of press lately because they appear to work well and they target parts of the viral life-cycle that available anti-retroviral drugs do not. Who knows, maybe I will end up working with these medicines in just a few months?

[tags]AIDS, biotechnology, HIV, hunt, job, pharmaceutical, biotechnology [/tags]

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